Sofya Nayer, a Jewish Resident of New Jersey, shares a fascinating story about her birth, and her journey back to her hometown of Berdichev in central Ukraine – which led to the rebuilding of the grave-site of the Tzadik R’ Levi Yitzchok of Berdichev.
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New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio arrived in Paris today to pay his respects to the victims of the terrorist massacres at Charlie Hebdo and the Hyper Chacher supermarket. De Blasio told Parisians that New Yorkers have “walked in the same shoes.”
Several hundred men and women attended a Siyum Harambam for the greater Monsey Jewish community at the Atrium Plaza.
7 years of Mayanot women gathered to celebrate the annual Gala Dinner. This special evening took place on the 24th of Tevet and several Mayanot alumni were in attendance for this year’s celebration.
The injunction levied last month against the Chabad Shluchim to George Washington University in D.C., which prevented them from engaging in any outreach activities within a 1-mile radius of the campus, was temporarily lifted by a judge last Friday. In a remarkable show of solidarity, over 100 students joined the Shluchim for Shabbos dinner that night.
Rabbi Getzy Fellig likes to find what experience a person does not realize they need, and then deliver that experience to that person.
The Friendship Circle of Brooklyn’s hosted its 2nd Annual ZUMBA Recital this past weekend.
The long awaited debut album from Eli Marcus, the youngest member of the musically gifted Marcus family, is finally being released.
This weekend, over eight hundred girls experienced a Shabbos that will continue to impact their lives, long after the seventy two hour event ended: the annual Lubavitch Girls High School Shabbaton, hosted by Bais Rivkah in Crown Heights.
Izzy Eidelman hoped to open Izzy’s BBQ Addiction open by Fall 2014. But city inspections, bureaucracy and special equipment have delayed his efforts to open the city’s first Kosher smokehouse.
In a clear sign that the unofficial ‘work slowdown’ by NYPD officers had come to an end, cops have been out in force in Crown Heights giving tickets for driving and parking infractions.
Pinchas Antal, a 14-year-old Lubavitcher boy from Montreal, has entered a classical music contest being hosted by the CBC (Canada’s national public broadcaster). His entry video, in which he artfully performs an 8-minute-long classical piece on a grand piano, can be viewed in the extended article.
Have you been looking for a Taglit-Birthright Israel trip that can get you and your friends to Eretz Yisroel? Are you hoping to send your son or daughter to Israel but are worried about sending them with a standard Birthright Israel trip?
Please take a moment and say a Kapital Tehillim for Mordechai Eliezer ben Esther Simcha.
It might have been frosty outside, but the atmosphere inside of Chabad Lubavitch of Markham in Canada was toasty as 150 people gathered last Sunday to bake muffins for Toronto’s homeless. It was the latest effort in a new initiative urging the Jewish ideal of tikkun olam, “the repair of the world.”
This week’s edition of MyLife: Chassidus Applied with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, Episode 52, will air tonight, Sunday, here on CrownHeights.info, beginning at 8:00pm. This week Rabbi Jacobson will address the topics: Challenging our Chinuch System; Nigleh vs. Chassidus in Cheder; Should We Openly Disagree with a Child’s Teacher; Advice for Beard Pickers; Livelihood vs. Home Life Balance, as well as the Essay Contest Launch.
Alternate side parking (street cleaning) regulations will be suspended Monday, January 19, for Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday. All other regulations, including parking meters, remain in effect.
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