CrownHeights.info has obtained hair-raising footage from the driver of a Crown Heights school bus, which depicts the moment a 2-year-old child ran across the street as the massive bus was barreling towards him.
Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman stands with the chief rabbi and Shliach of Kiryat Gat and Sderot, Rabbi Moshe Havlin, at a ceremony on Israel’s Remembrance Day. Sderot is located near the Gaza border and is constantly under rocket fire from the Hamas controlled territory.
The fifth annual Maternal Wisdom Jewish Doula Training, a unique opportunity for women who aspire to help others during childbirth, takes place this month in Crown Heights.
The lead story of the May 6 edition of the New York Times began by saying “In a major decision on the role of religion in government, the Supreme Court on Monday ruled that the Constitution allows town boards to start their sessions with sectarian prayers.” In writing for the majority, Justice Anthony Kennedy said that the prayers did not violate the Constitution because they were ceremonial and served to signal the solemnity of the occasion.
Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz, director of Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida, delivers his insights on this week’s Parsha – Behar. This week Rabbi Minkowicz answers the question: What is true faith?
Rabbi Shmuel Hecht devoted many months to learning the Talmudic laws surrounding winemaking, but it was years before he would experience the process himself—and learn some important lessons along the way.
Jonothan Sabin, a writer at Tablet, a non-Orthodox Jewish magazine, recently published an article about the personal journey he experienced after obtaining a pair of Tefilin from a Chabad rabbi to pray for his young daughter as she underwent heart surgery.
A fire broke out today in the northern section of Kfar Chabad, located in central Israel. The fire caught on to dry thorn bushes and spread quickly, threatening nearby homes and their inhabitants.
Brooklyn District Attorney Kenneth P. Thompson announced today the formal indictment of Kendel Felix, a Crown Heights resident, for his role in the murder of Williamsburg landlord Menachem Stark on January 2nd.
The Kinus Hamechanchim for Chabad educators in North America is back, after a one-year hiatus during which the Kinus was only held online. This year’s conference will be held at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Danbury, CT, an hour’s drive from Brooklyn.
A CrownHeights.info reader spotted workers hired by the NYC Dept. of Parks plating new trees along Albany Ave in an attempt to beautify the urban landscape with greenery. The photos were taken near the corner of St. Johns Pl.
The Jewish mayor of Kharkov, Ukraine, is conscious and recovering at the Rambam Medical Center in Haifa, Israel, confirmed Kharkov’s chief rabbi and Chabad emissary, Rabbi Moshe Moskovitz.
The late U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.), brother of President John F. Kennedy, attends a Chabad event in Washington D.C. in the mid 1980s. Near him stand Rabbi Shalom Posner, leader of the Chabad community in Pittsburgh, and Rabbi Yisroel Deren, director of Chabad of Connecticut.
Honda has announced that they are issuing a recall on their 2014 Odyssey minivan, a model that is very popular among the Orthodox Jewish Community, because their side air bags may not deploy during a crash.
On Monday, Agudas Chasidei Chabad finalized the purchase of 760 Eastern Parkway from the Itkin family. In a statement on Lubavitch.com Rabbi Yehudah Krinsky confirmed the purchase and announced the intention to expand the Rebbes Library.
To the tune of Napoleon’s March, hundreds of Chabad Shluchim from all over Paris posed today for a group portrait, amid the regional Kinus Hashluchim that was held last week for the Shluchim in France’s capital city.
More than 65 years after he graduated from the first Chabad school in America, Rabbi Mordechai (Mottel) Fisher returned to Crown Heights on July 10th, 2010 to relive and share his experiences for JEM’s My Encounter with the Rebbe project, reminiscing about the “good old days” in 770.
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