CrownHeights.info received the following letter in our mailbox, addressed to the 71st Precinct by a grateful Crown Heights resident. The author describes the courtesy, professionalism and genuine concern he experienced from the officers of the precinct, as well as the successful resolution to a crime committed against him.
As part of a major campaign to recruit children to join in its annual Lag Ba’omer parades across the country, Chabad in Israel has taken a page from “cause” organizations such as ‘Livestrong’ and is distributing plastic fashion wristbands to children throughout the country.
Please take a moment and say a Kapital Tehillim for Chaim Osher ben Chava, a 22-year-old Bochur undergoing serious surgery today, and for Chaya Bashe bas Rivka, who is in urgent need of a Refuah Shleimah.
Odessa’s Jews are prepared to evacuate should the violence in the western Ukrainian city get significantly worse, several community leaders told The Jerusalem Post on Sunday.
An innocent sheep surrounded by vicious wolves, the Jewish people have long been accustomed to aggression; yet often we have no means of physical defense. One of the rare occasions in history where the Jews picked up arms and fought back with fire, the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising is often hailed as a prime example of Jewish resistance.
Following the major success and popularity of the first broadcasts of MyLife: Chassidus Applied, Rabbi Simon Jacobson will air Episode 15 tonight, Sunday, May 4th (4 Iyar) here on CrownHeights.info, beginning at 8:00pm. This week’s class is titled “Jewish Life: Unprofessionalism in the Workplace, Gender Roles, Birth Control, Critique of Our Community Leaders.”
President Barack Obama had a special wish for the (presumably) Jewish person who greeted him on Friday.
A former New York City police officer has been arrested after surveillance video identified him as the culprit behind a spate of anti-Semitic graffiti that shocked the Jewish community of Borough Park over Shabbos.
Winter has begun in Australia, and therefore so has the Motzei Shabbos Fathers and Sons learning program at the Lubavitcher Yeshiva in Sydney.
Professor Reuven Feuerstein, a world-renowned clinical and developmental cognitive psychologist who received the Israel Prize in 1992, passed away on April 29 in Jerusalem. He was 93 years old.
The oldest Chabad House in northern California, Chabad of Berkeley, has moved into a new home after three years in a leased building. It is sharing its new temporary home with the local chapter of the Friendship Circle.
The Jewish Ukrainian mayor of Kharkov, who was shot Monday in an assassination attempt, is conscious and recovering.
This Shabbos at the Besht, Rabbi Chaim Schochet will lead a discussion on the topic, Bein Adam Lamokom; Bein Adam Lachaveiro (Between Man and G-d; Between Man and His Fellow).
Mendel Minkowicz, son of Rashi Minkowicz, OBM, met with Senator Saxby Chambliss (R-GA) at the foot of the U.S. Capitol building yesterday, while on a graduation trip to Washington, DC with his classmates.
“Oh Rabbi, it’s time you got real! She may not be Jewish by your narrow (Halachic) standards, but she has a true Jewish heart; she is more Jewish than any Jewish woman I’ve ever met and that includes my own mother. And just so you know, she makes the meanest chicken soup… That surely counts for something, don’t you think?” I can’t imagine that there is a Rabbi in today’s day and age that has not come across this heartfelt argument.
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present a unique photo of the Rebbe delivering a talk to women on erev Rosh Hashanah, 1970.
A Chabad rabbi extracted an apology from anti-Semites on bikes who verbally assaulted him as he was walking to shul in Los Angeles on Wednesday.
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