Congresswoman Yvette D. Clarke’s Letter to the Community

For three millennia the land of Israel has been at the heart of the Jewish people; the Homeland from where the ancient traditions, culture and values emanated. The state of Israel has served as a refuge for Jews the world over, a country rebuilt following the horrors of the Holocaust on the principles of freedom and democracy.

Yvette Clarke takes Step Against Israel, Again

Fifty congressmen signed a letter which was sent to President Barak Obama urging him to put diplomatic pressure on Israel to resolve the Gaza blockade, the troubling signature in the mix was that of Rep. Yvette Clarke (D-NY), who represents the 11th district which includes Crown Heights.

Creepy Caller Targets Lubavitcher Women

CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — Women in Crown Heights have been the target of one really sick creepy caller posing as a woman and asking very inappropriate and intimate questions.

Prominent U.S. Rabbis Urge Release of Sholom Rubashkin

WASHINGTON, DC [CHI] — A group of the nation’s most prominent rabbis gathered in Washington, D.C. today to express their dismay and concern over the premature imprisonment of Sholom Rubashkin, urging the U.S. Department of Justice to closely scrutinize the demands by federal prosecutors in Iowa that Rubashkin be imprisoned before he is sentenced.

Snowball Effect: R. Axelrod against Zimroni Tzik – Radicals

Just a week after we published the protest of a Rabbi in the Chabad community in Melbourne, Rabbi Tzvi Telsner against a handful of depraved and shameless individuals who disguise themselves as Chassidim, that took it upon themselves to cancel the fast of Asara B’Teves and to celebrate it as a holiday – Rabbi Gedalia Axelrod, Chabad Rabbi in Haifa, a letter unprecedented in its sharpness against these groups who willfully shame themselves in Chabads name.

Storekeepers Fume as Group Attempts to Enforce ‘Tznius’

A new Tznius campaign has recently been launched in Crown Heights. Three Kolel yungerlite approached shop owners to present a petition with 500 signatures collected over the past few weeks from neighborhood residents.

Seminar: the Yiddishe Response to Tragedies

CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — In the wake of recent tragedies affecting the tight-knit Chabad-Lubavitch community based in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, a seminar was held Wednesday evening to address the Hassidic response to death and misfortune.

Video: Yoni Shlomo Speaks out on Allegations of Spouse Abuse

Following a recent article, about a particular singer subjecting his wife and children to years of physical and mental abuse, Yoni Shlomo posted a YouTUBE video surrounded by Seforim and photos of his family explaining that matters aren’t so simple, and that the truth “belongs only to me and my family”.

Rabbi Denies Melbourne Group is ex-Communicated

Reports that a breakaway group from Melbourne Yeshiva had been ex-communicated have been denied by the Yeshiva’s Rabbi.

Alex Leonard is a member of Melbourne-based group Honk4Joy which believes that the late Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel who died in 1994, is the Messiah and that the thrid temple “is ready and waiting in heaven”.

”To TRO” or “Not to TRO” – Old Vaad vs. New Vaad

CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — No one ever believed that the two fighting factions would ever go before a Beis Din to settle their differences, one side is now saying that all they are doing is “pulling a trick” and are not taking their actions out of court.

T.E.A.M. to Offer Graduate Education Program in CH

A novel approach by an accredited, educational organization enables people with non-traditional educational backgrounds to qualify for graduate degrees. Graduate programs available in Crown Heights include tracks for: a Masters Degree in General Education, Business (M.B.A.), and Special Education. Some programs do not require the traditional Bachelor of Arts degree to enroll.

Chasidic Superstar Arrested for Abuse

PARIS, France [LAP] — A Hasidic super star was arrested for assaulting his wife and children at his home, in Montreuil near Paris, France.

Hundreds of Women Attend Rally in Support of S.M. Rubashkin

BOROUGH PARK, Brooklyn [CHI] — Hundreds of women and girls from all backgrounds gathered last night in Boro Park’s Young Israel Beth-El Shul in a show of solidarity and support of Sholom Mordechai Rubashkin and the entire Rubashkin family.