This just in, a ruling has been issued on the matters of the Crown Heights Rabbonim and Beis Din, as well as on the Vaad Hakohol, Community Council, and the Vaad Hakashrus.
From the start, Internet users have taken for granted that the territory was both a free-for-all and a digital disguise, allowing them to revel in their power to address the world while keeping their identities concealed.
For weeks now Albany Avenue has been a nightmare for vehicular traffic, and yesterday it just got a whole lot worse. This week leading up to Pesach is the busiest one of the year for storeowners, who now have to deal with the construction that is taking up every parking spot on the block, and the impossible traffic it’s creating.
It was a very bizarre scene which unfolded on Kingston Avenue on Shabbos afternoon. As people were heading to Shul for Mincha, 4 Bochurim were being taken by police officers in handcuffs down Kingston and to the police station.
A reader sent in the following pictures from 770, they were taken at 11:00pm last night, Wednesday, when he went to Daven Maariv. He said he was quite surprised when he saw everyone Davening in the hallways, and even more surprised when he found out why.
On March 1, 1994, a gunman in a car opened fire on a van carrying more than a dozen Hasidic students as it began to cross the Brooklyn Bridge from Manhattan, critically wounding two young men and injuring two others.
The lone gunman, driving a blue Chevrolet Caprice equipped with a submachine gun, two 9mm guns, and a “street sweeper” shotgun, pursued the van full of terrified students across the bridge.
He fired in three separate bursts, spraying both sides of the van. He then disappeared into traffic as the van came to a stop at the Brooklyn end of the bridge.
The injured Yeshiva students were among dozens who were returning from a Manhattan hospital where the spiritual leader of the Lubavitch movement, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, had undergone minor surgery.
Random items appeared to be missing from our apartment.
Could it be our sweet hardworking cleaning lady who came highly recommended by neighbors who had her for the last 7 years?
After discussing the matter with our parents , my wife and I concluded it just couldn’t be her….
CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — Residents be warned, after receiving tens of new complaints from Chabad women it seems that the creepy caller, which we first reported about a month ago, is back and up to his same old sick tricks.
CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — Despite ‘reports’ that police promised to ‘ease up’ on Purim, many Crown Heights residents couldn’t help but notice the very opposite. White NYPD cars were out on the avenues and streets pulling over motorists on the Jewish holiday.
In an effort to create a universally accepted standard for today’s Bas Chabad, Lubavitch girls’ high school administrators across North America have joined forces in creating a uniform set of standards for Bnos Chabad, to be instituted collaboratively during the coming months.
Friends and supporters of Gmach Keren Yisroel Aryeh Leib turned out for a seudas Melava Malka this past Motzai Shabbos Parashas Truma.
Yeshivah Centre dayan Rabbi Zvi Hirsch Telsner has rejected a petition asking for a controversial sign to be removed from Chabad’s central synagogue.
Many have wondered what prompted Rav Weismandel to remove his Hechsher from the meats produced by AgriStar under the Arons Best and Supreme Kosher labels. The Vaad HaKashrus of Crown Heights released a public notice clarifying that they never gave a Hechsher on anything but the Shor Habor Brand. While other sources suggest that there is more behind it.
My job in Kashrus takes me to Cedar Rapids, Iowa every month. Knowing that Sholom Mordechai is sitting in prison there, I applied last month to visit him. I was approved and visited him yesterday.
He was so happy to see me besides for the fact of just having a visitor, he had also been placed in solitary confinement the night before and nobody including his wife and attorney knew about it yet and he was not allowed to make calls.
MELBOURNE, Australia [AJN] — One of Melbourne Chabad’s most influential figures, Joseph Gutnick, has signed a petition challenging the Yeshivah Centre’s leadership.
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.
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.
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