BDE: Anita Isaac, OBM
With great sadness we report the passing of Anita Isaac OBM, the sister of Crown Heights resident Mazal Zirkind.
With great sadness we report the passing of Anita Isaac OBM, the sister of Crown Heights resident Mazal Zirkind.
A lone missionary spreading Kfirah has been targeting Jewish homes in Crown Heights, leaving a missionary book on Union Street homes that have a Mezuzah and spreading leaflets at homes without.
A Lag Ba’omer bonfire and celebration took place for the 38th year running on Empire Boulevard, in the backyard of the Horowitz family home. There, the Horowitz family and Rabbi Nachman Twerskei have held their annual ‘Hadlokoh’ of a Bonfire in honor of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai.
You’ve seen it before: His radio buzzes, he picks it up and hears the call for help, and poof! He’s out running as if he has a cape on his shoulders ready to go save another life. But there’s much more to this scene that what meets the eye.
The Levaya for Rabbi Akiva Wagner OBM, the Rosh Yeshiva of the Chabad Yeshiva in Toronto, Canada, passed by 770 Monday afternoon, where a large crowd of Anash waited to bade farewell.
Nervously fretting over her special day, a Kallah is still worrying if every detail will be right for her wedding. Right now, a Chosson is looking at the cost and wondering “How will we afford it?” Have you helped KSCVK make a wedding yet? There is just one week left to buy your tickets for the KSCVK auction.
Today, Monday, the Crown Heights community will be joining together for a Shnas Hakhel Bonfire taking place in front of Wingate High School on Kingston Ave. Updated Schedule in Extended Article
The Great Parade will be arriving soon, and the players, marchers, and band members are hard at work preparing. Watch as this group do a dress rehearsal for the exciting day.
The Tenenbaum family will be sitting shiva in Crown Heights after the passing of Rabbi Eli Tenenbaum OB”M. Times and location in extended article.
In an unprecedented move this Lag B’Omer, Railroad Pizza, the new and awesome Pizza store in Crown Heights, will be giving out FREE Neapolitan pizza at Kingston and Empire on May 9th from 12:00pm-4:00pm to celebrate the special day.
The Schneerson and Herzog families will be sitting shiva in Crown Heights after the passing of Rebbetzin Shaina Schneerson OB”M. Times and location in extended article.
The annual Lag B’Omer fair by NCFJE will be free of charge, thanks to generous partners Mask and Interborough Developmental and Consultation Center.
With great sadness we report the passing of Rabbi Eliyahu Tenenbaum OBM, a Crown Heights resident and long time teacher at Oholei Torah. He passed away Motzei Shabbos, the 16th of Iyar, 5783.
Plans are changing as groups from all over the world head to Crown Heights in honor of Lag B’Omer.
In honor of Lag B’Omer this year, the Ohel Bus Service will be providing extra subsidized transportation round trip from Crown Heights to the Ohel from Sunday, May 7th to Tuesday, May 9th.
An emergency occurs, and medical help is needed—and fast. “What are we going to do now at this unseemly hour in the middle of the night?” you fret. “Who can we call now? Who’s awake?” Hatzalah of course.
A clever thief stealing bars of soap from Empire Kosher Supermarket probably thought he was getting away clean Erev Shabbos, but ended up getting arrested.