As the tax is season is upon us, one issue on everyone’s mind is how much of a refund can I get? How do I take advantage of all my available deductions? A particularly complex area that is of special importance in our community, where a large percentage of the population is working for religious institutions is the Parsonage Allowance.
A meteor that scientists estimate weighed 11 tons streaked at supersonic speed over Russia’s Ural Mountains on Friday, setting off blasts that injured nearly 1,000 people and frightened countless more. In one city – Chelyabinsk – 100’s were hurt by shattered glass, and the local Chabad House suffered damage.
The U.S. Postal Service will stop delivering mail on Saturdays but continue to deliver packages six days a week under a plan aimed at saving about $2 billion, the financially struggling agency says.
A Miami-based e-commerce company, 1saleaday.com, got so fed up with its workers wasting away precious minutes on social media that in 2011 it banned and blocked sites like Facebook and Twitter.
DEVELOPING: Authorities say at least 26 people, including 18 children, were killed Friday when a gunman opened fire inside a Connecticut elementary school.
Rabbi Moshe Y. Bleich of the Wellesley-Weston Chabad House attended Massachusetts Senator Scott Brown‘s election party last night. The event did not end on a happy note, however, as the incumbent was defeated by challenger Elizabeth Warren, who will occupy Brown’s Senate seat for the next six years.
Barack Hussein Obama was re-elected president of the United States on Tuesday, overcoming powerful economic headwinds, a lock-step resistance to his agenda by Republicans in Congress and an unprecedented torrent of advertising as a divided nation voted to give him more time.
Florida Coastal is a leading Law School located in Jacksonville, FL. Because of its excellent reputation, Jewish Students nationwide flock to Florida Coastal in pursuit of entering the legal profession. Monday the school recognized the work of Rabbi Shmuli and Chana Novack of Chabad of Southside, FL.
Tzivos Hashem of Melbourne and the local community celebrated the completion of “Leiby’s Torah” in honor of Leiby Kletzky, OBM, a member of Tzivos Hashem who was brutally murdered in Brooklyn last summer.
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CrownHeights.info and the Avner Institute present this unique photo of the Rebbe with a guest, taken during the visit of Israeli President Zalman Shazar in 1966.
An unprecedented deluge of visitors to our website this morning, driven by a link from the colossal Drudge Report to our video of the brutal beating and mugging of a Jewish man during Hurricane Sandy, overwhelmed our servers and caused our news website to be unavailable for most of the day.
At its peak this afternoon, the site was processing hits from over 3,000 visitors per second!
Unaccustomed to such a magnitude of visitors, our servers buckled under the pressure, and we were regretfully unable to provide the Crown Heights and greater Chabad community with the up-to-date news and information which they have come to rely upon for most of the day.
We are pleased to announce that as of this evening our hosting providers have fixed the problem, and there are no foreseeable issues with the website going forward.
Thank you for your patience.
Pomodori Pizzeria on Kingston Ave. will remain open today despite the impending hurricane. So if your food supply is running low, you can always venture out for some delicious Italian-style lunch!
Hoshana Raba in Moscow’s Marina Roscha Chabad Synagogue with Russia’s Chief Rabbi Berel Lazar.
Kesser Torah College and the Yeshiva Centre of Sydney, led by Meir Moss and Rabbi Pinchus Feldman, respectively, are at peace for the first time in more than eight years.
The idea should not be a novelty, but the event is a first. Chol Hamoed Sukkos will see the ‘Night Owls’ and The Moshe Hecht Band take the stage, along with other homegrown acts in the first ever Keren Simchas Chosson V’kalah Fundraiser Concert right here in Crown Heights.
Danny Saadon, Vice President of El-Al Israel Airlines for North and Central America, the largest branch of the airline outside of Israel, visited the Ohel as a preparation for Rosh Hashanah.
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