CitiBike, New York City’s bike share program has arrived in Crown Heights with the first of two bike racks installed on Eastern Parkway. The new rack, which can hold more than twenty bikes, is across from 770 on the north side of Eastern Parkway.
Over 1,500 people are expected to arrive in Crown Heights this weekend for the annual Chabad on Campus Pegisha. In the spirit of Hakhel, this will be the largest Pegisha to date.
When a green shirted Meretz activist decided to defile Tefillin at a Chabad Tefillin booth in Eretz Yisroel, his companions decided to fight back, by putting on Tefillin themselves.
The completion of the welcoming of a new Sefer Torah took place in Paris in memory of Shliach Rabbi Rabbi Yosef Atuill OBM, who passed away two years ago.
Over cocktails and hors d’oeuvres, overlooking the shimmering lights of the new MUHC, supporters and friends – including leading members of the medical community in Montreal- gathered at the stunning new Chabad Care Hospitality Center in Montreal.
Ahead of the upcoming election day, JEM presents a 16mm film received from Machne Israel. This one-of-a-kind striking color footage shows the Rebbe receiving New York Governor W. Averell Harriman for a private audience, shortly before the 1958 New York Gubernatorial election.
A very special wedding took place in Moscow last Wednesday. The son of Rabbi Boruch Kleinberg, Shliach to the Sokol-Aeroport district of Moscow, got married to the daughter of Shliach Rabbi Mordechai Weisberg, Director of Moscow’s Jewish communities.
This Monday, the 6th of Cheshvan, marks the tenth yarhzeit of Mrs. Sarah Deitsch, of New Haven, CT a matriarch of the Deitsch Family.
This Sukkos, the CKids Club team at Merkos 302, led by Mrs. Bracha Jurkowitz, were thinking of ways to not only bring kids into the Sukkah for a shake of the Lulav or a quick snack but to do innovative and engaging sukkos-themed projects. They devised the “Sukkot Time Machine,” a program for kids to experience Sukkot using all their five senses.
Over 800 participants in 40 Chabad communities and Chabad Houses have joined the next six month curriculum of the Chabad branch of the Semichas Chaver program.
As the kehillah of East Flatbush prepares to launch a mega fundraising campaign, the children are finding wholesome ways to show support for the cause and bring in funds of their own.
As is a yearly tradition, hundreds of cars pulled up to Aviators Complex at the start of Tishrei as tens of student-volunteers on behalf of Chasdei Lev, loaded up the trunks with food, paper goods, cleaning materials, gifts for the children and other Yom Tov necessities without so much as lifting a finger.
A pickup truck driving on Eastern Parkway fatally struck a person Sunday evening, shutting down the Parkway for hours.
A sneaky driver managed to slip away from the scene of a crash in Crown Heights Motzei Shabbos after pulling a switch with another person.
Wednesday evening, Chol Hamoed, a lavish HAKHEL Simchas Bais Hashoeiva was hosted by Lubavitch Chinuch organization, Igud Hamelamdim, for over 100 Mechanchim in a large Crown Heights Sukka.
A man was put in cuffs and arrested Friday afternoon after he pulled a knife on a Jewish victim in Crown Heights who declined to give him cigarettes.
For the past 20 yrs, young boys have been passing through Yeshiva Or Menachem’s doors. Here they discover the joy of success. They discover their inherent value. They discover their unique strengths. What’s the secret to Or Menachem’s success?
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