This past Sunday, June 20th, hundreds of Spanish-speaking young professionals from Chabad communities all over Latin America, and the United States, took part in a groundbreaking opportunity.
Ahavas Chesed has exciting news to share with the Crown Heights community. They have moved from their previous location to new headquarters at 848 Eastern Parkway, on the same block as the Jewish Children’s Museum.
After an excellent third year of Connection Point, the CP team in JEM thought about potentially making a summer option, and they delivered.
Thirty new Shluchim gathered in Crown Heights for an immersive full-day “fundraising fundamentals” course this past week. The first of a twelve part series offered by the New Shluchim Desk at Merkos 302.
This past Friday night there was a terrible fire in Crown Heights. As the family were sitting down to eat Shabbos dinner, a major electrical fire broke out on the roof of their house. Two families had to be evacuated and there was heavy damage to the home, as well as to all their possessions. Ahavas Chesed is spearheading a campaign to raise funds for the families.
To end off a year of amazing programs at Friendship Circle, FC treated the Boys Division volunteers to an end-of-year barbeque. The dedicated volunteers use their one-hour dinner break to attend Friendship Circle programs, no matter what else is going on.
CrownHeights.info presents a gallery of photos with the streets and views of Crown Heights Erev Shabbos. This gallery is courtesy of MendelsPhotography.
The students of Cheder Menachem of Moscow went on a very special graduation trip this year to the city of Kostrama.
A group of campus Shluchim met this past Monday for the first in-person COVID-safe gathering of its kind in many months. But unlike other such summits and conferences, there was a very specific goal at hand: to onboard twenty-five new members for Chabad on Campus’s innovative and groundbreaking educational program—JewishU.
After being inundated over the past week with fantastic feedback on the 70 years films, JEM is excited to announce the continuation of the films.
What are the chances that a shoebox filled with documents about to be discarded would be revealed to contain a letter, in the Rebbe’s personal handwriting, describing his journey and escape from Nazi occupied Europe? A one-in-eighty-year chance!
Bikur Cholim of Crown Heights announces “Hadassah’s Place”, a hospitality suite in the heart of Crown Heights for patients and their families traveling to NYC for medical care. Founded in memory of Hadassah Lebovic OBM, the dedication pays tribute to her family’s dedication to Bikur Cholim.
Close to 100 Mechanchim gathered in Crown Heights to soak up inspiration and camaraderie at a Gimmel Tammuz farbrengen arranged by Lubavitch Chinuch organization Igud Hamelamdim.
It was with a poignant sense of deja vu, on a chilly afternoon this spring, that Rabbi Zalman and Esty Grossbaum welcomed guests to a small groundbreaking ceremony for their new Chabad House in Vaughan, Ontario. Exactly thirty nine years earlier, the Grossbaums hosted a very similar gathering to mark the construction of their first building, just fifty feet north of where they now stood.
A Jewish man was viciously attacked in a road rage incident Wednesday night on a Crown Heights street, causing a chain reaction that led to a three-car crash.
Following the sudden passing of Hadassah Lebovic OBM, a new women’s mikvah is planned to be built in her memory. A letter, released by friends of the family asks the public to participate.
The Rabkin family held a Hachnasas Sefer Torah in Crown Heights. Mendels Photography was there to capture the moment.
