The red sunset which turned the sky of New York City into a dream Thursday night sent photographers and residents scrambling for their cameras and phones. This image was submitted to CrownHeights.info, and was captured from the top of a Crown Heights building.
A picture is worth a thousand words, and this one fits the bill. This photo was taken this evening from a Crown Heights street as the sun was setting on another day in the Shchuna.
With power out at Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida, Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz read from the Torah with community members shining flashlights. Chabad of Southwest Florida, located in Fort Myers, became a shelter and an island of safety from the severe damage wrecked by Hurricane Ian.
Yeshivas Lubavitch Cincinnati, under the leadership of Rabbi Gershon Atvzon, stood in front of “770- Cincinnati” for their annual group photo.
Shofar so Good! Rabbi Eli Wilansky of Pittsburg, PA gave a different kind of donation right before Rosh Hashana this year, and encouraged others to join in.
The Chabad House Jewish Center in Milford, Massachusetts run by Rabbi Mendy Kivman hosted a dedication ceremony this past week for their newly renovated Shul and its one of a kind Aron Kodesh. Using age old ideas with modern design, the Aron Kodesh in truly unique.
Chabad photographer Shmuli Evers captured this incredible photograph at the intersection of Lincoln Pl and Brooklyn Ave in Crown Heights.
New York Assemblyman Brian Cunningham, who represents a majority of Crown Heights, came to Oholei Torah Tuesday to speak about and learn what exactly our schools are all about. Cunningham, who was propelled through the elections with the help of the Crown Heights Jewish community, maintains close ties with the community.
In midst the fundraising campaign to help Tomchei Temimim, Ishai Ribo was spotted joining in the learning, and even supported the campaign.
With thousands of NYPD officers converging on Crown Heights for the Labor Day Parade, it’s no wonder that an Orthodox Jewish officer made 770 a stop last night to daven Maariv.
Chabad Shliach of Southwest Florida Rabbi Yitzhok Minkowicz was on a flight to Argentina and put on Teffilin with a Jew from Hallandale, Beach Florida. This man’s son is Head of NCSY of Argentina.
As the city and state’s administrations look to restrict concealed gun carry following the Supreme Courts landmark ruling, some businesses have decided to do the opposite. This sign went up today on a local business, and many more may soon follow suit.
The staff and campers of Gan Yisroel Parksville lined up for an enormous group photo this week, spanning an impressive section of an open camp field.
As part of an incredibly inspiring and adventurous weekend on the “CYP Encounter: Panama” Shabbaton, the Young Professionals took a boat ride to Tapoga Island. Upon discovering that the captain of the boat was Jewish, three of the CYPs decided to share the Mitzvah with the boat’s captain and persuaded him to don Tefillin as well.
A chance encounter between my a young bochur by the name “Yisroel Shem Tov Ehven”, his last name being Ehven, and the Famous Reb Yisroel Shem Tov of Crown Heights, brought smiles to many faces, including theirs.
In 1949 Viktor Abakumov, the Soviet Union’s Minister of State Security, received a message reporting that the Frierdiker Rebbe had established an anti-Soviet Center in New York City. The message, sent by KGB agents operating in New York, stated: “The American espionage system established an anti-Soviet center in New York under the cover of a Rabbinic training school, and it is headed by the Jewish tzaddik Schneersohn, who was deported from the USSR in 1928.”
Posing for their annual group photo, the bochurim of Kvutzah ‘פב stood in front of 770 Eastern Parkway, their home for the last year.
