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.
This photo was taken in the winter of 1942 in the upstairs shul of 770. In the photo you can see Rabbi Yitzchak Arnold, Laibel Groner, Dovid Taub, Yechiel Rotenberg, ?, ?, ?, Moshe Groner, Rabbi Yitzchak Kolodny, Reuven Rapoport, Eliyahu Gross, Berel Gross, Dovid Twersky, ?, Rafael Grossman, ?, and Shlomo Dreilech.
Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz of Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida participated in a Minyan taking place at the Shar Hakutona at the Entrance to the Har Habayit. This photo is of the doorway found a the end of the entryway tunnel.
A new “tower” has now joined the Crown Heights landscape with the installation of a 5G tower for LINKNYC on the corner of Crown Street and Utica Ave. The tower provides free high speed WiFi for local New Yorkers.
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has peered into the chaos of the Cartwheel Galaxy, revealing new details about star formation and the galaxy’s central black hole. Webb’s powerful infrared gaze produced this detailed image of the Cartwheel and two smaller companion galaxies against a backdrop of many other galaxies.
Crown Heights resident and photographer Shmuli Evers submitted this absolutely stunning photo of 770, using reflection of the building in a puddle to make the photo unique.
Kingston Ave as a pedestrian-only street? What do you think, should it be done? Please leave your thoughts in the comments below.
Courtesy of Lubavitch Archives, we present this weeks unique photo of the Rebbe.
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