On a recent Thursday at the Crown Heights Farmers Market, George Chang is stuffing his shopping bags full of callaloo, a leafy green that comes in big bunches and looks like a cross between spinach and basil.
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Christopher Colvill, 41, of Liberty, New York was sentenced today to three to six years in prison for his role in stealing and possessing a $35,000 Torah scroll from the Landfield Avenue Synagogue in Monticello last December in order to collect the $6,000 reward money. Colvill was also fined $5,000.
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Two Rabbis from New York made their way through Lewiston, Idaho Monday as part of the Idaho “Roving Rabbi” tour.
A Grand Children’s Tzivos Hashem Rally in honor of Erev Rosh Chodesh Elul, along with an exciting acrobat show by The Twins from France, was held today in the Oholei Torah Ballroom, with participation of Machane Mamosh, Gan Menachem, Ohr Menachem and the Oholei Torah Kindergarten Day Camp.
Is Chabad Lubavitch? Is Lubavitch Chabad? Are the two terms – “Chabad” and “Lubavitch” – synonymous? Chabad is an acronym; Lubavitch is a town. Chabad represents a hassidic philosophy; Lubavitch the ancestral home of a hassidic court. They are not synonymous. Cryptic though it may sound, Lubavitch is Chabad, but Chabad is not only Lubavitch.
Two days after trying to force his way into a Montgomery St. home, Crown Heights’ late-night thief was back in action. Surveillance video caught this unidentified middle-aged African-American male stealing a bicycle from inside the 580 Crown St. condos at around 5:00am last Thursday.
Following 15 years of education and hundreds of alumni from around the world, Yeshivat Tzeirei HaShluchim has announced that it will be closed for the upcoming school year in order to implement a massive renewal plan, promising to “fundamentally alter the way the yeshiva is organized and run.”
Rabbi Eliyahu Cowen and his wife Mushkie (nee Stempel) were sent from Crown Heights this week to Humboldt State University in northern California to open a new Chabad Center.
As the summer draws to a close, bochurim attending the Yeshiva Summer Program in Morristown, NJ bid farewell at the grand banquet to their newly-found friends and dedicated counselors and teachers. The next morning they packed their luggage and boarded the buses which would take them back home.
The following editorial, on what world Jewry an learn from the Chabad-Lubavitch movement, appeared in the Washington Jewish Week.
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