An NYPD officer from the 77th Precinct stopped inside 770 for a quick visit during Shachris Thursday morning. Upon discovering that he is Jewish, the Mispallelim honored him with Hagbaha – the lifting of the Torah.
A contractor doing work on a Jewish home in Crown Heights was suddenly shocked to discover that a man was stealing valuable tools and equipment from his work van. He confronted the man and demanded that they be returned, but instead the man attacked him with a screwdriver he had just stolen.
It was a full house for the the 33rd annual Siyum at Yeshiva Gedolah Lubavitch-London, which celebrated the completion of Mesechtas Gittin by a number of its Talmidim.
This Monday, JEM will be starting a 10-part series over WhatsApp on the topic of parenting. The videos will be sent to the over 7,000 subscribers of their daily videos broadcasts.
In what is being reported as a “first in the world”, two Orthodox-Jewish twin sisters in Israel, who are married to twin brothers, gave birth to girls 20 minutes apart.
A Crown Heights teen, 11th grader Chanie Gorkin, is getting credit for writing an uplifting poem that has been getting a lot of attention on social media in the United States and especially the United Kingdom.
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present a unique photo of the Rebbe during the distribution of dollars in the large Shul of 770, taken in the early 1990s.
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