A Seventh update of guidelines for the Crown Heights Jewish community has been published Erev Shabbos, with new recommendations from the CDC as well as reminders for measures that will keep Crown Heights safe.
Crown Heights’s Apple Bank branch has closed its doors for two weeks after the branch had what was identified as a “Coronavirus exposure.” The plan to close the store irritated an already on edge community deep into the Coronavirus pandemic.
The White House treasury secretary said Friday that the deadline for filing federal income taxes had been pushed back from April 15 to July 15 in an effort to help businesses and families deal with financial woes from the spreading coronavirus pandemic.
As everyone will be davening at home this shabbos, don’t forget to bench the upcoming month of Nissan. The new moon can be seen on Tuesday, at ten hours, fourteen Dakos, and eleven Chalakim. Rosh Chodesh will be on Thursday.
Rabbi Chaim Dalfin, author and Chasidic historian shares interesting facts, many revealed for the first time in a special episode due to the Coronavirus Pandemic sweeping our community. The purpose of his program is to inspire all but especially the youth. Watch another installment here on CrownHeights.info.
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has ordered all non-essential workers to stay home due to the Coronavirus, with limited exceptions.
The family of a new bride and groom found a unique way for the members of the community, unable to join the simcha, to say Mazal Tov to the new couple. Involving an open top convertible and large Hachnasas Sefer Torah float, the family brought the joy of the wedding to the streets of Crown Heights.
As we are blessed with the opportunity to spend meaningful and quality time with our children at home, JLI’s Torah Cafe is pleased to present you with a selection of their best feature videos on Torah-based, effective parenting tips by leading Mechanchim and experts.
My plan was to publish a booklet and give out in the shuls in Crown Heights another chapter excerpted from the upcoming biography on the Rebbe Rashab. However, being that for the time-being the shuls are not going to be opened this Shabbos, I decided to post it, so this way at the Shabbos Mevorchim farbrengen that will be taking place in everyone’s house, you will have something to discuss about the Rebbe Rashab, whose 100th yahrzeit is this coming Friday, Beis Nissan.
Rabbi Zalmen Wishedski, one of a few guests at a family only wedding in Switzerland, shares his touching experience of faith, and the beauty found in the simple truth.
Just as Crown Heights Hatzalah has seen its call volume balloon over the Coronavirus pandemic sweeping the community, the lifesaving organization received its newly mounted CH-901 back. The red and white ambulance, designated the number CH-901, had been out of service as it got remounted and spruced up, with a blue and white ambulance temporarily taking its place.
Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (NYSE and TASE: TEVA) announced today the immediate donation of more than 6 million doses of hydroxychloroquine sulfate tablets through wholesalers to hospitals across the U.S. to meet the urgent demand for the medicine as an investigational target to treat COVID-19.
Courtesy of Lubavitch Archives, we present a weekly photo of the Rebbe.
