Snow Day: Crown Heights School Cancelations
The following Crown Heights schools have announced cancelations for Thursday, December 17th due to weather conditions:
Daily Archives: December 16, 2020
Shots Fired On President Street, Gun Recovered By Shomrim
A gun was recovered in Crown Heights Wednesday afternoon thanks to Crown Heights Shomrim but the shooter got away, in a broad daylight shooting in Crown Heights. Thankfully no one was injured. Job Final: Gun recovered!
Lost Jewish Communities: Hardenberg, Netherlands
CrownHeights.info presents a new mini-series on Lost Jewish Communities that have vanished over the last few centuries. In this episode we take a journey to the town of Hardenberg, in the Netherlands.
Ten Happy Winners of Gemara Bifnim Menorah Raffle
Ten hard-working boys from niine Lubavitch mosdos around the country were the recent lucky winners of magnificent Rambam-style silver-plated Menorahs. The Menorah prizes were part of the monthly raffles held for the Gemara Bifnim project, a unique initiative of Chabad Chinuch Organization Igud Hamelamdim.
Camp Emunah Traveling Shlichus Camp To Open For The Summer of 5781
With the Bitachon that the country will reopen by spring of 2021; Camp Emunah has announced that the 10th grade west coast traveling shluchis program will resume this upcoming summer of 5781. Unfortunately due to COVID it was canceled this past summer. This year they will also allow 11th graders to join the camp due to the lost opportunity from summer 5780
LIVE at 7:00PM: The 41st Annual South Florida Chassidic Chanukah Festival
Watch Live At 7:00pm: The 41st Annual South Florida Chassidic Chanukah festival features a full concert with the highly popular Jewish superstar Mordechai Shapiro, and presents a spectacular light show. The night’s highlight is the lighting of Florida’s largest Menorah.
Hatzalah Honored At Grand Army Plaza Menorah Lighting
The lighting of “Largest Menorah in Brooklyn” on the sixth night of Chanukah took place Tuesday night honoring the life-saving work of Hatzalah and Dr. Bushra Mina in the fight against COVID-19.
Massive Fire Destroys Boro Park Shul Wednesday Morning, Multiple People Saved From the Flames
Heart-stopping footage of a firefighter pulling children from a shul engulfed in flames Wednesday morning, after a famed Boro Park shul caught fire. Thankfully, no one was injured in the blaze, but the shul was completely destroyed.
Albany Discovers Vintage Shanghai Sefarim
Preparing for the upcoming “Hey Teves SeforimHoliday,” Maimonides students have launched a unique “Title Page Project” scanning and scrutinizing the amazing front pages of a unique collection of crumbling brown-paged Seforim found in the school library’s old section.
Sarah Dukes shows a ring Yudi purchased for her during his miraculous recovery.
Tehillim Requested For Rabbi Yudi Dukes After Condition Deteriorates
The condition of JNet director Rabbi Yudi Dukes, whose miraculous recovery from COVID-19 made headlines, has unfortunately taken a downward turn. Yudi’s wife, Sarah Dukes, has requested that people please say tehillim for his recovery.
New Book “Chabad and Telz” Now Available for Purchase
A new 200 page book published by Rabbi Chaim Dalfin gives us the historical relationship between Rabbi Eliezer Gordon, founder of Telz and the Rebbe Rashab and is now available for purchase. The book also reveals for the first time the relationship between Rabbi Chaim Gutnick and Rabbi Gifter, who both learned in Telz in 1937.
BDE: Mrs. Leah Zilberstrom, 63, OBM
With great sadness we report the passing of Mrs. Leah Zilberstrom OBM, wife of Mahpia Binyomin Nachum Zilberstrom of Yeshivas Toras Emes Yerushalayim, and mother of a large Chabad family. She passed away on Tuesday evening, the 1st of Teves, 5781.
Levaya of Mrs. Miriam Labkowsky OBM To Continue in New York
The levaya of Mrs. Miriam “Morah Mira” Labkowsky OBM will continue in Crown Heights Wednesday, passing by 770 at approximately 12:30pm, before continuing on to the cemetery at 1:30pm.
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