The shooting happened near Franklin Avenue and Lincoln Place in Crown Heights around 4:15pm Monday, according to the NYPD. A 37-year-old man was fatally shot in the head and rushed to Kings County Hospital where he was pronounced deceased.
On Thursday morning Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz of Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida, who was planning a community solidarity mission to Israel the following Sunday, received a call from the Israeli Army Chaplain at the Soroka Hospital in Be’er Sheva with a request to find, purchase, and bring 90 sweatsuits for the wounded soldiers that need Rehabilitation & Plastic Surgery.
The governing board of Morris Township, NJ took the courage and the initiative to issue a proclamation against Anti-Semitism which was read and discussed at their Board Meeting, February 21 of this year.
An unhappy woman in Crown Heights arrived back at her building Monday morning and decided that today was the day she would vandalize it, so she took a brick and smashed a building window. Understandably she was soon under arrest.
The Levaya for Mrs. Pesha Levertov OBM passed by 770 Monday. Mrs. Levertov was a Crown Heights resident and matriarch of a large Lubavitch family. She passed away on Sunday, the 16th of Adar 1, 5784.
Rabbi Mordechai Dubinsky hosted a young couple from Israel who were seeking treatment for the wife’s heart condition. What he didn’t expect was to also be involved in the birth of their first child. (1970s)
AT&T is compensating customers who were affected by the cellphone outage last week that left them without service for hours. Customers are getting $5 for the inconvenience, which has led to some criticism on social media.
A unique important discovery was made during archaeological excavations carried out in the Western Wall Plaza a few years ago, on behalf of the Israel Antiquities Authority and in conjunction with the Western Wall Heritage Foundation: a stamped piece of clay from the First Temple period that belonged to the “Governor of the City” of Jerusalem – the most prominent municipal position in Jerusalem of 2700 years ago.
A Shloshim event in memory of Harav Dovid Schochet OBM will be taking place in Toronto on Tuesday, February 27th, at 8:00pm. The event will be broadcast LIVE on Zoom.
A Lubavitcher driving with his family in Davie, Florida Sunday was one of the first to come across the scene of a crash. Using his skills learned as an EMT, he jumped into action, reviving a man in Cardiac Arrest and saving a life.
Members of the Jewish community of Babruisk, Belarus, led by Rabbi Shual Hababo, have adopted a tradition of traveling a few times a year to neighboring and remote villages and towns where Jewish communities once thrived before World War II, to commemorate the memory of the local Jews brutally murdered during the Holocaust.
