Apple Bank’s Crown Heights branch has made the community aware that it will be temporarily closed again due to the impact of COVID-19. This marks the third time the branch closed this year, all over alleged COVID-19 related incidents.
In recent days, the Chabad emissary in the city of Rivne, Rabbi Shneur Schneersohn (a tenth generation descendant of the Ba’al Hatanya), has made a dramatic and surprising historical discovery: it turns out that the only synagogue that survived the horrors of the Holocaust and Communism, at 39 Shkolnia Street, where the Jews of Rivne pray today, is actually the “Alte Kloiz”- the old beit midrash used by the Maggid and his disciples.
Under the auspices of the head Shliach of Paris, Rabbi Mendel Azimov, thousands of menorah kits have arrived at Beis Lubavitch of Paris in preparation for this year’s chanukah mivtzoim.
Dovid Caytak, who is the Chief Chazzan of the Central Shul, Marina Roscha, under Chief Rabbi Berel Lazar, for the Yomim Noroim, has released a new album of Niggunei Chabad in time for the Yom Tov of Yud Tes Kislev.
Shlomo Hamburger, a Washington DC attorney, has translated and explained the famed letter from the Rebbe’s father letter about importance of the Engagement ceremony.
As COVID cases in their state spiked for a second time, Meir and Shawna Waizman wondered what more they could do to protect their friends and neighbors in Orlando, Florida. So they spearheaded a campaign to write a Sefer Torah.
Rabbi Kalman Samuels is the co-founder and president of Shalva, the Israel Association for the Care and Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities. He was interviewed in March of 2020.
A remastered edition of Lessons in Tanya‘s classic English translation, commentary and elucidation is now available online at Chabad.org, in coordination with the Kehot Publication Society.
A complete list of Yud Tes Kislev farbrengens taking place in Crown Heights has been compiled by Lubavitch Youth Organization, and made available to the Crown Heights Jewish community.
CrownHeights.info presents a new mini-series on Lost Jewish Communities that have vanished over the last few centuries. In the first episode we begin the journey in the town of Winterswijk, in the Netherlands.
Listen to a beautiful rendition of the niggun “Kotonti,” a niggun Hisvaadus Meyuchas to R’ Hillel Paritcher, sung by chazzan Aryeh Leib Hurwitz. Katonti is sung with these words from this week’s parsha, Parshas Vayishlach.
A pair of COVID compliance inspectors from New York City’s Department of Health and Mental Hygiene descended on Crown Heights Wednesday afternoon, making stops at the local schools and shuls in an effort to catch “COVID scofflaws”.
Do you live out of town and have a child learning/dorming in a local school? If the answer is yes, Crown Heights Urgent Care has a special offer for you. We will allow you to pre-register your child at the urgent care, thereby ensuring seamless care whenever needed.
Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today announced that New York State will receive an initial delivery of enough COVID-19 vaccine doses for 170,000 New Yorkers.
Israel will open an embassy in Bahrain by the end of the year, according to a report. Israeli diplomat Dror Gabbay arrived in Manama on Monday to survey several potential locations for the new embassy.
After more than a month of teeth grinding aggravation and over a dozen Crown Heights vehicles broken into, video camera footage has finally caught a pair of window breaking thieves in the act.
Ckids International crowned their first “Ultimate JewQ champion of Australia” at the JEWQ grand finale Sunday night, Nov 29th on Zoom. He also won a grand prize of $1018.
