President Joe Biden on Thursday is announcing sweeping new federal vaccine requirements affecting as many as 100 million Americans in an all-out effort to increase COVID-19 vaccinations.
JEM has announced the release of a nearly three hour video farbrengen from the sixth of Tishrei 5745 – 1984, with multi-lingual subtitles.
A Chassidishe Derher has launched a new program providing top-quality, immersive stories made especially for children.
Solar energy has the potential to supply up to 40% of the nation’s electricity within 15 years — a 10-fold increase over current solar output, but one that would require massive changes in U.S. policy and billions of dollars in federal investment to modernize the nation’s electric grid, a new federal report says.
Arizona Treasurer Kimberly Yee announced today that the state will divest all public funds from Ben & Jerry’s for violating Arizona law by boycotting Israel.
Rabbi Nochem Kaplan is the director of the education office of Merkos L’Inyonei Chinuch, Chabad’s central outreach organization, which provides guidance to Chabad-run schools nationwide. He was interviewed three times in September and December of 2020.
The Taliban has agreed to let 200 Americans and other civilians depart Afghanistan from Kabul airport, a US official told Reuters.
The NYPD are searching for a man who disguised himself to look similar to a Chassidic Jew in Queens Monday morning to commit murder.
Tragic news Motzei Rosh Hashana from Ukraine when a minibus carrying a group of yidden returning from Uman was involved in a collision with a bus, killing one and injuring ten.
Yaakov Daniel and Batsheva Rivka Goldschmid (Los Vegas, NV)
Secretary of State Antony Blinken admitted that Taliban fighters are holding back charter flights intended to ferry US citizens and Afghan allies out of Afghanistan on Wednesday — contradicting his comments from a day before when he denied that the extremist group was holding Americans hostage.
Australian police on Tuesday issued fines to worshipers at a synagogue in Melbourne where a group of Orthodox Jews held Rosh Hashanah services in apparent violation of pandemic lockdown ordinances.
Following the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan last month, the country’s last remaining Jew, 62-year-old Zebulon Simantov, has fled the country, according to Tuesday reports.
As the year 5781 comes to a close, the CrownHeights.info Team would like to extend a massive thank to its readers, advertisers, and contributors for an incredible year.
This year, Basi, from the new Shir album struck a chord with Simcha Jacobi, yet the song it is mostly unknown.
This envelope was one received by CSSY from the Rebbe, who included a donation to the organization and wrote “My contribution is included. Your report has has been received and appreciated. It’s come at a relevant time during the days of Selichos (and the time when the King is in the field) in the year of Hakhel. I will mention this at the Tziyon.”
“Escape the horn honking for some horn blowing,” reads a flyer advertising Shofar in the Park. In a modern twist on the time-honored Chabad mission of making the heart of Rosh Hashanah easily accessible, outdoor shofar blowings are expected to reach thousands this year.
