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.
As the storm that was once Hurricane Ida lashed drenching rain on New York and reports of flooding were emerging, Rabbi Shmuel Kogan decided to check on the building that houses Ganeinu, the elementary school he runs with his wife, Shevy. He called his wife and told her it was destroyed.
An open invitation has been extended to local Sefardim and guests who are looking for traditional Sefardic Tefilot for Rosh Hashanah and throughout Tishrei in Crown Heights.
Mutinous soldiers in the West African nation of Guinea detained President Alpha Conde on Sunday after hours of heavy gunfire rang out near the presidential palace in the capital, then announced on state television that the government had been dissolved in an apparent coup d’etat.
There will be an outdoor Rosh Hashanah minyan for men, women, and children. The minyan will be held in newly-constructed tents on Sterling Street, between Brooklyn Avenue and New York Avenue.
Six security prisoners escaped from Gilboa Prison in northern Israel overnight Sunday, through a tunnel they dug.
