A car wreck Thursday night in Crown Heights left two cars totaled after a car blew a red and got clipped by another vehicle. Thankfully there were no serious injuries reported, and the driver stayed on scene until the police arrived.
While the Rebbe sent shluchim all over the world, everyone recalls the three times in 5636-7-8 (1976-7-8) when he sent groups of shluchim to Eretz Yisroel, that was something special. The final group consisted of eight couples and eight bochurim. Last week I received a synopsis of what he said. I believe that we all can take those words to heart, so I am posting it as an additional preparation to Yud Shevat.
Boruch Wilansky (Hillside, NJ) to Shaindel Haberman (Crown Heights) L’Chaim: Sunday Night Bais Rivkah 310 Crown St
In his weekly letter, Rabbi Zalmen Wishedski tells of a unique individual who has helped fuel the Jewish resurgence in Russia, and how even while alone, cut off from his own simcha, he found joy.
Courtesy of Lubavitch Archives, we present a weekly photo of the Rebbe.
He lived in two distinct worlds—that of Old-World, pre-war Poland, where he was deeply influenced by Chassidic rebbes, and that of modern, post-war America, where he became a foremost disciple of Yeshiva University’s Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik. For Rabbi Mordechai Shraga Schonfeld, known as Fabian in English, who passed away last month at the age of 97, blending these two approaches to Judaism wasn’t a balancing act; it was simply his way of life.
The affordable housing lottery is open for 648 Midwood Street, a five-story residential development in Wingate, Brooklyn. Available on NYC Housing Connect is a one-bedroom and two two-bedroom units for eligible residents.
In honor of the upcoming completion of the Daily Tanya, an incredible Biur on Perek Yud Tes of Tanya which appears to be from the Great Chasid Of The Tzemach Tzedek, The “Ranat”. This amazing Biur is being published for the first time from Manuscript.
Following a recent tragedy involving a biker being struck in Crown Heights, the NYPD has begun cracking down on bike riders breaking traffic laws. CrownHeights.info has received multiple reports of bikers receiving tickets in Crown Heights, and would like to remind all bike riders that they are required to follow traffic laws, including stopping at red lights.
The New York Lottery has seen a boom in ticket buying for their Mega Millions and PowerBall lotteries, sending the Mega Millions to $750 Million and PowerBall to $640 Million. The Mega Millions will be drawn on Friday, January 15th, and the PowerBall on Saturday, January 16th,
President-elect Joe Biden on Thursday unveiled a whopping $1.9 trillion economic recovery plan for digging out of the coronavirus-fueled economic downturn that he’ll pitch to Congress as one of his first acts as commander in chief.
Rabbi Binyamin Malachovsky will be sitting shiva following the passing of his sister, Mrs. Mareh Nisselevitch OBM. Times and location in the extended article.
Project Veritas has released a new video today provided by an insider at Twitter who recorded Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey planning more action against President Trump and his supporters on the platform.
As we read in this week’s parsha about the start of our enslavement in Mitzrayim – we share a letter in which the Rebbe deals with the question of tragedies and suffering which we have endured during our long history. Both Moshe Rabbeinu and the prophet Yirmiyahu had asked the time-honored question of why the wicked prosper and the righteous suffer.
In honor of the Shloshim of Rabbi Yerachmiel Stillman, one of the first shluchim in California in 1969 taking place this Shabbos, Rabbi Chaim Dalfin shared photos from his archive of a pilpul said by Rabbi Stillman in 1962. The pilpul was said in Lubavitcher Yeshiva in Newark on the Tractate Yevomus, and was written down by a friend.
For decades, Jewish baseball fans have looked to Sandy Koufax as a role model for refusing to pitch in game one of the 1965 World Series because it fell on Yom Kippur. While that stood out as an example for Jews everywhere, one Nevada teen is hoping to take it a step further and become the first Shabbat-observant, kosher-food-eating professional baseball player.
Mr. Bentzion Chen worked in Israel’s aerospace industry for thirty-five years, during which time he published eight books in Russian on Judaism and Chasidism. Since retiring, he has devoted himself to spreading Torah among immigrants from the former Soviet Union. He was interviewed in February of 2015.
