An arrest has been made by the NYPD after two Lubavitchers were run over in Crown Heights by a man driving a large pickup truck last Friday night. The truck had fled the scene and the arrest made possible thanks to Crown Heights Shomrim.
The New York Times, citing three Iranian officials familiar with the war planning, reported on Thursday that Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has instructed the Supreme National Security Council on Monday to prepare for an attack on Israel.
Alternate side parking (street cleaning) is suspended on Friday, November 1 for a holiday. Meters remain in effect.
Rabbi Yaacov Behrman of the Jewish Future Alliance met with Anthony Beckford, the District Leader in charge of the poll workers in the Crown Heights area, to work through the prevailing myths surrounding voting in the present election.
The marathon is held on Sunday, Nov. 3. The first set of runners will take off at 8 a.m. and waves of runners will start their races at staggered start times through 11:30 a.m.
Aviv Keller, who served for many years as the gabbai of the Rothschild Synagogue of Rosh Pinah, Israel, passed away on the 13th of Kislev in 2022, several months shy of his 104th birthday. He was interviewed in September of 2011.
With great sadness we report the passing of Reb Yisachar Tzvi (Hershel) Gluck, a distinguished Spinka Chossid who studied in Tomchei Temimim in his youth. He was 83 years old.
Watch this video from JEM which includes the Lubavitcher Rebbe’s advice on religion, Torah, education, life, and more.
Two residents of Coraopolis and Pittsburgh, PA, have been charged by criminal complaint in Pittsburgh with damaging religious property and conspiracy to commit an offense against the United States in the graffiti of a Pittsburgh Chabad House.
Dr. Andrew (Shlomo) Schally OBM, a Jewish Nobel Laureate, Holocaust survivor, and Distinguished Professor at the University of Miami’s Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, passed away in his Miami Beach home over Sukkos 5785.
The Perlina Jewish Kindergarten, a division of Chabad-Lubavitch’s Or Avner Jewish Day School in Kyiv, Ukraine, was hit by a Russian drone last night in an attack that caused significant damage to the structural integrity of the building.
Rabbi Chaim Dalfin has continued his release of a new video series exploring the Kvarim surrounding the Ohel of the Lubavitcher Rebbe.
Great News: The CHJCC has hired a Director of Social Services, a new position to better serve our community and provide the best assistance to Crown Heights families and individuals
The NYC subway this week was infested with “illegal socialist” ads denouncing the Mayor of NYC Eric Adams, Israel, and the NYPD at the same time. According to the MTA, these are not MTA endorsed ads and were placed illegally.
Rabbi Pinchas Taylor is the director of Adult Education and Outreach at the Chabad of Plantation, Florida, and a prolific lecturer, author, and life coach.
The Olathe Jewish population (numbering about 1,200), which as of this writing has no communal infrastructure in place, will be getting a new boost with the arrival of Rabbi Mendel and Sheina (née Garelik) Wenger.
City Council introduced the bill to legalize jaywalking on Feb. 28. After many months, the bill was approved and sent to Mayor Eric Adams on Sept. 26.
