Three joyriding teenagers made the perfect theft for New York City, then dumped it in a Crown Heights alley. The teenagers had lifted a pickup truck from the New York City Housing Authorities location in the southern part of Crown Heights, and decided to take it on a joy ride.
Hundreds joined a class given by Rabbi Chay Amar in the merit of jnet.org director Rabbi Yudi Dukes, who is recovering from Covid-19. To everyone’s surprise Rabbi Dukes joined and shared words of inspiration.
Yaakov Yitzchok and Shifra (nee Gajer) Astolin (Crown Heights)
The 71st Precinct, which covers a majority of he Crown Heights Jewish community, announced the seizure of two guns taken off the streets. The guns, Sig Saur and Bretta model handguns, were seized with ammunition.
Multiple Chabad organizations in Rockland County will be receiving large homeland security grants in a $90 Million Grant initiative to upgrade security.
Fire fighters responded to 451 Kingston Ave Wednesday night, to battle a blaze that sent flames billowing out of an apartment window. The flames were quickly extinguished, and no injuries were reported.
For more than a decade, Norman Rosenbaum was a fixture in New York City, a fiery Australian who became a fixture on front pages and nightly newscasts for his impassioned speeches—many on the steps of City Hall, demanding justice in the face of entrenched anti-Semitism after the infamous 1991 Crown Heights riots, in which his younger brother Yankel was brutally murdered. Rosenbaum passed away on July 25 in Melbourne, Australia. He was 63 years old.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Wednesday declared a State of Emergency for New York City as well as Westchester, Nassau, Suffolk, and Rockland counties in order to provide local governments with additional clean-up and operational support in the wake of Tropical Storm Isaias.
Rabbi Naftali Tzvi Gottlieb (1935-2017) was a prolific writer and author. His biography of the Rebbe’s father, which was originally published in Hebrew, has since been partly translated into English under the title: Rabbi, Mystic, Leader: The Life and Times of Rabbi Levi Yitzchak Schneerson. He was interviewed in his home in Betar Illit, Israel, in January of 2014.
Huge quantity of assembled produce boxes and essential food items, such as Orange Juice, Gefilte Fish, Wraps and Challah Rolls, available outside F.R.E.E. 1383 President Street.
After a short hiatus, the relative calm of Crown Heights was again broken with a shooting Wednesday afternoon. No victims were located on scene.
Lubavitch kolel of London is coming out with a new campaign, encouraging Anash to partake in the new daily Gemara program following the calling of the Frierdiker Rebbe to Chasidim in the year 5483 to study a Perek of Tanya and an Amud Gemara daily.
Eli Rozenberg, the son of millionaire U.S. businessman Kenny Rozenberg, is one step closer to acquiring a large stake in Israels iconic El Al Airlines as government approves $75 Million bid.
Join Rabbi Friedman and Sara Blau for the official virtual launch of the new children’s book “Who Needs You.”
Commemorating the 76th yahrzeit of Reb Levi Yitzchok, the Rebbe’s father, Merkos 302 has organized a day of learning, lectures and farbrengens celebrating his life, teachings and legacy.
Rabbi Motti Feldman, together with his son Rabbi Menachem, are Shluchim who lead the community of Dover Heights Shule in Sydney, Australia. Singing together for many years, they have released a rendition of the famed cantorial piece “Shehechiyanu”.
