In 2006, after battling with cancer for six short months, Reizi, the younger sister of Shliach Yossi Rodal, passed away at the tender age of ten years old. Yossi was only twelve years old at the time. “Dry tears” is Yossi’s story. It’s the journey he still travel every day.
Red Alert sirens blared over Israel Sunday evening and alerting the areas near Sderot of an incoming rocket from Gaza. The Iron Dome intercepted one rocket.
Hurricane Hanna roared through southern Texas this weekend, leaving flooded roadways and homes, downed trees, broken roofs and power outages in its wake, as the coronavirus continues to spread throughout the state. Chabad representatives are busy reaching out to the community, particularly the elderly, while trying to safeguard the area’s kosher-food supplies.
A Jewish Brooklyn City Council candidate says his tooth was chipped when an unknown assailant walloped him in the face in what he calls an unprovoked hate attack. Police released a surveillance picture of the suspect on Friday.
Do you know this man? He recently became the proud owner of two packages left unattended on a Crown Heights porch Shabbos morning. The theft took place around 5:00am in the area of President Street near Schenectady Ave.
Mendel and Nechama (nee Adelman) Hecht (Courtland, NY)
Gershon Shapiro (Bronx, NY) to Miriam Hawkins (Summerville, Georgia) L’Chaim: Sunday, August 9th, at 1349 President Street
President Trump on Friday night said he intends to “ban” the Chinese-owned video-sharing app TikTok from operating in the U.S.
Two major drug companies will supply the US government with 100 million doses of an experimental coronavirus vaccine, the Trump administration said on Friday, as the nation’s top health agency predicted that fatalities would rise in the coming weeks.
Due to the uncertainties of traveling abroad, some families and girls are reconsidering their options for this coming Seminary year. Perhaps this year, a local, U.S, two decade old Seminary, is the most practical and amazing option?
Rabbi Chaim Dalfin, author and Chasidic historian shares interesting facts, many revealed for the first time. The purpose of his program is to inspire all but especially the youth. Watch another installment here on CrownHeights.info.
A Florida teenager has been charged with carrying out the hacking attack on Twitter in mid-July in which the accounts of prominent people were taken over. State authorities say 17-year-old Graham Ivan Clark “was the mastermind” of the attack. He now faces 30 state felony charges, and federal charges may also be filed.
The response to last week’s article was heartwarming. Not only was appreciation expressed, but additional anecdotes and insights of this historic trip were given. I will share some of them:
“The End of an Era…” As the revel mopeds disappear from the street of New York City, many motorists breath a sigh of relief, while other New Yorkers breath a sigh of frustration at the loss of a convenient mode of transportation.
A Twitter official asserted that anti-Israeli tweets by Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, including those calling for the Jewish state’s “elimination,” are not a violation of the social network’s rules.
A COVID-19 lockdown bar mitzvah will have you in tears, but will you cry for the Jewish peoples collective 2000 year lockdown? A letter by Rabbi Shais Taub.
Courtesy of Lubavitch Archives, we present a weekly photo of the Rebbe as he wishes a chassan and kallah mazel tov, after officiating at their wedding.
