Two new additions to the fleet of vehicles that deliver Kosher meals to the elderly and needy were inaugurated in a Moscow ceremony this week. The vehicles join the large fleet that delivers daily meals, as well as medical assistance to thousands throughout the Moscow area.
The NYPD’s 71st Precinct, which covers a majority of the Crown Heights area, has asked the public to help identify the people that shot five last week on Brooklyn Ave and Sterling Street.
The Israeli military has reduced the mandatory service for male draftees Wednesday, effective immediately. The change, which was announced Wednesday, comes as part of the army service reform plan, which was passed into law in December 2016.
The New York City Council passed an $88 billion budget just after midnight Wednesday, which included slashing the $1 billion NYPD budget.
El Al canceled two passenger flights and four cargo flights scheduled for Wednesday. According to Globes, El Al CEO Gonen Usishkin ordered all the company’s planes to return to Israel, including those which are doing cargo distribution abroad.
Another shooting shook the Crown Heights area Tuesday evening, sending one person to the hospital. The shooting took place at 386 Eastern Parkway on the corner of Bedford Ave around 8:15pm.
Throughout Gimmel Tammuz, close to 1,000 Chabad centers around the globe hosted a special online Gimmel Tammuz event for their communities, courtesy of Merkos Suite 302.
This unique photo, published courtesy of the Archives of Rabbi Chaim Dalfin, is of Yisroel Noach (Hagodol) Blinitzky A”H and his wife, who ran an underground Lubavitcher Yeshiva in the Ukrainian City of Kremenchuk, before moving to France.
Yechiel Delouya (Montreal, Canada) to Esther Alliel (Lyon, France)
Rising to the challenge as schools closed throughout Crown Heights, all the Yeshivos and Schools did an incredible job setting up online classrooms, and parents worldwide are so grateful to all our mosdos. One school made a special impact, over Zoom.
Rabbi Simon Jacobson who began directing the Vaad Hanachos Hatemimim to memorized and transcribed the Rebbe’s Farbrengens, who joins a group of Bochurim participating in the Hanachos Program to share with them tips on how to write a Hanacha, and the power of listening and absorbing.
The “Learning for Raizel” initiatve will continue tonight at 8:00pm with a Zoom Shiur by Rabbi Fishel Oster. The Shiur is open to Men and Women.
Travelers from the US are banned from entering the European Union for at least another two weeks following a spike in coronavirus cases in some reopened states, European officials announced Tuesday.
On Ches Tammuz 5729/1969, nine Bochurim were on their way back from a wedding when they were involved is a terrible accident. Listen to an account what took place. and the miracle of the Rebbe, related by one of the survivors, Rabbi Yosef Minkowitz.
CrownHeights.info would like to remind the community that Alternate Side Parking and street cleaning regulations are scheduled to resume this week, with the scheduling changes announced by the Mayor.
Two shootings, one of them fatal, took place in Crown Heights Monday evening, in what appears to be the return of the 1970’s norm.
Miriam Shmueli obm always had a desire to share with the community the possibility to learn and study the kuntreisim- booklets that the Rebbe distributed to each of us. The Shmueli family has taken this opportunity to start a series of such classes starting this Tuesday, the 8th of Tammuz, June 30th, at 9pm EST.
