As many of Crown Heights’s residents return from long stays in the hospital, they will require intensive rehabilitation, and the Crown Heights community has come together to provide home based community rehab. To make the initiative work, the rehab is seeking volunteers from the community to join.
Everyone is invited to take part in a Chassidishe Farbrengen marking the Shloshim of Rabbi Yehuda Leib Groner OBM. The Shloshim event will be streamed live here on CrownHeights.info.
Thanks to some very generous Aliya donors, Aliya will be handing out free KN95 – 3 ply masks today, Thursday, from 5:00pm at the Aliya Tefillin booth on the corner of Crown Street and Kingston Ave. As many as you need – No questions asked.
This year, due to the coronavirus pandemic, the Jewish communities across the former Soviet Union are coming up with new, creative and original ideas for Lag B’Omer so that families can celebrate from the comfort of their own homes.
CEO of Maimonides Medical Center, Mr. Ken Gibbs, has a message for the Jewish community regarding the upcoming Hatzalah-Thon event scheduled to take place on Lag B’Omer. Come join the tens of thousands who will be unifying and donating to Hatzalah’s precious work.
A special thank you to Hatzalah volunteers lit up the facade of an apartment building in Crown Heights. Thanked by name for their lifesaving work were Dr. Eli Rosen, Yingi Bistritzky, JJ Katz, and Menachem Freeman.
After being closed for weeks, the Kingston Bake Shop has reopened for the Crown Heights community. The store will be open with limited hours of 6:00am-2:00pm.
Mendy and Chani (nee Demercur) Brennan (Crown Heights)
Sholom and Rivka (nee Vorst) Galperin (Windsor Ontario)
In honor of twenty six years since Gimmel Tammuz, a weekly Sunday learning program will launch over the zoom platform. The shiur will start this coming Sunday, the 10th of May, and will continue for seven weeks.
Rabbi Yossi Turk, Shliach in Cordoba, Argentina, tells of another less known chapter of the life of his father in law, Rabbi Ahron Yaakov Schwei OBM.
With great sadness we report the passing of Rabbi Pinchus Zev Wolf (Velvel) Marasow OBM, an elder Chossid and resident of Crown Heights. He passed away on the 13th of Iyar, 5780.
A twenty seventh update from the Gedaliah Society has been released, updating the community with statistics from recent testing and surveys. The update also reports the good news as the virus weakens its hold on the community.
Seven vehicles were involved in a large crash that spread crumpled up cars and debris across an entire Crown Heights block Wednesday night. The accident occurred around 10:15pm on New York Ave between East New York Ave and Lefferts Ave in Crown Heights.
Mendel Ben Laizer Raksin ( Crown Heights) and Lani Rosenbloom (Baltimore, Maryland)
With Lag B’Omer around the corner, and the much anticipated Hatzalah-Thon LIVE event, Rabbi Moshe Kotlarsky, Vice Chairman of Merkos L’Inyonei Chinuch, has a message for the residents of Crown Heights and Shluchim around the world. Come join the Hatzalah-Thon, and show your appreciation for Hatzalah by donating generously.
Author and Chabad historian Rabbi Chaim Dalfin, shares his memories and experiences of Rabbi Yehuda Leib Groner OBM. Rabbi Groner was a Mazkir of the Rebbe, and was zoiche to have many unique experiences with the Rebbe. He passed away on the 14th of Nissan, 5780, during the COVID-19 pandemic.
