A seventeenth update of guidelines for the Crown Heights Jewish community has been published by the Gedaliah Society, with an update on social support services for the Crown Heights Jewish community.
With great sadness we report the passing of Mrs. Rivkah Karp OBM, a matriarch of a large Lubavitch family. She passed away Motzei Shabbos, the 11th of Nissan, 5780.
Crown Heights Hatzalah made an extra stop Thursday with lunch for the staff at the Kingsbrook Jewish Hospital Emergency Room. The pre-made lunches from Holesome Bagels were donated by SGM Socher, and delivered by Crown Heights Hatzalah volunteers.
Russian officials stopped all incoming and outbound international flights starting at midnight on Friday to slow the spread of the coronavirus, widening the international flight restrictions implemented on March 27.
Brooklyn landlord Mario Salerno cancelled rent for approximately 300 tenants in his 18 apartment building complex in a gesture of goodwill following the spread of COVID-19 in the borough.
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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.
Two people were killed and four injured Saturday in a stabbing attack in southeastern town of Romans-sur-Isère, about 20km north of Valence. According to the mayor of the French town, a man armed with a knife attacked people shopping in town, killing two of them and wounding an additional five.
A recently published Kovetz, which was produced by the students of the Rabbinical College of America – Morristown, contains a selection of the Rebbe’s sichos, maamorim and letters on kapitel 119 – the kapitel that chassidim will start reciting this year on Yud Aleph Nissan.
With the coronavirus lockdown keeping many New York drivers off the road, they might not have noticed how cheap gas is. The average price at downstate pumps was just $2.175 a gallon this week, state data show.
In a touching remake, Abie Rotenberg and Baruch Levine sing a song based on the original Abie Rotenberg classic “The Place Where I Belong”. In the original song, the Torah was not in Shul, today we find ourselves the one out of shul, and longing for “The Place Where We Belong”.
The Vaad Hanegunim has announced the release of this years Niggun for Yud Aleph Nissan, marking the Rebbe’s 118 years, by composer Reb Sholom Brochstat. Brochstat has already composed a few Nigunim that have became quite popular in Lubavitch.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has authorized the first test for coronavirus that measures antibodies in the blood. Such tests could identify people who have recovered from COVID-19, a key for knowing who’s immune and for developing a vaccine.
The family of Rabbi Yisroel Friedman OBM would love to compile stories and anecdotes about him. If you have anything to share, please email StoriesRebYisroel@gmail.com. Any format – written, audio or visual – would be welcome.
He was the bane of journalists and interviewers, a tight-lipped, Soviet-born Lubavitcher Chassid whose poker face belied the horrors he had seen and the secret work he spent decades immersed in. Rabbi Gedalya Korf earned a reputation as a man who “said little [but] did much.” Korf passed away from COVID-19-related complications on March 30 (5 Nissan), at the age of 90, having kept most of his life’s work classified until the very end.
With great sadness we report the passing of Rabbi Tzvi Abba Lerman OBM, a loved teacher in Crown Heights. He passed away Friday morning, the 9th of Nissan, 5780.
A sixteenth update of guidelines for the Crown Heights Jewish community has been published with an advisory for measures that will keep the Crown Heights community safe over pesach.
