In a tweet published Saturday night, President Trump called the proposal to surround New York City with a six-mile-long seawall to protect against large storms “costly, foolish & environmentally unfriendly.”
The most serious outbreak of locusts in 25 years is spreading across East Africa, with one swarm in the country’s northeast measuring 37 miles long by 25 miles wide.
Alternate side parking (street cleaning) regulations are suspended on Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Birthday, Monday, January 20th, 2020.
United States Attorney Richard P. Donoghue published the following statement after a man who attempted to rob four New York City banks was released from police custody due to the Justice Reform Laws. The man went on to commit two additional bank robberies before the federal government stepped in.
Ever wondered why your USPS packages magically appear on your doorstep without your bell being rung? This video of a USPS delivery in Williamsburg might be the answer.
Baruch Shalom and Batsheva Davidson (Crown Heights)
The IDF on Sunday morning began deploying permanent technological infrastructure for discovering and identifying underground digging activity on the Lebanon border.
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 the twentieth installment here on CrownHeights.info.
Britain’s finance ministry on Friday announced it had added the entire Hezbollah organization to its list of terrorist groups subject to asset freezing. The ministry previously only targeted the Lebanese Shiite organization’s military wing.
A 22-year-old man was stabbed and wounded at the Giborim (Heroes) way in Kiryat Arba, adjacent to the city of Hevron. The terrorist was apprehended by IDF troops and an Israeli civilian at the scene.
Seven years after a lawsuit was filed by a disgruntled employee of the Michigan Jewish Institute, the U.S. Government declines to join the case.
We present the Shalom Zochor list for the week of Shabbos Parshas Shemos:
In continuation with the theme of preparing for Yud Shevat , shnas hasiviim (the 70th year of the Rebbe’s nesius), I chose the following story which is based on a possuk of this week’s parsha and I heard from my father, Reb Meir a”h. A chossid has to recognize that as much as we know and understand, whatever the Rebbe tells us is Emes liamito.
Slavador Litvak, known as the “Accidental Talmudist,” shared this story about Rabbi Reuven Israel Kott, a Gerrer Chossid who saved thousands by helping them escape Poland before World War Two,
Courtesy of Lubavitch Archives, we present a photo of the Rebbe.
Following a ban on many Jewish news organizations Whatsapp accounts, CrownHeights.info is happy to announce that it’s whatsapp account is back up and running.
