The first snow storm of the season is scheduled to hit NYC Sunday morning, with up to four inches projected to fall on the five boroughs. The storm will bring dangerous road conditions and is expected to drag into Monday.
Israel’s Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi, Rabbi David Lau, made a visit to Crown Heights this past week. Follow him through the lens of Crown Heights photographer Itzik Roytman.
Friday afternoon around 1:00pm a Jewish man was standing on the south bound train at President St and Nostrand Ave when he was verbally harassed by a black male. The man allegedly yelled anti-Semitic remarks towards the Jewish man.
The killer of Chareidi Jewish kindergarten teacher Sarah Halimi from Paris, Kobili Traoré, has had the prosecution drop the charges against him after his lawyers made a plea for insanity. Traoré is currently being forcibly held by French authorities in a psychiatric hospital.
Usman Khan, 28, a British man of Pakistani origin, who carried out the stabbing attack on London Bridge on Friday, murdering two people and wounding three others, was released from prison less than a year ago.
by Ashira Weiss – Lubavitch.com An earthquake that hit the coastal region of Albania early Tuesday morning has left death and wreckage in its wake across the country. The city of Durres on the coast and the town of Thumane […]
At least five people were injured in an incident involving both a stabbing and a shooting at London Bridge on Friday afternoon, police have said.
It was extremely heartwarming and gratifying this past week, when numerous Shluchim from near and far, came over and thanked me for enhancing their Shabbos table or farbrengen in shul, with these weekly stories. In response to their request I will begin mentioning a few thoughts that I prepared to farbreng with on Chag Hachagim – Yud Tes Kislev.
Rabbis and Jewish professionals from across the globe came together on Sunday for the Annual CYP (Chabad Young Professionals) Young Partners’ Summit. The summit brings together leaders from around the globe who are making a difference in their local Jewish communities.
The Swedish city of Malmo will allocate some $2 million to initiatives to protect its Jewish community from anti-Semitism.
A ledger documenting the actions of a Beis Din in Bergen-Belsen following its liberation was recently discovered for the first time, Ynet reported on Monday. The ledger, containing over 100 pages of cramped handwriting, was the first documentation of the testimony of Holocaust survivors on their spouses who were murdered by the Nazis, for the purpose of being released from their aginus.
Italian police said Thursday they have uncovered a plot to form a new Nazi party and seized weapons including rifles and swords in searches across the country. The target was the self-styled Italian National Socialist Workers’ Party. The number of arrests made is not clear.
Courtesy of Lubavitch Archives, we present a weekly photo of the Rebbe.
Permits have been filed for a five-story residential building at 1337 Sterling Place in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. Located between Troy Avenue and Schenectady Avenue, the lot is near the Utica Avenue subway station, serviced by the 3 and 4 trains.
Saadia Hershkop, who specializes in taking people off the beaten path throughout the Chevron and Shomron regions on their visits to Israel, takes us on an exclusive journey to where many of the stories in the Torah took place. Watch the third episode of this new series exclusively on CrownHeights.info.
In honor of Rosh Chodesh Kislev, the day marking the Rebbe’s return to full health, Living Torah this week features an interview with Dr. Louis Teichholz, a cardiologist who treated the Rebbe after the heart attack.
This weeks letter is a summary of an exchange of letters – which Rabbi Mindel had in the early 1960’s with a team of reform “scholars” who translated the Bible to English. He took particular issue with their gross mis-translation and false implications of the verses referring to the selling of the birthright by Esav to Yaakov.
