Mr. Simon Bergson, CEO of Manhattan Beer Distributors, who sold his entire company’s chometz for Pesach for the past two years, spoke at the the OK Kosher Conference, and told the story of his first meeting with Rabbi Kalman Weinfeld.
CrownHeights.info would like to extend a hearty congratulations to one of the longest serving officer in the 71st precinct, detective Vincent Martinos, on his promotion to Detective First Grade this Tuesday.
Alternate side parking (street cleaning) and parking meter regulations are suspended on Thanksgiving, Thursday, November 28th, 2019.
Living as we do in an online world overflowing with toxic words and images, providing children with Jewish entertainment—rich with values and tradition—has been an overarching goal of Chabad.org’s children’s site, JewishKids.org for more than a decade. To make all this great content more accessible and engaging, JewishKids.org is now expanding its video feature to a new-and-improved, intuitive and easy-to-use Jewish Kids Video App.
Watch as Israel’s Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi, Rabbi Dovid Lau, speaks to the students of Bais Rivkah High School in Crown Heights. He made the speech in English for the benefit of the students.
New York will exempt money earned in the Summer Youth Employment Program (commonly known as Youth Corps) from the household-income calculation for government benefits.
Al Arabiya English’s Abdulla Almanai reports that U.S. Congresswoman Ilhan Omar was recruited by a foreign government, passed sensitive information that was relayed to Iran, and received funding by a foreign government, quoting a sworn deposition by a Canadian businessman in a Florida court.
In the early hours of Wednesday morning a Jewish man was robbed of his iphone while standing outside his home on Crown St. The police are investigating the incident.
British Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn declined on Tuesday to apologize to the local Jewish community over the anti-Semitism in his party and the way it is handled.
Following highly-successful similar operations in Williamsburg and Boro Park, Flatbush Shomrim embarked on a mission to see how many vehicles in the community are actually left unlocked overnight. The numbers were staggering.
Two boys standing outside of Chovevei Torah were assaulted last night by a group of teenagers. The bochurim had their hats knocked off by the rowdy group.
Rabbi Dovid Baruch Lau, Chief Rabbi of Israel, visited the Oholei Torah Campus today and gave a shiur in the Raitport Beis Medrash. Rabbi Lau is visiting New York and will be the guest speaker at the Tzivos Hashem Dinner tonight.
At least three rockets were fired from the Gaza strip into southern Israel, setting off a red alert in the Sderot area. Two of the rockets were intercepted by the Iron Dome. One person was injured in a related incident.
Operation Survival discusses the roles of school leaders, teachers, and parents in the child’s education with Dr. Shimon Waronker, Ed.D for the prevention 101 series. Dr. Waronker received his BA from the Univ. of Maryland; and Ph.D. from Harvard. He is the former Principal of the Jordan L. Mott School, S. Bronx.
My Extended family, an organization for children from single parent homes, will be launching a new Crown Heights branch this week.
Rabbi Schneur and Yehudis Raitport arrived in the bustling Southeast Asian metropolis of Yangon, Myanmar, on a Monday in late 2018. There, they serve the Jewish community as Shluchim of the Rebbe.
Moishe Golomb (London, England) and Shternie Bongart (Crown Heights) L’Chaim: Wednesday night at Lubavitcher Yeshiva
