Sholom Mordechai Inspires Oholei Torah Students
A major rally with over 750 students from Oholei Torah’s grades 2 to 8, was held today honoring Chof Teves, The Rambams Yarzeit, and the 19th of Teves which marks the birthday of Oholei Torah.
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Residents Targeted by Police for “Remote-Starting” Cars
With frigid temperatures gripping New York City, the NYPD’s 71st Precinct has been targeting law abiding residents for ‘remote-starting’ their cars, slapping them with criminal summonses that carry fines as high as $250 and require appearance in criminal court.
Alternate Side Parking Suspended Mon-Wed
Alternate Side Parking (street cleaning) regulations will be suspended Monday through Wednesday, January 8-10 for snow operations. All other regulations, including parking meters, remain in effect.
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Yechiel and Ita (nee Friedman) Cagen (Crown Heights)
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Shmuli and Mushka Rochel (nee Zaltzman) Graj (Crown Heights)
Video: Hatzalah Saved Our Daughters Life
Erev Shabbos, amidst the hectic preparations, Bentzy and Chaya Chesny‘s daughter choked on piece frozen mango and stopped breathing. The efforts of the Hatzalah Volunteers saved their daughter life. Their story was featured at Hatzalah’s Motzai Shabbos Melava Malka and health symposium.
Video: Car Window Left Open During ‘Cyclone Bomb’
When people discovered a car window left open during last weeks ‘cyclone bomb’, they saw the havoc it wrecked on the vehicles interior, so they took action and saved it from further harm.
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Yisrolik and Moussia (nee Kievman) Mochkin (New Haven, CT)
$25,000 Raffled Off At Hatzalah Melava Malka
Hundreds of men and women turned out this Motzai Shabbos for Crown Heights Hatzalah’s annual Melava Malka, health symposium and raffle for $25,000.
Boruch Dayan Hoemes: Mr. Ron Tatarka, 58, OBM
With great sadness and shock we inform you of the sudden and untimely passing of Mr. Reuvain (Ron) Tatarka OBM, a members and supporter of the Chabad community in Melbourne. He was 58 years old.
Live Broadcase: Hatzalah Melava Malka
Ended: Hatzalah of Crown Heights is holding their annual Melava Malka and health symposium in the Oholei Torah Ballroom. An archive of the broadcast is now available for viewing.
Ben Faulding (L) with the headphones that he was wearing during the encounter with the police (R).
Man says he was Almost Shot While Buying Conditioner
Imagine walking into a convenience store with your headphones on, picking out a conditioner bottle — then turning around to see two police officers pointing their guns at you. That’s what happened to Ben Faulding, a black Jewish New Yorker while walking back from his gym in Long Island, New York, and stopped to buy some toiletries.
Braving the Cold, Anash Attend Hakomas Hamatzaiva
On a sunny, frigid morning in January, a small group of people gathered in a Minnesota cemetery. Windchills plunging past 25 below zero did not deter them, for theirs was a time-honored and sacred task.
Video: “The Rebbe Told Me to Enter the Air Force”
Rabbi Henry Isaacs served as rabbi on Bangor, Maine, for close to forty years. In 1958, he was a rabbinical student at Yeshiva University, and was engaged to be married. He had plans to enter the Armed Forces and join the Air Force. His father wouldn’t agree and unsure how to proceed, he turned to the Rebbe.
Video: Saluting the Hosting Capital of the World
Ahead of this years CTeen Shabbaton, a ‘thank you letter’ in the form of a video – with members of the CTeen headquarters – thank Crown Heights for being the Hachnosas Orchim capitol of the world.
Rabbi Yanki Tauber, author of the new book (L) and Rabbi Simon Jacobson, director of the Meaningful Life Center.
Meaningful Life Center Publishes The Inside Story II
The Inside Story: A Chassidic Perspective on Biblical Events, Laws, and Personalities, Volume II: Shemos,by Rabbi Yanki Tauber, hits bookstores just in time for when we begin reading this second book of the Torah. This new volume is being met with great anticipation and demand—following the immense popularity of the first volume on Bereishis, released last year.
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