Millions attended the 50th annual Labor Day / West Indies Parade on Crown Heights’ main thoroughfare, Eastern Parkway, including Governor Andrew Cuomo, Senator Chuck Schumer and Mayor Bill de Blasio. Photographer Itzik Roytman was there to capture the scene.
Hurricane Irma strengthened into a dangerous Category 5 storm Tuesday as it roared toward the northeast Caribbean on a path that could take it to the United States.
Student volunteers from college campuses from as far away as Boulder, Colo., arrived in Houston on Sunday to spend Labor Day weekend in sodden homes and drying streets, providing relief for victims of Harvey.
Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz, director of Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida, delivers his insights on this week’s Parsha – Ki Tavo. This week Rabbi Minkowicz answers the question: When can one experience real Joy?
If you are one who is particular to buy a Calabria Esrog for Sukkos, you are likely to learn they are not readily available this year; and when they are, they are quite costly.
For the benefit of the Crown Heights community, Oholei Torah has made its new 5778 community calendars available free of charge at local neighborhood stores.
There is an increasing chance that South Florida will be hit by Hurricane Irma — which is currently a Category 3 storm closing in on the Caribbean, and expected to grow to a category 4 — later this week and over the weekend, the National Hurricane Center (NHC) said this morning.
A 26,000-square-foot Chabad center with state-of-the-art amenities was inaugurated in Phuket, Thailand, just weeks before the High Holidays.
Photos from the wedding of Benyamin Bentolila (Kinshasa, Congo) and Chana Azoulay (Levallois, France), which took place in Paris.
Shloime and Shoshi (nee Lerman) Eichler (Crown Heights)
Verónica G. Cárdenas, a photo-journalist based in the Rio Grande Valley on the south Texas border, documented the relief efforts of Rabbi Naftoli Schmukler, co-director of Chabad Coastal Bend, headquartered in Corpus Christi.
Shloimy (ben Meyer) Gutnick (Crown Heights) and Dina Hirsch (Coral Springs, FL)
Last night, Sunday, during the pre-Labor Day Parade ‘J’ouvert’ celebrations in and around Crown Heights, police responded to two shootings, one of which was fatal.
The excitement could be felt in the voice of Rabbi Berl Lazar, Chief Rabbi of Russia, as he was honored with opening the first class of the new Jewish Online School. The pure faces of dozens of Jewish children were watching him from their screens from all over the country.
This week’s edition of MyLife: Chassidus Applied with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, Episode 178, will air tonight, Sunday, here on CrownHeights.info, beginning at 8:00pm. This week Rabbi Jacobson will address the topics: How Do We Apply Chai Elul to Our Lives? 120th anniversary of Tomchei Temimim; Why is Life So Challenging? Are Prayers from a Non-Jewish Origin Legitimate? Are Marijuana and Chassidus Compatible? What is the Difference between the Father’s and the Mother’s Contribution to the Soul of their Child?
Many have the good fortune of being invited to weddings all the time, with some being more memorable than others. Nina Glick writes about an especially memorable one between two very special individuals which recently took place.
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