Meet Randy Kersh. A 22-year old student at the University of North Florida, Randy dreams of becoming a Reform rabbi. He was prom king at his high school in Cooper City, and he’s the co-president of his campus Chabad student group, the Jewish Ospreys. Randy also has Down syndrome.
A confused driver sent us this photo he captured while approaching the intersection of the Eastern Parkway service lane and Kingston Ave.
Some 60 headstones were toppled in a Jewish cemetery in Hartford, CT, but local police say they do not believe a hate crime was committed.
Dozens of people gathered outside of a new Crown Heights sandwich shop and bar called Summerhill, located on Nostrand Avenue, to protest the “gentrification” of Crown Heights and the bar, whose owner they labeled “racist” and “colonialist.”
This past Sunday, many parents came to enjoy Visiting Day with their sons in Yeshivas Kayitz Kingston, an affiliate of Oholei Torah.
For the first time in history, a kosher Mikvah is being built in the city of Birobidzhan, Stalin’s designated Jewish Autonomous Republic in Russia’s Far East.
Shmuli Shubov (Crown Heights) and Dini Shaw (Worcester, MA)
Tzemach Dovid Feller (S. Paul, Minnesota) and Chaya Mushka Winner (Crown Heights)
The Israeli Minister of Culture, Mrs. Miri Regev, along with Knesset Member Mr. Yaakov Peri, began their visit to the United States by paying a visit to the Lubavitcher Rebbe’s Ohel in Queens.
This week’s edition of MyLife: Chassidus Applied with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, Episode 172, will air tonight, Sunday, here on CrownHeights.info, beginning at 8:00pm. This week Rabbi Jacobson will address the topics: What is the Significance of the Nine Days Today? Is Machlokes an Inevitable Part of Golus? Am I Too Sensitive? Having Children at an Advanced Age; Can a Person Control His Ratzon or Does It Control Him?
Rabbi Shmuel Lesches, Magid Shiur in the Yeshiva Gedola of Melbourne, Australia, has compiled a guide to the laws and customs of the Nine Days for the benefit of the wider Lubavitch community.
Chabad of Jamaica, directed by Rabbi Yaakov Raskin, has opened the island nation’s first kosher restaurant.
With sadness we inform you of the passing of Mrs. Leah Gurary, OBM, wife of Rabbi Mordechai Gurary, Rov of Congregation Chevra Shas in Crown Heights. Levaya times added.
Three Israelis were stabbed to death and another was seriously wounded on Friday night by a knife-wielding Palestinian terrorist who broke into a home in the West Bank settlement of Halamish, northwest of Ramallah.
What happens when you combine arts-and-crafts, science and serious Jewish thought? If you’re enrolled in the girls’ overnight Camp Gan Israel in Pennsylvania’s Pocono Mountains this summer, you get “Tanya Camp”—an interactive way to learn certain Chassidic concepts.
A 20-year-old man was shot and wounded by police in Crown Heights early this morning, Friday, after he refused to obey orders to drop his weapon.
JCrafts – a program founded by Rabbi Levi Raskin of Chabad of Rockville, MD, combining learning about Jewish foods with an experiential, hands-on chocolate making activity – hosted its first ever event for adults for the congregants of Temple Beth Ami and Kol Shalom in Rockville. It was a “sweet success,” reports a local media outlet.
