Arlene Botkin looks forward to the kosher care packages she receives each week as part of a year-round program called “Stoop Soup,” run by Chabad of Brooklyn Heights, N.Y. The soup, challah, cake, and sometimes, seasonal items (this month, warm scarves) are “very nice,” she says.
Two NYPD cops were suspended for allegedly blowing off a 911 call to check on a Crown Heights woman — who was later found dead in her home, her husband being the primary suspect.
Sam Block (Dayton, OH) and Mushky (bas Boruch) Pinson (Crown Heights)
Mesivta Lev Tmimim Lubavitch, Monsey signed on the purchase of a new campus in Monsey for their growing Yeshiva. For the last three years, MLTL has been running out of a local Shul in the area and has successfully grown from 15 Bochurim the first year, to nearly 40 Bochurim and a Smicha program this year.
In one’s house, the owner can open the door to whomever they wish to, and keep out those they don’t know or don’t want. But an embassy is open to all, you never know who is going to be coming in, and it must always be accessible.
According to reports from Yeshiva World News, at least four Frum individuals from the New York area are missing a kidney, after going to Mexico for “Bariatric Surgery.”
Alternate Side Parking (street cleaning) regulations will be suspended Saturday, December 30, due to snow operations. All other regulations, including parking meters, remain in effect.
For this week’s Living Torah video, JEM presents an amazing collage of individuals involved in the screenwriting and filmmaking business visiting the Rebbe.
This week, as we read in the Parsha the beginning of Golus Mitzrayim, we present a letter from the Rebbe on the uniqueness of Jewish history and the secret of our survival. The letter, written originally in English, is from the archives of the Rebbe’s trusted secretary Rabbi Nissan Mindel.
This Shabbos at the Besht, Rabbi Sholom Ber Shuchat will lead a discussion on the topic: The Halachos of Shabbos in the winter.
Courtesy of Lubavitch Archives, we present a unique photo of the Rebbe giving a young girl who fell asleep a coin for Tzedakah.
Acting Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez today announced that 2017 will end as the safest year in Brooklyn’s recorded history, with the fewest number of homicides, shootings and shooting victims since record-keeping began. Crown Heights saw a particularly noteworthy 40% reduction in homicides.
Technology has changed so much about the way we connect as human beings. When was the last time you actually laughed out loud when you responded with “LOL”?
Two synagogues in the Iranian city of Shiraz were attacked by vandals, who tore up Sifrei Torah and Tefilin, threw siddurim in the toilet and damaged other holy objects.
Moishy Holtzberg, whose parents Rabbi Gavriel and Rivka Holtzberg were murdered in the 2008 terror attack on the Indian city of Mumbai’s Chabad House, will travel to India with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in January.
This year, OK Kosher Certification topped all previous events with Chanukah parties for its staff and their children that were a smashing success!
The heart of the average person desperately seeks that which is beyond the mundane. Animals do not have these cravings. When an animal fulfills its biological function or drive, it stops. Why is addiction unique to human beings? Addiction is born out of human discontent, and ultimately due to a lack of spirituality. The individual attempts to fill a spiritual void with physical objects or pleasures. These give very temporary relief, but never satisfy the deeper spiritual craving. Rabbi Pinchas Taylor reminds us that the addiction itself is not the addict’s problem, it’s his attempted solution. The only true solution is to treat the spiritual void.
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