French Jewry Marks 5 Years Since School Killings
The Jewish community in Paris, France, held a memorial ceremony to mark five years since the brutal murder of a father and three young schoolchildren by an Islamic terrorist in Toulouse.
Video: Ani Maamin During Emergency Landing
A 767 charter flight filled with Orthodox-Jewish passengers heading from London to Poland to mark the Yahrtzeit of Reb Elimelech of Lizhensk was forced to make an emergency landing in Amsterdam after a malfunction caused the cabin to lose pressure and the pilot to issue a Mayday call. B”h the plane landed safely and no one was harmed.
Antisemitic Leaflets Scattered at Virginia Tech Chabad
Rabbi Zvi Zwiebel stepped out of the Chabad Librescu Jewish Student Center at Virginia Tech on Shabbos afternoon to get some fresh air. He was met with nearly 100 hand-drawn swastikas emblazoned on leaflets littered across the front lawn, still dry in the light afternoon rain.
Info to be Menachem Avel the Junik Family
The Junik family is sitting Shiva after the passing of their dear husband and father, Rabbi Avrohom Boruch Junik OBM, who passed away Friday, Erev Shabbos Kodesh Parshas Ki Sisa. The family is sitting Shiva at 501 Crown Street, between […]
Boy Celebrates Bar Mitzvah with His Dedicated Mentors
An Israeli boy who was mentored for his Bar Mitzvah by Bochurim of the Chabad Yeshiva in Kiryat Gat, Israel, arrived there this morning with his family to celebrate the joyous occasion with the entire Yeshiva.
European Shluchim Educated on Chuppah V’kidushin
Around thirty Shluchim from around Europe gathered in Paris for a two-day seminar on the laws of Chupah V’kidushin, delivered by a roster of world renowned experts on the subject.
Today: Alternate Side Parking Back in Effect
The New York City Department of Transportation has announced that alternate side parking rules are back in effect today, Monday, March 20.
Event Honors Friends and Supporters of Moscow Shul
Marking 16 years to the restoration of the Marina Roscha Shul in the capitol city of Moscow, Russia, supporters and friends were honored in an appreciation event aboard a ferry boat which sailed on the Moscow River.
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Boruch and Chevy (nee Flint) Lazar (Crown Heights)
8:00pm: Is it my Yetzer Hara or My Dysfunctional Childhood?
This week’s edition of MyLife: Chassidus Applied with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, Episode 155, will air tonight, Sunday, here on CrownHeights.info, beginning at 8:00pm. This week Rabbi Jacobson will address the topics: Is it my Yetzer Hara or My Dysfunctional Childhood? Is Smacking Children Ever Acceptable? What is the Significance of Mikvah for Men? How Can One Make Successful Life Changes Without a Support System? What’s the Healthiest Way to Deal with ‘Toxic’ Relationships?
Activists Complain Armory Development ‘Too White’
The plan to redevelop the historic, city-owned Bedford-Union Armory into a rec center, office building and apartment complex will only accelerate “the whitening of Crown Heights,” a local activist group says.
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Shloime and Chana (nee Greenberg) Hecht (Crown Heights)
5 Injured in Multi-Vehicle Crash
Five people were injured in a multi-vehicle crash late Friday afternoon in Crown Heights.
Flyers Accuse Jews of Being the Privileged 1%
Dozens of anti-Semitic fliers were found in several buildings on the University of Illinois at Chicago campus earlier this week. The fliers accused Jews of controlling a disproportionate amount of the wealth in the United States, stating “Ending white privilege starts with ending Jewish privilege.”
Boruch Dayan Hoemes: R. Avrohom Boruch Junik, 60, OBM
With sadness we inform you of the untimely passing of Rabbi Avrohom Boruch Junik OBM, a resident of Crown Heights. He was 60 years old. Levaya times added.
Video: Survivor of Auschwitz Returns in Defiance
“There are no words to describe the emotion felt as I witnessed my grandfather relieve his experiences at the entrance of the death camp – Auschwitz-Birkenau. The same place he stood 73 years ago as a small child,” says the grandson of Rabbi Nissen Mangel, who returned to Auschwitz this week in defiance after narrowly surviving the camp and its infamous “doctor” Jospeh Mangele YMS as a 10-year-old boy.
Weekly Story: The Biggest Diamond Mine
On day during their geography class, the students took out a map and searched for the city of Lubavitch. However, to their dismay, it was not listed. Their teacher noticed a sign of anguish and frustration on their faces and asked them what is bothering them so much?
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