New York City Braces for Late Winter Blizzard
The Northeast is bracing for winter’s last hurrah — a blizzard expected to sweep the New York region starting Monday with possibly the season’s biggest snowstorm dumping up to 18 inches on New York City.
Video: Taking ‘Haman’ Too Seriously
“There is always that one guy who takes it too far! Haman’s name is read and BAM! This guy brings out all the horns and whistles to blot out his name and our ear drums,” says filmmaker Meir Kalmenson, who teamed up with Levyticus to create this humorous Purim video.
Photos: Purim on the Streets of Crown Heights #3
Frigid weather didn’t chill the joy of the holiday of Purim. Thousands of costume clad residents walked the streets of Crown Heights, hands filled with Mishloach Manot baskets to distribute to friends, as well as charity for the needy.
8:00pm: Purim Applied to Our Lives Today
This week’s edition of MyLife: Chassidus Applied with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, Episode 154, will air tonight, Sunday, here on CrownHeights.info, beginning at 8:00pm. This week Rabbi Jacobson will address the topics: Purim Applied to Our Lives Today; Is Mocking Misnagdim Appropriate? What Can I Do About My Discouraging Relapses? How to Deal with Parents Who Have Left the Fold? What Role Do Apocryphal Texts Play in Judaism?
Pape Family to Complete New Sefer Torah
A brand new Sefer Torah will be completed Monday, Shushan Purim, by the Pape family in memory of their grandparents and in the merit of a complete and speedy recovery for their mother.
Photos: Purim on the Streets of Crown Heights #2
Frigid weather didn’t chill the joy of the holiday of Purim. Thousands of costume clad residents walked the streets of Crown Heights, hands filled with Mishloach Manot baskets to distribute to friends, as well as charity for the needy.
Movement Aimed at Eliminating Purim Intoxication Results in Mass Dehydration
Purim 2017: Health officials believe that they have finally made some headway in a mystery that plagued the department for years. Each year on Purim, the department documents numerous cases of unexplained severe dehydration in members of the Jewish community. None of the victims reported that they were fasting at the time, nor did they any have alcohol in their systems – both of which are common factors in dehydration.
Crown Heights Landlords to Lower Rents
Purim 2017: Responding to the outcry of community members regarding the skyrocketing rents in the community, the Crown Heights Landlords Association has agreed to reduce the monthly rent for all Crown Heights apartments, effective immediately. The move affects apartments in apartment buildings as well as private homes.
Video: True Commitment
What is the definition of true commitment? Find out in this fascinating and inspiring Shiur for Purim by renowned lecturer and educator Rabbi Naftali Silberberg, courtesy of The Baal Shem Tov Library.
Photos: Purim on the Streets of Crown Heights #1
Frigid weather didn’t chill the joy of the holiday of Purim. Thousands of costume clad residents walked the streets of Crown Heights, hands filled with Mishloach Manot baskets to distribute to friends, as well as charity for the needy.
Baby Boy!
Danny and Chana Sara (nee Newfield) Freundlich (Crown Heights)
Lag Ba’Omer Parade to Merge with West Indian Day Parade Until 2028
PURIM 2017: As reported on CrownHeights.info, this year’s Lag Ba’Omer Parade will be the last one until 2024. Well, the last parade to fall on a Sunday, that is! “There was no way that we were going to have seven years pass without a Lag Ba’Omer Parade,” Rabbi Shimon Hecht, the parade’s organizer, told CrownHeights.info.”
Trump Nominates Rabbi Shea Hecht as Education Secretary
PURIM 2017: In an apparent yield to the widespread criticism of his pick for Secretary of Education, President Donald Trump has announced that he will ask Betsy DeVos for her resignation and will nominate Rabbi Shea Hecht to replace her. DeVos, who has been criticized by both parties as having no prior experience in public education, won the nomination only after Vice President Mike Pence cast the tie-breaking vote in the Senate.
Photo: Loneman Photography
Black and Jewish in Rural America
Writing for the Huffington Post, head Shliach to the state of Montana Rabbi Chaim Bruk describes the emotional roller coaster he and his wife experienced with the adoption of their third child, Menny, who is biracial.
MBD Celebrates Purim with Crown Heights
A massive crowd celebrated Purim with much joy and dancing in the Oholei Torah ballroom together with music legend Mordechai Ben David. Organized by Bais Shmuel, hundreds of children and adults, many in costumes, danched in the true spirit of Purim.
Baby Girl!
Yisroel and Mushka Slava (nee Gurevitch) Sternbach (Crown Heights)
Video: A Quest for Oiz, Part 4
This video is the fourth episode in the Quest for Oiz series. Produced by Tzivos Hashem and filmed in Crown Heights, the videos follow the quest of a young school boy as he searches for ‘oiz’ – power – and learns an important lesson on how it’s achieved, while collecting cards of the mightiest armies in the world.
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