In a win for those who use chickens for Kaporos, today, New York’s highest court rejected animal rights activists’ attempt to force NYC to end the use of chickens as kaporos.
The home of a Jewish mayor in France was covered with anti-Semitic graffiti including swastikas and anti-Semitic slogans.
The US State Department is offering millions of dollars in exchange for tips leading to the tracking down of terrorist leaders affiliated with Hamas and Hezbollah.
Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman announced Wednesday afternoon that he would resign his position in the Netanyahu government, and that he will call for new elections.
In a brutal police incident, A Jewish man driving a taxi hit multiple cars Tuesday night following a medical episode that left him confused. The man was violently removed from the vehicle, and transported to the hospital for treatment.
At University of Massachusetts Amherst, Helping Hands is building bridges across differences. When hackers broke into university printers and distributed anti-Semitic flyers two years ago, the response, an impromptu Helping Hands event.
As Mumbai’s Jewish school, the brain child of Gabi and Rivki Holtzberg, has expanded since its inception, and now another Shliach will be joining the Chabad House in Mumbai India.
With sadness we inform of the passing of Chaim Greenberg, a long time member of the Crown Heights Community on Monday night.
As evacuees of the Woolsey fire in Southern California returned home to their respective communities, they focused was on how they could help others who had suffered losses while simultaneously returning life to normal for themselves.
A newspaper article from the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, printed in 1929, has been unearthed that speaks about the Frierdicker Rebbes visit to America.
Al-Jazeera TV reported that an agreement was reached between Israel and Hamas on a cease-fire in the Gaza Strip. The agreement was reportedly obtained by Egyptian mediation.
40-year-old man killed, 40-year-old woman in critical condition as rocket hits residential building in Ashkelon.
On a beautiful Tuesday evening, a record number of Bochurim from the local Yeshiva Gedolos gathered at the JCM for an incredible Volunteer Kickoff. The Friendship Circle gives these Bochurim an opportunity to befriend and visit children and young adults with special needs in the comfort of their own homes.
The “deadliest fires in California history” continued to spread in both Northern and Southern California over the weekend. To date, 25 have been reported killed in the blazes, and entire communities have been decimated as high winds continued to fan the flames throughout the day.
Follow us Live on crownheights.info with minute by minute updates on rocket and retaliatory fire on the Gaza Border:
Yanky Baron (Columbia, MD) and Leah Greenberg (Al Paso, Texas)
What was once an unused, invalid Torah scroll, dedicated to army veterans, is now fully-restored and being used at a Chabad center serving Jewish uniformed officers. Rather than sitting in disuse, an inspired rabbi from Flatbush found the perfect new home for this Torah just down the road.
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