The Burnt Offerings of a Master Painter
After his studio went up in flames, Israeli artist Yoram Raanan reflects on the loss of 40 years of work.
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A Single Father, A Tireless Fellow Shliach, An Unimaginable Struggle
New Engagement!
Shneur Brook (Crown Heights) and Leah Olidort (Crown Heights)
New Engagement!
Michoel Tawil (Buenos Aires, Argentina) and Rikki Wolff (Crown Heights)
Upstate Hebrew School Bakes Cookies for Cops
Chabad Hebrew School of Orange County, NY, decorated and presented cookies to cops to express their appreciation for all they do.
Video: Chicken Wanders Around Eastern Parkway
A CrownHeights.info reader sent us a video he filmed today on Eastern Parkway – of a white chicken clucking around and seeming to mind its own business. Anyone who has a theory as to where it may have come from is welcome to share it in the comments section.
Please take a moment and say a Kapital Tehillim for Menachem Mendel ben Sima Chasya, a husband and father in desperate need of a speedy Refuah Shelaimah. His Perek is 62.
Please Say Tehillim for…
Please take a moment and say a Kapital Tehillim for Menachem Mendel ben Sima Chasya, a husband and father in desperate need of a speedy Refuah Shelaimah. His Perek is 62.
Pre-Chanukah Celebration in Sydney
On Monday, Councilors, Rabbis, communal Lay Leaders, council staff and friends joined together to celebrate the upcoming Jewish festival of lights in Sydney’s Waverley Council – and what a wonderful atmosphere it was.
YouTube Bans Pro-Israel Video As Hate Speech
On Monday, a video uploaded to YouTube by Prager University titled Born to Hate Jews was labeled “hate speech” and removed from the site. After facing social media backlash, YouTube reinstated the video late Monday night, but it remains tagged as “restricted content.”
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13-Year-Old Boy Critically Injured by SUV
This morning, a 13-year-old Jewish boy on his way to school was struck by a large vehicle while crossing Kingston Ave., critically injuring him.
Please say Tehillim for Shneur Zalman Ovadia Ben Rina Miriam
New Shluchim to Central Florida
Rabbi Chaim and Seema Lipszyc, along with their two young children, Chana and Nissim Chai, will be moving on Shlichus to Hernando County in Florida’s greater Tampa Bay area to start a Chabad center and reach out to local Jews.
Video: Ace Fighter Pilot Encounters the Rebbe
The legendary Brigadier General Ran Ronen-Pecker, one of Israel’s most decorated “ace” fighter pilots, passed away on Shabbos at the age of 80 after a long illness.
Video: To What Extent Must You Go to Keep Your Word?
Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz, director of Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida, delivers his insights on this week’s Parsha – Vayeitzei. This week Rabbi Minkowicz answers the question: To what extent must you go to keep your word?
Chabad at Johns Hopkins Hosts 13th Annual Dinner
“Chabad’s acronym for Wisdom, Understanding and Knowledge and its central philosophy and goals are remarkably similar to the mission of The Johns Hopkins Hospital.” These words, spoken by Dr. Redonda Miller, President of Johns Hopkins, at an elegant dinner on a balmy November evening on the Johns Hopkins campus, underscored an unusual relationship.
File photo: Rabbi Berel Lazar with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Lazar: Not Coincidence Town of Lubavitch in Russia
Chief Rabbi of Russia Berel Lazar highly praised the Russian people in an article published on Thursday by the Izvestia daily, a national paper. “A Russian person in his culture is oriented on love, kindness, openness,” Lazar wrote.
Amazon Opens Grocery Store Without Checkout
Amazon is testing a grocery store model in Seattle that works without checkout lines. Called Amazon Go, shoppers scan their Amazon app when they enter the store, and then sensors register items that shoppers pick up and automatically charge them to the Amazon app.
Aleph Brightens Chanukah for Soldiers, Prisoners’ Kids
Call it the mitzvah-multiplier effect. Over the course of the past decade, the Florida-based, Chabad-affiliated Aleph Institute has sent thousands of Chanukah gifts to children whose parents were in the military or serving time in prison. Now, it is looking to get many others into the giving spirit as well.
Flatbush Community Rallies to ‘Save Ocean Parkway’
Hundreds of outraged Flatbush residents rallied on Sunday to “Save Ocean Parkway,” after plans were unveiled by the NYC Dept. of Transportation to eliminate right and left turns off the main roadway, requiring cars to exit onto the service lane a block beforehand if they wish to make a turn.
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