Faced with calls to severely restrict or even outlaw the predawn J’Ouvert celebrations that take place across Central Brooklyn every year on Labor Day in the wake of two fatal shootings during this year’s festivities, Crown Heights Councilwoman Laurie Cumbo said that critics are proposing the impossible.
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This past Sunday marked the Bar Mitvah of Moshe Yitzchock Kaploun, the son of noted community Askan Rabbi Yehuda Kaploun and his wife Dr. Lea Kaploun of North Miami Beach, FL.
A special, pre-Rosh Hashana conference was held this week in Kazan, the capital of the Muslim Autonomous Republic of Tatarstan in Russia.
As Chabad of Saskatoon, Canada, under the leadership of Rabbi Raphael Kats, is forced to move out of its current location, landlord Bob Dhillon, a Sikh, stepped in to provide them with free rent until it can find a new home.
Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu chose to open the school year in the city of Nazareth in honor of his friend Mayor Mr. Ronen Plot (who until recently served as CEO of the Knesset). The Prime Minister began his visit in the presence of Chief Rabbi of Nazareth illit, Chabad emissary Rabbi Yeshayahu Hertzel shelita, in the school Yudfat.
Mutty (ben Avremi) Simpson (Crown Heights) and Faigy (ben Zussy) Sorkin (Crown Heights)
Nearly 100 people stood on the front lawn of the brick bungalow on Columbia Avenue in Lexington, Kentucky, on Monday evening as Rabbi Avrohom Litvin and Rabbi Shlomo Litvin cut a ceremonial blue ribbon stretched across the front porch of the Chabad Jewish Student Center at the University of Kentucky.
A 73-year-old woman who was reported missing by her family has been located thanks to a coordinated search effort between multiple agencies.
Smiling Talmidim with their proud parents filled the halls at United Lubavitcher Yeshiva, excited for their first day of Shnas Halimudim 5777.
Archeologists from the Jerusalem-based Temple Mount Sifting Project unveiled Tuesday a restored floor of painted tiles that experts believe dates to the Herodian era (37 to 4 BCE). Experts believe the floor may have been part of the courtyard of the Second Temple.
Levi Teitlebaum (Montreal, Canada) and Chani Berns (Crown Heights)
With nearly 300 Anash couples participating, Florida will become the fourth pilot city of the Lamternchik (lamplighter) project.
In an effort to inspire and strengthen Jewish leadership and involvement on university campuses throughout North America, Sinai Scholars Society, a project of Chabad on Campus International and the Rohr Jewish Learning Institute, gathered 150 students to hear from prominent Jewish thinkers, address topics of Jewish identity, and facilitate increased commitment in their lives.
A young reporter gives us the scoop on the exciting first day of school at Lubavitch Educational Center in Miami, Florida.
After days of relentless heat—temperatures are expected to continue in the 90s—rain and no electricity and air-conditioning, one thing is clear: rebuilding parts of Tallahassee, Fla., that were impacted by Hurricane Hermine is going to take time, money and determination.
Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz, director of Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida, delivers his insights on this week’s Parsha – Shoftim. This week Rabbi Minkowicz answers the question: Why is it important to have a mentor?
A neighborhood resident wrote to CrownHeights.info about an incident he witnessed in the aftermath of yesterday’s Labor Day Parade in Crown Heights.
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