It is with great sadness that we note the passing of Chief Rabbi of Haifa, Rabbi Eliyahu Yosef She’ar Yashuv Cohen, a veteran leader of Israeli Jewry, a close friend of Chabad and a confidant of the Rebbe.
Crown Heights activist Reb Yisroel Shemtov puts on Tefilin with an NYPD sergeant on duty for the Labor Day Parade. At his side is Shomrim coordinator Mendy Hershkop.
Like their counterparts in the West, most Jewish campers in the former Soviet Union receive the most extensive, joyous and impactful encounters with their heritage and traditions during the summer months. What makes some of the 5,000 campers in the 61 Chabad-Lubavitch Gan Israel camps in the FSU so different than others, though, is that many of them have suffered through the trauma of war, displacement and even witnessing death, while many others come from families whose connection with their Jewish roots was severed during decades of Soviet oppression.
The Albany Times-Union interviewed Chabad Shluchim Rabbi Leible and Elisheva Morrison of Troy, NY, after their synagogue made it onto the National Register of Historic Places.
A multilevel parking garage under construction in the city of Tel Aviv collapsed on Monday, killing at least two people and injuring about 17 others, Israeli police and rescuers said, as rescue teams worked frantically to locate several people believed trapped under the rubble.
The German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier met last week with the Rabbi of the Jewish community and Chabad Shliach in Berlin, Rabbi Yehuda Teichtal. During this meeting, Steinmeier congratulated Rabbi Teichtal on reaching 20 years of rabbinical public service in the capital Berlin, and wished him much success in his future endeavors.
Jewish singing star Shuky Sadon is back! Fresh off the release of this year’s debut album, “Yamim Baim,” which had a lot of success on the Radio in Israel, the USA and France, Shuky closes out the summer season with a wild new single called “Kulam Rokdim,” which will make you dance, jump and sing along!
Rabbi Mikhael and Esther Cohen, directors of the Francophone Jewish community of New York (CCF), welcome the newly-appointed French Consul to New York, Miss Anne-Claire Legendre.
Thousands of NYPD officers and light towers did not deter the violence at last night’s J’ouvert festivals, where two people were shot dead and another four were injured from gunshots and stabbings.
With sadness we inform you of the passing of Mrs. Miriam Blachman OBM, matriarch of a large family who lived in Far Rockaway, NY. She was 91 years old.
Leib and Sheindel (nee Hellinger) Wexler (Crown Heights)
Eli Duban (Crown Heights) and Ilana Polack (Seattle, WA)
Tomorrow, Labor Day Monday, hundreds of thousands will be attending the annual West Indian American Day Parade in Crown Heights. Celebrations begin Sunday evening and run through Monday night. CrownHeights.info has compiled all the info you need to know in order to navigate the gridlocked neighborhood.
This week’s edition of MyLife: Chassidus Applied with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, Episode 130, will air tonight, Sunday, here on CrownHeights.info, beginning at 8:00pm. This week Rabbi Jacobson will address the topics: Are We Allowed to Study Kabbalah? What Is the Proper Balance Between Science and Religion? Can Our Minds Actually Control Our Hearts? Since G-d is Indivisible How Can We Call a Soul a Chelek Elokah M’Maal Mamash?
Former New York City Mayor David Dinkins denied on Saturday an accusation in a lawsuit that he plowed into a bicycle deliveryman while driving on a Manhattan street and then fled.
The NYPD arrested 34 people along the J’Ouvert parade route in an effort to prevent another deadly celebration this year.
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