On Sunday, 21st of Adar (March 19), over 200 Shluchim from across the state of California and Nevada gathered for a day of inspiration, solidarity and camaraderie. The Kinus was held at the beautiful and spacious Chabad of Irvine, under the leadership of Rabbi Alter Tenenbaum.
Chabad rabbis are on a mission to make sure that every Jewish home in South Jersey has a Mezuzah.
With sadness we inform you of the passing of Tzvi Hirsch (Harold) Halevi Trigoboff OBM, father of Mrs. Hinda Leah Sharfstein (Crown Heights). He was 92 years old.
A new college Jewish club opened at Moscow’s prestigious School of Economics university last week. Over 250 students registered for the club that will host cultural and social events, organize lectures and classes.
The FBI is warning about a frightening new scam known as ‘Virtual Kidnapping’ – an elaborate plot that makes you think your child has been abducted, which they say is becoming more and more common.
Four people were arrested yesterday, Sunday, for allegedly twisting a large menorah in the front yard of an Arizona family’s home into a swastika.
The Jewish community in Paris, France, held a memorial ceremony to mark five years since the brutal murder of a father and three young schoolchildren by an Islamic terrorist in Toulouse.
A 767 charter flight filled with Orthodox-Jewish passengers heading from London to Poland to mark the Yahrtzeit of Reb Elimelech of Lizhensk was forced to make an emergency landing in Amsterdam after a malfunction caused the cabin to lose pressure and the pilot to issue a Mayday call. B”h the plane landed safely and no one was harmed.
Rabbi Zvi Zwiebel stepped out of the Chabad Librescu Jewish Student Center at Virginia Tech on Shabbos afternoon to get some fresh air. He was met with nearly 100 hand-drawn swastikas emblazoned on leaflets littered across the front lawn, still dry in the light afternoon rain.
The Junik family is sitting Shiva after the passing of their dear husband and father, Rabbi Avrohom Boruch Junik OBM, who passed away Friday, Erev Shabbos Kodesh Parshas Ki Sisa. The family is sitting Shiva at 501 Crown Street, between […]
An Israeli boy who was mentored for his Bar Mitzvah by Bochurim of the Chabad Yeshiva in Kiryat Gat, Israel, arrived there this morning with his family to celebrate the joyous occasion with the entire Yeshiva.
Around thirty Shluchim from around Europe gathered in Paris for a two-day seminar on the laws of Chupah V’kidushin, delivered by a roster of world renowned experts on the subject.
The New York City Department of Transportation has announced that alternate side parking rules are back in effect today, Monday, March 20.
Marking 16 years to the restoration of the Marina Roscha Shul in the capitol city of Moscow, Russia, supporters and friends were honored in an appreciation event aboard a ferry boat which sailed on the Moscow River.
Boruch and Chevy (nee Flint) Lazar (Crown Heights)
This week’s edition of MyLife: Chassidus Applied with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, Episode 155, will air tonight, Sunday, here on CrownHeights.info, beginning at 8:00pm. This week Rabbi Jacobson will address the topics: Is it my Yetzer Hara or My Dysfunctional Childhood? Is Smacking Children Ever Acceptable? What is the Significance of Mikvah for Men? How Can One Make Successful Life Changes Without a Support System? What’s the Healthiest Way to Deal with ‘Toxic’ Relationships?
The plan to redevelop the historic, city-owned Bedford-Union Armory into a rec center, office building and apartment complex will only accelerate “the whitening of Crown Heights,” a local activist group says.
