A 28-year-old Crown Heights man has been sentenced to 24 years in prison after pleading guilty to first-degree manslaughter for fatally shooting 55-year-old Michael Sampson during the J’Ouvert celebration that was held in advance of the 2014 West Indian Day Parade in Crown Heights.
Mendy Rubenstein (Crown Heights) and Chanchy Kinn (Manchester, UK)
Avigdor and Devory Zeitlin (Crown Heights)
Once again, multiple Jewish centers and schools were evacuated on Monday morning after receiving bomb threats.
In celebration of Purim 2017 and the joyous month of Adar, singer Dudi Knopfler presents this foot-happy, fast-paced dance song composed by contemporary hitmaker Boruch Sholom Blesofsky.
Police are investigating after swastikas were found keyed into multiple cars in Miami Beach’s Orthodox-Jewish neighborhood. Rabbi Mendy Levi, a Chabad Shliach who lives next to one of the home’s where a car was vandalized, told Channel 7 News that this and other recent anti-Semitic acts around the country worry him.
Last Sunday, the girls In the Pioneer Division of Kinus Tzeiri Hashluchos were treated to a trip to Dave & Busters Arcade. On the way, a chaperone captured a photo that made her very proud: the girls – on their own initiative – had an impromptu Tanya study circle.
“Since the day I started traveling for music work and visiting Jewish communities around the world, it’s been my dream to share the wonder of it all with you,” says Jewish music star Benny Friedman, introducing his new video series Benny Baderech. “Worldwide Yiddishkeit is a marvelous blend of languages, cultures, cuisines and incredible, delightful people.”
Mendy (ben Yitzchak) Pruss (Crown Heights) and Chanale Golomb (Crown Heights)
A brand new Sefer Torah was completed and dedicated in the memory of Mrs. Faige Abrahams OBM by her family. The new Torah will be housed in the Lincoln Shteibel, many of whom were on hand for the celebration.
Earlier today Israeli Knesset Member Sofa Landver, member of the Yisrael Beiteinu party and Minister of Immigrant Absorption, visited The Ohel during a trip to the United States.
This week’s edition of MyLife: Chassidus Applied with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, Episode 152, will air tonight, Sunday, here on CrownHeights.info, beginning at 8:00pm. This week Rabbi Jacobson will address the topics: What Defines Normalcy? What Can Be Learned from the Unusually Warm Weather This February? Was Moshe Rabbeinu Focused More on His Community Than on His Family? Is Tanya Directed More to Men Than to Women?
Just one week after news of a shocking vandalism of a Jewish cemetery in S. Louis surfaced, another such incident occurred and this time in a Philadelphia Jewish cemetery where dozens of headstones were knocked over.
Boruch Levitin (Crown Heights) and Liba Goldwasser (Pittsburgh, PA)
Sendy (ben R’ Menachem Mendel OBM) Labkowsky (Los Angeles, CA) and Mali (bas Avrohom) New (Crown Heights)
Folik and Shaina (nee Hirsch) Gurevitch (Crown Heights)
Lior and Tova (nee Rosenstein) Shkedi (Pittsburgh, PA)
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