Williamsburg developer Yoel Schwimmer is gearing up to build a 100-room hotel at the corner of Eastern Parkway and Bedford Avenue in Crown Heights at the site of the now-shuttered Gulf gas station, according to a permit application filed Friday with the city’s Department of Buildings.
Orthodox-Jewish New York State Senator Simcha Felder recently introduced a bill that would preempt any city in the state from banning or taxing the use of plastic shopping bags, aiming to block a recently-passed bag fee in New York City from being implemented. When challenged on this bill by a fellow senator in favor of the tax, Sen. Felder persuasively defended his bill with eloquence – and a bit of Jewish humor as well.
Following a special meeting of The Administrative Committee of the Rabbinical Congress for Peace, the rabbis issued a call to the Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his government to declare a state of emergency.
Six buses lined Eastern Parkway Tuesday morning with hundreds of excited campers eagerly awaiting to board the buses which will be taking them up to the Camp Gan Israel in Parksville, New York.
The passing this Shabbat, June 2, of Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel, has been garnering reactions from leaders and laypeople around the world. A prolific author and Nobel Laureate, Wiesel brought the evil of the Holocaust into the public conversation stirring the conscience of society at a time when survivors’ voices were not readily heard.
Moshe Zalman and Chani (nee Geisinsky) Kaminetzky (Crown Heights)
Mordy and Chaya (nee Lezell) Finck (Crown Heights)
Famed Israeli Chasidic Clarinetist Duvid Heller performs the Alter Rebbe’s Nigun, also known as the Daled Bavos, accompanied by the Shira Choir.
At 6:20 in the morning, 18 members of the Thornhill, Ontario, Lubavitch community gathered at the Chabad Shul to hear a shiur on the Rebbe’s maamar Hasom Nafsheinu Bachaim, delivered by Rabbi Akiva Wagner, Rosh Yeshiva.
With sadness we inform you of the untimely passing of Mrs. Rochel Chana Levine OBM a young Crown Heights mother. She was 50 years old.
With sadness we inform you of the untimely passing early Sunday morning of Mrs. Batsheva Eisenbach, OBM, after prolonged battle with a difficult illness. She was 66 years old.
Over two dozen vehicles in Crown Heights – mostly belonging to members of the Jewish community – had their tires slashed late on Friday night. Police are investigating the incident as a possible hate crime.
Mendel Duchman sat down in front of 770 with producer Chaim Hershkowitz to discuss his new video on the Rebbe’s nigunim.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump on Saturday tweeted an image of rival Hillary Clinton alongside hundred-dollar bills and a Star of David bearing the words “most corrupt candidate ever!”, prompting outrage and bafflement on social media.
Summer camp at Bais Rivkah Crown Heights started off with a bang – a Hakhel within Hakhel. The summer’s theme – UNO! We are one – encourages Achdus and Ahavas Yisroel.
The 3rd of Tammuz (this year corresponding to Saturday, July 9, 2016) marks the anniversary of passing of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson OBM (1902–1994). Honoring this occasion, JNet is running a study campaign, encouraging all Jews to unite by studying a sicha.
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