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Large Part of 749 ‘Dorm’ Receives Vacate Order
On Friday, inspectors with the New York City Department of Buildings, the Fire Department and uniformed police officers served vacate orders on 14 ‘rooms’ inside of 749 Eastern Parkway due to dangerous conditions with the buildings structure and overcrowding.
Basil Owner to Open ‘Bakerie’
Daniel Branover, owner of dairy restaurant Basil, is planning on opening a new kosher bakery – called Bakerie – on Albany Avenue. This new venture into another area of the food business comes along with another plan on his to open a meat restaurant – called Meat.
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Shmueli and Sora (nee Margolis) Milecki (Crown Heights)
Crown Heights to Host Its Largest Shabbaton Ever
Over 2,000 participants from twenty-three countries will be attending the upcoming CTeen International Shabbaton in Crown Heights. The Shabbaton, which will take place from 17th-19th Adar Aleph (February 26-28th), will be the largest CTeen event to date.
MBD and Benny Amaze at KSCVK’s Auction Event
Over 1,000 Men turned out for Keren Simchas Chosson V’Kallah’s annual auction event, which benefits the vital work they do in helping marry off Chassanim and Kallahs in Crown Heights. Attendees were treated to a lavish buffet and an amazing concert with Mordechai Ben David and Benny Friedman.
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Meir and Yocheved Zirkind (Weston, FL)
Stabbing Victim Laid to Rest in Jerusalem
An off-duty soldier stabbed to death by young terrorists while shopping Thursday with his wife and baby at a supermarket near Ramallah was laid to rest at the Har Herzl military cemetery in Jerusalem.
Rabbi Benny’s Weekly Torah Thought: The One With the Jingling Bells
Rabbi Benny Hershcovich, Shliach in Cabo S. Lucas, Mexico, delivers his brief and hilarious thought on this week’s Parsha, Tetzaveh. This week Rabbi Benny answers the question: Why was it so imperative that the High Priest walk around with the bells at the bottom of his robe, that the consequences were so harsh?
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Noach and Rochel (nee Moskowitz) Merenfeld (Crown Heights)
Evening of Support for Moscow’s 17 Chesed Centers
Dozens of people gathered together for an evening of support for the 17 Chesed organizations run by Chabad in Moscow.
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Achiezer Langsam (Crown Heights) and Chana (bas Pesach) Laufer (Crown Heights)
Weekly Story: The Four Conditions
The Chofetz Chaim than asked, are you feeling any pull in the heart to the ways of chassidim? Once again the young man replied, “No.” So why are you asking this question, inquired the Chofetz Chaim.
Weekly Living Torah Video: Small, Yet Great
According to the Jewish calendar, a second month of Adar is added in a leap-year. While Purim is usually celebrated in Adar, during a leap-year it is postponed until the second Adar, and we mark Purim Katan – “the small Purim” in the first month.
Weekly Unique Photo of the Rebbe
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present a collection of unique photos of the Rebbe distributing Kos Shel Bracha in the late 1960s.
Shabbos at the Besht: Highlights of Halachos of Kaddish
This Shabbos at the Besht, Rabbi Tzvi Rimler, Maggid Shiur emeritus for Yagdil Torah and Mashgiach for the OK, will lead a discussion on the topic – Highlights of the halachos of kaddish.
CKids Unites Children Through Regional Shabbatons
Hailing from Kiev, Dnepropetrovsk, and Kherson, nearly 70 children recently gathered in the idyllic countryside near Zhitomir, Ukraine for an action-packed, inspirational shabbaton, coordinated by CKids and Rabbis Goodman and Glick of Chabad Kiev, together with Shiurei Torah Lubavitch – Dnepropetrovsk. Back in the United States, 20 children from the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania region took part in their own CKids shabbaton hosted by the Cohens of Mainline, PA that same week, and 25 boys from across the Dallas, Texas area joined the Dubrawskys and Naparsteks of Chabad of Dallas for a unique Shabbos experience just one week later.
