It’s been seventy four years since the establishment of a special “defense force” of fearless soldiers whose task was thus defined in a tear-soaked letter: “They will protect the Jewish Nation, striving for the victory of justice and relieving the pangs of Moshiach.”
A brand-new state-of-the-art playground for neighborhood kids is in the works at Lincoln Terrace Park, located past Rochester Ave. on the eastern edge of Crown Heights.
Ben Dynan (Augusta, GA/Pittsburgh, PA) and Esther Epstein (Pittsburgh, PA)
Chezky and Chani (nee Rapoport) Landa (Crown Heights)
Dr. Gedalya Shechtman is the United States Department of Veteran’s Affairs’ Chief Consultant for Primary Care Services. He was interviewed in the My Encounter studio in February of 2016.
Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz, director of Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida, delivers his insights on this week’s Parsha – Naso. This week Rabbi Minkowicz answers the question: what is real unity?
Following the recent beautification and upgrades to the doors and trim of upstairs 770, new tables and benches arrived by shipping container from Israel and have replaced the 40 year old tables in the ‘small zal’.
Yaakov and Rochel Leah (nee Tenenbaum) Banon (Crown Heights)
300 parents and guests filled the Bal Harbour Shul ballroom for the CHAP (Chabad in Florida’s Afterschool Program for Jewish children in Public School) Annual end-of year Dinner. CHAP is a project of Chabad of Highland Lakes, FL, under the leadership of Rabbi Moishe and Mrs. Layah Kievman.
A CrownHeights.info reader observed a nasty anti-Semitic slur in the form of a publicly visible wi-fi hotspot while searching for an internet connection in the heart of Jewish Crown Heights.
Avram Kantorovich (Palo Alto, CA) and Machli Wolowik (Montreal, Canada)
The annual gathering of Shluchim to the western region of the United States took place on Shabbos Mevorchim Sivan, Parshas Bechukosai, on the stunning seven-acre campus of Chabad of Arkansas.
At the beginning of his seventh decade of life, singer and composer Aharon Sitbon is releasing his first album as a Shomer Torah and Mitzvos.
Top Jewish music stars, including Benny Friedman and Lipa Schmeltzer, who will perform at the upcoming ‘Kulturefest’ in Manhattan’s Central Park, were featured on the PIX 11 TV channel, where they gave a preview of their upcoming performance.
