Partnering with a local Safeway grocery store, Maryland Shliach Rabbi Levi Raskin is hosting a unique event which is aimed at raising awareness about the store’s increasing kosher options.
With great sadness we inform you of the passing of Reb Tzvi (Harry) Raitman OBM, a member of the Anash community in Melbourne, Australia. He was 90 years old.
Zalmy and Chaya (nee Inglis) Wolff (Crown Heights)
For the fourth year in a row, CTeen’s representatives had all hands on deck at every location at the JCC Maccabi Games in Wisconsin, Texas and Florida, operating Mitzvah booths with local shluchim to give the participants as well as the volunteers, something to add a little extra light to their day.
A campaign is picking up steam to support the widow and children of a beloved Russian-born rabbi and former Refusenik, remembered as “a truly rare breed of Chossid and Mekushar.”
Judge Jerome Hornblass served for 17 years as Justice on the New York State Supreme Court. He is presently a U.S. Administrative Law Judge. He was interviewed by JEM’s My Encounter with the Rebbe project in his home in New York City in January of 2012.
Benny Friedman’s performance at the Concert for Hope in Sydney, Australia, last Wednesday was received with rapturous applause by the over 700 attendees.
Yossi Sharfstein (Crown Heights) and Goldie Sudak (Edgware, England)
New York State Senator Jesse Hamilton hosted eight judges and close to a hundred residents of the Crown Heights community at a “Meet Your Judges” forum at the Jewish Children’s Museum Tuesday night Aug, 18th.
Ten years ago this month, Baton Rouge, La., was a primary destination for rescue workers and supplies dispatched in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina from Lubavitch World Headquarters in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn, N.Y. As many as 200,000 residents had fled the floods for the relative safety of the state’s capital and second largest city, about 80 miles to the northwest of New Orleans.
Oholei Torah has released its calendar for this coming year, 5776, which will be available free of charge at Crown Heights stores for the benefit of the community.
Mrs. Yaakova Weber is sitting Shiva after the passing of her brother, Daniel Levine, OBM, at 562 New York Ave. [corner Maple St.] until Sunday morning. Visiting hours: 10:00am to 10:00pm. Memories and condolences can be sent to jamilevyweber@yahoo.com. Phone: 718-774-7021. Hamokom Yenachem Eschem Besoch […]
Following a barrage of criticism, organizers of an international reggae festival in Spain backtracked Wednesday and apologized for cancelling a concert by Jewish-American singer Matisyahu because he had declined to state his position regarding a Palestinian state.
Twenty-four years ago, on August 19, 1991, a tragic car accident in Crown Heights escalated into a pogrom against the Jewish people. It later became known as The Crown Heights Riot.
“Prior to the summer, the Rebbe would – almost annually – discuss the topic of Tznius,” says Crown Heights Mashpia Rabbi Michoel Seligson. At his suggestion, CrownHeights.info presents a weekly feature for the summer months: a short thought of the Rebbe on tznius, as compiled by Rabbi Seligson.
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