A remarkable incident of Hashgacha Protis unfolded during Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu’s recent visit to Russia. While there, he received a letter that was sent to him from the Rebbe exactly 28 years prior while he was the Israeli Ambassador to the UN, which is remarkably timely to this very day, but which he had never received.
CrownHeights.info has obtained a comprehensive transcript of a lecture delivered on Sunday by Rosh Kollel Rabbi Yosef Heller regarding the recently erected Crown Heights Eruv.
In response to a growing need for the development of Jewish hospital services across the United States, Merkos Suite 302 has launched “Chabad on Call”, a National Hospital Assistance Program.
Four old friends from their youth in Yeshiva sit together and reminisce at the central Chabad Shul in Montreal: Member of the Vaad Rabonei Chabad in Eretz Yisroel Rabbi Yitzchok Yehuda Yeruslavsky, and veteran educators Rabbi Aryeh Leib Kaplan, Rabbi Yosef Minkowicz and Rabbi Sholom Leib Aizenbach.
Three people were arrested today, Tuesday, after police discovered multiple loaded guns, rifles and bullet-proof vests in their vehicle at the exit of the Holland Tunnel on their way into New York City.
Today marks two years since the kidnapping and brutal murder of three Israeli teenagers, Eyal Yifrach, Gilad Shaar, and Naftali Frankel by Palestinian terrorists. Marking this somber anniversary, six artists performed a heart-rending song based on the victims’ names.
Mendel and Esthi (nee Rappoport) Yarmush (East Flatbush, NY)
A memorable Hachnosas Sefer Torah took place in Hendon, a borough of London, UK, on Sunday.
Hundreds gathered to mark the first Yohrtzeit of Reb Mordechai Goldin, OBM, a beloved friend and Yeshiva bus driver who had positively impacted many.
A turnstile-jumping teenager slipped police from custody inside a Crown Heights precinct. After an hours-long search, the suspect turned himself in to a different NYPD precinct.
Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz, director of Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida, delivers his insights on this week’s Parsha – Beha’alosecha. This week Rabbi Minkowicz answers the question: How great is the power of repentance?
Some bar mitzvah-age boys in the U.S. Pacific Northwest who will head off to yeshivah and high schools this fall will take with them many experiences and fond memories from their current academic year. One of them is sure to be their weekly trips to Cedar Sinai Park, a senior-citizen housing campus in Portland, Ore.
The 71st Precinct has released a warrant for the arrest of a man who is alleged to have burglarized several homes in the vicinity of Carroll Street between Brooklyn and New York Avenues in Crown Heights.
As the clock struck one this afternoon, some 75 influential societal leaders, innovators and changemakers gathered together with a large group of laypeople at the New York Public Library’s Stephen A. Schwarzman Building on Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street in Manhattan. For the next 12 hours, with barely an interruption, they will engage in a marathon of public conversations and fireside chats—impactful dialogues that organizers of the inaugural One-to-One Global Forum say are designed to spur tangible and transformative societal good.
On Sunday, 13 Sivan, the talmidim of Cheder Menachem Los Angeles , together with their parents, grandparents, relatives and friends braved the 100-degree heat and gathered together to mark the culmination of over two months of learning Mishnayos and Tanya Baal Peh, as a present to the Rebbe in honor of Yud Alef Nissan.
In the market for a designer wedding dress? A piano? Travel books, children’s toys, vintage furniture? They are all in stock at ZABS Place, an upscale resale boutique in Charlotte, North Carolina. Open since November of 2014, the store employs 14 adults with special needs. Their unique model, formed in conjunction with the Friendship Circle, has been embraced by the local Jewish community. And now it has been recognized on a national scale.
On Sunday afternoon, a teacher at the Ohr Menachem Boys’ School took his class to Lincoln Terrace Park (AKA Rochester Park) for recess. While there, a man walked over to the teacher and assaulted him in a completely unprovoked attack.
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