Daniel Melamed, owner of 1578 Union St. in Crown Heights, was arrested this morning for performing construction work on his building in a way that was deemed to be harassment of the building’s rent-protected tenants. He is the first person to be criminally charged in the city’s recently-launched campaign against wayward landlords.
As the year of studies comes to a close, Yeshivas Tomchei Temimim of Brunoy, located in the outskirts of Paris, France, released a short documentary-style film of the daily lives and personal experiences of students who arrived to study in the Yeshiva from across the globe.
During Rabbi Simon Jacobson’s highly acclaimed weekly virtual broadcast, MyLife: Chassidus Applied, he surprised audiences with airing for the very first time the earliest recording to date of the Rebbe – circa June 1949.
Chabad of Orange County’s Hebrew School Awards Ceremony was full of spirit and excitement. Held at the Pavilion of the Chester Commons Park in upstate New York, the nearly 100 students and their families gathered for a memorable June afternoon.
The Crown Heights community is invited to a joyous celebration as the Lakein, Brackman, and Bension families complete a sefer Torah in loving memory of their dear parents, Rabbi Shlomo and Miriam Lakein, OBM.
Who wouldn’t want an instant—and now electronically accessible—snippet of invaluable wisdom?
Mendy and Sarah (nee Abramson) Rimler (Tempe, Arizona)
The Creative Soul gallery of Crown Heights is delighted to present a solo exhibition of artwork by Robert Kremnizer of Sydney, Australia, titled ‘Belief in Color.’
A brand new Mikva and Shul were Inaugurated at the headquarters of the European Union in Brussels, Belgium. A special guest for the event was Rabbi Leibel Groner.
A law affecting rents paid by 2 million New York City tenants expired late Monday as state lawmakers failed to reach an agreement on extending it before a midnight deadline.
Meir and Bella (nee Kirschenbaum) Pliskin (Crown Heights)
Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz, director of Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida, delivers his insights on this week’s Parsha – Korach. This week Rabbi Minkowicz answers the question: What is a balanced spiritual life?
Shmuli Teitlebaum (Montreal, Canada) and Mushky Gurkow (Westford, MA)
Recently, I spent Shabbos in a non-Lubavitch community. On the way to shul, my hostess bumped into a friend of hers and invited her to join us. The friend declined and we said good shabbos. Half a block away, my hostess commented, “I try to be nice to people who are less than me. It’s a mitzvah.” I didn’t say anything, but inside I was pinched. What does that mean— “less than me”? How can you say that about another Jew?
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