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.
Lubavitch Day Camp of Monsey completed its last exciting, fun and meaningful week of the summer. See the highlights of the week in this video slideshow.
A group of Lubavitcher Chassidim gathers in 770 to welcome Reb Benche Shemtov, OBM, to America, following his escape from the Stalin’s Soviet Union four years earlier in 1947. Can you identify anyone else in the photo?
The final week of camp was filled with excitement, learning, fun and inspiration at Yeshiva Summer Program in Morristown, NJ.
An unauthorized recording of Avraham Fried singing an unfinished new song for his upcoming album was leaked to social media by an unidentified person. The illicit recording of the song, titled ‘Ribon Ha’olamim,’ likely originated from someone who was present at the time in the studio.
A decade after Hurricane Katrina devastated the gulf coast of Louisiana—ripping into a huge swath of land and leaving it awash in floodwaters for nearly a week—Jewish life has worked its way back to a new normal.
As camp comes to a end, we present to you some of the highlights of the summer all captured in the air – because fun is always in the air in Gan Yisroel.
Zalmy Kavka (Seattle, WA) and Shaina Liberow (Barranquilla, Columbia)
Jewish reggae star Matisyahu responded on Monday to being dropped by Spain’s Rototom reggae festival saying organizers’ efforts to pressure him to endorse the anti-Israel boycott, divestment and sanctions movement were “appalling and offensive.”
Leonard (Lenny) Robinson, OBM, known around the world as a costumed superhero Batman and who dedicated his life to bringing joy to ill children, was tragically killed in a crash on a Maryland highway on August 16th. He was 51 years old.
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