Writing for Forbes, Crown Heights entrepreneur Zalmi Duchman explains why Uber’s victory over New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio is a victory for all entrepreneurs, and brings as an example a new successful startup by two fellow Crown Heightsers – Menachem Light and Sam Jurkovitz – to illustrate his point.
Six IDF soldiers who were injured during last summer’s incursion into Gaza experienced Canada as part of an eight-day trip co-sponsored and organized by the Chabad Terror Victims Project.
Mendy and Miriam (nee Andrusier) Rosler (Crown Heights)
Rabbi Shmuel Lesches, Magid Shiur in the Yeshiva Gedola of Melbourne, Australia, has compiled a guide to the laws and customs of Shabbos Chazon and Tishah B’Av for the benefit of the wider Lubavitch community.
Thousands of protesters packed into Times Square Wednesday evening to demand that Congress vote down the proposed U.S. deal with Iran.
Rabbi Azriel Chaikin has been the Rebbe’s emissary in Morocco, Scandinavia, Belgium and Ukraine since 1955. He was interviewed three times in JEM’s My Encounter Studio, once in 2010 and twice in 2015.
When Kata Nádas, 31, a Hungarian Jew, first began attending Chabad programs at sixteen, her parents were concerned. Their associations with Judaism were all dark: more than a half a million Jews were murdered by the Nazis with the assistance of local Hungarians, and anti-Semitism was on the rise in the country.
With the assistance of Shomrim, an officer from the NYPD’s Brooklyn South Division visited several Crown Heights Jewish day camps to encourage their attendance at the annual NYPD vs. Hatzalah baseball game, which will take place on August 3rd at the Cyclones stadium in Coney Island. Upon discovering that the officer is Jewish, Rabbi Zalman Karp of Lubavitcher Yeshiva Day Camp immediately did what any Chabad Chosid would do, he helped the man put on Tefilin right there in the office.
In early spring, Oholei Torah purchased camp grounds spanning 120 acres, located in the upstate town of Kingston, NY, for the sake of founding a Yeshivas Kayitz for 8th Graders and Mesivta Bochurim who are looking to spend their summer in a chassidish learning environment together with a positive and productive summer experience.
She may be an Orthodox Jew but a California mother of four has taken an unorthodox approach to stopping drivers from texting while they drive by encouraging drivers to turn their cars into mobile billboards bearing anti texting messages.
Keeping Montana kosher is the name of the game for two rabbis spending their summer traveling throughout the state.
.jpg)
Over 1,000 subcontracted airport security officers, baggage handlers and wheelchair attendants at New York City’s two major airports plan to strike starting Wednesday night.
A Police Officer from the 71st Precinct visited Camp Machane Heights yesterday, Tuesday, to talk about bicycle safety.
A career criminal with a long history of shoplifting from Kingston Avenue stores was apprehended earlier this week by a shop owner after he stole a pack of teeth whiteners.
After a phenomenal Kashrus class at the Jewish woman’s Institute Machon Chana, a group of students pose for a picture with dean Mrs. Sara Labkowski.
Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz, director of Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida, delivers his insights on this week’s Parsha – Devarim. This week Rabbi Minkowicz answers the question: How can one love all people?
A warm night in Brooklyn, a bunch of guys, some beer and a delicious BBQ. Sounds like a perfect night, and it was. Not only was Yaldei’s BBQ in Brooklyn the event of the summer, it was also an event with meaning.
2
