It’s a family affair, albeit for the female side of the family. Thousands of women and girls from around the world will gather in New York for the annual Kinus Hashluchos—the International Conference of Chabad-Lubavitch Women Emissaries—with many mothers and daughters in attendance together.
American Airlines, US Airways and many other carriers have canceled almost 1,800 flights, as winter-weary New York City is once again covered in a fresh blanket of snow.
Alternate Side Parking (street cleaning) regulations will be suspended Tuesday, February 3, to facilitate snow removal. Payment at parking meters will remain in effect throughout the city.
Zalmy and Miriam (nee Shain) Raskin (Crown Heights)
Developer Sam Boymelgreen, son of Lubavitch real-estate mogul Shaya Boymelgreen, just sold a 126-unit rental building in the Windsor Terrace neighborhood of Brooklyn for $76 million. He paid $25 million for the property last year.
In honor of Yud Shvat, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Cohen, Shliach to Sacramento, CA, was invited to Moscow to Farbreng with the community.
On Sunday, Rabbi Yisroel Deren, Head Shliach of Connecticut, came to Cheder at the Ohel to Farbreng with the students in honor or Yud Shevat.
The Lubavitch community is made up of many diverse, talented and creative Baal Teshuvahs. A celebration of the contributions the Baal Tshuvahs have made to our community was held on Sunday at the Creative Soul Gallery in Crown Heights, with a wide variety of art, music and poetry.
Alternate Side Parking regulations are suspended Monday, February 2, to facilitate snow removal. Payment at parking meters will remain in effect throughout the city.
The Department of Sanitation is unable to service any alleyways due to icy conditions. If you would like pick up service, please bring your garbage to the end of the alleyways for pick up.
In a beautiful revelation of Hashgacha Protis, the MyLife: Essay Contest was conceived and pitched on the very same day, 18 Teves, that the Rebbe wrote the letter urging essays be written in honor of Yud Shvat – exactly sixty years earlier!
This week’s edition of MyLife: Chassidus Applied with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, Episode 54, will air tonight, Sunday, here on CrownHeights.info, beginning at 8:00pm. This week Rabbi Jacobson will address the topics: Should Chinuch Include Being a Mentch? Sibling Hatred; Healing from Emotional Neglect; Our Jobs; How Can a Good G-d Create Evil; Are You Crazy?
Mendel (Ben Yossel) Marasow (Montreal, Canada) and Mussi Levertov (Austin, TX)
A Crown Heights teacher sent us the following op-ed, in which she decries the apparent lack of safety protocols in the community’s schools – despite the recent terror attacks in Israel and France – and questions whether our educational institutions are adequately protected.
Hundreds turned out to attend the Levaya of Reb Shmuel Dov HaCohen Marmulszteyn OBM, a long time Crown Heights resident and quiet activist on behalf of the community.
The boys division of the Friendship Circle of Brooklyn gathered on Thursday night for a very special Farbrengen in honor of Yud Shvat.
As customary on Yud Shvat, many Chassidim lit Yahrtzeit candles in honor of the Frierdiker Rebbe – and many took the opportunity to do so in 770. A CrownHeights.info reader captured this photo on Friday of the hundreds of burning candles in the Shul’s entrance hall. [Full photo in the extended article.]
Hundreds participated in a special celebration in Melbourne, Australia last week. The Young Yeshivah community inaugurated their very own Sefer Torah, which was donated by Mr. and Mrs. Harry (Zvi) Raitman.
