Friday Night Assault Investigated as Possible Hate Crime
A 31-year-old Jewish man was assaulted by a Black man on Albany Avenue Friday night and police are investigating the incident as a possible hate crime.
A 31-year-old Jewish man was assaulted by a Black man on Albany Avenue Friday night and police are investigating the incident as a possible hate crime.
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In his bid for the 43rd District Assembly Seat Menachem (Mendy) Raitport is hosting a Community Rally and Carnival Sunday on Kingston and Eastern Parkway in front of the Jewish Children’s Museum.
“There are times when life on shlichus is tough but I’d never want to switch it with anything else,” declared nine-year-old Sender Ouiezerat, shliach to Shanghai, China, during his speech at the gala banquet of the Asian Regional Kinus HaShluchim. “After all, it is we who are on the front lines bringing Moshiach.”
In preparation for the 59th Annual Dinner of Oholei Torah, bronze plaques have been erected on the main entrance ways of the Anchor building of Oholei Torah’s Eastern Parkway Campus, dedicating them in everlasting memory of the mossad’s co-founders, Reb Michoel and Rebbetzin Esther Teitelbaum, OBM. They will now be known as the ‘Sha’arei Teitelbaum,’ gateways of Torah and Avodah.
The following heartwarming and inspiring story was sent to us by Rabbi Levi Kaplan, Shliach in Baltimore, MD. It was written by K.Y.L., a Lubavitcher therapist working in Baltimore’s inner city public schools:
This Shabbos at the Besht, Rabbi Yossi Engel, Shliach to Adelaide, Australia, will lead a discussion on the topic – Don’t run away from materialism, elevate it to it’s intended purpose.
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present a unique collection of photos of the Rebbe at the Lag Ba’omer Parade of 1976. With much thanks to Dr. Bernarard Cohen.
On Yud daled Kislev a couple of years ago an idea was born: for a nominal fee of $100, Devorah Benjamin of KSCVK will take your name, the name of your child, friend or relative and daven at the Ohel for a shidduch. The money will go straight to KSCVK’s fund for Crown Heights Chassanim and Kallos.
When the Baltimore unrest broke out this week, Jewish Uniformed Service Association of Maryland (JUSA) director and Chabad Rabbi Chesky Tenenbaum went straight to work.
Chanan and Aliza Krivisky (Jericho, NY)
In this week’s edition of Letter and Spirit, in anticipation of the Yomtov of Shavuos, we present a letter from the Rebbe in which he explains why G-d gave 613 commandments to the Jews and 7 commandments to the rest of humankind, the benei Noach. The letter was written through the Rebbe’s trusted secretary Rabbi Nissan Mindel, and was made available by the latter’s son-in-law, Rabbi Sholom Ber Shapiro.
Zalman and Rivkah (nee Vogel) Levy (Crown Heights)
Thirty talented new youth counselors, from the 15 branches of the rapidly growing ‘EnerJew’ Jewish youth movement in the former USSR, attended a special five day professional seminar in Moscow, the capital of Russia, which was also attended by mentors and leading lecturers.
Rabbi Moshe Kotlarsky, executive vice-chairman of Merkos L’Inyonei Chinuch, along with his son Rabbi Mendy Kotlarsky, director of Merkos’ Suite 302, arrived this morning in Kathmandu, Nepal, to assist the local Chabad Center with their humanitarian efforts in the aftermath of an earthquake that devastated the impoverished nation.
A Crown Heights family recently uncovered a vintage collection of photographs taken in and around the original building of Lubavitcher Yeshiva in the U.S., located on the corner of Bedford and Dean in Brooklyn, during the mid 1940s. The album was shared with us by Lubavitch Archives. Can you identify anyone in the photos?