When it came down to it, Brooklynites chose fresh fish over famous cheesecake. In DNAinfo New York’s Brooklyn Brackets series, fans of a Crown Heights kosher fish market— Raskin’s — beat out cheesecake powerhouse Junior’s for the title of best neighborhood institution in the borough.
Four Mitzvah Tanks paraded through the streets of Montreal this past Thursday, in honor of Yud Alef Nissan, marking the Rebbe’s 113th birthday.
Over the past 15 weeks, the Avos U’Bonim of Anash in Manchester (UK) have been sitting down to learn together every Motzoei Shabbos. With the winter session coming to a close, prizes were given out to celebrate attendance.
Rabbi Nachman Simon, Shliach to Delmar, a suburb of Albany, interviewed Jake Adler, a New York State lobbyist for the Orthodox Union, on ‘The Jewish View,’ a cable TV talk show. They discussed the Education Investment Tax Credit, and the negotiations that surrounded the measure, which ultimately failed to be included in the state’s annual budget.
After a brief hiatus, Yeshivas Kayitz-Costa Rica (YKCR) has announced that it will be opening this year for its fourth summer.
This week’s edition of MyLife: Chassidus Applied with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, Episode 62, will air tonight, Sunday, here on CrownHeights.info, beginning at 8:00pm. This week, in a MyLife Yud Alef Nissan and Passover Special, Rabbi Jacobson will address the topics: Rebbe, Faith, Making the Seder Meaningful, Seudas Moshiach and More. Plus: New Segment – Essay Analysis and a Surprise Announcement.
At the state-of-the-art Tiferes Hamatzos bakery in Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine, matzahs are hand-rolled and baked under strict rabbinical supervision. In this eastern Ukrainian city—the country’s fourth-largest, and historically one of its most Jewish—the crisp, round matzahs are carefully packaged and then shipped throughout Ukraine. But Dnepropetrovsk’s matzah output goes far beyond Ukraine’s redrawn borders; the bakery annually produces more than 70 tons of the crunchy unleavened bread, much of which is sent abroad and made available to consumers in Europe, the Americas and even Israel.
Students of Technion University in Israel got ready for Passover, the festival of freedom, this year by letting their imagination run wild. Watch closely as this ‘Rube Goldberg Machine,’ created by students from the Faculties of Mechanical Engineering, Architecture and Town Planning, relates highlights of the Passover story.
Getzy Raskin (Crown Heights) and Mushka Pruss (Crown Heights)
More than 600 Crown Heights homes, in an area stretching from Albany to Brooklyn Aves. and from Pacific St. to Lincoln Pl., have joined the neighborhood’s protected historic district. It’s the third section of Crown Heights North to receive landmark status in the past eight years.
With great sadness we inform you of the passing of R’ Tzvi Menachem Greenbaum OBM, a resident of North Miami Beach and active in the Jewish community who was nicknamed by the Rebbe ‘Mendel der Soldat’. He was 86 years old. Levaya and Shiva times added
Schneur and Rivky (nee Korf) Berger (Miami Beach, FL)
A Lubavitch Girls’ School in Los Angeles came together to raise the spirit and show support for a fellow student who is battling cancer. The gesture, which came as a complete surprise to the girl, brought tears to the eyes of even the veteran LAPD officers who witnessed it.
All it took was some pieces of ordinary plywood, a can of black chalkboard paint, and rainbow-colored chalk to create a wall of hope.
Crown Heights lawyer and activist Eli Federman took to the pages of today’s New York Post to counter those who blame the observance of Shabbos on the horrific tragedy that claimed the life of seven children in Flatbush Friday night.
The Crown Heights Beis Din has released a list of food items that bear the Badatz’ Hashgacha for use on Pesach. Included as well is a list of Zmanim for the community’s convenience over the Yomtov.
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