New Engagement!
Dovber Chaiton (Portland, OR) and Mushkie Shanowitz (Las Vegas, NV)
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Video: Taxonomy of the Yarmulke
Much like the sheitel, you can tell a lot about a Jewish male by the type of yarmulke (also referred to as a kippah, or in Hasidic Yiddish, kapl) that he wears.
Baby Girl!
Shuey and Nechama Dina (nee Hirsch) Samuels (Howard Beach, NY)
Video: Can We All Be Leaders?
Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz, director of Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida, delivers his insights on this week’s Parsha – Yisro. This week Rabbi Minkowicz answers the question: How can we all be leaders?
Photos: New ‘770’ Being Built in Jerusalem
Slowly but surely, a new replica of 770 is being built in Jerusalem, this one in the Pisgat Ze’ev neighborhood. It will serve as a Chabad synagogue and community center.
Neo-Nazis Plan Rally in Stamford Hill, London
A British neo-nazi group is planning a rally against the “Jewification of Great Britain” in one of London’s largest Jewish communities.
Shluchos the World Over Prep for Conference
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.
Snow Leads to Hundreds of Flight Cancelations
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 Rules Suspended Tuesday
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.
Baby Girl!
Zalmy and Miriam (nee Shain) Raskin (Crown Heights)
Boymelgreen Sells Building for $75M, Triple What He Paid
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.
California Shliach Returns to Moscow After 25 Years
In honor of Yud Shvat, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Cohen, Shliach to Sacramento, CA, was invited to Moscow to Farbreng with the community.
Head Shliach Farbrengs with Cheder at the Ohel
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.
Celebrating the Baal Teshuvah Experience Through Art
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 Rules Suspended Monday
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.
Letter Shows Rebbe Encouraged Essays on Chassidus
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!
8:00pm: Should Chinuch Include Being a Mentch?
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?
