A New York police officer was taken to hospital with minor injuries after being sucker-punched by a young man he tried to arrest Sunday evening at the Utica Ave. subway station in Crown Heights, police said.
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Rabbi Shmuel Lesches, Magid Shiur in the Yeshiva Gedola of Melbourne, Australia, has compiled a guide to the laws of the month of Nissan and the Yomtov of Pesach for the benefit of the wider Lubavitch community.
Chabad of Orange County’s Jewish Women’s Circle enjoyed a tasty and informative Passover-Gluten Free Cooking Demonstration this past Wednesday, held at the Chabad Center in Chester, NY. The demo was presented by expert Chef Shifra Klein of Brooklyn, editor of the highly acclaimed Joy Of Kosher Magazine.
Following a fire last week in their high school, Beis Rivka conducted a fire drill in their larger Lefferts Avenue elementary school. 1,400 students ranging in age from 2-years-old to 14-years-old quickly filed out of the building once the alarms sounded. It took staff and students under 3 minutes to successfully evacuate the entire building.
New York City Police Commissioner Bill Bratton, along with his chiefs, lieutenants and other officials, hosted leaders and activists of Brooklyn’s several Jewish communities for the annual pre-Passover security briefing last week.
Seven brothers and sisters perished in a terrible fire on Friday night and thousands of community members turned out to attend the Levaya in Boro Park.
Several dozen protesters marched down the Crown Heights Jewish community’s main thoroughfare this afternoon chanting slogans and holding signs in protest of men who refuse to unconditionally give their wives a ‘Gett’ (divorce document without which a woman cannot remarry according to Jewish law).
This week’s edition of MyLife: Chassidus Applied with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, Episode 61, will air tonight, Sunday, here on CrownHeights.info, beginning at 8:00pm. This week Rabbi Jacobson will address the topics: MyLife Essay Winners; Interpreting Dreams; Non-Lubavitch Customs; Daily Learning Challenges.
Following the tragic fire that claimed the lives of seven Jewish children Friday night, the FDNY is handing out free smoke detectors and batteries, along with fire safety brochures, in four locations in Flatbush today, Sunday.
The Levaya for the seven children of the Sassoon family, who died tragically Friday night in a fire in their Flatbush home, will take place today, Sunday, at Shomrei Hadas Chapels in Borough Park, beginning at 3:00pm.
Today, Beis Nissan, marks the Yahrtzeit of the fifth Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Sholom DovBer Schneersohn (“Rashab”), who passed away in Rostov-on-Don, Russia, in 1920.
Yossi and Toba (nee Goldfein) Goldstein (Bala Cynwyd, PA)
A group of approximately 20 youths attacked a synagogue in the London borough of Stamford Hill over the weekend, yelling “we will kill you,” beating worshipers and vandalizing property.
Against the backdrop of its beautiful new state-of-the art bunk-houses and swimming pool, Camp Gan Israel-Detroit Director Rabbi Moishy Shemtov and Mashpia Rabbi Yosef Y. Gourarie proudly announced the head staff for this coming summer – 5775.
The Rebbe separates challah from baked matzos and oversees as they are packed and sent off to the Holy Land. 7 Nissan, 5747 – April 6, 1987.
A malfunctioning hot-plate is believed to have caused a Friday night fire that claimed the lives of seven Jewish children – all members of the same family, ages 5 through 15 – in the Midwood section of Brooklyn. Only the mother and one 14-year-old daughter survived.
This past Wednesday night, a group of staff from Montreal’s Lubavitch Yeshiva practiced chest compressions and mouth to mouth on training mannequins. It was part of a CPR and AED (Automated External Defibrillator) course organized by Yeshiva parent Shmarya Plotkin, who aims to get at least two defibrillators inside every Jewish school in Montreal.
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