Alternate Side Parking Rules Suspended Monday
Alternate Side Parking regulations will be suspended Monday, February 9, to facilitate snow removal. Payment at parking meters will remain in effect throughout the city.
MyShliach’s Regional Shabbatons Unite Yaldei HaShluchim
Answering the call to bring yaldei hashluchim together for uplifting Chassidishe and social experiences, MyShliach, a division of Merkos Suite 302, hosted its first regional Shabbaton for Shluchim’s boys living in the Pacific Northwest this Cheshvan. Daughters of shluchim living in southern Argentina and Paraguay met for the first time at a shabbaton just a few weeks later, and a shabbaton open to boys from Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, Kansas and New Mexico took place shortly thereafter.
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Popular Halacha Guide Now Available In English
A popular and essential guide, Taharah Kahalachah, once only available in Hebrew is now available for the first time available in English, opening a wealth of practical information to the English reader.
Authorities Mounting Desperate Search for Missing Family
Crown Heights Shomrim and the NYPD have begun an extensive search for a missing family who have not been heard from or seen since January 31st 2015. Authorities are seeking information regarding the whereabouts of the Kutsy family along with their two daughters.
UPDATE: The family has been located and they have turned themselves in.
New Engagement!
Avraham Meir (ben Gedalya) Schmalberg (Crown Heights) and Devora Leah (bas Moshe Chaim) Goetz (Baltimore, MD)
8:00pm: Healing from Molestation and Dealing with Violators
This week’s edition of MyLife: Chassidus Applied with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, Episode 55, will air tonight, Sunday, here on CrownHeights.info, beginning at 8:00pm. This week Rabbi Jacobson will address the topics: Healing from Molestation and Dealing with Violators.
Rabbi Yisroel and his wife Sara Bernath.
Shliach Learns the Effects of an Encounter Years Later
An encounter from over three years ago closed a circle on Shabbos afternoon for Rabbi Yisroel Bernath, a campus Shliach at the NDG & Loyola Campus in Montreal, Canada. Following Davening a women shared a story about a chance encounter she had with the Shliach which prevented her from intermarriage.
A wounded IDF soldier skis with outriggers to control his descent, on a trip organized by Chabad of Aspen, Colorado.
Shliach Helps Wounded IDF Soldiers Learn to Ski
After Yinon Cohen lost his legs in an accident involving a rocket-propelled grenade, it wasn’t clear he’d ever be able to walk again, much less ski down a peak in the Rocky Mountains.
Between Two Jews: An Interview with the French Twin
Between Two Jews: A new interview series, riffing of a similar world famous series, Moshe Karvitsky interviews one of the Twins from France.
Video: A Bird’s-Eye View of Auschwitz
“One minute in Auschwitz was like an entire day. A day was like a year. A month, an eternity,” wrote Roman Kent, a Holocaust survivor. Survivors have been gathering at the former Nazi death camp Auschwitz, to mark the 70th anniversary of its liberation. This aerial footage, published by the BBC, shows what it looks like today.
KSCVK’s MBD Concert a Rocking Success
Well over 1,000 men turned out in support of Keren Simchas Chosson V’Kallah for their annual auction fundraiser. The event featured a special performance by Mordechai Ben David, the Shira Choir and the Freilach band.
Boruch Dayan Hoemes: Mrs. Nechama Kaushansky OBM
With great sadness and pain we inform you of the very untimely passing of Mrs. Nechama Kaushansky OBM of Toronto, Canada. The nifteres‘ son and daughter passed away in the past year.
Baby Boy!
Yehuda Leib and Rendy (nee Alenick) Herz (Crown Heights)
Allen and Ellen Brody and Rabbi Benjy and Hinda Silverman at a "mock wedding" that the Brodys volunteered to participate in at the Chabad Hebrew school.
Train Crash Victim Ellen Brody Was Loving Mother and Selfless Community Member
Ellen Brody, the 49-year-old mother of three whose SUV was at the center of a fatal Metro-North train crash on Wednesday—in what is being called the worst accident in the train line’s history—is being remembered by those who knew her as a loving mother and friend, and an active and selfless community member. Five other people lost their lives in the accident.
Erev Shabbos Accident Injures Five
Two cars collided in a busy Eastern Parkway intersection just before Shabbos. The crash injured five.
Weekly Living Torah Video: Mainstay of the Home
Louise Hager, who developed a close relationship with the Rebbe’s wife, Rebbetzin Chaya Mushka, recalls speaking about her for the first time in public, and relates some important lessons the Rebbetzin taught her.
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