A record number of people turned out Motzai Shabbos and Sunday for Keren Simchas Choson V’Kallah’s annual auction benefit, buying tickets – and supporting the organization – in hopes of winning valuable prizes. At the conclusion of the women’s event Sunday evening the raffle was drawn and the winners were announced. List in the Extended Article.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Avraham Meir (ben Gedalya) Schmalberg (Crown Heights) and Devora Leah (bas Moshe Chaim) Goetz (Baltimore, MD)
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.
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.
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: A new interview series, riffing of a similar world famous series, Moshe Karvitsky interviews one of the Twins from France.
“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.
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.
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.
Yehuda Leib and Rendy (nee Alenick) Herz (Crown Heights)
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.
Two cars collided in a busy Eastern Parkway intersection just before Shabbos. The crash injured five.
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