The National Weather Service says the New York metro area should expect a mixed bag of light snow, sleet and freezing rain due to a winter storm system moving up the Eastern seaboard this weekend.
Family, friends and members of the community gathered this morning in front of 770 Eastern Parkway to accompany 1-year-old Benjy Lieberman, OBM, who tragically passed away earlier this week while vacationing with his family, to his final resting place.
New York City’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority voted on Thursday to increase subway and bus fares on the nation’s largest mass transit system in March.
At the request of his young daughters, a Lubavitcher jewelry designer from Paris took up the challenge of creating a portrait of the Rebbe out of Lego blocks. After two months of hard work by him and his daughters, they created this remarkable work of art.
This Shabbos at the Besht, noted author and lecturer Rabbi Chaim Miller will lead a discussion on the topic – Minhagim: Where do they come from? And do I have to keep them all?
In this week’s edition of Letter & Spirit, we present a letter from the Rebbe on the topic of Hasogas Gvul – encroachment on another’s turf – and whether this concept applies to the field of education.
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present a photo of the Rebbe at a Lag Ba’omer Parade in 1976.
With sadness we inform you of the passing of Mrs. Doba Nisnevitch OBM, matriarch of a large family and longtime Crown Heights resident. She is the wife of Reb Zeev Volf OBM.
Meir Blizinsky (Crown Heights) and Mushky Borisute (Crown Heights)
Twice a year, brothers Nechemya and Yair Ledaiev, members of the Lubavitch community in France, travel to far-flung places across the globe to help isolated Jews fulfill the Mitzvah of Mezuzah. This week, while in the western Ukrainian city of Vinnitza, they were helping a Jewish family affix a Mezuzah when they learned that their son would be celebrating his 13th birthday the following day.
Yosef Yitzchok Gershovitz (Crown Heights) and Yakova Messing (Monsey, NY)
Over 400 Oholei Torah staff-members and their spouses filled the institution’s main ballroom this past Motzei Shabbos for a gala banquet and Melave Malka in their honor.
TRAGEDY: With great sadness, shock and deep pain we inform you of the tragic and untimely passing of Zisa Bentzion (Benjy) Leiberman OBM, a 1 year old toddler who was upstate with his family on winter vacation. UPDATE: The Levaya will take place Friday morning.
A 13-year-old Jewish boy was maced near Paris in what a watchdog group said was an anti-Semitic assault by three unidentified minors.
In honor of the Alter Rebbe’s 202nd yahrzeit on Chof Dalet Teves, and first anniversary of the acclaimed MyLife: Chassidus Applied webcast series, the Meaningful Life Center has launched the MyLife Essay Contest, and will award $10,000 to the winning essay which applies a concept or idea in Chassidus to solve a contemporary life issue or challenge. Contest details can be found online at www.meaningfullife.com/mylife/contest.
New York State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, who has been one of the most powerful men in Albany for more than two decades, was arrested Thursday.
It is hard to believe that nearly a year has passed since Rashi Minkowitz, shlucha, mother, daughter and wife has passed away. The shock and horror of her premature passing left a deep imprint on us all. We can each remember exactly where we stood, when we heard the tragic news. At that time, there was an international outpouring of grief; a sincere desire to do something, indeed anything, in her memory.
