When parents of adults with special needs wanted to organize a group home in Charlotte, North Carolina, Rochel Groner had another idea. Groner is co-director of Friendship Circle, a volunteer based program that advocates on behalf of kids with special needs. With a background in retail, she founded Zabs Place, an upscale thrift boutique and employment training center.
Chabad of Orange County’s Jewish Women’s Circle, led by Chana Burston, recently held its opening event of the year, “Happy Jewish Birthday” at the Chabad Center in Chester.
Beth Rivkah Academy, A Chabad institution founded in 1956 and entering its 60th year, was ranked as the second best Jewish school in the Canadian province of Quebec by the Fraser Institute.
Two NYPD officers have been charged with assaulting a 16-year-old boy during a Crown Heights arrest in August. Street surveillance captured the incident, during which the officers are seen striking the teen, allegedly with a gun and their fists.
Sara Chana Silverstein, a Lubavitcher mother of 7 who specializes in areas of alternative medicine and herbs, appeared on CBS News to share her wisdom on essential oils and herbs.
A federal appeals court has upheld the dismissal of Illinois Chabad Rabbi Dov Hillel Klein’s lawsuit against Northwestern University, in which claimed that the university illegally discriminated against him and his organization when it disaffiliated with him over accusations of excessive alcohol consumption by minors at his events.
On November 7th, 2013, I was invited to attend the 27th International Conference and Banquet ofChabad Emissaries in Brooklyn, New York. Together with Rabbi Yossel Kranz of Chabad of Virginia, I joined almost five thousand Chabad rabbis and lay leaders from all over the world for a weekend of inspiration, learning, and camaraderie.
Alternate side parking (street cleaning) regulations will be suspended Tuesday, November 11, for Veterans Day. All other regulations, including parking meters, remain in effect.
Over 400 fathers and sons attended the first week of the Avos Ubanim Betzalel learning program, which took place this past Motzoei Shabbos in Crown Heights.
The Chief Rabbi of the Netherlands, Chabad Shliach Rabbi Binyomin Jacobs, filed a complaint with local police after two men, whom he described as Middle Eastern, tried to run him over with their vehicle at a gas station.
Three thieves, in two separate incidents, were arrested as a result of the hard work and vigilance of Shomrim volunteers in the span of 30 minutes yesterday, Sunday evening, in Crown Heights.
In three separate Palestinian terrorist attacks today, a young woman was stabbed to death and two others injured in the West Bank settlement of Gush Etzion, an Israeli soldier was stabbed and critically injured in Tel Aviv, and a third would-be attacker pulled out a knife at a Jerusalem light rail stop, but was subdued by vigilant bystanders before he could do any harm.
Update: Gush Etzion terrorist murderer had been released in prisoner swap for Gilad Shalit.
Update: Soldier stabbed in Tel Aviv dies.
This all-new music video, starring Jewish singing star Gad Elbaz, was filmed at Borough Park’s Breadberry, a modern kosher supermarket that has become a favorite of customers of all types. ‘Open Up,’ an original composition by Elbaz, is an upbeat and lighthearted reminder that all the goodness in our lives, even the food that we eat, is a divine gift to be treasured.
With sadness we inform you of the passing this morning of Mrs. Luba Chana Friedman, OBM, of Crown Heights, wife of the Rosh Yeshiva of Oholei Torah, Reb Yisroel Friedman, may he live and be well. She was 74 years old.
Last night, Motzei Shabbos Parshas Vayera, dozens of children travelled by bus from Crown Heights to the Ohel for a special rally.
This week’s edition of MyLife: Chassidus Applied with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, Episode 42, will air tonight, Sunday, here on CrownHeights.info beginning at 8:00pm. This week Rabbi Jacobson will address the following topics: Overspending, Inheritance, Euthanasia, Children Hurt by the System, Peer Pressure and a follow-up on the Ohel and Igros.
Next week will mark the opening of the International Conference of Shluchim in Crown Heights, an event which will bring thousands of Chabad emissaries from around the world to New York City. One of the chief concerns is safety, and addressing that were representatives from the NYPD and Merkos L’inyonei Chinuch, who met at the Jewish Children’s Museum.
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