A gang feud has fueled a 38 percent spike in shootings in Crown Heights and Prospect-Lefferts Gardens amid an overall crime drop of more than 8 percent, the area’s precinct commander said this week.
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Hundreds of descendants of the Alter Rebbe, Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi, gathered this past Motzei Shabbos to mark his Yohrtzeit at the Chovevei Torah Simcha hall in Crown Heights.
Hundreds of men gathered Motzai Shabbos in order to support a local mossad, United Lubavitcher Yeshiva on Crown Street. There was a special viewing of the auction prizes, and men had an opportunity to purchase tickets and go for items. Also, a lavish buffet of hot food and drink culminated with a hilarious performance by stand up comedian Modi.
When G-d made His covenant with Abraham, He decreed: “Your children will be enslaved and oppressed for 400 years. But the nation that enslaves them, I will punish.” How could G-d punish the Egyptians for something he decreed upon them to do? The answer can be found in Maimonides’ laws of prophecy.
With great sadness and pain, we inform you of the passing of Mrs. Gittel Weiss, OBM, dedicated Shlucha and pillar of the Lubavitch community in Manchester, UK.
A participant in this years High School Convention write of her inspiration, “Tonight, sitting in the ballroom of Beis Rivkah Lefferts with hundreds of other girls my age, I felt the something. That feeling that we young Lubavitch girls can actually ker a velt, can actually make a difference.”
Levi (ben Noach) Vogel (Crown Heights) and Chanie (bas Levi Yitzchok) Spielman (Crown Heights)
The last message Yoav Hattab, 21, sent before entering the Hyper Cacher kosher supermarket last Friday where his life was cut short in a brutal act of terrorism, was an SMS message urging a friend to observe the upcoming Shabbos.
At a rally this week, around 5,000 people came to the iconic Brandenburger Gate in Berlin holding Charlie Hebdo cartoons, pencils and signs saying “Je suis Charlie.” Among them was Rabbi Yehuda Teichtal, Chabad Emissary to Germany’s capital.
The father of Yoav Hattab, 21, who was killed in the Paris supermarket attack last week, said on Friday that, as the attack unfolded, he knew his son had gone down fighting.
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present a unique photo of the Rebbe at Mincha-Maariv, circa mid 1980s.
This Shabbos at the Besht, Rabbi Zalman Goldberg will lead a discussion on the topic – ‘A promotion of Bitachon from the Alter Rebbe.’
After visiting the Ohel Oholei Torah kicked off its Shnas HaShishim campaign – sixty years to its founding – and their first event was a special Melava Malka for the staff and faculty members who keep the institution going.
In this week’s edition of Letter & Spirit, we present a letter from the Rebbe to an individual who was about to celebrate his birthday. The letter was written through the Rebbe’s trusted secretary Rabbi Nissan Mindel, and was made available by the latter’s son-in-law, Rabbi Sholom Ber Shapiro.
Dozens of resident on Balfour Place have been left without water, and some without heat as well, after the water main busted and a ‘river of water’ gushed down the street.
It is 9:00 am on a Sunday morning in a Northeast Philadelphia warehouse. Over 1,000 volunteers position themselves round hundreds of tables lined with cardboard boxes and a rich variety of kosher food items. A human assembly line forms; children begin tossing packages of macaroni and bags of split peas into boxes.
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