Alternate Side Parking Rules Suspended Thursday
Alternate side parking (street cleaning) regulations will be suspended Thursday, October 23, for a Hindu holiday. All other regulations, including parking meters, remain in effect.
File photo: Jerusalem Light Rail.
3-Month-Old Killed, 7 Injured in Jerusalem Terror Attack
A three-month-old infant was killed this afternoon, and seven others injured, when a car driven by an Arab man crashed into a light rail station in Jerusalem, in what is believed to be a terror attack.
Video: Moshe Attends Kosher Day
Chabad comedian Moshe Kravitsky, star of The Moshe Show, walked the streets of Crown Heights on Kosher Day, September 14th, 2014, to find out what is “Kosher” all about… and other things.
Photos: ‘Second Hakofos’ in Meron
Chabad of Meron, under the leadership of Rabbi Y.Y. Halperin, organized ‘second Hakofos’ at the gravesite of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai on Motzei Yomtov, with hundreds of Jews of all stripes in attendance.
Ultra-Orthodox Passengers Accused of Delaying Flight
Ultra-Orthodox men and women were accused of causing over an hour delay on a Delta flight Monday night at JFK airport, when they de-boarded the plane rather than sit next to members of the opposite gender.
Please Say Tehillim for…
Please take a moment and say a Kapital Tehillim for Bracha Miriam bas Chana for a complete and speedy refuah shlaima.
File photo: Last year's convention.
Girls’ Inter-High School Convention Draws Near
Preparations for the Chabad girls Inter-High School Convention are well underway.
Shliach’s Legacy Lives On in Paris’ Sinai Schools
Rabbi Hillel Pevzner was known to wear many hats. For much of the 60-plus years that the late rabbi lived in France, he was a teacher of an advanced yeshivah class, a day-school administrator, a sought-after authority on Jewish law and a spiritual leader of a historic congregation in Paris—all while raising six children with his wife, Echka.
Nepal Shluchim Awarded for Efforts amid Tragedy
At the conclusion of a painful week, during which four Israeli hikers lost their lives in a sudden snowstorm in the Annapurna Mountains, Shluchim to Nepal Rabbi Chezky and Mrs. Chani Lifshiz were summoned to the Israeli embassy in the capital city of Kathmandu.
Left: Rabbi Aryeh Stern. Right: Rabbi Shlomo Amar.
After a Decade, Jerusalem Has New Chief Rabbis
In a race replete with political intrigue and legal drama, Rabbi Aryeh Stern has been elected as the Chief Ashkenazic Rabbi of Jerusalem, and will serve alongside Rabbi Shlomo Amar, the Holy City’s new Chief Sephardic Rabbi.
Picture of the Day: ‘And Yaakov Went on His Way’
A CrownHeights.info reader captured the moment as four Bochurim, whose batteries were recharged during an uplifting month of Tishrei in Crown Heights, just barely manage to squeeze into a cab with their luggage as they head to JFK airport to return to the Holy Land for the remainder of the year.
Sukkos Joy Brought to Moscow’s Jewish Orphans
On Chol Hamoed Sukkos, the children housed and cared for by the Beis Chaya orphanage in Moscow were treated to a special Simchas Beis Hashoeva event.
Protesters in wheelchairs outside the Metropolitan Opera at Lincoln Center in New York City on the opening night of "The Death of Klinghoffer."
De Blasio Defends Opera Accused of Being Anti-Semitic
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio on Monday criticized his predecessor Rudolph Giuliani for objecting to the Metropolitan Opera’s performance of The Death of Klinghoffer and defended the Met’s right to stage the controversial performance that has been labeled anti-Semitic, the New York Daily News reported on Monday, hours before the play was set to open.
Fire Forces Residents to Flee Building
A fire broke out in the bathroom of a first floor apartment on Lefferts Avenue, forcing dozens of building residents to flee their apartments.
Historical Simchas Beis Hashoeva in Monsey
A grand outdoor Simchas Beis Hashoeiva took place in Monsey on Sunday Chol Hamoed Sukkos. Nearly 2,000 men, women and children participated in dancing, singing and celebrating Zman Simchaseinu.
Rambam Class Spans the Globe
In a few short months, Marco Jenau will be completing the three-year cycle of the Rambam’s Mishneh Torah with “Rabbi Gordon Live” as he whips along Germany’s autobahn highway. Michael Hirsch, who has been streaming Rabbi Joshua Gordon’s classes on Torah and Tanya for years, will toast the completion with a slug of coffee as he studies at dawn on the east coast of the United States. During the wine dark night in Norway, Ole Mads Sirks Vevle will tune in for a class that started in Chabad of Encino, CA, and has grown into one of Chabad.org’s most popular online video classes worldwide.
by Rivka Chaya Berman
Young Jewish Professionals Can’t Get Enough of the Upper East Side
When Rabbi Yosef Wilhelm and his wife, Devora, moved to Manhattan five years ago, they had a list of about a dozen names of young adults in the area.
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