On Thursday, December 4th, Chevra Ahavas Yisroel will proudly host a delegation of IDF officers and veterans. These defenders of our Holy Land will conduct a panel discussion on the latest conflicts, including their personal accounts of this summer’s Operation Protective Edge and the most recent terrorist attacks.
Neighborhood schools ended early and cancelled after school programs, NYPD added many additional patrols as did the local neighborhood volunteer patrol Shomrim, all following a decision by a Grand Jury not to indict a police officer in the death of Staten Island resident Eric Garner.
Chabad’s Terror Victims Project representatives recently visited the home of Zidan Saif, of blessed memory. He was the Druze police officer who was killed in the horrific terror attack in Har Nof a short while ago.
A New York grand jury has just decided against an indictment Wednesday in the death of Eric Garner, an unarmed black man, who died after police officer Daniel Pantaleo put him in a chokehold in Staten Island in mid July. The arresting officer had accused Garner of selling loose, un-taxed cigarettes.
While temperatures are dropping outside, inside the world of the Friendship Circle things are toasty and warm.
CrownHeights.info has learned that Rabbi Levi Yitzchok and Mrs. Devorah Leah Chekli, along with their young daughter Chaya Mussia, will be moving on Shlichus to Luanda, the capital of the southwestern African Nation of Angola.
Another video produced by Crown Heights street comic Meir Kalmanson is quickly going viral, having garnered over 10,000 views a day after it was published to YouTube.
Two shoppers outside an Israeli supermarket were stabbed by a terrorist this evening. The victims were moderately injured in the attack, which occurred outside the Rami Levy discount supermarket near Maale Adumim, east of Jerusalem.
A 10-year-old girl passed away after being struck by a car while crossing the street with her mother Tuesday night in Borough Park, police sources told JP Updates.
Dozens of members of the Montreal Chabad community gathered in the main Shul to celebrate Tes and Yud Kislev, the birthday, Yahrtzeit and Chag Hageulah of the Mitteler Rebbe, Rabbi Dov Ber of Lubavitch.
Yosef Eliezrie (Yorba Linda, CA) and Chanie Grossbaum (Melbourne, Australia)
Folik and Sheina (nee Hirsch) Gurevitch (Crown Heights)
Last week, four students of the Or Avner educational complex for Jewish students from the former Soviet Union in Kfar Sitrin, Israel, entered the covenant of Avraham Avinu by undergoing circumcisions.
U.S. health officials on Tuesday released a draft of long-awaited federal guidelines on circumcision, saying medical evidence supports having the procedure done and health insurers should pay for it.
Jewish music recording star Benny Friedman has announced the release of a brand new album. Titled “Kol Haneshama Sheli,” this album is Friedman’s fifth and his first original album since his 2012 mega-hit “Yesh Tikvah.”
Photos of three members of the U.S. House of Representatives, one of whom – Yvette Clarke – is the Representative of a New York City district that includes Crown Heights, holding their hands up in a “don’t shoot” gesture on the floor of Congress were widely disseminated through social media this morning.
