Crown Heights community member Mendy Hecht makes the case in this op-ed that his fellow voters should throw their support behind Rob Astorino, the Republican challenger to the Democratic Governor of New York Andrew Cuomo, in today’s election.
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After watching a video of a woman experiencing over 100 instances of verbal harassment during a 10 hour period walking the streets of New York City, comedian Scott Rogowsky decided to show what it’s like to walk the streets of NYC as a Jewish man.
Public campaigning gave way to the privacy of the voting booth Tuesday with control of the Senate, the makeup of the House and three dozen governorships at stake.
40 Bochurim studying in Crown Heights Yeshivas who have chosen to give up their supper breaks – the one hour a day for they have for themselves – to volunteer for children with special needs, were welcomed to the Friendship Circle family at a special event Sunday evening.
Police made a third arrest over the weekend of a man they say robbed and assaulted a 21-year-old Crown Heights woman in a violent mugging caught on surveillance video on Franklin Avenue last month.
“There’s a great debate raging in Lubavitch these days, and Boruch Hashem, it’s not about shidduchim, tuition costs, Meshichism, or shluchim’s territorial claims,” writes blogger Hirshel Tzig. Rather, the debate in question is over the proper way to put on one’s Talis according to Chabad custom.
In the French city of Pau, located near the border with Spain at the foothills of the Pyrenees, a brand-new state-of-the-art Mikvah was dedicated yesterday, Sunday, November 2nd.
In conjunction with the siyum Sefer Torah that the Mangel family is making this Tuesday, the 11th of Cheshvan, in honor of Rabbi Nissan Mangel’s birthday, l’arichas yomim v’shonim tovim for him and the entire family, Rabbi Sholom Dovber Avtzon relates the following story about a siyum Sefer Torah:
About three months ago, Rabbi Yosef Raksin of Crown Heights left his daughter’s home in North Miami Beach, FL, on his way to Shul Shabbos morning. He never arrived.
Alternate side parking (street cleaning) regulations will be suspended Tuesday, November 4, for Election Day. All other regulations, including parking meters, remain in effect.
Every year, following Sukkos, Chabad of Rechavia in Jerusalem organizes a community-wide Kiddush Levana celebration, in compliance with the Rebbe’s directives on Parashat Noach, 1992.
After years of digging through the files of the KGB—the communist state security agency formerly known as the NKVD—a mass grave with over a dozen Chabad-Lubavitch followers murdered at the hands of the Soviets in 1928, was located and marked with tombstone last week.
On Friday, the Australian Minister for Children and Early Childhood Development, Wendy Lovell, and Member Parliament for Bentleigh Elizabeth Miller joined families and Jewish community leaders at Bentleigh East’s Beis Menachem Community Centre to announce a $515,000 upgrade to the co-located Gan Gabi and Rivki Early Learning Centre.
Shmuel Cohen (Lakewood, NJ) and Basha Rochel Bongart (Crown Heights)
L’chaim Tuesday night at Bais Levi Yitzchok
556 Crown St. [entrance on Albany Ave.]
During his speech before the volunteers participating in the annual Masa Israel internship program, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu invoked the Lubavitcher Rebbe in his plea that upon returning to their countries of origin that they defend the state of Israel.
Sholom Dov Ber (Berry) and Gitty (nee Losh) Blachman (Monsey, NY)
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