What is that 9-foot-tall rabbi selling? Raffle tickets! Organizers behind the Bayis Raffle, which is offering its winner 6 months of rent or mortgage payments along with 100 seforim, got a 9-foot-tall ‘mascot’ to help sell raffle tickets over the weekend on Kingston Avenue and in 770.
Yarden and Bayla (nee Lax) Blumstein (West Bloomfield, MI)
Following the terror attacks in France, Rabbi Yehuda Krinsky, Chairman of Merkos Linyonei Chinuch, released a statement reaffirming sentiments echoed by many Parisian Jews that “Jewish life will not shut down.”
This week’s edition of MyLife: Chassidus Applied with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, Episode 51, will air tonight, Sunday, here on CrownHeights.info, beginning at 8:00pm. This week Rabbi Jacobson will address the topics: Mental Illness [Pt. 2], Is There Any Virtue to Madness? Unaffordable Housing in Crown Heights, Alternatives to Yelling [Pt. 2], Shabbos Peace With Young Children.
A fast moving 2-alarm fire in a 3-story home on Eastern Parkway injured 3 residents and four fire fighters, who struggled for nearly an hour to contain and douse the blaze. One of those injured, a woman, was critically injured.
While there’s no wrong time for studying Torah, an argument can be made that now is an especially good time, with a stretch between major Jewish holidays and winter in full swing in much of the world.
A series of terror attacks which claimed 16 lives in Paris, the capitol city of France, last week has brought hundreds of thousands of people out into the streets who marching alongside world leaders in a show of unity and defiance against terror. Live video of the march in the Extended Article.
Shmuli and Racheli (nee Goldstein) Friedman (Surfside, FL)
Motti Harlig (Las Vegas, NV) and Mushkie Rosenblum (Pittsburgh, PA)
A 19-year-old African-American man was shot and killed just steps from his home in Crown Heights Thursday afternoon.
Lassana Bathily, a Muslim employee at Paris Kosher grocery store Hyper Cacher, saved several people by hiding them in a walk-in freezer when a gunman laid siege to his workplace on Friday.
On Friday afternoon, just a few yards away from the Hyper Chacher supermarket in Paris where almost two dozen people were being held hostage by an Islamic terrorist, a Lubavitcher Chosid was standing with a pair of Tefilin, offering worried and tense Jews the opportunity to pray for those trapped inside.
The four Jewish men who were brutally murdered by an Islamic terrorist while shopping Friday morning in a kosher supermarket in Paris will be laid to rest in Jerusalem this coming week. Yoav Hattab, 21, had just returned home from a visit to Israel, Yohan Cohen, 20, saved a 3-year-old when he fought the terrorist, Philippe Braham, 45, always wanted to make aliyah and Francois-Michel Saada, 64, lived for his family’s happiness; these are the four lives lost in the Friday attack.
If you remember your forbear, the Alter Rebbe, by acting in a way that makes him proud, he will remember you in return.
Alexander (ben Yoske) Levin and Shaindy Gruenberg (Minnesota/Israel)
Explosions and gunshots rang out and smoke rose from Hyper Cacher – the kosher supermarket in Paris where a gunman working in tandem with the two Charlie Hebdo attackers held several hostages. French special forces stormed the building and killed the hostage taker. Images show several hostages – more than the 5 or 6 reported – escaping alive from the supermarket. Sadly, French media have confirmed that 4 of the hostages were killed.
Yossi Grosh (Crown Heights) and Shayna (bas Chaim) Goldberg (Toronto, Canada)
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