With mere weeks remaining until the start of the International Kinnus Hashluchim, 5775, CrownHeights.info has learned the identities of those who will be delivering the Keynote and Guest Speaker addresses at the grand banquet this year – the highlight of the four-day event.
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Staff Sgt. Oz Mendelovich was 21 years old when he died in Gaza during this past summer’s Operation Protective Edge. He had joined the Israel Defense Forces in 2012, bravely following in the footsteps of his courageous father by serving in the famed but high-risk Golani Brigade.
Mayor Bill de Blasio signed legislation today that will lower the default speed limit in New York City from 30 to 25 miles per hour. Beginning November 7, the speed limit on all streets will be 25 mph, unless otherwise posted.
Chabad emissaries to the Nepalese capital of Kathmandu, Rabbi Chezki and Chana Lifschitz, received a surprise telephone call from Israel on Saturday night after Shabbat, from none other than the Israeli Ashkenazic Chief Rabbi David Lau.
When Kathryn Kushner first walked into Chabad at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, her grandfather Abraham Kushner, a Lieutenant in the New York Police Department, must have been smiling. Lt. Kushner, who served the NYPD for close to four decades, acted for many years as the liaison with Jewish groups and the department.
A 5-year-old boy, who recently returned from West Africa, is being observed in isolation at Bellevue Hospital in New York City for possible Ebola symptoms. If he tests positive, it would mark the second incidence of the deadly virus’ spread to New York City.
Update: Boy tests negative.
This video was created to introduce “How Happiness Thinks,” a new 6-week course from JLI, with instructor Rabbi Yochanan Posner.
With great sadness we inform you of the untimely passing of Reb Moshe Zvi Reicher OBM a Bobover Chossid who passed away after an illness, he was 66 years old.
Chaim and Yehudis (nee Lewis) Mitnitsky (Crown Heights)
Yaakov Tzvi and Chaya (nee Krafchik) Goodman (Crown Heights)
Multiple sources are now confirming that Michelle Levy, the 11-year-old girl that has been missing since Shabbos afternoon, has been found B”H safe.
Dovber (ben Simcha) Lewis (Crown Heights) and Zisi Kessler (Crown Heights)
This week’s edition of MyLife: Chassidus Applied with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, Episode 40, will air tonight, Sunday, here on CrownHeights.info beginning at 8:00pm. This week Rabbi Jacobson will address the following topics: Toxic People, Caretaking, Advice for the Elderly and Looking to the Rebbe and His Igros.
We have Gmach’s for wedding gowns, wedding shtick, school uniforms and even baby supplies but very few – if any – that cater to married men. Enter the ‘Tallis Fund’, the brainchild of a local Crown Heights businessman, that offers used clean Tallaisim.
Teenagers in Fairfax, Virginia, created charity boxes that, once filled, will go to the needy in Ukraine. A part of the CTeen program at Chabad Lubavitch of Northern Virginia, the kids created their own boxes out of cutout cardboard, with the goal of dropping in a few coins of loose change every day.
A massive search is on for an 11-year-old Sydney girl who has been missing since Shabbos afternoon. Michelle Levy stormed out of her home following a family argument at 6:30pm and has not been seen or heard from since. Police, CSG, Hatzolah and volunteers have turned out in large numbers and are searching for the missing girl.
As a follow up to our Thursday article regarding the attempts of some to reintroduce the ‘Call of the Shofar’ program into the Chabad community under a different name, we present a letter signed 10 years ago by the leading Rabbonim and Admorim of Montreal against the ‘Landmark Forum,’ off which COTS is based.
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