The Mangel family completed new Sefer Torah Tuesday evening, with the final letters being written in the home Rabbi Nissen Mangel. Following the completion the gathered crowd broke out in dance in the streets of Crown Heights.
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In these two photographs, published courtesy of Shturem.net, former Israeli Prime Minister Yitzchak Rabin, who was assassinated on this day in 1995, can be seen visiting Yeshivas Tomchei Temimim in Kfar Chabad on two separate occasions in the 1980s. Can you identify anyone else in the photos?
Yesterday evening at around 9:30pm, two Jewish men were assaulted and threatened with a gun in the heart of Crown Heights, in what appears to be an unprovoked attack.
With great sadness we inform you of the sudden and untimely passing of a one-year-old toddler, Shneur Zalman Segal, of Nachlas Har Chabad, Israel.
A new technological development has raised concerns among the Orthodox-Jewish community around the world: A robotic scribe. Created by a German university, the robot can mimic the way a human ‘Sofer’ writes Hebrew letters on parchment, raising the possibility of authentic-looking but non-Kosher Mezuzos and Tefilin being sold on the market by unscrupulous sellers.
Please take a moment and say a Kapital Tehillim for Avery Sax – Rivka Rochel bas Fruma Tzveybel – a 13-year-old Jewish girl from Moorpark, CA, who is currently undergoing complicated surgery. CrownHeights.info published an article about Avery’s illness and activism here.
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.
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.
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