New York City’s Department of Sanitation has issued a snow alert, starting at 8:00pm tonight, Thursday. The National Weather Service says it expects rain tonight for the city, followed by a little snow after 1:00am Friday.
The FBI made 15 arrests in Williamsburg, Kiryas Joel and Monsey Thursday involving an apparent long-term mortgage and welfare fraud case. Most of the arrestees are members of an extended family of Satmar Chasidim.
Marking its 5th anniversary, hundreds turned out in support of Manhattan’s Chabad Latin Jewish Center, which is directed by Rabbi Mendy and Frumie Weitman.
The Rebbe distributes a Chasidic discourse in honor of the 127th Birthday of Rabbi Sholom Dovber, the Rebbe Rashab, on 20 Cheshvan, 5748 (November 12, 1987).
Rabbi Mendy Margolin of Merkos Suite 302 delivers a preparation workshop for the Bochurim who will be manning the registration booths at the upcoming Kinus Hashluchim.
Please take a moment and say a Kapital Tehillim for Devorah Leah bas Miriam, a young girl who is currently undergoing heart surgery.
On Thursday evening some 120 people gathered at Crown Heights Young Entrepreneurs (CHYE) to explore the multi-faceted world of real-estate.
School may have been closed on Tuesday, but The Friendship Circle of Brooklyn was wide open.
From Left to right: Rabbi Doniel Moscowitz, OBM, former head Shliach to Illinois, Rabbi Dovid Eliezrie, Shliach to Orange County, California, and Rabbi Yisroel Deren¸ head Shliach to Connecticut, attend a seminar at the International Kinus Hashluchim of 1990.
Today, Clove Road in Crown Heights is an underused one-way street behind a grocery store parking lot, filled with empty shopping carts, litter and loose gravel.
Mere days before the commencement of the International Conference of Shluchim, CrownHeights.info has learned that Rabbi Aizik and Mrs. Brochi Katzman will be moving to Stoughton, Massachusetts, to serve as Chabad emissaries.
A CrownHeights.info reader brought to our attention a troubling phenomenon: a clear attempt by the City of New York to obstruct a sign warning drivers of a newly-installed camera issuing tickets to vehicles traveling in the recently-created bus lane on Nostrand Ave.
A CrownHeights.info reader sent in this photo of a New York City subway commuter, whose dress indicates that she is a devout Muslim, reading Sue Fishkoff’s book The Rebbe’s Army, which was published in honor of the 10th anniversary of Gimmel Tammuz in 2004.
Hirschel Gourarie (Postville, IA) and Miri Halperin (Toronto, Canada)
In a generation living 20+ years after Gimmel Tammuz, the value of hearing the Rebbe’s voice on a daily basis, speaking on carefully selected topics and ideas, cannot be overstated. It infuses one’s day with chayus and meaning.
How do you guide your children (toddlers to teens) on the path of yiras shomayim, while giving them the independence to make it their own?
Nachie and Gittel (nee Rosenberger) Best (Crown Heights)
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