The Top News Stories of 5774
As we prepare to enter the new year, let us take a journey through the top headlines published on CrownHeights.info over the year of 5774.
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New Engagement!
Hillel Dovid Barber (Crown Heights) and Esther Leah Klyne (Manchester, UK)
Baby Boy!
Benyamin and Naomi (nee Kohan) Amrami (Crown Heights)
New Engagement!
Mendy Alexander (Crown Heights) and Chaya (bas Eli) Cohen (Crown Heights)
L-R: Rebbitzin Laya Slavin, Rabbi Dovid Slavin, John Hart, Greg Fisher and Luke Power.
‘Our Big Kitchen’ Inducted Into Hall of Fame
At a packed function of about 800 people at Sydney’s Dalton House, Our Big Kitchen has been inducted into the Hall of Fame in recognition of its Community Service by Restaurant and Catering Australia.
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Alternate Side Parking Suspended Thursday-Friday
Alternate side parking (street cleaning) regulations will be suspended Thursday and Friday, September 25-26, for Rosh Hashanah. All other regulations, including parking meters, remain in effect.
Weekly Unique Photo of the Rebbe
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present a unique photo of the Rebbe saying the after-blessing after distributing Kos Shel Bracha.
Volunteers to Spend Their High Holidays in Prison
Anna Koozmin, a 20-year-old sophomore at the University of Maryland, loves the popular Netflix series about a woman’s prison for the way it delves into the back stories and lives of inmates at a federal women’s prison. Now she is about to find out for herself what the place is like—at least for a day.
Chabad Delegation Meets with IDF Chief of Staff
A delegation of Chabad Chassidim met with the chief of staff of the Israeli Defense Forces, Lt. General Benny Gantz ahead of the upcoming holiday of Rosh Hashana. A new Sefer Torah, being written in merit of the soldiers serving in the IDF, had its first letters filled in by the Lt. General.
Baby Boy!
Peretz and Mussie (nee Weingarten) Wolowik (Crown Heights)
Video: Joy in Challenging Times
Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz, director of Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida, delivers his insights on this week’s Parsha – Ha’azinu. This week Rabbi Minkowicz answers the question: How can one be joyous in challenging times? A bonus video on what one should meditate on when hearing the Shofar on Rosh Hashanah is presented in the extended article.
New Engagement!
Ariel Stern (Beit Shemesh, Israel) and Mushky Shanowitz (Montreal, Canada)
Letter & Spirit: Faith Makes Us Feel Secure
In this week’s edition of Letter & Spirit, we present a letter of the Rebbe in which he explains the idea of hashgocho protis as we see it in the 27th Perek of Tehillim – “L’Dovid H’ Ori,” which we say during Elul and most of Tishrei. The letter was written through the Rebbe’s trusted secretary Rabbi Nissan Mindel, and was made available by his son-in-law Rabbi Sholom Ber Shapiro.
Baby Girl!
Boruch and Libby (nee Perl) Losh (Crown Heights)
Baby Boy!
Shneur and Devorah Leah (nee Gitlin) Hirsch (Crown Heights)
Inset: the recovered firearm.
Crown Heights Carjacker Indicted; Faces 25 Years
A 29-year-old Queens man has been indicted by Brooklyn’s D.A. for an armed carjacking that he allegedly committed on the corner of Eastern Parkway and Utica Ave. in Crown Heights this summer.
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