After sitting dormant for nearly three years following a foreclosure and a lengthy lawsuit between Chabad of California—the previous owner—and Pacific Mercantile Bank, a 78-acre campground and resort center in Running Springs named ‘Kiryas Schneerson’ was sold Friday for $7.1 million to a different Orthodox Jewish group, Bnei Akiva of Los Angeles.
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Three Lubavitcher men from Crown Heights, ages 47, 30 and 27, were arrested by FBI agent for allegedly attempting to purchase 50 pounds of marijuana and store it in an Atlantic Avenue warehouse.
On Friday morning, in the middle one of Crown Heights’ most busy thoroughfares, a totaled minivan sat for over three hours. The reason: Police never showed up after the accident, and the driver, a Jewish woman in her ninth month of pregnancy, was forced to sit in the summer heat and wait for them.
Dovid Mordechai Leitner (Morristown, NJ/Monsey, NY) and Chava Leah Mahony (Worcester, MA/Pittsburgh, PA)
Chasidic music star Avraham Fried stopped by an IDF shooting range in the town of Beit El, where he will be performing at a concert this week.
Rabbi Peretz B. Eichler of Yeshiva World News interviews a nephew of Abe Zelmanowitz, HYD, a 9/11 terror victim.
On Wednesday night, September 10th, the Borough Park Shomrim faced off against the NYPD’s 66th Precinct at the fifth annual Greenfield Classic community softball game. Both teams played a great game, and the score was close throughout the seven innings. At the end the NYPD pulled through to a victory, defeating the Shomrim players 10 to 7.
In honor of Chai Elul, the birthday of the Baal Shem Tov and the Alter Rebbe, the Rebbe’s handwritten hagoas (edits) on the text of Shiurim Bsefer HaTanya have been publicized on the website Hagaos.com. This treasure trove of manuscripts has never before been publicized.
This Shabbos at the Besht, Rabbi Efraim Mintz, executive director of the JLI, will lead a discussion on the topic of Chai Elul.
The following letter was sent to CrownHeights.info by Refael and Sarah (nee Procaccia) Cohen, whose wedding – set to take place Thursday night, September 4th – had to be rescheduled for Friday morning after the groom was denied entry into the United States and sent back to Brazil by Customs and Border Protection. As promised, the full story of their ordeal and ultimate triumph are presented to our readers.
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present a unique photo of the Rebbe at a children’s rally, circa 1969.
It’s not every day that a new Torah arrives on Kauai. In fact, it is something that has never happened before, at least not until recently, said Gani Kauai Rabbi Michoel Goldman.
“Do not all men desire happiness?” This rhetorical question was posed by Socrates to his students. The response was unanimous: “There is no one who does not!”
Dovid and Gittel Hershkowitz (Crown Heights)
Sholom Ber and Elie (nee Hoffman) Estrin (Raleigh, NC)
The Sholom Zochor will be at 400 Forest Hills Rd. Sandy Springs, GA.
Hundreds of Jewish families are staying in the flashpoint eastern Ukraine cities of Donetsk and Mariupol and will spend Rosh Hashanah there. The families are hoping for an extended calm after the signing of a cease-fire agreement reached last week between Ukrainian troops and pro-Russian militias, said the chief rabbi of Donetsk, Rabbi Pinchas Vishedski.
Last night, at a gathering with Arab Christians, U.S. Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) was booed for saying “Christians have no greater ally than Israel,” and “Those who hate Israel hate America. Those who hate Jews hate Christians.”
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