Photos of three members of the U.S. House of Representatives, one of whom – Yvette Clarke – is the Representative of a New York City district that includes Crown Heights, holding their hands up in a “don’t shoot” gesture on the floor of Congress were widely disseminated through social media this morning.
Two billboards, one on Rt. 59 and the other alongside Rt. 306 in Monsey, NY, announce the Yud Tes Kislev Farbrengen / Melave Malka hosted by the local chapter of Heichal Menachem, under the leadership of Rabbi Dovid Oberlander.
It’s not often that someone receives a 55,000-square-foot building as a gift. But that’s exactly what happened to Chabad of Park Heights and its school, Cheder Chabad of Baltimore.
Partnering with Chabad, major hardware store chains such as The Home Dept, Lowes and Ace Hardware, will bring Chanukah crafts to dozens of locations across North America. Surrounded by piles of lumber, the smell of sawdust and the bustle of the large hardware stores, kids will create DIY Chanukah menorahs out of wood.
Attentive shoppers may have noticed that in recent weeks the price of a carton of eggs has gone up drastically. In fact, over the past month egg prices have nearly doubled, according to Mr. Greens owner Shlomie Klein.
Srolic Barber (Syndey, Australia) and Rochel Cohen (Melbourne, Australia)
In his latest episode of Jewbellish The News, Lubavitcher comedian Mendy Pellin discusses Israel’s strange controversy, the KKK has open membership and a matchmaker helps solve the singles’ shidduch crisis.
This vintage photograph, taken in the summer of 1966, depicts a class posing for a group portrait outside the building of Lubavitcher Yeshiva in Brooklyn, which was then located on the corner of Bedford Ave. and Dean St., before it moved to Ocean Parkway. Can you identify anyone in the photo?
Yechiel and Chana Devorah (nee Perl) Goldberg (Crown Heights)
Rabbi Levi and Adina Tiechtel couldn’t wait to get to work. The young couple moved to Indiana just last month to start a Chabad House at Purdue University where they are serving the approximately 800 Jewish students enrolled there out of a total student population of about 40,000.
A post-seminary Lubavitcher girl wrote the following op-ed, which she shared with CrownHeights.info on condition of anonymity, regarding the feelings of discomfort she and her fellow students would often have while being mentored by male rabbis and Mashpi’im.
At around noon today, the driver of a Mercury sedan collided with a Nissan SUV at the intersection of Crown St. and Troy Ave. in Crown Heights.
Last week, on 2 Kislev (November 24), OK Kosher Certification held its annual Mashgiach Conference at the Jewish Children’s Museum in Brooklyn, NY. Over 100 OK personnel and mashgichim were in attendance, including many from around the world.
The Israeli Ambassador to Australia, Shmuel Ben Shmuel, together with the Deputy Ambassador to Australia, Meir Yitzchaki, put on Tefillin in honor of the victims of the recent terrorist attack in Jerusalem. This took place during a minyan at the Embassy of Israel, organized by Rabbi Shmueli Feldman, Chabad’s representative to Canberra, Australia’s capital city.
The Gansburg family is sitting Shiva after the passing of their mother, Mrs. Gita, OBM, at 587 Montgomery St. [corner Brooklyn Ave.] until Thursday morning. Shachris: 7:30am. Mincha: 4:15pm. Maariv: Bizmana. Hamokom Yenachem Eschem Besoch She’ar Aveilei Tzion V’yerushalaim.
Avi and Mina Richler (Mullica Hill, NJ)
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