New Engagement!
Yakov (ben Shmuel) Kaplan (Baltimore, MD) and Leah (bas Zalmen) Shanowitz (Crown Heights)
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Four People Shot in Crown Heights Park
Four people, three men and one woman, were rushed to Kings County Hospital after a shooting in a Crown Heights park on Motzei Shabbos.
New Engagement!
Oren Hizkiya (NY/Boca Raton, FL) and Mushky Tennenhaus (Hallandale Beach, FL)
Yeshivas Erev Comes to a Grand Conclusion
The Lubavitcher Yeshiva Simcha Hall on Crown and Albany in Crown Heights was swarming with hundreds of boys this past Thursday evening, 29 Sivan, ready to receive their long-awaited “sefarim vouchers” that they earned this year by attending Yeshivas Erev Yehuda Kalman.
“I Want To Go on Shlichus But Have Nowhere to Go!”
This week’s edition of MyLife: Chassidus Applied with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, Episode 19, will air tonight, Sunday, here on CrownHeights.info beginning at 8:00pm. This week’s class is titled ‘I Want To Go on Shlichus But Have Nowhere to Go!‘
Colleagues Mark 25 Years Since Officer’s Slaying
Colleagues and friends of Officer Jeff Herman gathered in front of the 71st Precinct Sunday morning to mark the 25th anniversary of his death in the line of duty. Officer Herman was gunned down after responding to a 911 call for a domestic disturbance.
New Engagement!
Shmuel Super (Melbourne, Australia) and Chaya (bas Motti) Misholovin (Beitar, Israel)
Smicha Study Comes to Life in Morristown
After months of learning the intricate Halachos of koshering meat, the bochurim of the Morristown Smicha program, headed by Rabbi Chaim Schapiro and Rabbi Avraham Hirsh Levin, were privileged to have a hands-on demonstration by Rabbi Yaacov Mendel Zirkind, a local Shochet.
Laws and Customs: Shavuos
Rabbi Shmuel Lesches, Magid Shiur in the Yeshiva Gedola of Melbourne, Australia, has compiled a guide to the laws of the Shloshes Yemei Hagboloh and Shavuos for the benefit of the wider Lubavitch community.
Shooting Ends 80-Day Violence-Free Streak
A 37-year-old African-American man died after being shot multiple times during an argument outside a Crown Heights apartment building Thursday evening, DNA Info reports.
Young-Yeshivah Celebrates Year of Success
Tonight, over 130 young men and women from Melbourne’s ‘Young-Yeshivah’ community gathered for a Melava-Malka – a first-anniversary celebration of gratitude and support.
Baby Girl!
Tuvie and Hindy (nee Bruchstat) Greisman (Crown Heights)
Rare Footage of the Rebbe Doing Havdalah
What happens when The Rebbe notices a new silver spice-box? A rare film of the Rebbe performing the Havdala ceremony at the conclusion of Shavuos and Shabbos in 1976, and subsequent distribution of kos shel brocha, wine from the “cup of blessing.”
New Engagement!
Nachum Yusewitz (Crown Heights) and Chyena (bas Menachem) Blau (Crown Heights)
Angry Students Spread Inflammatory ‘Pashkvils’
This morning, residents of Crown Heights left their homes to find that during the night “Pashkvils” (anonymous leaflets) had been placed in the windshields of cars all over the neighborhood. The leaflets were placed by several students of Oholei Torah Mesivta, who were protesting a supposed “slight” to the Rebbe’s “honor” during the school’s group portrait that took place Wednesday.
