This week’s edition of MyLife: Chassidus Applied with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, Episode 38, will air tonight, Sunday, here on CrownHeights.info beginning at 8:00pm. This week, in a special pre-Simchas Torah Edition, Rabbi Jacobson will address the topic: What relevance does Simchas Torah have to my personal life?
A large group of teenagers went on a vandalism spree in Crown Heights, trespassing into parked school buses and vandalizing parked cars, as well as trashing a grocery store and assaulting one of the store employees.
Despite a double-digit drop in rental prices last month, Crown Heights rents are still up more than 10 percent over last year — the highest increase in the borough, according to a recently released real estate report.
Alternate side parking (street cleaning) regulations will be suspended Monday, October 13, for Columbus Day. All other regulations, including parking meters, remain in effect.
Repurposed shipping containers have become hip homes for everything from hotels to coffee houses. Now, downtown Detroit is set to be the home of what is possibly the word’s first shipping-container sukkah.
Yitzchok and Odel (nee Jacobs) Zirkind (Montreal, Canada)
From dusk to dawn, crowds of Chasidim and Jews from all walks of life danced joyously to live music played by Avi Piamenta at Simchas Beis Hashoeva on Kingston Ave. in Crown Heights.
A crown Heights-based business was the subject of a NY Daily News feature article on the seasonal ‘pop-up’ industry of Sukkah building, describing how Yeshiva Students earn a quick buck building the wooden and canvas huts in advance of the weeklong holiday.
Uri and Dina (nee Orron) Fraenkel (Crown Heights)
Thousands of residents of the ultra-orthodox Jewish community of Beitar Illit, Israel, turned out for a Simchas Beis Hashoeva celebration, hosted by the local Chabad Shul.
When a fire bomb landed in the synagogue in Zaparozhye, Ukraine in August, many said it was a sign of the times: the current government in the battle for Ukraine is anti-Semitic. For Rabbi Nochum and Dina Ehrentreu, Chabad representatives to the city, it was one time incident, with anti-Semitism in the city – controlled by the current government for the past four years – always a non-issue.
Alternate side parking (street cleaning) regulations will be suspended Thursday and Friday, October 9-10, for Sukkos. All other regulations, including parking meters, remain in effect.
Levi and Chani (nee Popack) Wilschanski
789 Montgomery St. [between Albany and Troy Aves]
Yisroel and Mushka Slava Sternbach
1563 Carroll St. [between Troy and Schenectady Aves.]
Yoel and Chevy (nee Gurary) Naparstek
1320 President St. [between Brooklyn and New York Aves.]
Berry and Chaya (nee Kaufmann) Silver
703 Lefferts Ave. [between Albany and Troy Aves.]
Daniel and Chaya Ladaiov (Crown Heights)
In an interview conducted in 2012, Mrs. Brana Shaina Deitsch recalls how the Rebbe taught the Niggun Shamiel on Simchas Torah, 5719.
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present a unique photo of the Rebbe during morning prayers on Chol Hamoed Sukkos.
The NYPD’s Special Victims Unit is investigating a report that a young woman, who is visiting from Israel for the month of Tishrei, was assaulted while sleeping in the women’s section of 770. With the help of Shomrim, police have successfully apprehended the suspect, who has since been charged with the crime.
Dovid and Elisa (nee Erdvin) Goldstein (Houston, TX)
