Rabbi Shmuel Hecht devoted many months to learning the Talmudic laws surrounding winemaking, but it was years before he would experience the process himself—and learn some important lessons along the way.
Tzvi and Chanie (nee Goldman) Altein (Crown Heights)
Jonothan Sabin, a writer at Tablet, a non-Orthodox Jewish magazine, recently published an article about the personal journey he experienced after obtaining a pair of Tefilin from a Chabad rabbi to pray for his young daughter as she underwent heart surgery.
A fire broke out today in the northern section of Kfar Chabad, located in central Israel. The fire caught on to dry thorn bushes and spread quickly, threatening nearby homes and their inhabitants.
Brooklyn District Attorney Kenneth P. Thompson announced today the formal indictment of Kendel Felix, a Crown Heights resident, for his role in the murder of Williamsburg landlord Menachem Stark on January 2nd.
Members of the Duchman family gathered in 770 this morning to mark the 25th Yahrtzeit of their father, Reb Yisroel HaLevi Duchman, OBM. Following the Rebbe’s Minyan, mispalelim were invited to participate in a Farbrengen in his honor.
The Kinus Hamechanchim for Chabad educators in North America is back, after a one-year hiatus during which the Kinus was only held online. This year’s conference will be held at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Danbury, CT, an hour’s drive from Brooklyn.
A CrownHeights.info reader spotted workers hired by the NYC Dept. of Parks plating new trees along Albany Ave in an attempt to beautify the urban landscape with greenery. The photos were taken near the corner of St. Johns Pl.
The Jewish mayor of Kharkov, Ukraine, is conscious and recovering at the Rambam Medical Center in Haifa, Israel, confirmed Kharkov’s chief rabbi and Chabad emissary, Rabbi Moshe Moskovitz.
The late U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.), brother of President John F. Kennedy, attends a Chabad event in Washington D.C. in the mid 1980s. Near him stand Rabbi Shalom Posner, leader of the Chabad community in Pittsburgh, and Rabbi Yisroel Deren, director of Chabad of Connecticut.
Honda has announced that they are issuing a recall on their 2014 Odyssey minivan, a model that is very popular among the Orthodox Jewish Community, because their side air bags may not deploy during a crash.
Abi (ben Benny) Raskin (Crown Heights) and Devorah Yomtov (Crown Heights)
On Monday, Agudas Chasidei Chabad finalized the purchase of 760 Eastern Parkway from the Itkin family. In a statement on Lubavitch.com Rabbi Yehudah Krinsky confirmed the purchase and announced the intention to expand the Rebbes Library.
To the tune of Napoleon’s March, hundreds of Chabad Shluchim from all over Paris posed today for a group portrait, amid the regional Kinus Hashluchim that was held last week for the Shluchim in France’s capital city.
More than 65 years after he graduated from the first Chabad school in America, Rabbi Mordechai (Mottel) Fisher returned to Crown Heights on July 10th, 2010 to relive and share his experiences for JEM’s My Encounter with the Rebbe project, reminiscing about the “good old days” in 770.
CrownHeights.info received the following letter in our mailbox, addressed to the 71st Precinct by a grateful Crown Heights resident. The author describes the courtesy, professionalism and genuine concern he experienced from the officers of the precinct, as well as the successful resolution to a crime committed against him.
As part of a major campaign to recruit children to join in its annual Lag Ba’omer parades across the country, Chabad in Israel has taken a page from “cause” organizations such as ‘Livestrong’ and is distributing plastic fashion wristbands to children throughout the country.
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