To Sheldon Silver, the powerful speaker of the New York State Assembly, it was nothing but a simple case of mistaken identity.
This Shabbos at the Besht, Rabbi Naftali Silberberg will lead a discussion on the topic – Chasidic Perspective on Shavuos.
Dovid and Musie (nee Lepkivker) Blecher (Crown Heights)
Everyone wants to count for something; it’s basic human nature. In fact, our very identity and self worth is inextricably linked to the difference we make in the world. The latter is not something that is learned or even understood, it is as instinctive as are the feelings of pain, hunger, love and fear.
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present a unique photo of the Rebbe distributing dollars after the laying of the cornerstone for the expansion of 770 in 1988.
Due to the overwhelming response and demand from the community, Reb Yoel Kahn agreed to present a weekly webcast on topics that are timely and relevant. This week’s topic is titled ‘Preparing for Matan Torah‘.
The Nemon family is sitting Shiva following the tragic passing of Yisroel Levi Yitzchok OBM at 580 Crown Street Apt #611 [between Troy and Albany Avenues]. Shacharis – 8:45am Mincha – 7:00pm Maariv – 8:55pm. The family requests that visiting […]
Zevi Kugel (Crown Heights) and Tova Zarchi (Crown Heights)
A 9-year-old boy is lucky to be alive following a harrowing accident, in which he fell off his bike and under the wheels of a car. Dramatic dash-cam footage shows the boy falling off his bike and getting run over by the vehicle – and walking away.
Schneor and Estie Greenberg met as young people when she lived in Crown Heights in Brooklyn and he was a student visiting from Israel. The two eventually married and came to Oakland County a dozen years ago. Now at the corner of “Commerce and Commerce in Commerce,” the couple is overseeing the construction of the first Jewish synagogue –– Chabad Jewish Center of Commerce –– in the lakes area of greater Detroit, MI.
In honor of the month of Iyar, the month of healing, we present this week a letter of the Rebbe about health, containing encouraging words to a woman despondent about her grim health situation. The letter was written through the Rebbe’s trusted secretary Rabbi Nissan Mindel, and was made available by his son-in-law Rabbi Sholom Ber Shapiro.
After the success of a pre-Pesach campaign undertaken by members of the Crown Heights community to help the financially struggling Kollel keep its lights on, a new push is being undertaken to put the venerated institution, which was founded by the Rebbe in 1962 and now bears his name, on the path to fiscal solvency.
The nine winners of Lubavitch Elementary School of Miami’s Tanya B’al Peh contest earned a trip to New York, where they visited the Rebbe’s Ohel and attended the world’s largest Lag Ba’omer parade on Eastern Parkway.
Chabad of Georgetown, Brooklyn, directed by Rabbi Avrohom Holtzberg, hosted a grand Lag Ba’omer carnival and fair, which was enjoyed by thousands of local children and adults alike.
Hundreds of men, women and children, including prominent Rabbonim and community leaders, gathered this afternoon in front of 770 Eastern Parkway to accompany the recently deceased 2-year-old boy, Levi Nemon, on to his final resting place.
Many people exercise in Prospect Park, especially now that the warm weather has arrived. Tens of thousands of Brooklynites, including many members of our community, use the park every day to go bike-riding, walking or jogging. But according to a report on Yeshiva World News, recreationists should beware of their surroundings at all times, as the park’s crime-ridden past is not completely behind us.
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