More than three hundred rabbis from across Europe, a large number of them Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries, convened in Budapest, Hungary on Monday for the annual conference of the Rabbinical Congress of Europe (RCE).
The city has agreed to pay a $100,000 settlement to Ehud Halevi, a Bochur who was brutally beaten by two NYPD officers at the ALIYA youth center in Crown Heights. News of the beating and accompanying footage were first published here on CrownHeights.info and quickly went viral, shocking the nation.
A new series of culinary classes is teaching Bellmore-Merrick, NY teenagers how to prepare kosher treats and assist local families in need at the same time.
It’s a handsome, light tan columned building on Medford’s Main Street, the sort that echoes the past. It has a certain innate grace and dignity. The former private residence, a Dutch Colonial, is the new home of the Chabad of Medford, New Jersey, a place where all Jews, no matter their level of observance, are welcome.
Yesterday, a busy Sunday afternoon on bustling Kingston Ave., hundreds of financially struggling members of the Crown Heights community lined up outside the offices of the Crown Heights Jewish Community Council to receive assistance for the coming Yomtov of Pesach.
Yigal Menachem Dovid Rosenberg (Florida) and Elana Malka Lackner (Los Angeles, CA)
L’chaim will be tonight, Monday, at Eshel
274 Kingston Ave. [between Eastern Pkwy. and Lincoln Pl.] at 8:30pm
Levi and Dassy (nee Light) Tennenhaus (Hallandale Beach, FL)
As the cost of living in Crown Heights continues to soar, and making ends meet on a stagnate income becomes more and more difficult, some members of the Crown Heights community have decided that enough is enough – it’s time to start a new Lubavitch community in a more affordable part of the New York City Area.
A strike by the employees of the Israeli Foreign Ministry all over the world may cause the cancellation of the world’s largest Seder, organized by Chabad in conjunction with the Foreign Ministry in Nepal’s capital of Katmandu.
Akiva and Esty (nee Loschak) Steinmetz (Crown Heights)
Despite the long-awaited onset of spring, the tri-state area can expect to get more snow this week as a ‘nor’easter’ is expected to hit the region tomorrow night. However, forecasters say, the area should be spared from the worst of the wintry spring storm.
A short video extolling the virtues of Handmade Shmura Matzah, which can be obtained at one’s local Chabad Center almost anywhere in the world.
For the first time in France and likely the entire of Europe, a special Purim celebration was held for Jewish people who suffer from deafness.
A roller skating rabbi and hockey playing educational director are not the norm of what students see during a typical school day, unless you attend Lubavitcher Yeshiva Academy (LYA) in Longmeadow, MA.
Earlier this year, Chabad.org announced the launch of a special page dedicated to the Mendel Beilis case, the last major blood-libel trial of the 20th century. After several months of ongoing research, a new video documentary has now been released.
Ezra Rosen (Lakewood, NJ) and Miri Lazarescu (Irvine, CA)
Sholom Ber Haller (Johannesburg, South Africa) and Chaya Mushka (bas Elozar) Raichik (Crown Heights)
