New York State’s highest appeals court has refused to reinstate former Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s ban on the sale of big sodas by restaurants and other vendors in New York City, striking a fatal blow to the controversial rule.
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It is one week before Gimmel Tammuz—the 20th anniversary of the passing of the Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, of righteous memory—and a group of several hundred people have gathered in a large synagogue in Montreal to learn his teachings.
Early this morning, a Crown Heights resident was leaving his home for work when he noticed a couple of young men dumping garbage in the commercial dumpster of a nearby business. The man confronted them and explained that businesses in New York City have to pay for every bag of garbage they dispose of, and that what they were doing was a form of G’neiva (stealing).
This Shabbos at the Besht, Rabbi Yossi New, regional director of Chabad of Georgia, will lead a discussion on the topic – Preparing for Gimmel Tammuz.
The Jewish world is all abuzz lately about three biographies of the Rebbe that were just released in time for Gimmel Tammuz. Yet, for Chassidim, the Rebbe’s own writings are in a totally different category, as they not only give one a glimpse of the Rebbe and his greatness, but also, and more importantly, serve as a true source of learning chassidus in its most pure and genuine form.
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present a unique photo of the Rebbe delivering a Sicha in the mid 1980s.
A friend of mine is fond of saying, “My tribe (he is Jewish) invented guilt.” Still, be that as it may, along with shame and humility, the feeling of guilt is among the character traits that have become taboo and outmoded in our age and culture of self-centeredness and gratification.
A disturbing experience involving the positioning of an infant car seat on an airplane has been amicably resolved with Southwest Airlines. Yosef and Sarah Shidler, the Crown Heights couple at the center of the dispute, received both an apology and compensation for their troubles.
Today at noon, CrownHeights.info announced that KSCVK had launched a fundraising campaign with a goal of $100,000 over 24 hours. A short while ago, we were informed by Devorah Benjamin that her organization surpassed that goal after only five hours!
Chassidic rapper Ari Lesser busts out some rhymes in his latest composition in solidarity with the three Israeli teenagers who were kidnapped by Palestinian terrorists last week.
International celebrity Paula Abdul arrived with her spiritual mentor, Rabbi Chaim Mentz, Shliach to Bel Air, CA, in Sydney Australia, where she appeared in front of sell-out crowds at two events.
Rabbi Arieh Raichman, Shliach to Manaus in the heart of Brazil’s Amazon rainforest, puts on Tefilin with a Jewish soccar fan at yesterday’s World Cup match between Honduras and Switzerland.
Reuven Kaminetzky (Kfar Chabad, Israel) and Shira Greenberg (Cleveland, OH)
L’chaim will be tonight, Thursday, at Lubavitcher Yeshiva
570 Crown St. [hall entrance on Albany Ave.]
Family and friends gathered last Thursday night at Getzel’s Shul in Crown Heights to mark the first Yahrtzeit of Rabbi Zevi Silver, OBM, a beloved husband, father of four young children and Shliach to Mequon, Wisconsin, who tragically passed away one year ago at the age of 31.
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