A dozen people gathered on a frigid Thursday night in the Crown Heights Young Professionals Workspace. Young and aspiring entrepreneurs, they are the first group to graduate from a unique partnership between the CHYE and the Hebrew Free Loan Society.
Two Israeli brothers who were placed on life support following the pesticide poisoning that took the lives of their younger sisters, returned to their Jerusalem home this afternoon.
As he meticulously wrote on the parchment with a quill pen, Rabbi Yochanan Klein knew he could not make the slightest error. Every stroke, every line, every spelling to be precisely correct.
Sochi’s lone rabbi has drawn on reinforcements from the United States and shipped in 7,000 kosher meals to help cater for Jewish visitors to the Winter Olympics in Russia, a country where Judaism is reviving after decades of repression.
Following the major success and popularity of the first broadcasts of MyLife: Chassidus Applied, Rabbi Simon Jacobson will air Episode six tonight, Sunday, February 16th (16 Adar I) here on CrownHeights.info, beginning at 8:00pm. This week’s class is titled “Answering the Questions You Were Afraid to Ask.”
In many ways, Yehoshua Soudakoff is a typical 22-year-old Chabad yeshivah student. Recently ordained after years of intensive Judaic studies in Canada and the United States, the California-born Soudakoff has served Jewish communities as a rabbinic intern, and shares Torah thoughts and inspiration on Chabad.org, as well as on his own website.
The Lazar children of Crown Heights build a snow castle in the courtyard of their building last night, Motzei Shabbos.
With sadness we inform you of the passing of Mrs. Esther Silverman, OBM, of London, UK, mother of Rabbi Isser Dovid Silverman, Shliach in Hollywood, FL.
This Shabbbos, the Yeshivah Gedola Lubavitch of London brought down a guest mashpia, Rabbi Moishe Silman of Oholei Torah, to farbreng for the bochurim in honor of Purim Koton.
The Aleph Institute held their Chaplain and lay leader training and Shabbaton last weekend at the Shul of Bal Harbour, FL. Over seventy five men and women in uniform participated.
Filmmakers Anne Cohen and Martyna Starosta of the Jewish Daily Forward visited Crown Heights and chatted with locals Rochel Raskin and Chana Sharfstein to get an idea of what dating is like in the Chasidic community.
Peretz Goldshmid (Crown Heights) and Mashie Pewzner (Crown Heights)
L’chaim will be Sunday night at Bais Rivkah
310 Crown St. [between New York and Nostrand Aves.]
Chaim and Brochale (nee Shuchat) Schechter (Crown Heights)
Religious slaughter of animals without stunning them first is now banned in Denmark, bringing into question the religious freedom of residents.
The lifeless body of a homeless man was discovered Friday morning on Carroll Street, behind the ‘Dovid Malka’ kitchen and catering hall.
Shmuel Branover (Crown Heights) and Leah Meadvin (Philadelphia, PA)
An evening of tribute to Chabad in Israel took place Thursday night at the International Conventions Center in Jerusalem. The event, attended by thousands, saluted the Rebbe’s Shluchim to the Holy Land and their tireless activities on behalf of the Jewish people.
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