Once again, reckless yellow journalism has aimed its poisonous fangs at our community, this time targeting the hallowed practice of bris milah.
Ok Kosher Certification, based in Crown Heights, has been selected for the 2014 Best of Brooklyn Award in the Kosher Food Products category by the Brooklyn Award Program.
After 20 years of study, alongside his busy schedule raising a family, running a Yeshiva and the charity organization Our Big Kitchen, Sydney Shliach Rabbi Dovid Slavin has been conferred with a PhD at the University of Sydney.
Sources have confirmed with CrownHeights.info that several suspects have just been taken in for questioning in connection with the brutal murder of Williamsburg landlord Menachem Stark. No formal arrests or charges have yet been made.
Young Dovid Friedman, son of Chasidic singing sensation Benny Friedman, was welcomed into the covenant of Avraham Avinu this morning at a ceremony in the simcha hall of Lubavitcher Yeshiva. To his left is his grandfather, renowned author and lecturer Rabbi Manis Friedman, and to his right is his great uncle, Chasidic singing superstar Avraham Fried.
Police in Calgary are investigating anti-Semitic graffiti that was scrawled on the exterior of a local Chabad Center. A swastika was spray-painted on the center, located in the largest city in the Canadian province of Alberta.
Zevi Goldin (Crown Heights) and Chana (bas Yossi) Simon (Crown Heights)
Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin speaks at a Bar Mitzvah for the orphans of heroes of the Israel Defense Forces in Kfar Chabad, circa late 1970s.
About 300 Chabad Shluchim from all over Eretz Yisroel gathered Monday for an evening of inspiration in honor of the 28th of Nissan, the day the Rebbe told his Chasidim to do all they can to being about the redemption.
Gennady Kernes, the mayor of Kharkov, Ukraine, who was critically wounded in an assassination attempt Monday, has been flown by emergency medical airlift to Israel for ongoing treatment.
Ephraim Paltiel (Port Washington, NY) and Frumie Rosenfeld (Tzfas, Israel)
L’chaim will be tonight, Tuesday, at Lubavitcher Yeshiva
570 Crown St. [hall entrance on Albany Ave.] at 8:30pm
Residents of Crown Heights and other parts of the city have been steadily trickling in to explore The Creative Soul, an art gallery that recently opened its doors. The exhibition is located at The Mayan Center, a newly renovated community space on Kingston Ave.
A 19-year old boy named Chaim Stern leaned over the railing of the ship he was traveling on. Nearly two years before, he had left his homeland of Czechoslovakia to escape persecution from the spreading Nazi threat. Now, as he reached British held Israel, the ship, full of refugees like himself, was turned around because they did not have the right documentation.
Multiple New York hospitals received the dubious distinction of being among the least safe health care institutions in the country, according to a new study by Consumer Reports. Among them: Crown Heights’ Kings County Hospital and nearby Brookdale Hospital.
A group of six vocally gifted friends in Teaneck, NJ joined and formed an a cappella group, which they named Shir Soul. They filmed their debut music video, Adon Olam, at the Chabad Center of Teaneck.
Chaim Hillel Wilansky (Portland, ME) and Esther Polter (Acton, MA)
L’chaim will be tonight, Tuesday, at Lubavitcher Yeshiva
570 Crown St. [hall entrance on Albany Ave.] at 8:30pm
A report in the Daily Mail, a UK newspaper, says that foreign investors from Europe, Australia and Israel are buying up houses in the Brooklyn neighborhoods of Crown Heights, Bed-Stuy and Bushwick almost as soon as they are put up for sale.
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