Just in time for passers-by to recite the customary blessing for trees before the month of Nissan ends, the iconic tree in the front yard of 770 Eastern Parkway – Chabad World Headquarters – has bloomed with beautiful white flowers, signalling an end to a particularly harsh winter for the residents of the city.
A former Orthodox Jewish man from New Jersey was sentenced to two and a half years in prison Friday for posting violent and threatening posts on his Islamic group’s Web site intended to incite violence against those who he believed were offensive to his Islamic beliefs.
39-year-old Nissan Ben Shitrit was arrested Erev Shabbos in connection with an attempted carjacking, with children in the car, Erev Pesach. A witness to the carjacking attempt spotted the man and immediately called Shomrim.
Yesterday a video was posted online of an NYPD van informing Crown Heights residents of Mayor Bill De Blasio’s new “Vision Zero” plan, which seeks to reduce traffic fatalities. The loudspeaker blares the message first in English, then in Yiddish, in what is no doubt part of the mayor’s efforts to reach wider communities.
Menachem Woonteiler (Crown Heights) and Rachel Genzino (Monsey, NY)
Menachem Light (Crown Heights) and Devorah Lea Dunin (Crown Heights)
L’Chaim Monday at Chovevei Torah
885 Eastern Pkwy [between Albany and Troy Ave]
At a Farbrengen Chassidim sing niggun Yifrach Beyomov, which was complied for the Rebbes 71st birthday.
Benyamin and Chanie (nee Newman) Kosofsky (Crown Heights)
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 ‘When We Understand‘.
Rabbi Ben Tzion Krasnianski, co-director of Chabad of the Upper East Side, said he got a call out of the blue, notifying him that he had won an OTTY award. Given out by the weekly paper Our Town, with sister publications throughout Manhattan, the awards are presented to community leaders and vital contributors—in other words, people who stand out from the rest.
Levi and Chanie (nee Gurevitz) Shechtman
465 Empire Blvd. [between Brooklyn and New York Aves.]
Mendy and Vivi (nee Kendal) Levertov
645 Lefferts Ave. [corner Albany Ave.] Apt. #1E
Menachem and Devorah Leah Amitay
1365 Carroll St. [corner Kingston Ave.] Apt. #1C
Benny and Chanale (nee Gopin) Friedman
883 Montgomery St. [between Troy and Schenectady Aves.]
Baruch Shalom and Batsheva (nee Chaikin) Davidson
1245 President St. [between New York and Nostrand Aves.]
Nochum and Alti (nee Shur) Greenberg
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This Shabbos at the Besht, Rabbi Boruch Jacobson will lead a discussion on the topic – blessing the new month of Iyar: The month of healing.
Immanuel and Rochie (nee Blau) Storfer (N. Miami Beach, FL)
Adam and Miriam (nee Oster) Brooker (Crown Heights)
Can you be too religious? Ought one to deprecate a person whose religious observance seems “Over the top?” Are the terms “Ultra-Kosher,” or “Ultra-Orthodox,” really objective?
Levi and Chanie (nee Gurevitz) Shechtman (Crown Heights)
Sholom Zochor will be at 465 Empire Blvd. [between Brooklyn and New York Aves.]
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present a unique photo of the Rebbe at the Lag Ba’omer parade of 1970.
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