Over 100 members of the Crown Heights community gathered last night, Tuesday, in front of the Jewish Children’s Museum to take a stand on behalf of the three Israeli teenagers kidnapped by Palestinian terrorists last week.
Camp Gan Israel in the Poconos has released the names of the four capable and experienced young women who will be leading the new and popular girls’ camp this summer.
Yehoshua and Chani (nee Orenstein) Berkowicz (Montreal, Canada)
Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz, director of Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida, delivers his insights on this week’s Parsha – Korach. This week Rabbi Minkowicz answers the question: How should one treat his enemy?
Federal investigators are now part of the inquiry into former Brooklyn DA Charles Hynes’ financial dealings while in office.
The Friendship Circle of West Bloomfield, Michigan, a support center for children and young adults with special needs, will expand soon, thanks to a $2.1 million donation for a new cafe and art studio.
An African-American man was found shot to death inside his Crown Heights apartment yesterday (Monday) morning.
A fascinating video of a unique encounter with the Rebbe during dollar distribution has just recently been obtained by CrownHeights.info, courtesy of JEM. The video, filmed on Sunday, December 22nd, 1991, shows a father approach the Rebbe with his son in tow. The father says to the Rebbe in Yiddish “He needs a blessing for speech; he cannot speak well.”
Seeing the demand for more dentists in Crown Heights after living in the neighborhood for a few years, Dr. Efraim Fuzailov decided to pack up his Borough Park office and set up shop right here in our community.
Rabbi Zalman Lewis, a Shliach in the southern UK, sent this open letter to CrownHeights.info describing a childhood experience that demonstrates the unique dedication with which Rabbi Nachman Sudak, OBM, fulfilled his Shlichus.
In a show of gratitude to the people who are the very lifeblood of the organization, the West Hempstead Friendship Circle honored more than 200 volunteers for their dedicated and committed service to children with special needs.
About 8 million people a year visit Ocean City, Md., according to Rabbi Noam Shimon Cohen of Chabad Lubavitch Center of Eastern Shore. Many of them come during the summer, returning to vacation homes and condos, or just getting a good dose of the East Coast beaches, which stretch on for miles there.
Yeshivas Chovevei Torah celebrated a Siyum Hashas this past Sunday, with a full program and Seudas Mitzvah. One of the graduating students made a Siyum following his completion of the entire Shas.
A collection of vintage photographs of Rabbi Nachman Sudak in his youth, later to become head Shliach to the UK. Rabbi Sudak passed away yesterday, Sunday, 17 Sivan. In the last photograph he is seen standing next to his father-in-law, Rabbi Bentzion Shemtov, OBM.
Rabbi Yosef Wineberg, OBM, began delivering Shiurim in Tanya on the radio in 1960. These broadcasts would later be transcribed and published as the popular Lessons in Tanya series, which was translated into several languages.
Rabbi Mendel Jacobs is Scotland’s only Scottish-born Rabbi and spiritual leader of the Synagogue in the Park in Glasgow. While most members of the synagogue are older, Rabbi Jacobs had a dream of building a Minyan of young men over Bar Mitzvah who would regularly attend and take an active role in the Shul’s affairs.
Mendy and Mimi (nee Simpson) Tzfasman (Crown Heights)
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