Residents: New Nostrand Ave. Bus Lane Causing Traffic
The new B44 Select Bus Service has snarled traffic on Nostrand Avenue, choking a key Brooklyn corridor and doubling travel times, local drivers and business owners say.
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Video: Kiddush Hashem on ABC
An Orthodox Jew appears on an ABC TV program, titled What Would You Do?, and makes a Kiddush Hashem.
Shomrim Coordinate Safety with Precinct Commander
On Thursday night, the Commanding Officer of the 71st Precinct, Inspector George Fitzgibbon, invited the volunteers of the Crown Heights Shomrim for a meeting at the police station, to improve coordination with the NYPD over the neighborhood’s safety.
Letter from Rov Results in a 25% Increase in Sales
A letter released by Rabbi Mordechai Shmuel Askenazi, the Rov of Kfar Chabad, two months ago has resulted in a 25% increase in purchases of DVDs.
Parksville Campers and Staff Reconnect
Campers and staff of Gan Yisroel in Parksville, NY, gathered on Sunday for an amazing and enjoyable Camp reunion.
Please Say Tehillim For…
Please take a moment and say a Kapitel Tehillim for a Refuah Shlaima for Rivka Chaya Hinda bas Nechama Gittel, a Shlucha who is undergoing crucial surgery, and for Yitzchak ben Sora, a 71-year-old undergoing a cardiac procedure.
European Rabbis in Hamburg for Mikvah Conference
Dozens of Rabbonim and Shluchim from all over Europe gathered in Hamburg, Germany for a conference on the Halachic requirements for building and maintaining a Kosher Mikvah.
Apartments owned by Menachem Stark, HYD.
Op-Ed: Assassination by Cliché
Character assassination is a misuse of freedom of the press. Especially when the assassination is based on speculation.
by Aliza Bas Menachem
Ariel Sharon donning tefillin with Chabad at the Western Wall in Jerusalem in 1967, shortly after the Six-Day War. Photo: Chabad.org.
Ariel Sharon, a Jew with a Jewish Heart
Writing for the Times of Israel, Rabbi Dovid Eliezrie, Shliach to Yorba Linda, California, reminisces about a terse encounter he had with Ariel Sharon and their dispute over the events following his visit to the Rebbe in the late 1960s.
Photos: Two Shuls Farbreng with Rabbi Groner
In honor of Yud Shvat, the Besht and the Maayanot Shul Farbrenged with Rabbi Yehuda Leib Groner, one of the Rebbe’s secretaries.
Rash of Car Burglaries Sweeps Through Crown Heights
In recent weeks a significant uptick in car break-ins have been noted by the 71st Precinct. Sunday morning another vehicle was burglarized on Albany Avenue. The incident was captured on surveillance video.
Photos: Oihel Nosson Hosts Yud Shvat Farbrengen
Oihel Nosson hosted a grand Melava Malkah and Farbrengen Motzai Shabbos in honor of Yud Shvat. Farbrenging with the crowd was Rabbi Shalom Moshe Paltiel, Shliach in Port Washington, NY.
Ignored Traffic Signal Results in 2 Car Collision
Two cars collided after one ran a red light in a busy intersection in Crown Heights. EMS tended to a number of injured passengers.
8:00pm: Applied Chassidus with R. Simon Jacobson
Hundreds of question poured in after the MyLife: Chassidus Applied initiative was launched by The Meaningful Life Center. All readers are invited to tune in and watch a live broadcast Sunday night of Rabbi Simon Jacobson answering the most pressing questions of our lives.
New Engagement!
Shmuly Perlstein (Chicago, IL) and Goldie (bas Moshe) Kotlarsky (Crown Heights)
From Days Gone By: Regards from the Rebbe
Upon returning to Israel from New York in 1968, General Ariel Sharon is surrounded by captivated Chasidim in Kfar Chabad as he gives over the Rebbe’s words to him during their Yechidus.
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