Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz, director of Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida, delivers his insights on this week’s Parsha – Ki Tisa. This week Rabbi Minkowicz answers the question: How can a person become complete?
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 ‘Different in Everything‘.
An act of kindness by a New York City police officer was picked up by the mass media after it was captured by a passerby. Another act of kindness was captured by a CrownHeights.info photographer at the scene of a fire, where an FDNY Captain helped a lady cross the street with her wagon.
What is the Torah-true view of marriage and a man’s role as a husband? Secular influences have crept in, if not inundated, our view of the most holy and important aspects of Jewish family life. These foreign ideas have caused confusion and left much pain in their wake as many well-meaning people drift further away from the tried-and-true model that has served us well for millennia.
Pictures from the L’chaim of Levi Levitin (New Haven, CT) and Chayale Tiefenbrun (London, UK), which took place Wednesday night at Chovevei Torah in Crown Heights.
A nor’easter swirled into the tri-state early Thursday and hammered the region with heavy snow — 1 foot in some areas by the end of the morning rush — and shifted to mostly rain before another punch of snow comes overnight into Friday.
Uli Baron (Miami Beach, FL) and Chanie Shalmoni (Crown Heights)
L’chaim will be Sunday night at the Jewish Children’s Museum
792 Eastern Pkwy. [corner Kingston Ave.] at 8:00pm
The latest car to be victimized by the wheel thieves, who are operating with impunity and devastating vehicle owners all over Crown Heights, is a brand new Honda Civic belonging to Rabbi Yehudah Clapman, a local Sofer.
Rumors have been swirling recently that the owner of Basil Pizza & Wine Bar, an upscale dairy restaurant in Crown Heights, plans to open an sister restaurant that will serve fleishigs. After speaking with Daniel Branover, the owner of Basil, we can now confirm that the rumors are true.
Comedian Sid Caesar, one of early network TV’s biggest stars, died Wednesday morning at his home in Beverly Hills, CA. He was 91.
A 36-year-old pregnant woman was struck and killed by a snowplow in Brooklyn during Thursday’s storm, but doctors were able to save her baby, police said.
This week, the Mesivta bochurim of Yeshivas Lubavitch-Toronto were rewarded with an ice fishing trip for participating in a special Mivtza on Davening, which has been ongoing since before Yud Shvat.
This past Motzai Shabbos, The Aleph Institute held a drawing for their 12th Annual Chinese Auction benefiting their important Shlichus with United States military personnel and prison inmates.
Mendel (ben R’ Chaim) Goldberg (Toronto, Canada) and Etty Winner (Melbourne, Austarlia)
With several inches of snow already on the ground and expected accumulations of up to a foot, some local schools have announced that they will remain closed for the day, while other remain open. CrownHeights.info has compiled a list of school closures, which can be viewed in the extended article.
A shutterbug captured this photo of a gentleman cop helping an elderly woman across the street in Brooklyn.
Alternate side parking rules will be suspended for the rest of the week to facilitate storm response and snow removal. They will be suspended Monday as well for Presidents Day. Payment at parking meters will remain in effect throughout the City (except on Sunday).
