The Facebook purchase of WhatsApp for $19 billion has made headlines in past 24 hours, and the tough beginnings of founder and CEO Jan Koum show the intelligence and spirit of a man coming from practically nothing and growing into a billionaire.
Shmuly and Peshka Mandelbaum (Lakewood, NJ)
Dovber and Yocheved (nee Rodman) Shapiro (Las Vegas, NV)
Shmaya and Rivka Krinsky (Crown Heights)
Rabbi Yossi Eilfort, an assistant Chabad rabbi from San Diego, Calif., recently made news when he fought his first amateur MMA fight, winning by TKO in the second round. Several publications covered the story, but much of coverage focused more on the oddity of a man of G-d stepping in to the MMA ring and less on the spiritual message he was trying to convey by doing so.
Rabbi Moshe Klein of Crown Heights travels every Thursday to an old-age home to help the Jewish residents put on Tefilin. One elderly Jew from the former Soviet Union would always refuse week after week, saying he never did it before and didn’t want to begin now.
During an interview on MSNBC Wednesday, New York City mayor Bill de Blasio was confronted by the host, Chris Hayes, regarding a speech he gave last month to AIPAC. The host questioned the mayor as to why he proclaimed that defending the state of Israel is part of his job description as mayor of New York City.
The Crown Heights community will gather tonight to mark the Shloshim of Rabbi Shlomo Lakein, OBM, founder of Darchei Menachem and community activist, who passed away one month ago at the age of 67.
CrownHeights.info has learned that Rabbi Shlomo and Chaya Levertov – along with their son Mendy – will be joining the Rebbe’s army of Shluchim in the state of Arizona. They will be opening a new Chabad center in Paradise Valley, a suburb of Phoenix.
With 1,000 Jewish teens expected at the CTeen Shabbaton scheduled for next week, CTeen staff met with the NYPD from the 71st and 77th precincts to formalize plans to beef up security in the neighborhood.
Marlene Rosenberg, a successful senior business management consultant has been living around the corner from Chabad of the Upper East Side for as long as she can remember. But it was only in the past year that she took courage and ventured in gingerly, despite her fears that the experience would be too intimidating.
Megilas Lester, by Emes Productions, is a full length animated feature film depicting the fictional story of Doniel Lesterovitch (“Lester”), a boy whose imagination turns the Purim story upside down.
Five cars got smashed up after a speeding SUV collided with a minivan in a busy Kingston Avenue intersection. Hatzalah was called and transported the driver of the SUV to the hospital.
Rabbi Moshe Wolfson, The Mashgiach Ruchni of Yeshiva Torah V’daas and Rav of Beis Hakneses Emes Yisroel in Borough Park, delivered an insightful Shiur and words of Chizuk at the Yeshiva Gedolah of Miami amid a visit to South Florida.
Many Crown Heights residents, particularly those whose homes are adjacent to alleyways, have expressed frustration over the lack of garbage pickup by the Department of Sanitation over the past two weeks.
CrownHeights.info has learned that a request has been put forth by the owner of the property housing the Empire Kosher Supermarket for a zoning variance that will allow for the structure to be torn down and replaced by residential units.
Even as central Kiev burst into chaos this week, with bloodshed between protesters and police continuing to escalate, Chabad-Lubavitch of Kiev has been maintaining its level of activity and has even grown its staff.
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