Man Arrested for Filming Cops at Utica Ave. Station
A transit police officer allegedly violently arrested a 47-year-old man as he filmed the cops ticketing another man at the Utica Ave. subway station in Crown Heights last week.
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Music Video: Umiyad Heim Nig’alim
Lubavitcher singing sensation Mendy Jerufi performs his latest hit, titled ‘Nig’alim.’
Ben Pollack holds a Torah during a morning meeting at Luria Academy, a Montessori school in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn.
Montessori Schools Surge in Popularity Among New Generation of Jewish Parents
In the boys’ classroom at Lamplighters Yeshivah in the Hasidic Jewish stronghold of Crown Heights, Brooklyn, Montessori number-counting boards and decimal beads share space with Hebrew-learning materials. A colorful timeline on the wall shows two strands of world history in parallel: secular on the left, Jewish on the right. A photo of the grand rabbi of the Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidic movement hangs above a list of tasks that children perform individually: make a fractions poster, practice cursive, learn about the moon’s phases.
New York Times
Family Walks from JFK to Crown Heights Friday Night
What began as a routine trip to New York for a family on Shlichus in Central America, quickly turned into an Orthodox Jewish traveler’s nightmare.
Weekly Living Torah Video: The Last ‘Dollars’
As we approach Chof-Zayin Adar I, the day the Rebbe suffered a stroke, we present a collage of special encounters with the Rebbe during the “Sunday Dollars” the day previous, 26 Adar I, 5752.
Chabad Partners with Local Hospital for Upcoming Auction
Chabad of Hunterdon County will be holding its Fifth Annual Auction fundraiser, the proceeds of which will provide educational scholarships to local families in need. A portion of the proceeds will also benefit The Child Development Center at the Hunterdon Medical Center.
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio
Mayor Flouts Traffic Laws He Pledged to Enforce
Just days after Mayor Bill de Blasio announced an aggressive plan to prevent traffic deaths, CBS 2 cameras caught the driver of a car carrying the mayor violating a number of traffic laws.
CBS New York
Five Shomrim Volunteers Honored by the NYPD
The valiant crime-fighting actions taken recently by five Shomrim volunteers in apprehending two muggers was recognized by the 71st Precinct, and the volunteers received awards at Thursday’s ’71st Precinct Community Council Meeting.’
New Engagement!
Berel Kesselman (Southgate, England) and Mushka Sasonkin (Long Island, NY)
L’Chaim Sunday at Empire Shteibel
489 Empire Blvd [between Brooklyn and New York Ave]
National Russian Shabbaton Draws 1,000 Participants
With the end of World War II and the beginning of the Cold War, the Jews of Soviet Russia found themselves in a dire situation. Religious life had been stifled for decades, and with rampant food and supply shortages, both their spiritual and material selves were in danger. It was then that a small group of Chabad activists stranded behind the Iron Curtain in Samarkand—today, Uzbekistan—decided that they had to do something to assist their fellow Jews. A few men banded together, and the Chamah organization was born.
Rosh: Prohibited to Hear R. Shmuley Boteach Speak
Rabbi Yossy Goldman, a Chabad Shliach and the spiritual leader of the Sydenham Shul, South Africa’s largest congregation, has invited Rabbi Shmuley Boteach to give a lecture at his synagogue. The lecture, set to take place this Sunday, will be based on Boteach’s controversial book on intimacy between a man and his wife.
Shliach Inspires at Brooklyn Heights Library
Brooklyn Heights Jewish residents gathered on Tuesday, February 18, at Brooklyn Heights Library for an insightful and uplifting evening to remember.
Man Says Cops Beat Him Outside 71st Precinct
A Crown Heights resident is claiming that an NYPD officer beat him after complaining about receiving a parking ticket.
News 12
1 Sholom Zochor This Week!
Shmaya and Rivka (nee Gutnick) Krinsky
1395 Carroll St. [between Kingston and Albany Aves.]
Shabbos at the Besht: The Joy of Adar
This Shabbos at the Besht, Rabbi Levi Kaplan will lead a discussion on the Halachos of Mishloach Manos and the Joy of Adar.
Video: Herbs that Sooth and Relax
Appearing recently on CBS’s The Couch, Sara Chana Silverstein, a Lubavitcher herbalist and alternative medicine specialist, gave some tips on how to sooth stress and achieve relaxation with herbs and other natural remedies.
Weekly Unique Photo of the Rebbe
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present a photo of the Rebbe in conversation with a New York politician following a
private audience, circa mid-1960s.
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