A tragic accident claimed the life of 25-year-old Gedalia Greenzayd in Crown Heights this morning. Originally from Ukraine, Gedalia was studying Smicha in Morristown, NJ. He was in Crown Heights to celebrate the wedding of a close friend. Levaya info added.
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Mendy and Endi (nee Spalter) Tennenhaus (Hollywood, FL)
When Iman Rabizadeh was seeking a medical school, he wanted to make sure there were Jewish activities and a significant number of Jewish students on campus. He selected the school of medicine at the University of Miami, and right away found the Chabad House and Shul of Downtown, co-directed by Rabbi Chaim and Deenie Lipskar. Ever since, he’s been going there Friday nights, Saturday mornings, holidays and more.
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.
Lubavitcher singing sensation Mendy Jerufi performs his latest hit, titled ‘Nig’alim.’
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.’
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]
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.
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.
Brooklyn Heights Jewish residents gathered on Tuesday, February 18, at Brooklyn Heights Library for an insightful and uplifting evening to remember.
A Crown Heights resident is claiming that an NYPD officer beat him after complaining about receiving a parking ticket.
Shmaya and Rivka (nee Gutnick) Krinsky
1395 Carroll St. [between Kingston and Albany Aves.]
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