For the small but devout congregation of Chabad of The Woodlands near Houston, TX, Sunday was a day for song and dance as the group ceremoniously inducted a new Torah scroll for use at their synagogue for the first time in its history.
Alternate Side Parking Regulations will remain suspended citywide on Thursday, February 6, to facilitate snow removal. Payment at parking meters remains in effect.
Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz, director of Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida, delivers his insights on this week’s Parsha – Tetzaveh. This week Rabbi Minkowicz answers the question: How can one make his/her home into a Temple?
Yoni and Moussia (nee Krinsky) Raskin (Crown Heights)
Levi and Draizy (nee Raskin) Goldstein (Crown Heights)
Boruch Sholom and Faigy (nee Roitblat) Schwei (Crown Heights)
Sholom Zochor will be at 796 Montgomery St. [between Albany and Troy Aves.]
The head Shliach to Chicago and the state of Illinois, Rabbi Daniel Moscowitz, arrived in Moscow last weekend for a brief but impactful visit.
After two-and-half years in operation, Jewish Community Watch (formerly Crown Heights Watch), a controversial website exposing suspected child abusers in the Jewish community and advocating on behalf of victims of child abuse, has been suddenly taken offline.
It was 3:30 AM. Rabbi Yechiel Yosef Ceitlin was working in the basement of his Montreal home under the quiet hum of a heater in the window when suddenly the machine fell out the window and water started pouring into the house. “It was like someone opened up a four inch hose, and water came shooting into the basement like a waterfall,” said Mrs. Chanie Ceitlin. “It came in through my front windows, and went into my dryer. It wasn’t fun.”
As a recent wave of gentrification is causing rent in Crown Heights to skyrocket, a problem compounded by members of our own community who buy houses merely to flip them for much higher prices, many newlywed Lubavitch couples discover to their dismay that living in the community of their youth is just not within their means.
Boruch Hashem, the two Jerusalem brothers poisoned by pesticides, who have spent the past two weeks fighting for their lives after their two younger sisters succumbed to the poison r”l, have been moved out of intensive care and are seeing steady improvements to their conditions.
Residents of NYC will only get a short break from winter as more snow is expected Tuesday night. The city could see up to 9 inches of snow fall through Wednesday before another round of chilly winter weather hits the area this weekend.
Alternate Side Parking regulations will be suspended citywide tomorrow, Wednesday, February 5, to facilitate winter weather preparation and snow removal. Payment at parking meters will remain in effect throughout the city.
What started out as a series of Bible studies in people’s homes has evolved into a wide-ranging program of lectures, workshops and study courses hosted by Chabad of the Conejo Valley in California.
Amid his travels to all corners of the globe, noted lecturer Dr. David Nesenoff stopped off in Crown Heights for a special farbrengen with the students of Beis Rivkah High School and Seminary.
The students at Chabad Hebrew School of Orange County, NY, directed by Rabbi Pesach and Chana Burston, recently received awards and recognition for their achievements in the innovative “Aleph Champ” Hebrew program.
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