From Days Gone By: Aide at Work
The Rebbe’s aide Dr. Nissan Mindel at work in his office, circa mid-1970s.
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Affordable Housing to Replace KCH Psych Ward
A former psychiatric ward at Crown Heights’ Kings County Hospital will soon be torn down and replaced with an affordable housing complex.
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Picture of the Day: The Mazkir and the Singer
Popular Israeli singer and composer, Yishai Lapidot (of Oif Simches and Kinderlach fame), greets secretary of the Rebbe Rabbi Leibel Groner at the wedding of the wedding of the daughter of Shliach to Kiev Rabbi Yonasan Markovitz in Jerusalem last night.
150 Attend Winter Shabbaton in Central New Jersey
First a lone soldier in the Israel Defense Force, then a Chaplain in the IDF and finally an accomplished Torah scholar, Rabbi Shalom Hammer shared his unique experiences and extensive background when he served as Scholar in Residence at the winter Shabbaton of Chabad of WMC in Manalapan, NJ.
Snow, Ice, Slush Make Slippery Going in NYC
It was snow, then it was ice, then it was frozen rain, then it was slush. The surface was slippery Wednesday no matter where you were in New York — or how you were trying to get around.
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Chabad of The Woodlands Celebrates New Torah
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.
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Alternate Side Parking Rules Suspended Thursday
Alternate Side Parking Regulations will remain suspended citywide on Thursday, February 6, to facilitate snow removal. Payment at parking meters remains in effect.
Video: A Word on the Parsha with Rabbi Minkowicz
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?
Baby Girl!
Yoni and Moussia (nee Krinsky) Raskin (Crown Heights)
Baby Boy!
Levi and Draizy (nee Raskin) Goldstein (Crown Heights)
Baby Boy!
Boruch Sholom and Faigy (nee Roitblat) Schwei (Crown Heights)
Sholom Zochor will be at 796 Montgomery St. [between Albany and Troy Aves.]
Chicago’s Head Shliach Inspires Moscow Community
The head Shliach to Chicago and the state of Illinois, Rabbi Daniel Moscowitz, arrived in Moscow last weekend for a brief but impactful visit.
Jewish Community Watch Ceases Operations
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.
Water Main Break Forces Montreal Lubavitchers Out of Homes
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.”
Congressman: Gentrification ‘a Malignant Tumor’
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.
The boys playing in the hospital.
Brothers Poisoned by Pesticides Out of Intensive Care
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.
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