Today at approximately 2:15, a middle aged Jewish man was walking down Eastern Parkway near Brooklyn Ave. when he heard someone yell “dirty Jew.”
Danny Winterfeld (Montreal, Canada) and Lian Simmon (Sydney, Australia)
Rabbi Avraham Wolff, Chabad Shliach and chief rabbi of Odessa, Ukraine, is helping Ukrainian billionaire Alexander Granovsky and Israeli tycoon Nochi Dankner take control of Israel’s IDB Holding, a multi-million dollar corporation.
President Barrack Obama will visit a Crown Heights high school he mentioned in his State of the Union Address this year while in New York for Democratic fundraisers on Friday.
Rabbi Yechiel Abuchazera, chief rabbi of Ramla, Israel and nephew of the revered Baba Sali, was spotted this afternoon enjoying a refreshment in Chocolatte, a Crown Heights Cafe.
When attending Chabad of Northern Colorado’s traditional Friday night Shabbat dinner, come hungry.
During the Jewish festival of Sukkot, it’s customary to erect a fragile temporary dwelling—a sukkah—for eating daily meals. For the Hebrew Congregation of Woodmont at the Chabad Jewish Center of Milford, which, according to shul (“synagogue”) president Joel Levitz, welcomes people of “all religious backgrounds,” the notion of living in a temporary dwelling has been all too real of late.
Rabbi Dr. Michael Broyde discusses healthcare reform from a Jewish perspective at this year’s National Jewish Retreat.
Hundreds of women and girls turned out Sunday night in support of Ten Yad, an organization which helps Kallahs with their needs.
The Segev Chareidi/religious party running in the Tel Aviv election felt the best way to get its message out to readers on the last Shabbos before the elections is in the form of a sheet distributed in shuls. The format selected was an exact duplicate of Tzeirei Chabad’s popular שיחות השבוע, which is distributed nationwide.
Rabbi Eli Moshe and Mirel Levitansky wrote the following letter to every member of the Crown Heights Jewish community on behalf of the Chabad on Campus International Shabbaton Organizing Committee:
It was a wrenching conflict that tore at the city’s fabric. The four days of violence known as the Crown Heights riots exposed a deep racial divide and arguably cost Mayor David Dinkins his reelection. A young City Hall aide named Bill de Blasio — today, the overwhelming front-runner for mayor — had a front-row seat to the crisis.
Rabbi Tzvi Hirsch Ruderman, Shliach to the Machane Yehuda neighborhood in Jerusalem, distributed l’chaim in the marketplace on Friday to celebrate his birthday. Mr. Moshe Leon, a leading candidate for Jerusalem’s mayoral election this Tuesday, took a break from his campaigning and said l’chaim with the Shliach.
Join family, friends and the Inverrary Jewish community in Lauderhill, Florida as they pay tribute to their beloved Chabad emissary Rebbetzin Shandy Lieberman, OBM. The event will be broadcasted live here on CrownHeights.info tonight beginning at 8:00pm.
Eleven days out of the month, every month, Rabbi Binyomin Scheiman wakes at 4 a.m. and gets ready for a 12- to 15-hour day that might see him traveling up to 400 miles.
Hundreds turned out Motzai Shabbos for a special Kumzitz style concert with famous Breslov artist Yosef Karduner in the JCM in Crown Heights.
Among the Rabbis arrested by the FBI in the ‘Forced Gittin for Agunos’ scandal that has captivated the nation is a young Crown Heights husband and father, a Dayan and Sofer who is experienced in Hilchos Gittin.
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