Why would Rabbi Yossi and Mushka Greenberg, along with their 10-month-old son, leave their Chassidic community in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn, N.Y., to move around the corner from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio? To establish a Chabad on Campus center, of course!
Boruch and Breindel (nee Zilberstrom) Livnoni (Tiberius, Israel)
Rabbi Moshe Feinstein, one of the leading Poskim in postwar United States, and Rabbi Zalman Shimon Dvorkin, Rov of Crown Heights, have a scholarly conversation in 770, 1974.
In what might be a first in vocational training, a South Florida Chabad center on Wednesday announced it will commence a ‘Career Camp’ that trains children as young as five to be bakers, bankers and other heretofore adult jobs.
Police are looking for a suspect wanted in connection with a handful of Brooklyn cab robberies, one of which took place in Crown Heights.
Hersh and Leah Batkin (Stamford, CT)
Jerusalem got over 4 feet of snow, and winter in New York does not begin until December 21s, but over Shabbos Crown Heights got a dusting of snow which accumulated up to 6 inches. Our photographer took a walk Motzai Shabbos and captured the scenes.
With Bill de Blasio taking office as mayor in January, New York City appears poised for a resurgence of liberal policies.
It’s been more than 3 years since the last election for Vaad and Rabbonim. The turn-out last time was unprecedented, and I believe it demonstrated the Schcuna’s desire for change.
Every December, Americans open their wallets a little bit wider, making donations to their favorite causes as the year comes to a close and tax season looms just ahead. It’s also a time of year when many charities are wondering how to teach a young generation about the importance of philanthropy.
Mendy (ben Shloimie) Friedman (Crown Heights) and Mushka Sapochkinsky (Westlake Village, CA)
Daniel Zebberman (Tarzana, CA) and Yocheved (bas Mordechai) Eckhaus (Crown Heights)
New Yorkers should expect snow, sleet and freezing rain across the region Shabbos day, after a week of dealing with chilling cold.
Rabbi Bentzion Vishedsky relates that when his sister was in the former USSR, her father in law, Reb Simcha Gorodetzky, was overjoyed to receive word from the Rebbe that she and her husband would soon be allowed to leave the Soviet Union.
On a cold night in Downtown Boston, steps from the marathon finish line where months earlier explosions had rocked the city, a symbol of hope and liberty was lit. Chabad of Boston held their second annual Menorah lighting.
For the very first time in Nice, France, over 1,200 people from the Jewish community and visitors to the French Riviera joined together at a local ice skating rink to celebrate the 4th night of Chanukah.
Yisroel and Nechama Dina (nee Stern) Zilberstrom
736 Montgomery St. [between Kingston and Albany Aves.]
Motty and Raizy (nee Konikov) Rosenfeld
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