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LIVE: Community Marks Shloshim for Shliach
This evening marks 30 days to the passing of Rabbi Mordechai Berger OBM, a Shliach who served in the city of Ottawa, Canada. The event is being broadcasted live, here on CrownHeights.info.
Photos: Hundreds Enjoy ‘Kosher’ Fair on Kingston
Hundreds turned out for a ‘Kosher’ fair on Kingston Avenue this afternoon. Among the attractions were kosher food vendors, treats and even a cow which was milked on the avenue! Photographer Yisrael Blizofsky presents a gallery.
Crowd Funding a New Chabad House
New Shluchim trying to raise money to build a new Chabad House in earthquake stricken New Zealand turned to an Israeli crowd funding site to raise money. For a donation of 50 NIS you will get letter of gratitude; for 360 NIS you’ll be given opportunity to participate in a raffle for plane tickets to the building dedication.
Video: Sanz Chasidim Scramble for Apples from Rebbe
A video depicting Sanz-Klausenburg Chasidim scrambling for apples thrown by their Rebbe has gone viral on YouTube, bringing broad public interest and curiosity into this obscure but time-honored Chasidic tradition.
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Levi (ben Berel) Levertov (Crown Heights) and Lia Perlov (Sunnyvale, CA)
Burglar Trips Over Sleeping Girl in Home Robbery
A five-year-old girl was gripped with paralyzing terror as she hid under her bed late on Friday night, after being awoken to the sight of a burglar rummaging through her home, located in the heart of Crown Heights.
Morristown Students Reach Out to Rutgers Students
This past Friday afternoon, a group of Bochurim learning at the Rabbinical College of America in Morristown visited Rutgers University in central New Jersey to reach out to Jewish students on campus.
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Yisroel Newman (London/CH) and Rivky Sonnenfeld (Scranton/Brooklyn)
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The Schneersohn Library: An International Affair
There was something surprisingly calm about the tiny Brooklyn courtyard of 770 Eastern Parkway, the address of the international headquarters of Chabad-Lubavitch. Groups of Hasidic men passed by talking, clutching cellphones, laughing, carrying boxes of books. One morning this past March, I knocked on a heavy wooden door; someone inside the building buzzed me in.
Weekly Living Torah Video: Mutual Defense Pact
The Talmud relates that King David and his general, Yoav Ben Tzeruya, supplemented each other. David was immersed in the study of Torah, while Yoav went out to battle.
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Dovber and Brochie (nee Goldman) Segelman (Crown Heights)
Sholom Zochor will be at 860 Eastern Pkwy. [between Kingston and Albany Ave.]
As Baby Boomer Population Grows, Chabad Reaches Out
71 year-old David Whitebook was “a non-observant, secular Jew” when he attended a class by the new Chabad rabbi in his community of active adults some 10 years ago.
Video: MBD Sings ‘Chabadsker Niggun’
Mordechai Ben David sings the ‘Chabadsker Niggun’ at the Simchas Bais Hashoeva of congregation Shaarei Torah in Los Angeles, CA.
