Reacting to a spurt of anti-Semitic attacks by an African-American youth gang on Jews, Crown Heights’s incoming councilwoman is urging the two communities to refresh their relationship so that the attacks don’t harden biases for future generations and destroy the fragile gains of the past two decades.
On the first night of Chanukah, the New York Islanders (4-6) will be looking for a miracle in their game against the Winnipeg Jets (5-4), and will be hosting ‘Miracle on Ice,’ with a halftime Menorah lighting, skating on the coliseum ice and free dinner.
A seventh grade student of Oholei Torah was struck by a car yesterday evening while crossing Eastern Parkway’s service lane after dismissal.
One hundred and fifty students from the 10th and 11th grades at the FJC’s ‘Or Avner’ Jewish high schools in Russia participated for the first time in their lives in an emotional journey to the death camps and Jewish Ghettos in Poland.
The boys’ division of the Crown Heights Friendship Circle got together this past Sunday to celebrate the various ‘Yomei D’pagra’ that take place during the festive month of Kislev.
Harel Dabush had two dreams: He wanted to celebrate his 6th birthday. And he wanted to go to first grade.
Good old detective work lead to the apprehension of the two teenage girls who attacked an 11-year-old boy on his way to school Monday morning.
The Pakistani spy agency ISI was actively involved at every stage of the Nov. 26, 2009 Mumbai terror attack, possibly the most vicious and far reaching terror attack since 9/11, Bruce Riedel, former CIA analyst, writes in The Daily Beast.
The YouTube channel ‘Jewish Life’ conducted an exclusive interview with the world-renowned Chasidic singer, Benny Friedman.
Israel’s ambassador to Nepal, Chanan Goder, and Chabad Shliach to Nepal, Rabbi Chezki Lifshitz, were invited to serve as observers to the elections that will be held in the turbulent Asian country tomorrow.
Amid the hard feelings and hostility some members of Crown Heights’ Jewish and African-American communities are feeling towards each other in light of recent incidents, one CrownHeights.info reader describes an encounter of a different nature that he experienced yesterday morning:
The latest victim of the sick ‘knockout’ game plaguing Brooklyn was a 78-year-old woman from Midwood, who was attacked in broad daylight by a young man who walked toward her, balled up his fist and hit her with all his might on the top of her head, then ran off.
In their latest comedy production, Shmideo tells the story of the rare and glorious day, when Thanksgiving and Chanukah arrived at the same time.
Pictures from the L’chaim of Mendy Goldstein (Poway, CA) and Shterna Greenberg (El Paso, TX), which took place at Chovevei Torah in Crown Heights.
Following the national media’s attention to random attacks against Jews in Crown Heights, the NYPD responded with a massive show of force, deploying dozens of extra police officers on foot, squad cars, scooters, vans and even horses.
With sadness we inform you of the passing of Mrs. Selda Moskovits, OBM, of Crown Heights.
As the Brooklyn Nets gear up for their second basketball season in their new home – a borough that is also home to the most Jews in the country – CTeen, Chabad’s global Teen Network, has planned an exciting Jewish Heritage Night, boasting fun for the whole family.
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