Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, the religious scholar and spiritual leader of Israel’s Sephardic Jews who transformed his downtrodden community of immigrants from North Africa and Arab nations and their descendants into a powerful force in Israeli politics, died on Monday. He was 93.
History was made today in Kathmandu, Nepal when a new Sefer Torah was completed and a massive procession made its way down the main street. The new Torah was dedicated in memory of a 22-year-old hiker who disappeared, his body later found after massive searches.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Levi (ben Berel) Levertov (Crown Heights) and Lia Perlov (Sunnyvale, CA)
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.
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.
Yisroel Newman (London/CH) and Rivky Sonnenfeld (Scranton/Brooklyn)
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.
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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