Erev Yom Kippur Jews worldwide took part in the age-old custom of ‘shlugging’ Kapores. In Crown Heights it was organized by NCFJE, who had locations in a number of places in the neighborhood.
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present a unique photo of the Rebbe on Erev Yom Kippur in the late ’70s.
In advance of Sukkos, the Transportation and Security Administration reminded its airport screeners and the travelling public that Jewish travelers may carry the Arba Minim through security checkpoints and onboard planes.
40 years ago, residents of Kfar Chabad were shocked to see their neighbors – while still in their tallis and kittel – riding hastily in buses. News began to trickle through the village that a war had just broken out, and all reserves were being called to duty. The war has been etched into the collective Jewish history as the Yom Kippur War.
CrownHeights.info photographer Mendel Benhamou captured breathtaking footage of the hundreds of thousands of Jews who amassed at the Western Wall for Slichos.
Hershy and Chanie Hertzel (Crown Heights)
Yosef Yitzchak (Yossi) Mellul (Creteil, France) and Goldi Dray (Paris, France)
At a recent Chaddishe auspicious day, celebrated with a children’s rally at 770 with several schools participating, there was a teacher from one of the schools that delivered a captivating story to the assembled children. It was a tale from the days of the Baal Shem Tov.
This coming Monday Keren Simchas Chosson V’Kallah will host the Australian ‘Monday Morning Cooking Club’ for a cooking demonstration ahead of the Yom Tov of Sukkos. The group just released their book in the United States. Join KSCVK on Monday, […]
Rabbi Shmuel Lesches, Maggid Shiur in Yeshiva Gedola of Melbourne, Australia, has compiled a guide to the laws of Kaporos, Erev Yom Kippur and Yom Kippur for the benefit of the wider Lubavitch community.
Yossi and Chanie (nee Stock) Hecht (Ocala, FL)
As parts of Boulder, Colorado continue to be overwhelmed by the massive flooding that has already taken the lives of three people, Jewish residents scramble to pump out their basements and keep their valuables on high ground.
Rabbi Shea Hecht, Chairman of the NCFJE, has announced that Rabbi Dovid Fisher and Mr. Morris Gad will be subsidizing the cost of Kaporos chickens for Crown Heights Community. The chickens will cost only $10.
For the sixth year in a row, a group of Mekurovim from Moscow accompanied the chief rabbi of Russia, Rabbi Berel Lazar, to New York to spend the Shabbos of Selichos in the Rebbe’s ‘Daled Amos.’
We received the following letter from a CrownHeights.info reader, who had a close call with carbon monoxide poisoning after leaving his stove on over three days of Yomtov. Carbon monoxide (or CO) is an odorless gas that is often a byproduct of burning natural gas. It can be deadly if inhaled in high concentrations.
Mr. Armand Koskas, father of Crown Heights resident Yonason Koskas, has not been seen since yesterday (Wednesday) morning. The elderly Mr. Koskas is suffering from Alzheimer’s, RL.
Update: he family was notified by NYPD detectives that Mr. Armand Koskas was found in a hospital. Thank you to all those who assisted in the search.
In the hot sun for hours on end, Devorah Benjamin sits outside the Empire Kosher supermarket collecting money for financially struggling young couples to help pay for their wedding expenses. A pair of teenage hooligans took advantage and robbed Mrs. Benjamin, stealing her bucket full of cash and coins.
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