Rabbi Moshe Klein’s wiry, exacting hands scratched the last of 304,805 Hebrew characters in black ink on vellum Sunday afternoon, completing the Saratoga Chabad House’s newest Torah, and a year of painstaking labor.
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Rabbi Zalman Yaffe, chief rabbi of the Russian city of Volgagrad (formerly Stalingrad), went this morning to donate blood for the victims of a bus bombing in his city last week.
Last year the Crown Heights Parents Safety Alliance, a project of the Merkos Chinuch Office, initiated a very successful child-safety program for K-3rd grade in all the Mosdos in Crown Heights, empowering children and teaching them what’s appropriate touch and what’s not and how to respond when situations come up.
Rabbi Eli Feldman, a Chabad rabbi in Sydney, Australia, told Arutz Sheva Monday that “both Jewish community and larger Australian community were shocked” by the anti-Semitic attack in Bondi on Shabbos.
Jared Sichel, a writer for the L.A. Jewish Journal, compares the approaches of Chabad and Hillel to Jewish life on campus, and describes how one is changing the other.
Just before the annual Kinus Hashluchim, the Jewish community of Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine welcomed four new families, who joined the 40 existing families of Shluchim active in the city.
Before a full house at the Phoenix Theatre in Melbourne on Thursday night, October 24, a talented group of musicians and others delighted the crowd with an interpretation of a series of Chassidic nigunim, in support of Mayanot Institute in Israel.
Mayer (ben Shloima) Zarchi (Crown Heights) and Chenchie (bas S.Z.) Baumgarten (Crown Heights)
L’Chaim Thusrday at Lubavitcher Yeshiva
570 Crown St [hall entrance on Albany Ave]
An Orthodox woman that was seriously injured after getting struck by a Satmar Yeshiva school bus as she was walking in Williamsburg Friday afternoon has passed away over Shabbos.
A CrownHeights.info reader spotted a Corvette with an intriguing licence plate while traveling along the Pennsylvania Turnpike.
Crown Heights is getting a new commanding officer for the 71st Precinct. Later this week Deputy Inspector John Lewis will be replaced by Deputy Inspector George Fitzgibbon from the 69th Precinct.
47 Bochurim from the Zal Yeshiva in Miami enjoyed a meaningful and inspiring Shabbaton with the community in Ft. Myers, Florida and were hosted by Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida.
Police have charged three people over an alleged anti-Semitic attack in Sydney’s eastern suburbs. Four men and a woman were walking home from the synagogue in Bondi in the early hours of Saturday when a group of about eight young men began yelling anti-Semitic insults at them.
About a month ago, the Jewish Daily Forward published a hit-piece attacking Chabad’s Michigan Jewish Institute for alleged failure to receive accreditation and predicted its impending closure. Last Week, the Detroit Jewish News took the Forward to task for its gross misrepresentation of the facts and set the record straight.
With sadness we inform you of the passing of Reb Yosef Rogatsky, OBM, a longtime resident of Crown Heights, at the age of 94.
A grand opening and mezuza ceremony was held for a new bikur cholim room at the Brooklyn Hospital Center in Fort Greene, Brooklyn.
For the first time in several years, a sitting U.S. president visited Brooklyn. President Barack Obama’s trip to the city’s largest borough on Friday was to deliver what the White House called a major policy speech. It was about the future of the U.S. economy as told through the story of one very unique Crown Heights school.
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