A small but determined group of demonstrators gathered at Eastern Parkway and Kingston Avenue in Crown Heights yesterday to protest the Kaporos ceremonies that take place in Orthodox Jewish communities the week before Yom Kippur.
As the last votes are being tallied up, CrownHeights.info provides a comprehensive summary of who won and who lost in yesterday’s primary election:
Some time during the night vandals attacked the Beis Chaya Mushka Lubavitch girls’ school in Marseilles, France, leaving the interior and facade of the building defaced and the windows smashed to bits.
2,996 lives were claimed in the terror attacks on September 11, 2001; among them were 418 first responders and emergency workers. Police officers from the 71st Precinct in Crown Heights held a brief memorial service in their honor.
I grew up in a Chabad House. Chabad of Tidewater to be precise. Throughout the years, hundreds upon hundreds of different people have come and gone. Some we remember quite well. For others, it may take a moment. But only a select few are etched in our everlasting memories.
Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes’ 23-year run as Brooklyn’s top prosecutor has come to an end following his stunning defeat in Tuesday’s Democratic primary.
Public Advocate Bill de Blasio, who ran an upstart campaign pledging to fight New York City’s economic inequality, emerged as the surprising top choice in the Democratic mayoral primary, but could still face weeks — and another electoral fight — before becoming his party’s nominee.
For motorists on Ridge Road, one of the main arteries of Munster, Ind., the sight of a bearded rabbi lugging an oversized ornate cabinet across the busy street has become a yearly spectacle. It is Rabbi Eliezer Zalmanov transporting a specially constructed holy ark from the cozy sanctuary in his home to the Center for Visual and Performing Arts, where he and a cadre of volunteers set up a makeshift synagogue to accommodate the large crowds that join the congregation for the High Holidays.
The Rebbe distributes Kos Shel Bracha at the conclusion of Yomtov, circa early 1960s.
Hundreds gathered in Sofia, Bulgaria to celebrate what is being described as the first Bar Mitzvah in the country since the Holocaust decimated its Jewish population during WWII.
A Chabad House menorah that was destroyed by fire last week on Ocean Parkway has been replaced. Elected officials joined the local Shluchim outside Chabad-Lubavitch of Kensington to watch the new menorah’s installment.
In an extraordinary story of Kiddush Hashem, a non-Jewish woman in Montreal whose baby got locked in her car praised the Jewish community, calling the woman who helped her a “messenger from G-d.”
Although he stood next to speakers claiming the opposite, Bill de Blasio insists his position has not changed on the city’s controversial regulation of a ritual circumcision practice.
Unforgettable to those that were there, and relivable today via video (in extended article), in the first sicha spoken by the Rebbe, with Herculean physical effort, after the devastating “episode” of Shemini Atzeret, 1977, the Rebbe reminded his Chasidim to continue keeping his directives: Chitas, Keren Hashana and the mivtzoim.
Subsidized chickens for the traditional Kaporos ritual will once again be provided for Crown Heights residents by the NCFJE.
Today is primary day in New York City. Each party will be picking their candidates for the general election, which will be held November 5th. Some of my friends have been asking me, whom I think they should support in the Democratic primaries. I thought it would be nice to share my view on the primary election from the perspective of an average voter in Crown Heights.
Federal prosecutors Monday filed to dismiss their indictment of the homeless man accused of detonating an explosive near a S. Monica Chabad House in 2011. United States Attorney André Birotte Jr. pursued the motion in wake of defendant Ron Hirsch’s Aug. 24 death.
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