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.
Yaakov and Chana Devorah (nee Bogomilsky) Feldman (Crown Heights)
Sholom Zochor will be at 544 Crown St. [between Kingston and Albany Aves.]
Thousands of people lined up along the route of President Obama’s motorcade as it passed through the streets of Crown Heights. Lining Kingston Avenue were hundreds of posters calling for the president to investigate the prosecution of Sholom Mordechai Rubashkin. WATCH the president’s speech live – ended.
Danny Amishai (Crown Heights and Batsheva (bas Mayer) Rivkin (Bay Harbor Islands, FL/Crown Heights)
As anticipation grows for the arrival of President Barrack Obama to Crown Heights, hundreds of reserve police officers are out in force making sure the route is cleared of parked vehicles and ready for the motorcade to travel through, which it is scheduled to do sometime between 3:00 and 6:00 this afternoon.
Lone soldiers, young men who give up comfortable lives abroad to join the Israeli army, have found a home away from home with a young couple in Jerusalem who dedicate their lives to helping them.
An elderly Jewish holocaust survivor celebrated his 90th birthday this morning in the main synagogue of Zhitomir in western Ukraine.
Yossi and Chanie Apfelbaum (Crown Heights)
Sholom Zochor will be at 916 Lincoln Pl. [between Brooklyn and New York Aves.]
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