A police officer in Crown Heights shot a 17-year-old who was allegedly attempting to steal a gun from a van under guard Saturday morning, according to the NYPD.
Rabbi Mordechai Richler has been in South Lake Tahoe, on the border of California and Nevada, for about a week, but he is already making headway on the area’s newest Jewish cultural organization.
We grew up in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn, N.Y. surrounded by Orthodox Jews, but we were never part of that community. We were all Jews but somehow it seemed that we each lived in our own little world. When Rabbi Yanky Majesky asked us to join him and his wife, Chanshy, to the National Jewish Retreat we did not know what to expect.
Chananya and Henny (nee Elishevitz) Hoffinger (Crown Heights)
Rabbi Benny Hershcovich, Shliach in Cabo, Mexico, delivers his brief and hilarious thoughts on this week’s Parsha, Ki Tavo, titled ‘Save the Best for First!’
When fighting a spiritual war, it is insufficient to simply ward off enemy attacks. One must go out and capture ground, constantly growing in Jewish observance. On a broader scale, this means bringing the light of Torah even to those that threaten it, until they too proclaim, “Hear, Israel! G-d is or L-rd, G-d is one.” 18 Tishrei, 5717 – September 23, 1956.
Menachem and Esty (nee Koenig) Sheinberger
330 Albany Ave. [between Eastern Pkwy. and Union St.]
Shlomy and Chaya (nee Schapiro) Levertov
627 East New York Ave. [between Kingston and Albany Aves.] Apt. #2RB
Naftali and Perel (nee Lederman) Rotenberg
580 Crown St. [between Albany and Troy Aves.] Apt. #202
Mendy and Chaya Mushka Drookman
701 Empire Blvd. [between Albany and Troy Aves.] apt. #4G
Kalman and Mushky (nee York) Rosenfeld
750 Lefferts Ave. [between Troy and Schenectady Aves.] Apt. #D1
Yankel and Rochie Korolitzky
Ohel Nosson, 580 Crown St. [between Albany and Troy Aves.]
Eliezer and Chaya (nee Wolfe) Shaw
437 Kingston Ave. [between Empire Blvd. and Lefferts Ave.] Apt. #C10
Yehuda and Chana Rochel (nee Deitsch) Apfelbaum
787 Montgomery St. [between Albany and Troy Aves.]
The Crown Heights community is cordially invited to join in the celebration of the completion of a Sefer Torah, dedicated in memory of Kazi Benjamin, OBM, which will take place this Sunday, August 25.
This Shabbos at the Besht, Rabbi Tuvia Simon, a Sofer Stam, will lead a discussion on topic: the sound of one hand clapping.
A 23-year-old woman was arrested on burglary charges for stealing cash from a Long Island Chabad House.
“Do not all men desire happiness?” This rhetorical question was posed by Socrates to his students. The response was unanimous: “There is no one who does not!”
Yosef Kramer, from Crown Heights, and Mushka Ciment celebrated their wedding in her hometown of Little Rock, Arkansas on Tuesday, August 20. Several reporters were there to document the historic occasion – as it was the first ever Hasidic wedding to take place in Arkansas.
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present a unique photo of the Rebbe in a Yechidus in the late 1950s.
Needing to abide by their traditions of modesty, Hasidic women want the city to post a female lifeguard during a women-only swim session at a municipal pool in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, and have lobbied a local councilman to take up their cause.
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