My first ever trip to Crown Heights, I am filled with excitement. My heart races as my thoughts and prayers begin to align. Each stop draws me closer and closer to the meeting point, the springboard for the night, a synagogue named Chevra Ahavas Yisroel. This synagogue is frequented by singles and young marrieds, inspired types, warm types, sincere types.
Representatives of Chabad Terror Victims Project visited Noam, the courageous nine-year-old girl who was shot in the chest by a terrorist at her home in Psagot, Israel, in order to bring comfort and assistance to her and her family.
In an announcement on their Facebook page, the OK Kosher certification agency said that they had removed their Hechsher from popular Kingston Avenue cafe, Chocolatte.
[Update: Statement from owner of Chocolatte added.]
Samuel Cohen-Eckstein, a 12-year-old boy just weeks away from celebrating his Bar Mitzvah, was killed yesterday when he ran into a Park Slope street and was struck by a van.
In 1978, Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, then Chief Sephardic Rabbi of Israel, visited Milan, Italy, where he met with the leaders of the local Chabad community at the home of Rabbi Moshe Lazar.
Danny Ayalon, former Israeli ambassador to the United States, spoke Tuesday night on the current state of the Middle East, saying the political importance of the region extends beyond the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Ayalon spoke to an audience of more than 80 students at the Tannenbaum Chabad House at Northwestern University near Chicago, Illinois.
A revamped $100 bill entered circulation for the first time today, with additional design features that will make it more difficult to forge.
Legendary Yiddish composer Reb Yom Tov Ehrlich sings “Yaakov,” which he composed some 67 years ago at the 1946 wedding of the song’s hero – Reb Yaakov Potash.
Starting Thursday, October 31, Crown Heights Young Entrepreneurs will offer a series of revolutionary classes helping aspiring entrepreneurs achieve their business dreams.
CrownHeights.info received the following letter from a Shliach, a Crown Heights native, who spent a couple of weeks in the neighborhood for the first time in over ten years. This is what he wished to share:
The girls at Beis Rivka Headstart were thrilled today when a “life-size” replica of Noach’s Ark sailed into the school’s parking lot, just a few days after Parshas Noach was read in Shul.
Levi Levertov (Crown Heights) and Lia Perlov (Sunnyvale, CA)
Beis Levi Yitzchok, 556 Crown St. [entrance on Albany Ave.]
Yehoshua Lefkowitz (South Africa/UK) and Elki Caplan (Crown Heights)
F.R.E.E., 1383 President St. [between Kingston and Brooklyn Aves.]
Several hats that were lost in and around 770 over the course of Yomtov were placed on a bench on Kingston Ave. and Union St. for anyone to claim.
On Sunday, Fjodor Chkalov ran a half marathon in Brussels, Belgium while sporting a ‘Chabad on Campus’ t-shirt. He completed the 22 Kilometer race, his first, in one hour and 43 minutes.
Friends, family and members of the local Jewish community gathered at the Chabad of Arizona Jewish Center in Phoenix to celebrate the completion of a new Sefer Torah.
Yehuda and Brynie (nee Caplan) Silverstein (Crown Heights)
Antibiotic-resistant E. coli were found in chickens from a range of production methods – with the highest numbers in kosher birds – in a study at Northern Arizona University and other institutes.
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