A Crown Heights sofer is using technology to demystify the often complex world of mezuzas and their applicable halachos with a newly released free smartphone app that offers detailed instructions on where mezuzas are required, how to install them properly and can identify potential problems in the letters of a mezuza.
Nochum and Chana Labkowski
556 Crown St. [corner Albany Ave.] Apt. #A1
Moshe and Rivky (nee Lasker) Rendler
778 Montgomery St. [between Albany and Troy Aves.]
Israeli border police arrested a 45-year-old kosher supervisor at Ben-Gurion airport earlier this week, on suspicion of child abuse offenses committed in the south of the country. The suspect, whose name is under gag order, fled Israel in 2001 and has lived in Crown Heights ever since.
Nochum and Chana Labkowski (Crown Heights)
Sholom Zochor will be at 556 Crown St. [corner Albany Ave.] Apt. #A1
A devoted Chosid blows Shofar for the shopkeepers and patrons of a Kingston Ave. establishment. Can you identify which store it is?
Have you ever met a person, whose life is a shambles, musing over how it all got that way? “Where have I gone wrong,” is a mantra familiar to every psychiatrist, psychologist, clergyman or plain good friend, who is kind enough to lend an ear.
After successes JEM had in other cities (such as LA, Miami and Montreal), G-d willing, this Tuesday, August 20, the My Encounter with the Rebbe project will be hosting an ‘open-mic day’ in Crown Heights; a studio will be set up where people can come in throughout the day to share, in short form, their priceless memories with the Rebbe.
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present a photo of the Rebbe at a farbrengen in the mid 1980s.
When we think of traveling on vacation to far distances in today’s day and age, the mere thought of an uncomfortable journey almost seems unfathomable. We are used to the highest level of service and, thanks to technology, the world at our fingertips.
Moshe and Baila (nee Sufrin) Sapir (Monsey, NY)
Earlier this summer, the Flemish government issued decrees that would force both state-funded and private Jewish schools to teach mandatory curricula that include evolutionary biology, human reproduction and other subjects considered taboo by Antwerp’s 18,000 orthodox Jews.
A Crown Heights home was broken into last night, on the block of Crown St. between Brooklyn and New York Aves. The thief broke the lock on a basement window and crawled inside. He stole $100 in cash and a pair of shoes.
Through nine states and 25 cities, through blistering heat, torrential downpours and rough roads, 11 women pedaled 1,500 miles along the east coast for four weeks. Their goal: to raise awareness for special-needs children.
Rashi Elgarten will be sitting shiva after the passing of his mother, Mrs. Gittel Elgarten, OBM, at 701 Empire Blvd. [between Albany and Troy Aves.] Apt. 5H, until Thursday morning, August 22. Shacharis: 10:00 Mincha: 7:30 Maariv: 8:30 Hamokom Yenachem Eschem Besoch She’ar Aveilei Tzion V’yerushalaim
Yitzchok Lichtenfeld and Esther Sosover will be sitting Shiva after the passing of their sister, Rivka, OBM, at 433 Sterling Street [between Brooklyn and New York Ave.] until Tuesday morning, August 20. Shachris: 8:00 Mincha: 7:45 (Friday: 1:35) Maariv: 8:30 Hamokom Yenachem Eschem Besoch She’ar Aveilei […]
As far I’m concerned the Jewish women’s liberation movement was started by the Rebbe.
Rabbi Levi Edri, acting as liaison between the Ukrainian Jewish community and the Israeli government, delivered a letter from Ukrainian President Victor Yanukovich to Israeli President Shimon Peres, wishing him a happy 90th birthday.
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