It’s Humans, hyper-local. Shmuel Hellinger, a 20-year-old Crown Heightser earned 800 ‘likes’ on his project Humans of Crown Heights – a hyper local take on the popular Humans of New York.
Mendy and Chayale (nee Schapiro) Edelman (Crown Heights)
Nuchie and Chavie (nee Rosenthal) Schapiro (Los Angeles, CA)
In this week’s Torah Café weekly Video: Rabbi Norman Schloss shares his experiences as a traveling kosher supervisor and answers many questions regarding his work.
Yisroel and Hadassah (nee Bogomilsky) Cohen (Crown Heights)
I am sitting with my laptop as the older boys bounce a ball back and forth safely between themselves, and my heart is finally beginning to stop racing.
“This is the answer to my prayers.” Fred Curtis, a professor and engineer, can’t wait for the new Chabad center to open this summer in Regina, Saskatchewan, where he has lived for 30 years. In fact, he feels he’s waited long enough.
Rabbi Benny Hershcovich, Shliach in Cabo, Mexico, delivers his brief and hilarious thought on this weeks Parasha, Acharei Mos-Kedoshim.
Ahead of the upcoming school year, Darchai Menachem will be holding a open house and town hall meeting this coming Sunday, April 21st from 7:00pm to 8:30pm – with enrollment open for grades 3-8.
A teen was arrested for an alleged hate crime on the 3 train in Crown Heights on Monday afternoon, sparking a chaotic scene when cops arrived to arrest him.
Two prestigious religious rights organizations filed Friend of the Court (Amicus Curiae) briefs on Monday in the federal second Court of Appeals in an appeal of a lower court’s decision denying an injunction against New York City’s unprecedented regulation of bris milah.
In what many described as the largest turnout ever for a life-saving beacon of chessed, thousands of Williamsburg residents jammed into the Ateres Avraham Hall this past Tuesday evening to lend their support to the amazing work of RCCS, the Rofeh Cholim Cancer Society.
Yossie Lazarus (Cape Town, South Africa/NY) and Kim Melamed (Johannesburg, South Africa)
L’Chaim tonight, Wednesday at Turk Catering Hall
822 Empire Blvd [between Troy and Schenectady Ave]
The sights and sounds of the Boston Marathon bombings were met by all with shock and dismay. By all, I mean nearly all, aside from the Jordanians who reportedly were celebrating upon hearing of the successful terror strike along with, I imagine many other bloodthirsty Moslem extremists seeking daily to bring Israel and the West to its knees.
Lubavitcher Yeshiva Academy of Longmeadow, MA celebrated a Torah dedication in memory of Moshe Brown, of blessed memory on his first yahrzeit just before Pesach. The event was attended by around 250 people. The Torah was donated by his wife, Joanne Brown. Many people in the community dedicated sections of the Torah as well.
Softball season began in Crown Heights with a bevy of new faces on the field. In the first game the Red Heifers fell to the Skullcaps 6-5, and in the second game the Hebrew Hammers were shut-out by the Tribe in a 1-0 loss.
Shluchim to the city of Paris gathered over the weekend for their 14th regional Kinus. The weekend included rounds of workshops and Farbrengens, and concluded Sunday night with a grand banquet.
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