In the late ’60s in New York City, certain neighborhoods of Brooklyn were experiencing intense racial tensions. In the winter of 1968, New York City Mayor John Lindsay came to discuss the situation with the Rebbe.
Palestinians wielding axes and iron bars killed Shariyah Ofer outside his home in the West Bank, the latest in a series of attacks on Israelis in the area.
Mendel and Brachie (nee Katz) Hecht
508 Montgomery St. [between Brooklyn and New York Aves.]
Shmuli and Sarah (nee Finkel) Schochet
430 Sterling St. [between Brooklyn and New York Aves.]
Shmaya and Devora Glick
1423 President St. [between Kingston and Albany Aves.]
Yosef Yitchok and Mussie (nee Perl) Schtroks
1494 Union St. [between Kingston and Albany Aves.]
Mendy and Sheina (nee Hecht) Majesky
1467 Carroll St. [between Albany and Troy Aves.]
Chaim and Miriam Baum
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This week hundreds of boys in grades 5-8 from all the schools in Crown Heights gathered for an extra hour of learning, from 7:00 to 8:00pm.
Mendel and Brachie (nee Katz) Hecht (Crown Heights)
Sholom Zochor will be at 508 Montgomery St. [between Brooklyn and New York Aves.]
Last Motzoei Shabbos, The Minyan (AKA Beis Menachem) in Manchester, UK celebrated their 10th Anniversary with a grand Melave Malka.
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present a photo of the Rebbe exiting 770 on his way to the Ohel.
Republican mayoral nominee Joe Lhota warned a group of prominent New York City business leaders that crime could surge if his Democratic opponent Bill de Blasio is elected mayor.
Our Parsha introduces the iconic biblical giant; our patriarch Avraham, with the words “Lech L’cha!” “And G-d said to Avram, ‘Go to [for] yourself from your land and from your birthplace and from your father’s house to the land that I will show you!’” (Breishis 12:1)
Melbourne welcomed its newest group of student Shluchim to the Rabbinical College of Australia and NZ (Yeshivah Gedolah of Melbourne) on Thursday. Strangers joined in the singing and dancing in the airport terminal!
One of our readers observed an interesting practice by a local boys’ school while driving through Borough Park today. The school’s staff blocked off the street with metal barricades while the boys were playing outside.
A woman was struck by a car this morning while trying to making her way across Eastern Parkway.
After losing their OK Hasgacha to alleged Kashrus violations, a new ‘Hechsher’ certificate appeared this morning in the window of Chocolatte, a Crown Heights cafe.
Yossi Klyne (Manchester, UK) and Rochel Gorelik (Naharia, Israel)
The two rabbis offered an unusual service to Jewish women who could not get their husbands to agree to a divorce, according to the FBI. For a fee, they would convene a rabbinical court and authorize the use of violence to get a recalcitrant husband to agree to a divorce.
Over a thousand homes are without water this morning in Montreal after a water main on the corner of Westbury and Barclay Sts. burst, forcing four homes to be evacuated and flooding many basements.
The students of Yeshivas Lubavitch of Baltimore organized ‘Mishmor’ – a weekly learning program for boys ages 7 and older – last night, with over 30 children in attendance.
