
Shluchos Not Forgotten in Kinus Issue of Compass
With the final preparations for the Kinus HaShluchim coming together, shluchos will be happy to know that their husbands will come home with inspiration geared for the whole family.
With the final preparations for the Kinus HaShluchim coming together, shluchos will be happy to know that their husbands will come home with inspiration geared for the whole family.
The Shluhim to Manhattan’s Lower East Side, Rabbi Yisrael and Chani Stone, distributed pre-packaged containers filled with Shabbos food for local Jewish families and seniors who still lack power. Updated 13:50.
Late night host Jimmy Kimmel featured a Hilarius clip showing a mix of bearded Brooklynites and asked the audience to attempt and identify if they were a Hassid or a Hipster.
127th birthday of the Rebbe Rashab the Rebbe distributes a Chasidic discourse in honor of the 127th birthday of Rabbi Sholom Dovber, the Rebbe Rashab.
Friday, the 17th of Cheshvan, was the first yahrtzeit of Rebbetzin Bassie Azimov, OBM, of Paris, France. She was buried the next day on Har Hazeizim, next to her father, Reb Bentzion Shemtov, OBM. A delegation of relatives and Chassdim from France and Eretz Yisroel were present at the unveiling of her Matzeiva, Thursday evening.
On Friday morning, a woman walked into Kahan’s Superette on Kingston Ave. and began to enjoy a breakfast. She opened a package of food and started her meal, then exited the store with a jar of jam – without stopping by the checkout counter.
Daylight Savings Time comes to an end and tonight we ‘fall back’. At 2:00am it will become 1:00am, giving us all an additional hour of sleep.
New York’s governor says the U.S. Department of Defense will set up emergency mobile fuel stations around the New York City metro area. Free gasoline will be distributed, with a 10-gallon per-person limit.
Dovid Leib Ehrentrei (Montreal, Canada) and Chayale Glick (Crown Heights)
A UPS deliveryman dropped off a package at a home on Montgomery St. this week; after the package was accepted, he pretended to leave, but when the door was shut he returned to the foyer and stole a pair of gloves worth $35.
CrownHeights.info and the Avner Institute present this unique photo of the Rebbe with a guest, taken during the visit of Israeli President Zalman Shazar in 1966.
An unprecedented deluge of visitors to our website this morning, driven by a link from the colossal Drudge Report to our video of the brutal beating and mugging of a Jewish man during Hurricane Sandy, overwhelmed our servers and caused our news website to be unavailable for most of the day.
At its peak this afternoon, the site was processing hits from over 3,000 visitors per second!
Unaccustomed to such a magnitude of visitors, our servers buckled under the pressure, and we were regretfully unable to provide the Crown Heights and greater Chabad community with the up-to-date news and information which they have come to rely upon for most of the day.
We are pleased to announce that as of this evening our hosting providers have fixed the problem, and there are no foreseeable issues with the website going forward.
Thank you for your patience.
As we near the election, the sorry state of the US economy is on the forefront of news media. We are facing some of the worst unemployment numbers in recent years and our economy seems to be stuck in a rut. Politicians on both the left and the right have offered solutions.
Alternate side parking (street cleaning) and parking meter regulations will be suspended on Friday, November 2. All other regulations, including parking meters, remain in effect.
It was an evening of mixed emotions at the Lubavitch of Scotland’s 43rd Anniversary Dinner held this week. Some 160 people packed into the Giffnock Shul Hall to celebrate and be uplifted by the guest speaker – holocaust survivor Leibel Zisman of New York.
Levi and Rochel (nee Srugo) Zarchi (Crown Heights)
Sholom Zochor will be at 770 Montgomery St.
[between Albany and Troy Ave.]
Shortly after the hustle and bustle of Tishrei subsided over 250 Crown Heights high school girls, and some 40 Yeshiva Bochurim, gathered for their annual Friendship Circle volunteer training and kickoff.