With great sadness we inform you of the passing of Rabbi Shimon Cohen, of Crown Heights, at the age of 76. The levaya will pass by 770 at 8:00am Thursday morning.
Sholom and Leah Schapiro (Crown Heights)
Mendy and Ariella Weg (Crown Heights)
Levi and Chani (nee Ehrentreu) Rosenfeld (Toronto, Canada)
CrownHeights.info presents an audio recording of the Brochos given by the Rebbe on Erev Yom Kippur.
Taking on the task of feeding the thousands of guests after Yom Kippur and during Sukkos was not enough for Nachum Markowitz. Standing outside 770 today, Erev Yom Kippur, he was handing out ‘Lekach’ and drinks of orange juice ahead of the fast.
Erev Yom Kippur Jews worldwide took part in the age-old custom of ‘shlugging’ Kapores. In Crown Heights it was organized by NCFJE, who had locations in a number of places in the neighborhood.
An order list released this morning by the Supreme Court detailing which cases would be heard during its upcoming term did not include the Rubashkin case, leaving many wondering what that omission might mean.
A reader sent us this photograph of a construction worker doing carefully balanced work atop a Crown Heights building. Can you identify where the picture was taken?
Shoshanah Silcove, an American freelance writer and a Machon Chana Alumnus who lives with her family in Melbourne, Australia, penned the following article in which she chronicles her arduous journey back to her Jewish roots through written correspondence with her former self.
CrownHeights.info and the Avner Institute present two unique photos of the Rebbe performing Kapporos in front of 770 in 1990.
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The students of Lubavitch Boys’ School in London had a massive Chayos in saying Tehillim over Rosh Hashana. A special chart with all the different time slots where it is possible to say tehilim over Yom Tov was given out to help boys keep a track on how much they said.
In the first set of photos, Jews in Moscow’s Marina Roshcha neighborhood gather around the country’s chief rabbi, Berel Lazar, to perform Kapparos and receive ‘Lekach.’
Congregants of Empire Shtieble gathered late Monday night to perform Kapparos in front of the Shul.
A few months ago, a video was uploaded to YouTube in which a 10-year-old boy in the Philippines sings Avraham Fried‘s English hit “Don’t Hide from Me” at a performance in his school’s auditorium.
While parents ran into stores frantically looking to buy the new “Mitzvah Boulevard,” friends and family of the actors and producers were treated to a special screening of the new video.
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