The flames of Torah are blazing at ULYOP and after 3,000 lines of Torah bal Peh, it was time for United Lubavitch Yeshiva of Ocean Pky to cool off with a rewarding afternoon on the Ice. Each of the students […]
The students at Chabad Hebrew School, directed by Rabbi Pesach and Chana Burston, recently received awards and recognition for their achievements in the innovative “Aleph Champ” Hebrew program.
A CrownHeights.info reader sent in cell phone photos of the Rebbes secretary Rabbi Leibel Groner at the Ohel yesterday praying alongside Mr. Ronen Peled the producer of the upcoming Kinus Hashluchos banquet on Sunday. The grand event will be taking place in the ballroom of the Hilton hotel in midtown Manhattan.
Educators from Chabad preschools in the New York area gathered for a joint inspirational Inservice Day, learning fresh new ways of helping the children develop and grow.
With sadness and pain we inform you of the sudden passing of Mrs. Dina Fogel OBM, a longtime resident of Crown Heights who resided on Carroll Street.
Mental health has long been a prevalent issue in the college community, and following a memorial service at Northwestern University for a student who took her own life, it was felt that it was time to present it from a Jewish perspective.
Thanks possibly to the freezing temperatures outside, NYC has gone 9 days without a murder—but that streak is long over. In one incident police are investigating the death of a woman who was found half-naked in the street in Crown Heights early Friday morning.
A violent parolee who killed a beloved Brooklyn liquor-store clerk was sentenced to 35 years in prison today.
Ari and Mushki Mochkin (Los Angeles, CA)
With sadness we inform you of the passing of Mrs. Rochel (Rochel Leah) Krichevsky of Eretz Yisroel, on Yud Shvat.
Yosef Vinisky (Crown Heights) and Esther Miriam Hall (Albany, NY)
Over the last few days tens of vehicles have been broken into and robbed, items like GPSs and loose change were taken. Crown Heights Shomrim received a report from one burglary victim stating that he confronted the thief and he identified him as Terrence Nelson – one of the areas most notorious recidivists.
Avromie and Chana Leah Margolis (Los Angeles CA)
Mendy Wolff (Crown Heights) and Devorah Breindel (London, England)
Michoel Kisilevich (Melbourne, Australia) and Naomi Popper (Coral Springs, FL)
When there’s trouble on the tracks, transit workers turn to police, firefighters, paramedics — and The Rabbi. There’s no need for his full name. Anyone who has operated a train, welded rails or directed traffic from a radio tower in the last three decades probably knows Rabbi Harry Berkowitz.
Hundrends of woman and girls turned out all afternoon, and into the late Sunday evening, for Keren Simchas Chosson V’Kallah’s annual auction. The program took place in Oholei Torah on Eastern Parkway, where there was the viewing, entertainment and lots of food and drink. The auction benefits the organization which helps Chassanim and Kallahs pay for their wedding day.
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