An aggressive and potentially dangerous panhandler has returned to Crown Heights’ streets after an extended hiatus, during which he was not sorely missed. Yosef (Lawrence) Hoffman has a history of violent behavior, including: assaulting a 21-year-old bochur, robbing and vandalizing stores on Kingston Ave., and being arrested and admitted to a psychiatric ward.
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present two vintage photographs of a Mashpia farbrenging with younger Chassidim. Can you identify those in the pictures, when and where they were taken?
Answer to last week’s photo in the extended article.
Hershy Korik (Huntington Beach, CA) and Goldie Kotlarsky (Crown Heights)
Jewish Children’s Museum, 792 Eastern Pkwy. [corner Kingston Ave.]
As the summer draws to a close, campers attending Gan Yisroel in Parksville, NY bid farewell to their newly-found friends and dedicated counselors and teachers at the grand banquet. The next morning they packed their luggage and boarded the buses which would take them back home.
Police are investigating the fatal shooting of a 17-year-old boy that took place in Crown Heights, Brooklyn early Tuesday.
Young Chassidim living in Crown Heights may not be aware of the fact that Crown Heights was once predominantly a Jewish neighborhood. When the Jews moved en- masse to other neighborhood, our Rebbe told his Chassidim not to take part in the exodus, but to remain in Crown Heights. It was a frightful position, but the Chassidim stayed.
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In honor of Independence Day and the founding of the State of Hungary on 20th August, the President of Hungary, Mr. Janos Ader granted the “Order of Merit of the Hungarian Republic” to Rabbi Baruch Oberlander, head Rav of the Chabad community in Hungary. The award was granted last Thursday by Minister Zoltan Balog in a special celebration.
A man who was arrested about a month ago for exposing himself to women in Crown Heights and subsequently released has struck again.
“Give me it for free,” a group of young boys yells in Yiddish, giggling merrily, as their tzitzit strings dangle. The man standing in the ice cream truck grins down at them. “No, give me money,” he replies. The negotiation continues until an older sibling finally comes over with a wrinkled fistful of dollar bills.
During a two week lecture tour of the Southerm Hemisphere, world renowned speaker Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Jacobson spent time with the Chabad communities in Melbourne, Australia and Cape Town, South Africa, among others.
Pinny and Frumie (nee Shusterman) Levitin (Wilkes-Barre, PA)
In the Jewish community, completion of a Torah, a sacred text with 304,805 letters, marks a major accomplishment. Sunday afternoon, members of the local Jewish community gathered to celebrate and dedicate the Oklahoma Unity Torah at the Chabad Community Center for Jewish Life and Learning in Oklahoma City.
Amidst a day of meetings with Israeli Chief Rabbi Yona Metzger and German officials over how their country’s justice system approaches the issue of ritual infant circumcision, Chabad-Lubavitch of Berlin director Rabbi Yehuda Tiechtel formally accepted the title of “Rabbi of the Community” from Jewish Community of Berlin chairman Dr. Gideon Joffe.
For the first time since Nazi rule, criminal charges have been pressed against a German rabbi for performing circumcisions, a Jewish weekly reported on Tuesday.
Speaker of the New York State House of Representatives Sheldon Silver attended the final Sheva Brachos celebration of the Greenberg–Glitsenstein wedding at the Lubavitch Jewish Center of Alaska.
One of the most fundamental paradoxes in Judaism and faith in God is that of prayer. We are commanded to pray three times daily and in times of distress, to beseech of God that He provide us with our fundamental human needs and desires such as health, livelihood and children.
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I am a member of the volunteer corps organized by Shomrim yesterday in search of Yakov Gourin, the missing French Twin. I penned this op-ed to describe the hardships we experienced over the uncertainty and conflicting reports that emerged from various news outlets over the course of the day, and the potential dangers posed by them.
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