Last year the Crown Heights Parents Safety Alliance, a project of the Merkos Chinuch Office, initiated a very successful child-safety program for K-3rd grade in all the Mosdos in Crown Heights, empowering children and teaching them what’s appropriate touch and what’s not and how to respond when situations come up.
Yossi and Chanie Apfelbaum
916 Lincoln Pl. [between Brooklyn and New York Aves.]
Yossi and Leah (nee Rapoport) Itzinger
580 Crown St. [between Albany and Troy Aves.] Apt. #415
Gamliel and Chana (nee Nemni) Dray
1548 President St. [corner Troy Ave.] Apt. #N
Shimi and Dalya (nee Lisker) Backer
1404 President St. [between Kingston and Brooklyn Aves.]
Jonathan and Sarah Tuller
717 Eastern Pkwy. [Between Kingston and Brooklyn Aves.] Apt. #4
Menachem and Altie (nee Maness) Silverberg
770 Lefferts Ave. [between Troy and Schenectady Aves.] Apt. # A1L
Yossi and Nechama Piekarski
1151 Lincoln Pl. [between Albany and Troy Aves.]
Yossi and Nechama Piekarski (Crown Heights)
Sholom Zochor will be at 1151 Lincoln Pl. [between Albany and Troy Aves.]
The Jewish community of Harlem will welcome its newest member this weekend — the first sacred, handwritten Hebrew scriptures to grace a synagogue in the neighborhood in nearly a century.
“A mitzvah a day keeps the Yetzer Hora away.” Nine year old Yaakov Yosef Heidingsfeld, shliach to Prestwich, England, chose this slogan as his theme on the colorful poster he submitted to Chayolei Tzivos Hashem’s first annual poster contest.
Not all moments are equal in life. At times we are presented a “Golden opportunity,” – a chance to transform our self and our legacy in a single instant; through a single act.
Yossi Kudan (Hollywood, FL) and Tzippy Neubort (Crown Heights)
L’chaim will be Sunday night at Chovovei Torah
885 Eastern Pkwy. [between Albany and Troy Aves.]
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present two photos of the Rebbe conducting a Farbrengen in the late ’60s.
Yossi and Leah (nee Rapoport) Itzinger (Crown Heights)
Sholom Zochor will be at 580 Crown St. [between Albany and Troy Aves.] Apt. #415
Mendy and Chaya (nee Hazan) Fellig (Miami Beach, FL)
Chabad Lubavitch emissaries will begin arriving in New York next week from all parts of the world for the Kinus Hashluchim—the annual get-together of emissaries, their parents, friends and supporters, and a record number are expected to attend this year.
Chabad of the Conejo’s town hall meeting with David Siegel, consul general of Israel in Los Angeles, was packed with residents thirsty for details about the topic “Israel at the Crossroads.”
In anticipation of President Barrack Obama’s arrival in Crown Heights and his drive up Kingston Avenue tomorrow, there has been a lot of talk among members of the community about rallying to the cause of achieving justice for Sholom Rubashkin, whose draconian sentence Obama has the power to commute.
Recent media reports have highlighted the risks associated with the BRCA genetic mutations, which Ashkenazi Jews are ten times more likely to have than the general population.
Large swaths of Crown Heights have been cut off from the internet due to severed broadband cables, CrownHeights.info has learned.
A Ukrainian court has ruled that hundreds of Torah scrolls that were seized by Soviet authorities nearly 100 years ago belong to the local Jewish community and not the state archives.
Jewish Community Watch, a child-abuse advocacy group, held a landmark seminar directed toward addressing abuse issues within the Jewish community.
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