Eight hundred and fifty Jewish students from far and wide converged on New York City last weekend for an annual Shabbaton, touring popular city sites here and enjoying the hospitality of Chabad Lubavitch families in Crown Heights.
Halloween seems like an innocent holiday not affiliated with any particular religion. Children (sometimes, adults too) dress up, give and get candy, and in general, just have fun. Is there any reason a Jew should not join in the revelry?
Alternate side parking (street cleaning) regulations will be suspended Friday, November 1 for a Catholic holiday. All other regulations, including parking meters, remain in effect.
R’ Yaakov Rosenthal is sitting Shiva after the passing of his mother, Sara Dreizel, OBM, at 1346 Carroll St. [Between Kingston and Brooklyn Aves.] until Sunday morning. Mincha – 5:30 Maariv – Tzeis Hamokom Yenachem Eschem Besoch She’ar Aveilei Tzion V’yerushalaim
One of the main highlights of the Kinus Hashluchim takes place on Sunday morning, when thousands of Shluchim pack onto bleachers and chairs in front of 770 for the annual group portrait. How do the photographers fit so many people into one picture? With a lot of planning!
At a very moving and uplifting Shloshim for Mrs. Hanna Tennenhaus, OBM, the 20-year-old David Tennenhaus Library in Hallandale Beach, Florida was renamed the David and Hanna Tennenhaus Library, with concrete goals of expanding the library with many new titles, in many languages, with many new Torah books for men, women and children of all ages.
A gun-toting creep forced himself upon a 16-year-old African-American girl in broad daylight after dragging her into the backseat of a car adjacent to Crown Heights’ Lincoln Terrace Park.
Four hundred people gathered in New York on Monday to honor the legendary Bielski brothers, the partisan leaders who saved more than 1,200 Jews during the Holocaust.
With the lighting of candles just ahead of sunset on Friday, around 60 members of the Jewish community marked the beginning of Shabbos at the Chabad Jewish Discovery Centre in Mississauga, Ontario.
Thousands of Shluchim and Anash flocked to Chovevei Torah tonight to celebrate the completion of four Sifrei Torah, donated by Mr. Hilel (Leonardo) Farkas of Santiago, Chile.
A New York delivery man was been awarded almost $1 million in damages by a jury after detailing the anti-Semitic torment he suffered by three supervisors in the workplace.
Hundreds of community members and guests participated this Sunday in the festive inauguration of a new Torah scroll that was donated by six community members and introduced into the Grand Choral Synagogue of St. Petersburg, Russia.
Jewish actress Lisa Kudrow opened up about her past experiences with anti-Semitism in a recent interview with the Saturday Evening Post. In the same interview, Kudrow talks about the ‘Bar-Mitzvah’ her son received from two Lubavitchers in a mall.
Thirty-three miles into the Arctic Circle, in the village of Kotzebue, Alaska, where more than 70 percent of the people are Eskimo, the local elementary school had guests one day: two Chabad shluchim (emissaries) from Anchorage, some 550 miles away.
Registration is underway in the Jewish Children’s Museum for the thousands of Shluchim who are pouring into Crown Heights for the annual Kinus, which will feature seminars, workshops and gatherings, and culminate this coming Sunday with the grand banquet.
770 Eastern Parkway was the address thousands turned to in search of wisdom, comfort, and a miracle. Just in time for this year’s Kinus, JEM released a film featuring eight first-hand accounts of miraculous healing in the wake of the Rebbe’s blessings.
CrownHeights.info got an exclusive sneak peak at the four new Sefrei Torah being prepared for the Grand Siyum, which will take place tonight. Rabbi Moshe Klein of Hasofer was commissioned to write these new Torahs, which are being dedicated to The Rebbe ‘who sent out Shluchim to care of Jews worldwide.’ The entire community is invited to attend!
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