A man and a 12-year-old boy were shot inside a sneaker store on Utica Ave. and Union St. in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn last night.
The lucky winner of the first weekly JEM Raffle is none other than Enrique Montes from Austin, Texas! Enrique has dedicated his donation in honor of his dear Chabad Shluchim, Rabbi and Rebbitzen Levertov. He will receive an exclusive, beautiful 32” framed picture of the Rebbe.
In this 31st installment of the series, Rebbetzin Chana describes how a man, acting at the behest of the elder non-Hasidic rov of Yekatrinoslav, disguised himself as a stranger in town in order to falsely testify against Reb Levik’s dismissal of an incompetent shochet.
Housed in a dramatic stand-alone building on the corner of Coney Island Ave. and Ave. M, Wolf & Lamb is turning the Brooklyn neighborhood into a true dining destination. Part of the reason owner Zalman Wuensch, a Crown Heights resident, opened up in the area is its lack of great dinner spots.
Sunday night, May 20th, was the Gala Bat Mitzvah Celebration and Dinner, marking the Bat Mitzvah of fourteen girls, members of the South Broward Bat Mitzvah Club.
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All of Anash are invited to participate in the Shloshim for Reb Avrohom Yeshaya Schtroks, OBM, which will take place on Tuesday at Rabbinical College of America in Morristown, NJ, at 8:00 PM.
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Bnos Chomesh students awoke on Lag Ba’omer to a sunny and warm day, eagerly anticipating their outing to Central Park.
As every year, from Yud Shevat through Yud Alef Nissan, students of Cheder Menachem in Los Angeles prepared a special and most befitting present for the Rebbe – their annual Mishnayos Be’Al peh program. Together, the talmidim learned and were tested on a total of over 158,864 lines of Mishnayos, Tanya, Siddur and ‘Yediyos Kloliyos.’
At daybreak last Thursday, 1,300 people were moved at the annual Community Prayer Breakfast at Harborside Event Center.
Assemblyman Dov Hikind (D-Brooklyn) and New York State Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos made history today when they unveiled an extensive security initiative designed to protect residents of Borough Park and Midwood.
Jewish students at the University of North Texas now have a home away from home with the opening of a new campus Chabad House run by Rabbi Levi and Leah Dubrawsky, who moved up the I-35 corridor to Denton from the Dallas area just two months ago. Drawn by UNT’s growing Jewish student population, the couple is part of an ever-expanding network of hundreds of Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries concentrating on campus communities.
Residents of Crown Heights awoke this morning to find a package containing booklets and DVDs on their doorsteps. The envelope says it is sent by the “Israel Restoration Ministries,” but a quick glance inside affirms the source of the material: Missionaries targeting new converts to Christianity. Please be advised of the content before bringing it into your home.
It has become a phenomenon that many woman and girls eagerly await each year: the Keren Simchas Choson Ve’kallah’s Ice Cream Social. This year’s event is Game Night, Ice Cream Social & Mini Auction; it will take place this Tuesday, May 22nd / Rosh Chodesh Sivan, 6:30 PM at Beis Rivkah, 470 Lefferts Ave. [corner Brooklyn Ave.]
Yosef and Sara (nee Abrahamson) Seigel (Crown Heights)
Michael and Zelda (nee Gutnick) Lerner (Crown Heights)
Drivers and their passengers better make sure they’re buckled up. State police will be running a two-week crackdown on seatbelts starting Monday and running through June 3.
Mordechai and Joelle (nee Cohn) Wilshinsky (Crown Heights)
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