In honor of Shavuos, a long time donor approached Rabbi Shazak Zirkind, Director of Released Time, to donate 17 inch Torahs which were to be distributed to the public school children who attend the Released Time Program under the auspices of NCFJE.
Shoneh Halachos is a program for eighth grade boys to encourage and guide them in the study of Halacha with the Alter Rebbe’s Psak which is clearly explained through notations made by Rabbi Levi Bistritzky a”h – former Rav of Tzfat. It was established by the Igud Menahalei Yeshivos of Crown Heights for Oholei Menachem and United Lubavitcher Yeshiva of Crown Street, with the goal to expand the knowledge of Halacha and Yiras Shamayim of the talmidim of our community.
Ahead of the upcoming Yom Tov of Shavuot the Beis Din of Crown Heights released a six page guide which holds the answer to many questions and instruction as to many customs related to the holiday.
While school children and camps around the world are warming up for summer, in South Africa’s Cape Town they are buttoning up for another winter; the Summer’s December holiday is a distant memory.
What a surreal picture! At a busy and noisy construction site, workers in white or yellow helmets mix cement, while others carry blocks or lift steel rods. In the midst of it all stands a bearded man wearing a black helmet, a black suit, white shirt and a tie.
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Life is anything but rosy for illegal flower peddlers in Borough Park. Cops in the predominantly Hasidic neighborhood are cracking down on the unlicensed hawkers after legit florists complained they are costing them between $5,000 and $10,000 a week in sales.
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An annual New York City tradition begins Wednesday, as Fleet Week kicks off with the Parade of Ships along the Hudson River.
In honor of the upcoming Yom Tov of Shavuos, students in Lubavitcher Yeshiva’s Pre-1A took a ‘field trip’ to Kingston Avenue, where they went to work planting beautiful flowers in the tree beds.
Rabbi Avraham Chazan, Shliach in Lod, Israel, arranged for about 20 boys from immigrant and underprivileged homes to celebrate their Bar Mitzvah with much fanfare. The celebration took place on Monday, Erev Rosh Codesh Sivan; it began with a visit to the Knesset, continued with the main event at the Western Wall, and ended with a festive banquet at the Kaliv halls in Jerusalem.
Meir Pliskin, a photographer from Crown Heights, got whacked for taking pictures of the Monsey Viznitzer Rebbe at the Citi Field internet gathering on Sunday.
In a Psak Din issued by the Beis Din Ohel Chaim, the Dayanim ruled today against R. Yosef Braun for steadfastly refusing to appear and be judged by the Beis Din. The Dayanim wrote that “according to din we should be issuing a Ksav Siruv [against R. Braun], and anyone who wishes to ask Halacha questions by him should get permission from accepted rabbinic sources first.”
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The NYPD is seeking the public’s assistance with the whereabouts of Gerald Spears, who is wanted in connection with the shooting of a man and a 12-year-old boy in crown Heights.
There is an old American saying: “Getting Old is Mandatory, Growing Up is Optional.” This morning I discovered that the option of growing up was not approved by the local Beis Din: as I walked past the Badatz offices, I saw what looked like a Meah Shearim wall after a torrential rain. But it wasn’t an act of G-d, it was an act of babies masquerading as Rabbis.
A senior delegation of the Rabbinical Congress for Peace (RCP) met today with Ambassador Andrew Standley, the Head of the European Union in Israel, to present the Torah view on the issue of giving up land to the Arabs.
beat the Yom Tov rush at Gombos and place your order as soon as possible! Gombos is offers 22 different cheese items and 8 different flavors of cheese cakes in all different sizes! Now offering special slashed pricing.
Zalman Levine (Crown Heights) and Simcha Beila Haviv (France)
You usually don’t think of organ donation as something to celebrate. Don’t tell that to the people of Renewal. Last Thursday over 300 people got together for a lavish reception at the Renaissance Ballroom in Brooklyn to honor their kidney donors, an elite group of selfless individuals who have given the gift of life to others, often to complete strangers.
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