London mayor Boris Johnson, currently in the midst of his re-election campaign, appears in this photograph with Rabbis Leivi and Zalman Sudak, Chabad Shluchim in Edgware, sporting the Lubavitcher headgear.
A newly released promo for Fox’s sit-com ‘New Girl’ has some eyebrows raised. The Rebbe’s name is mentioned, but not in the context you might have anticipated. Listen for yourself..
South Florida recently welcomed 22 shluchim and shluchos for an all-expense paid retreat courtesy of Merkos Suite 302’s Yaldei Shluchei HaRebbe, an organization dedicated to providing for the needs of shluchim with children with special needs.
The Crown Heights Softball League has released the team rosters for the upcoming 2012 season, which begins tomorrow, Thursday at the St. Johns Baseball field. Five teams: the Tribe, the Mad Hatters, the Kloppers, the Hebrew Hammers and the Red Heifers will face off all summer long, in good spirits and sportsmanship, vying for the 2012 championship title.
Mendy Tzfasman (Crown Heights) and Mimi (bas R’ Avraham) Simpson (Crown Heights)
L’chaim will be Thursday at Lubavitcher Yeshiva
570 Crown St. [hall entrance on Albany Ave.]
As the son of Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries, Yisroel Amar has grown up always on the lookout for ways to reach and inspire ever more people. All of 13, he’s seized upon the gift of an angelic voice as his preferred medium for channeling Jewish teachings and uplifting audiences in his corner of South Florida and beyond.
Republicans controlling the House are eying big cuts to food stamps as they piece together legislation to trim $261 billion from the federal budget over the next decade, hoping to forestall major Pentagon cutbacks.
A reader sent us this photo he snapped of a retail outlet on Coney Island Ave. and Kings Highway. Is it merely a technical malfunction or a deliberate case of anti-Semitic vandalism? You decide.
A Brooklyn man spent nearly a year behind bars on charges he abused an Orthodox Jewish woman — even though she recanted her accusation a day after making it.
Busy roads, choking air and thousands of people wandering the streets, tired after a tedious day at work. Children and homeless toddlers are scattered between sidewalks and begging mothers. Sunset brings with it the advent of Pesach, the Holiday of Freedom. I arrive at Bombay’s elegant Trident hotel in the heart of the prevailing stench outside.
A dialogue between Russia and the United States on the so-called Schneerson Library is possible only when the Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidic movement recalls its lawsuit from a U.S. court, said Russian officials.
Last December Crownheights.info’s Youtube Channel uploaded a shocking video of African-American teenagers jumping into the Kingston Ave. subway tracks and “playing chicken” with the train. The video has just gone viral and is being reported on by local, national and even international TV stations.
Scientists have long known that Type A personalities and people who are chronically angry, anxious or depressed have a higher risk of heart attacks. Now a Harvard review of the flip side of that psychology concludes that being upbeat and optimistic just may help protect against heart disease.
A South African game ranger might have assumed that the arrival of ‘the Messiah’ was imminent after witnessing what appeared to be the fulfillment of a biblical prophesy according to the Daily Mail.
Monday’s inauguration of the Feldinger Chabad Jewish Center in Basel gives this historic Jewish city a new lease on the future. It is the first time in 80 years that a synagogue has been dedicated in Switzerland’s second-largest Jewish community.
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