Students of United Lubavitcher Yeshiva of Ocean Parkway participated in Fleet Week’s Tallship OP-Sail. Students in grades 3-8 got exclusive tours of the French Etoile and Belle Poule and Mexican Cuauhtemoc – all military training vessels.
Looking in her cupboard last week, Shulamis Labkowski got a morsel of unwelcome news. The mother of three from Oakland, Calif., inspected three bags of Trader Joe’s semisweet chocolate chips, a staple in her kosher kitchen. They were alike in all ways but one: Two of them had a small D on the label, meaning they were classified as dairy under Jewish dietary laws.
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This week members of the advisory committee for Crown Heights Young Entrepreneurs (CHYE) gathered to discuss the launch of a new mentorship program.
Yechiel and Chana Devorah (nee Perl) Goldberg (Crown Heights)
Sholom Zochor will be at 7 Balfour Place, Apt. F5
Crownheights.info and the Avner Institute present this unique collection of photos of the Rebbe standing by the Torah over the years.
At a private event for Shuvu held in Flatbush last night, noted speaker Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Jacobson, spiritual leader of Congregation Beis Shmuel Chabad in Crown Heights and dean of TheYeshiva.net, spoke passionately about the importance of valuing each and every Jew, no matter what their affiliation or their current state of religiosity.
A man in police custody has confessed to strangling Etan Patz, the boy whose disappearance 33 years ago sparked the movement to put the faces of missing children on milk cartons, the New York Times is reporting.
In the days leading up to Shavuos, the Bochurim of the Oholei Torah Mesivta traveled to Borough Park for a farher from Rabbi Yitzchok Raitport, a loyal friend and supporter of Oholei Torah.
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Some 200 students gathered recently at the Berman Theater inside of the Jewish Community Center of West Bloomfield, MI for the “Upstander Unite” event.
Rabbi Chaim Shteiner, a Lubavitcher Chossid from the Nachlat Har Chabad neighborhood in Kiryat Malachi, was elected mayor of that city after former mayor Otto Malka was arrested for corruption.
Michoel Kerendian (Charlotte, NC / Chicago, IL) and Leah Bermann (North Hollywood, CA)
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Crownheights.info and Lubavitch Archives present this vintage photograph of three Chassidim engaged in a lively discussion. Can you identify those in the picture, when and where it was taken?
Answer to last week’s photo in the extended article
The Chabad Torah Center of West Bloomfield, MI celebrated its 38th annual dinner on Monday night, May 21, at the Novi Sheraton Hotel.
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A lengthy dispute over plans by the Chabad House to build a 12,000-square-foot synagogue in the middle of a Sherman Oaks residential neighborhood continued to generate controversy on Tuesday.
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.
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