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CHYE Announces New Mentorship Program
This week members of the advisory committee for Crown Heights Young Entrepreneurs (CHYE) gathered to discuss the launch of a new mentorship program.
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Baby Boy!
Yechiel and Chana Devorah (nee Perl) Goldberg (Crown Heights)
Sholom Zochor will be at 7 Balfour Place, Apt. F5
Weekly Unique Photos of the Rebbe!
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.
Video: Chazon Ish Did Not Give Up on At-Risk Student
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.
Man Confesses to 1979 Killing of Jewish Child
FBI and NYPD law enforcement officials search a SoHo basement at the corner of Wooster and Prince streets for the possible remains of missing child Etan Patz. Inset: Etan in 1978.
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.
Mesivta Students Tested in Borough Park
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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Friendship Circle Takes a Stand Against Bullying
Oakland Press
Left: Students from five Metro Detroit high schools gathered together for the final culmination of eight months of an anti-bullying training program. Right: Mrs. Bassie Shemtov, Director of Friendship Circle and Upstander.
Some 200 students gathered recently at the Berman Theater inside of the Jewish Community Center of West Bloomfield, MI for the “Upstander Unite” event.
Lubavitcher Chossid Elected Mayor of Israeli City
Rabbi Chaim Shteiner. Photo: Shturem.
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.
New Engagement!
Michoel Kerendian (Charlotte, NC / Chicago, IL) and Leah Bermann (North Hollywood, CA)
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Weekly Photo: From Days Gone By
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
Chabad of West Bloomfield Celebrates 38 Years
Rabbi Israel Mayer Lau, former Chief Rabbi of Israel, talks about his childhood in the Holocaust.
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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Court Rules Against North Hollywood Chabad House
LA Daily News
Neighbors of Chabad of North Hollywood are unhappy with the construction of the building along Chandler Boulevard.
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.
Public School Children Receive Torahs for Shavuos
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.
Winners of Halacha Competition Rewarded
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.
Guide: Laws and Customs of Shavuot
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.
Kids Enjoy Camp Reunion in South African Winter
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.
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