New Engagement!
Yossi Lifshitz (Kfar Chabad, Israel) and Leah Eizenberg (Kfar Chabad, Israel)

Op-Ed: Dangers of Alcohol Must Be Addressed
Most people in our community consider it chassidish to make a L’chaim at various occasions. Whether it’s an engagement, wedding, bris, yortzeit, farbrengen or gathering of any type – it’s an occasion to have a drink.
Photo Gallery: Lag Ba’omer, 1980
From the archives of Shmuel Zalmanov, we present a never-before-seen gallery of photos of the Rebbe attending the Lag Ba’omer parade which took place in front of 770 in 1980. Additionally, we present a copy of an invitation which was sent out for the Lag Ba’omer parade in 1967, only a few days before the Six Day War.
Photos: French Shluchim Gather for Regional Kinus
Hundreds of Shluchim from all over France gathered in Paris today for the annual regional Kinus, where they listened to lectures and attended workshops in an effort to boost their activities and reach out to even more Jews than before.

Thieves Stealing Manhole Covers In New York City
Thieves have waltzed off with more than 30 cast-iron manhole covers from thoroughfares in Brooklyn, The Bronx and Queens since March, Con Edison said Thursday, presumably selling the 320-pound discs for scrap, officials said.
The president of the French Jewish student organization has called on the University of Toulouse to combat anti-Semitism after a dialogue conducted by Israeli students last week was disrupted by protests’ hateful threats and chants.
Jewish Students Attacked at Toulouse University
The president of the French Jewish student organization has called on the University of Toulouse to combat anti-Semitism after a dialogue conducted by Israeli students last week was disrupted by protests’ hateful threats and chants.

Op-Ed: A Too-High Price for ‘Faith Healing’
The practice of “faith healing” carries obvious dangers, such as discouraging those who need conventional medical help from seeking it. When the “healer” charges for it, the obvious worry is financial exploitation of the vulnerable and naïve.
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Weekly Photo: From Days Gone By
Crownheights.info and Lubavitch Archives present this vintage photograph of an outdoor gathering. Can you identify those in the picture, when and where it was taken?
Answer to last week’s photo in the extended article

Monday: Rally at the Ohel!
IYH this Monday, 15 Iyar (May 7), there will be a rally at the Ohel for all children ages 5 to 12.
Buses will leave 770 at 5:00 PM and return at 7:45 PM. Transportation will cost $3.

Early Bird Registration Opens for Summer Kinusim
Registration for the Merkos Chinuch Office summer Conferences has opened.

Six Torah Scrolls Missing from Tzfas Shul
Shul goers were shocked this morning when they arrived for Shacharis at the Tzemach Tzedek Shul in the Old City of Tzfas. They found the Aron Kodesh broken and six Sifrei Torah stolen. Some of the Sifrei Torah were antique.

Lakewood Rosh Yeshiva Clarifies Statement on Chabad
Following reports that he had disparaged Chabad in a meeting with the Satmar Rebbe regarding participation in the upcoming “antinet” gathering in Citi Field, Rabbi Malkiel Kotler, Rosh Yeshiva of Beis Medrash Gevohah in Lakewood, released the following statement:
Fire Breaks Out in Home of Crown Heights Rov
A fire broke out in the Montgomery Street home of Crown Heights’ senior rov, Rabbi Avrohom Osdoba, leaving the rov – and another family renting out their bottom floor – in need of a place to stay only a couple of hours before Shabbos.

New York’s La Guardia Worst Airport in the US
Travel & Leisure magazine named La Guardia the nation’s worst major air hub for customer comfort.

Friendship Circle Café Helps Special Needs Children
It is dinner hour on a Wednesday evening and the Mozart Café in Deerfield Beach is filled. Servers scurry around the Israeli-owned kosher dairy restaurant. But on this night the servers are special needs children and teen volunteers from the Chabad of Parkland’s Friendship Circle of North Broward and South Palm Beach.
Vintage footage of the Lag Ba'omer Parade in front of 770, which took place on May 19, 1957.
Weekly Living Torah Video: Lag Ba’omer Parade, 1957
Vintage footage of the Lag Ba’omer Parade in front of 770, which took place on May 19, 1957.
4 Sholom Zochors This Week!
Meir and Shiffy Shimshoni
431 Brooklyn Ave. [bet Montgomery St. and Empire Blvd.]
Levi and Tzippy (nee Marosov) Israel
810 Montgomery St. [between Albany and Troy Ave.]
Zalmi and Esty (nee Goldstein) Katz
694 Montgomery St. [between Kingston and Albany Ave.]
Meir and Shterna Shur
645 Lefferts Ave. [corner Albany Ave.] Apt. 3B