All but lost amid the heated talk about a possible Israeli attack on Iran’s suspect nuclear program are the thousands of Jews who live in the Islamic Republic and could be caught in the middle.
Having literally landed in the early hours of the morning and without sleep going on 30 hours, Mrs. Fruma Schapiro returned from addressing the Kinus Hashluchos in New York to immediately greet her congregants and Baalei Baatim at the annual gala dinner of Chabad of the North Shore, Australia. It was a magnificent evening celebrating 23 years of incredible spiritual growth and expansion of the St.Ives and North Shore Jewish community.
[3:50pm EST] Hatzalah has just notified us that all regular emergency numbers have been restored and are now working properly.
The temporary number can now be discarded and everyone is asked to resume using the regular numbers (718) 387-1750 or (718) 230-1000. Hatzalah also asked that people DO NOT try to ‘check out’ if it is working.
R’ Mendel Minkoff is sitting Shiva after the passing of his father, R’ Kalman OBM, at 580 Crown St. [between Albany and Troy Ave.] Apt. 509.
Shachris: 7:30
Mincha: 6:45
Maariv: 7:45
Nichum Aveilim between 7:30 AM – 9:00 AM and 4:30 PM – 10:00 PM
Please send memories and condolences to: minkofffamily@gmail.com
Hamakom Yenachem Eschem Besoch She’ar Aveilei Tzion VeYerushalayim
A terrible calamity has befallen one Florida Chabad House when an uninvited man showed up at their Purim party, became highly intoxicated, and subsequently died. Local news outlets pounced on the story, and a huge whirlwind of myths and speculation about what happened is spiraling out of control. In an exclusive interview with Crownheights.info, the local Shluchim described in minute detail exactly what transpired that day.
One of the United Synagogue’s most high-profile rabbis, Yitzchak Schochet, says he has not applied to be chief rabbi, claiming that the United Synagogue of Great Britain would not accept a Lubavitch candidate.
Congregation Ahavas Moshe in Crown Heights, commonly known as The Maple Street Shul, will be holding their annual Melave Malka this week.
Yossi and Basya (nee Greenman) Hyams (Elizabeth, NJ)
The annual Rambam learning cycle has just begun a new and there is an easy and fun new way to keep up with the one-chapter-a-day of the Rambam’s Mishnah Torah.
Kol Menachem is having a big sale on their award winning Haggadah ahead of Pesach. To order your Copy Today click here!
In the late 1980s, years before the internet boom and long before anyone would pair Jewish outreach to computing, Rabbi Yosef Y. Kazen could be found sitting before a mammoth computer, dispatching Jewish texts across the globe.
Levi Newman (Long Beach, California) and Sorah Chaya Procel (Melbourne, Australia)
L’Chaim tonight, Thursday at Empire Shteibel
489 Empire Blvd [between Brooklyn and New York Ave]
A recent act of vandalism won’t stop a Folsom, California synagogue from practicing their faith.
In honor of the month of Adar, a reader sent us this humorous poem (re: op-ed) about the things Lubavitchers talk about in Crownheights.info op-eds:
Beth Rivkah High School of Montreal, in conjunction with Chaya Mushka Seminary, presented an amazing and truly inspiring production – “Solika Hatzadekes.”
Mordy Richler (Los Angeles, CA) and Shaina Simons (sydney, Australia)
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