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Op-Ed: Crown Heights Is Ready for an Eruv
It’s been a year since my wife and I got married and chose to settle in the nice and friendly neighborhood of Crown Heights. Since then, we’ve been blessed with a beautiful baby girl, who brings much light and joy into our new home. But, one thing has changed for the worse since this wonderful gift has come into our lives: every Shabbos, my wife and I are stuck in our apartment, as if it has become our jail cell.
Winners of the 8th Day Concert Tickets Announced!
Out of 1,548 raffle entries two lucky winners were chosen late Wednesday night. The winners are going to the 8th Day Concert this Motzai Shabbos along with three other family members or friends!
Uncovering Chabad in Cancun
It’s ironic that after growing up so close to the large Jewish community in Skokie, Illinois that I would finally get my Jewish education from a Hasidic Rabbi in Cancun, Mexico. The Jewish community that I stumbled across in Cancun is an oasis of familiarity for Jews in Mexico. Not only do Rabbi Mendel Druk and his wife Rebbetzin Rachel Druk provide one of the only kosher meals in Cancun; they also offer an opportunity for their fellow Jews to reconnect with their faith and heritage by bringing them closer to each other and to God.
Mending Fences Made Easier by Focus on Love
You needn’t look far for evidence of great rifts in Israeli society, fractures whose beginnings stretch back generations.
Violence to Preserve Judaism, or Diversity of Opinion?
Various non-mainstream Haredi (ultra-Orthodox) communities in Israel and in the U.S. are clashing with western values embraced by less religious Jews. Daily reports are breaking out of Haredi sects imposing forced gender segregation on buses, spitting on women in the streets who are deemed immodest and rioting against anyone who is perceived different.
Baby Boy!
Bentzion and Sarah Chaya Elisha (Crown Heights)
Baby Girl!
Dovid and Chana Slava (nee Eidelman) Perl (Crown Heights)
Baby Girl!
Chaim and Shaina (nee Turk) Lipsh (Crown Heights)
Last year it was livery cabs, and this year it could be fingerprinting for food stamps.
Gov. Cuomo: End Fingerprinting for Food Stamps
Last year it was livery cabs, and this year it could be fingerprinting for food stamps.
Good Morning, Vietnam
The words of the song “Wherever you go there’s always someone Jewish” by Rabbi Larry Milder, have stuck with me since I first heard them as a child. I was reminded of them over winter break when I connected with a Jewish community during my recent trip to Vietnam.
New Engagement!
Eliezer Tatuk (Maimi, FL) and Chaya Mushka Elbaz (Paris, France)
Lechaim tonight, Wednesday 510 Crown Street #3C
[between Kingston and Albany Ave]
New Engagement!
Ari Levy (Flatbush) and Rochel Ahern (Crown Heights)
L’chaim Motzei Shabbos at 1498 President St.
[between Albany and Troy Ave.]
Rebbetzin Chana’s Memoirs: Bread from Heavan
In this 13th installment of the series, Rebbetzin Chana describes how she and her husband Reb Levik managed to acquire bread for Shabbos at the last moment.
In First Primary Battleground, Jews Are Non-Factor
As the nation’s political attention pivots from Iowa to New Hampshire this week, Rabbi Levi Krinsky, the emissary of Chabad Lubavitch in Manchester for the past 22 years, is feeling a little lonely.
