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Congresswoman Yvette Clarke (D), who represents Crown Heights and the surrounding neighborhoods in the U.S. House of Representatives, has demonstrated that she does’t possess even a fourth grade level knowledge of the history of the district she represents.
Excitement is growing among children and parents alike over the soon-to-be released episode of Mitzvah Boulevard: Shuey Learns His Brochos. CrownHeights.info has obtained a sneak peak of what some of the scenes will look like.
Mendy (ben R’ Yossi) Korf (Crown Heights) and Sarah Glick (Crown Heights)
Lubavitcher Yeshiva, 570 Crown St. [hall entrance on Albany Ave.]
They sure don’t make ’em like they used to. Okay, first of all, back in my day, schools didn’t send out calendars to the homes. Today, every other day in the beginning of the year, your mailbox is getting stuffed with oversized envelopes.
Marking ‘Shloshim’ to the passing of philanthropist Sami Rohr, OBM, Shlucha to Binghamton University Rivkah Slonim penned the following reflection on one man’s enormous positive impact on the world. Plus: Photos from his last tour of Berlin – his birthplace, and the institutions that bear his name.
Craig Furst, of AAA Flag & Banner in Los Angeles, gives a back-stage pass to the making of the Chabad Telethon street banners. These instant-classic street banners were designed by modern guru of pop-art Romero Britto, who is passionate about giving back and has generously given of his talent to support this very worthy cause.
After four and a half years of trials and tribulations, isolated in his prison cell in Japan, Yakov Yosef ben Reizel is finally on his way home.
Instead of spending the month of Tishrei with her new husband in Crown Heights, the Lubavitcher woman from Kiryat Malachi who has been arrested for failing to follow up with her military draft requirements will spend Rosh Hashana, Yom Kippur and Sukkos in an Israeli jail.
Thanks to the amazing revival of Russian Jewry throughout the FSU, there is an ever growing demand for vibrant Jewish life and religious services amongst Jews of all ages. Yesterday, another Synagogue and JCC was opened to serve the growing community of Raminsky, Moscow.
Peretz Schapiro (Sydney, Australia) and Shternie Klein (Melbourne, Australia)
Menachem Mendel Levy (Buenos Aires, Argentina) and Devora Leah Ossowiecki (S. Paulo, Brazil)
Five-year-old Allie Jacobs of West Bloomfield just learned to walk in December. Allie was diagnosed with infantile spasm syndrome — a seizure disorder that can cause developmental delays — when she was 4 months old, said her mother, Jodie Jacobs.
The Obama administration has asked a federal court to stay out of US foreign and Russian internal affairs in the seven-year-old case brought against Russia by the Jewish sect Chabad. The government’s statement of interest leaves Chabad with what appears to be an unenforceable judgment.
A historic moment captured in this photograph has been making waves throughout the frum Jewish world. Both Satmar Rebbes, Reb Aharon Teitelbaum from Kiryas Yoel and Reb Zalman Teitelbaum from Williamsburg, who have been feuding for decades, have sat down together, along with other Admorim, Rabbonim and experts, to discuss how to reverse the growing opposition to the practice of Metzitzah B’Peh.
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Benny Friedman sings B’sheim Hashem, a tune from his upcoming album Yesh Tikvah, with Jewish singer Marc Levine.
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