Big Hearted Jewish Brooklynites pile food on thousands of plates on Friday night, feeding hungry strangers they’ve met on a Facebook-styled site where collecting “invites” is key.
Bnei Brak’s Rabbi Moshe Yehuda Leib Landau has warned that turning on faucets in some multi-story apartment buildings leads to the desecration of Shabbat.
Two Oxford University students, Danny Kessler and Joshua Felberg, have set out on an ambitious project to review every synagogue in Britain. Along the way, they decided to include one U.S. synagogue in their review: 770. This is what they saw.
The above-mentioned is a question that any parent or decent person who is entrusted with children – such as a teacher or counselor – must ask him/herself constantly.
Zalmy Raksin (Crown Heights) and Chaya Berkowitz (Los Angeles, CA)
L’chaim tonight, Thursday at 646 Empire Blvd.
[between Kingston and Albany Ave.]
A Sefer Torah was completed in memory of Reb Zev Volf Greenglas on his first yartzait. Hundreds paraded through the snow on the streets of Montreal to pay their respects to the beloved Mashpia and the new Sefer Torah. The scroll was brought to the Tomchei Temimim of Montreal ‘Zal,’ where R’ Volf was Mashpia for 70 years.
Shea Schneider (Crown Heights) and Baily Shagalow (Crown Heights)
L’chaim will be Motzei Shabbos at the Jewish Children’s Museum
792 Eastern Pkwy. [corner Kingston Ave.]
It is every Shlucha’s dream to attend the Kinus Hashluchos, and take part in the workshops and sessions, meals and farbrengens in the spirit of Achdus.
Yossi (ben R’ Yisroel) Greenberg (Crown Heights) and Mushka (bas R’ Mendel) Zalmanov (Crown Heights)
L’chaim will be tonight, Thursday at Lubavitcher Yeshiva
570 Crown St. [hall entrance on Albany Ave.]
The Jewish community of Bobruisk, Belarus, which two months ago was forced to deal with several anti-Semitic acts of vandalism, now has a lot to celebrate.
Street parking could soon get a lot easier for drivers in the city. The Department of Transportation is launching a new program to take the stress out of finding a spot.
Average Brooklyn monthly rents surged 6.6% in 2011, to $2,322, and more affordable Crown Heights led the way in that growth as renters migrated inland looking for deals.
Wikipedia, the world’s free online encyclopedia, went dark on Wednesday and other Internet players including Google put black censorship bars on portions of their websites in protest of pending U.S. legislation designed to curb online piracy.
Rabbi Eli Cohen and Chanina Sperlin of the Crown Heights Jewish Community Council were spotted in this photograph at a support rally for Hakeem Jeffries, a Democrat who is launching a bid for congress against 30-year incumbent and fellow Democrat Ed Towns. In is speech, Jeffries swore to defend President Obama, stand up against the Republican party, bring more section-8 housing to the district and secure more funding for the public school system. [Update: Video added.]
Crown Heights [CHI] — Have you ever heard of ‘What Not to Wear’ and ‘Extreme Makeover,’ where a deserving person wins a whole new look? Well, Freeda Wigs staged the first fully tznius makeover ever, surprising internet personality Allison Josephs of ‘Jew in the City’ with a complete makeover. In the video, Allison discusses the importance of this mitzvah and makes mention of the Rebbe’s special connection to Freeda. Look out for the suprise at the end of the video!
East Flatbush [CHI] — In less than a year since a fire destroyed the East Flatbush Oholei Torah Kindergarten campus, the building is now near completion.
“Hasidic Jews are dedicated members of the Jewish community who are unreached with the Gospel. It is our hope and prayer that we might touch their lives through the new Messianic Center in Brooklyn.” Thus reads a statement on the website of the Chosen People Ministries, a prominent “Messianic Jewish” organization that is in the midst of renovating a building on Coney Island Avenue and Avenue P in the heart of Flatbush, Brooklyn, with one primary purpose – to serve as a base that will target the area’s large Orthodox Jewish community for recruitment to its services, and ultimately for conversion to its decidedly non-Jewish beliefs.
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