This weekend, Shabbos Parshas Vayeira, over 900 students and 100 Shluchim and Shluchos will be coming to Crown Heights for the largest open gathering of Jewish students in America.
Photographer Itsik Roytman captured the sights, sounds — and smells (!) of this year’s Kosherfest, the world’s largest kosher products trade event, which took place across the Hudson River in Secaucus, New Jersey. Among the participants were many Kosher food purveyors from Crown Heights, as well as Israel’s Chief Rabbi Yona Metzger.
Shloimie Ascher (Crown Heights) and Devorah Bard-Wigdor (Crown Heights)
L’Chaim Sunday, November 13th at Chovevei Torah
885 Eastern Pkwy [between Albany and Troy Ave]
US Supreme Court Justices seemed divided during arguments on Monday over whether they should wade into a dispute between Congress and the executive branch over the status of Jerusalem.
Ezriel and Gitty (nee Wolf) Rappoport (Crown Heights)
For her entry in Tzivos Hashem’s Jewish Kids Got Talent II contest, 5 year-old Chana Kahn of Tarzana, California, shows the lines of Tanya she knows by-heart.
Astronomers are tracking an asteroid about the size of an aircraft carrier that on Tuesday will pass by Earth, within the moon’s orbit, in the closest approach of such an object in a generation.
Chabad of SE Morris County will once again be providing Thanksgiving dinners free of charge to individuals throughout Morris County who are alone or home bound during the holiday. Catered dinners will be delivered by volunteers to the homes of those in need on Thanksgiving morning, helping to share the holiday spirit with others.
Sholom and Sarale Lesches (Montreal, Canada)
A beautiful two story building, registered by the city of Hollywood as “historic”, which was originally built in the early 1920’s, and for the first part of the last century was a Methodist Temple, was recently purchased by Chabad of Northeast Hollywood/Shul of the Lakes.
Last Wednesday the Talmidim Hashluchim to Toras Emes departed to their post in Jerusalem. This year marks a centennial of Shlichus to the Yeshivah, with the first group being sent by the Rebbe Rashab who founded the Yeshiva in 5672 – 1912.
Would a compassionate and loving G-d order the murder of a man’s only son? This video takes an in-depth look at the enigmatic tale of Abraham’s sacrifice, its role as a turning point in Jewish thought and its meaning to each of us in our daily lives.
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — Did you know that you are only allowed to park for up to two hours at a time in front of the stores on Kingston Avenue? Traffic agents have been spotted on Kingston issuing parking tickets for this very violation.
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — Not even a full week has passed since the completion of the Kingston Avenue paving and the much dreaded sounds of jackhammers have returned. A crew of construction workers was busy cutting up the fresh asphalt at the intersection of President Street this morning.
Rabbi Nosson Tzvi Finkel, head of the famed Mir Yeshiva in Jerusalem and member of the Torah Council of Sages of Degel HaTorah, passed away early Tuesday morning at the age of 68. He apparently suffered a heart attack.
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