Residents of Crown Heights walked together on Thursday evening in a peace march to end gun violence, but also to call attention to increased safety in the neighborhood in recent years.
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Six cases of childhood measles have been reported in Brooklyn over the last two weeks, the New York City health department said Friday, contributing to a spike in measles cases this year.
A powerful 7.2-magnitude earthquake struck eastern Turkey on Sunday, collapsing dozens of buildings into piles of twisted steel and chunks of concrete. Desperate survivors dug into the rubble with their bare hands, trying to rescue the trapped and injured. State-run television reported that 45 people were killed and 150 others injured in the eastern town of Ercis, but scientists estimated that up to 1,000 people could already be dead, due to low housing standards in the area and the size of the quake.
A story about the Rebbe from a Litvish ‘Hoch Ah Chainik’ who used to live in Crown Heights, Bochurim who got lost in Manhattan get invited to join the Occupied Wall Street Hakafos and a closed Chabad House in Williamsburg leads a group to join the Satmar Rebbe for Hakofos in the main Shul on Kent Avenue. Read these readers experiences on Tahalucha!
He is a 30-year-old college student who gets by on loans and freelance jobs as a legal assistant and public notary. He does not have a bank account. He does not have a credit card. When he says he lives paycheck to paycheck, he means it quite literally: If he runs out of the money he keeps in the (sometimes torn) pocket of his pants, it means he has nothing until his next check comes along.
It’s a tough time to be one of New York’s Finest. With the NYPD facing a blizzard of damning incidents in recent months, cops and police brass say morale among the force is perilously low.
A goodwill visit to San Francisco and the Sonoma Coast by a big, handsome Russian sailing ship was suddenly canceled Friday, the result of a complicated legal problem that involves both history and cultural treasures.
Israeli police say a 20-year-old yeshiva student has been stabbed by a Palestinian assailant in Jerusalem yesterday.
Efraim Gershowitz is sitting shiva after the passing of his dear mother Batya Pessa OBM, at 821 eastern pkwy until Thursday.
Shacharis: 9:30 Mincha: 5:30 Maariv: B’Zman
Phone: 917-355-9459
Hamokom Yenachem Eschem Besoch Shaar Avaylay Tzion VeYerushalayim.
Mendy and Shayna (nee Bloch) Bukiet (Los Angeles, CA)
Dovid and Ruta (nee Greenberg) Okonov (Brighton Beach, NY)
Over 1000 people partook in the ‘second Hakafos’ at the Ma’arat Hamachpelah in Chevron, organized by local Shliach Rabbi Danny Cohen.
Hundreds made their way all over the city to bring the joy of Simchas Torah to many Shuls around the New York City area, walking as far as the Bronx or as close as Park Slope. We want YOU to share your Tahalucha experience with CrownHeights.info readers.
Immanuel and Rochie Storfer (N. Miami Beach, FL)
Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi’s last moments Thursday were as violent as the uprising that overthrew him.
As word of Gilad Shalt’s release from Gaza broke Tuesday afternoon in Israel, Rabbis Yosef Lipsker, Elazar Kenig and Rabbi Yaakov Fridman, Chabad’s emissaries to the Russian Federation, joined members of the Israeli embassy in celebration. Arriving at the courtyard of the embassy in Moscow, they set up a portable sukkah.
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