Republicans controlling the House are eying big cuts to food stamps as they piece together legislation to trim $261 billion from the federal budget over the next decade, hoping to forestall major Pentagon cutbacks.
A reader sent us this photo he snapped of a retail outlet on Coney Island Ave. and Kings Highway. Is it merely a technical malfunction or a deliberate case of anti-Semitic vandalism? You decide.
A Brooklyn man spent nearly a year behind bars on charges he abused an Orthodox Jewish woman — even though she recanted her accusation a day after making it.
Busy roads, choking air and thousands of people wandering the streets, tired after a tedious day at work. Children and homeless toddlers are scattered between sidewalks and begging mothers. Sunset brings with it the advent of Pesach, the Holiday of Freedom. I arrive at Bombay’s elegant Trident hotel in the heart of the prevailing stench outside.
A dialogue between Russia and the United States on the so-called Schneerson Library is possible only when the Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidic movement recalls its lawsuit from a U.S. court, said Russian officials.
Last December Crownheights.info’s Youtube Channel uploaded a shocking video of African-American teenagers jumping into the Kingston Ave. subway tracks and “playing chicken” with the train. The video has just gone viral and is being reported on by local, national and even international TV stations.
Scientists have long known that Type A personalities and people who are chronically angry, anxious or depressed have a higher risk of heart attacks. Now a Harvard review of the flip side of that psychology concludes that being upbeat and optimistic just may help protect against heart disease.
A South African game ranger might have assumed that the arrival of ‘the Messiah’ was imminent after witnessing what appeared to be the fulfillment of a biblical prophesy according to the Daily Mail.
Monday’s inauguration of the Feldinger Chabad Jewish Center in Basel gives this historic Jewish city a new lease on the future. It is the first time in 80 years that a synagogue has been dedicated in Switzerland’s second-largest Jewish community.
I penned this op-ed as a response to the one titled “The Decline of Tomchei Temimim.” First of all, contrary to the title’s suggestion, this isn’t a new concept. Yeridas hadoros is normal, not breaking news.
Shlomie and Mirel’e (nee Zlatopolsky) Silver (Crown Heights)
Boruch Losh (Crown Heights) and Libby Perl (Crown Heights)
L’Chaim will be Thursday at Lubavitcher Yeshiva
570 Crown St. [hall entrance on Albany Ave.]
Although she was initially unsure whether science could effectively influence national policy, Harvard Medical School psychobiology professor Bertha Madras discovered how she could use her background as a researcher to address the problems of drug addiction and youth drug use, she said in a Monday lecture.
The Jewish community in Phoenix, Arizona, is doing everything it can for Sashie Levertov, a local educator battling leukemia after a February diagnosis. Many women are reciting portions of Psalms in the merit of her recovery, baking challah and lighting Shabbat candles, while children at Levertov’s Aleph Bet Preschool and Kindergarten have made quilts and offered prayers using the Chabad-Lubavitch emissary’s Hebrew name, Sasha bat Bluma.
Shaul Spitzer, a follower of the Skverer Rebbe, has been sentenced to seven years in prison for first-degree assault in the attack on Aron Rottenberg at 4:15 a.m. May 22 during an attempt to burn down the family’s home on Truman Avenue in New Square.
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