For two days campers and staff at Gan Yisroel-Parksville participated in plays, competitions, songs, comedy skits and – most importantly – Mishnayos Ba’al Peh. The battle between teams red and blue culminated in the ‘Grand Sing,’ where the entire camp gathered in the Shul for hours of lively song and inspiration.
Shmuly and Leah (nee Schapiro) Klein
1429 President St. [between Kingston and Albany Ave.]
Zalmen and Dishy (nee Blachman) Zarchi
770 Montgomery St. [between Albany and Troy Ave.]
Mendy and Chaya (nee Goldstein) Zarchi
770 Montgomery St. [between Albany and Troy Ave.]
Levi and Rochel (nee Deitsch) Eisenberg
518 Crown St. [between Kingston and Albany Ave.]
Yitzy and Menucha (nee Fajnland) Geisinsky
727 Empire Blvd. [between Albany and Troy Ave.]
Binyomin and Sarah Rivkah Nemon
580 Crown St. [between Albany and Troy Ave.] Apt. 611
Benyomin and Chanie Kosofsky
536 Montgomery St. [between Brooklyn and New York Ave.]
Yosef and Tanya (nee Yakubov) Yakobov
481 Crown St. Apt B3 [Corner of Crown and Kingston Ave.]
This Shabbos at the Besht, Rabbi Chaim Dalfin will lead a discussion on the topic, The Lubavitch Elul Wind.
Chaim Shalom Gross (Los Angeles, CA) and Nechama Dina Wagshul (Crown Heights)
L’chaim will be Sunday at 618 Montgomery St.
[between Kingston and Brooklyn Ave.]
With great sadness we inform you of the sudden and untimely passing of Shmuli Backman from Albany, NY at the age of 27.
The Rebbe addresses the annual pre-Rosh Hashanah Jewish women’s convention at 770 on the 27th of Elul, 5741 (1980).
CrownHeights.info and the Avner Institute present this unique photo of the Rebbe seeing off a guest in the mid 1970s.
Taxation, immigration, health care: What is the Jewish perspective on the hot button issues of today? Drawing on sources from the Torah, this video series examines hotly debated contemporary political issues from an authentic Jewish perspective.
On a recent Thursday at the Crown Heights Farmers Market, George Chang is stuffing his shopping bags full of callaloo, a leafy green that comes in big bunches and looks like a cross between spinach and basil.
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Christopher Colvill, 41, of Liberty, New York was sentenced today to three to six years in prison for his role in stealing and possessing a $35,000 Torah scroll from the Landfield Avenue Synagogue in Monticello last December in order to collect the $6,000 reward money. Colvill was also fined $5,000.
Mendy and Chaya (nee Goldstein) Zarchi (Crown Heights)
Sholom Zochor will be at 770 Montgomery St.
[between Albany and Troy Ave.]
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Two Rabbis from New York made their way through Lewiston, Idaho Monday as part of the Idaho “Roving Rabbi” tour.
A Grand Children’s Tzivos Hashem Rally in honor of Erev Rosh Chodesh Elul, along with an exciting acrobat show by The Twins from France, was held today in the Oholei Torah Ballroom, with participation of Machane Mamosh, Gan Menachem, Ohr Menachem and the Oholei Torah Kindergarten Day Camp.
Is Chabad Lubavitch? Is Lubavitch Chabad? Are the two terms – “Chabad” and “Lubavitch” – synonymous? Chabad is an acronym; Lubavitch is a town. Chabad represents a hassidic philosophy; Lubavitch the ancestral home of a hassidic court. They are not synonymous. Cryptic though it may sound, Lubavitch is Chabad, but Chabad is not only Lubavitch.
Two days after trying to force his way into a Montgomery St. home, Crown Heights’ late-night thief was back in action. Surveillance video caught this unidentified middle-aged African-American male stealing a bicycle from inside the 580 Crown St. condos at around 5:00am last Thursday.
Following 15 years of education and hundreds of alumni from around the world, Yeshivat Tzeirei HaShluchim has announced that it will be closed for the upcoming school year in order to implement a massive renewal plan, promising to “fundamentally alter the way the yeshiva is organized and run.”
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