CrownHeights.info and the Avner Institute would like present a series of Photos of the Rebbe at davening mincha in the winter of 1974, with special thanks to the Schildkraut and Gal families.
Weekly Unique Photos of the Rebbe
CrownHeights.info and the Avner Institute would like present a series of Photos of the Rebbe at davening mincha in the winter of 1974, with special thanks to the Schildkraut and Gal families.

Spiritual, Organic Jewish Living in Bat Ayin
Rachel Fragin’s recollections of growing up Jewish in Leningrad are interrupted by bleating from her 15 goats which supply her family and neighbors with organic goat milk, yogurt, cheese.
The “in foreclosure” sign has not yet gone up in front of the Richmond Torah Center in San Francisco, but it will unless a last-ditch fundraising effort succeeds.
San Francisco Chabad House in a Fight for Its Life
The “in foreclosure” sign has not yet gone up in front of the Richmond Torah Center in San Francisco, but it will unless a last-ditch fundraising effort succeeds.

1000 Attend Chabad of West Hempstead Lag B’omer
On Sunday, Lag B’omer, Chabad of West Hempstead hosted a grand BBQ and community celebration at Hempstead Lake State Park with well over 1000 in attendance!
New Engagement!
Yossi Illulian (Beverly Hills, CA) and Chaya Mushka Tayeb (France)
L’Chaim Tonight at 1397 Carroll Street
[between Kingston and Albany Ave]
Baby Girl!
Mendy and Ester Bleier (N. Miami Beach, FL)

Bethaynu to be Friendship Circle’s new home
Friendship Circle of Cleveland has reached a deal with Congregation Bethaynu to purchase the Conservative congregation’s former facility on Gates Mills Blvd. in Pepper Pike.
Volenteers Raise Over $7k for Sholom
In a few short days, the latest effort in the campaign for justice for Sholom Rubashkin has taken over the streets of Crown Heights. What began as a few posters and some volunteers has become a community cause.
President Street Raccoon Captured, Removed
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — A raccoon made infamous here on CrownHeights.info was captured in the alleyway by one crafty resident, but after its capture they did not know what to do with the hostile animal.
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — A 1-and-a-half year old boy took a two story plunge out of his family’s 2nd floor apartment, and miraculously survived.
Infant Falls from a Second Story Window
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — A 1-and-a-half year old boy took a two story plunge out of his family’s 2nd floor apartment, and miraculously survived.

Seven Chabad Moisdos Win Big in Chase Giving!
Thanks to you – CrownHeights.info readers – five Chabad institutions have won a combined $1.3 million in the most recent Chase Community Giving competition.

Cape Town Unites for Lag B’omer
The beaming Head of Security and Law Enforcement for the City of Cape Town was standing with the rabbis at the Lag BaOmer parade on Sunday afternoon. When asked how many people he counted on his crowd ticker coming in from the Great Parade down the Sea Point Beach Front into the beautiful Green Point Stadium Park he just shrugged “oh, about 1,500…”

First Impressions at AIPAC
In September 2009, when Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke to American Jewish leaders at the 92nd Street Y, he recalled that as a young ambassador to the UN, he was advised by the Lubavitcher Rebbe that he would be entering “a house of darkness and lies.” The Rebbe gave him a “mission to light a candle for truth and for the Jewish people,” he said.
New Engagement!
Avremi Raksin (Crown Heights) and Shaina Brafman (Morristown, NJ)

Season of Regional Kinusim in the U.S. Begins
Shluchim are slated to arrive in Staten Island, NY on Sunday from across the state of New York and the New England region, to assemble for the annual regional conference of Chabad Shluchim hosted this year by Rabbi Moshe Katzman and his wife.

Terrorists Still Targeting NYC Mass Transit for Attacks
Terrorists still fixate on mass transit, and the trains and ferries thousands of New Yorkers ride each day offer enticing targets, a counterterror veteran warned Congress Wednesday.