New Engagement!
Yossi Illulian (Beverly Hills, CA) and Chaya Mushka Tayeb (France)
L’Chaim Tonight at 1397 Carroll Street
[between Kingston and Albany Ave]
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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.
Baltimore Has Fried at Lag B’omer Parade!
Yeshivas Lubavitch of Baltimore’s, administrator and founder, Rabbi Ephey Rosenbloom was the MC at the 2nd annual Grand Lag B’Omer Concert and Fair on Sunday May 22nd, 2011 at Yeshivat Rambam.
The Little Great Parade in Wilkes-Barre, PA
Northeast Pennsylvania saw the largest Lag B’Omer celebration in its history on Sunday, May 22 in Wilkes-Barre, where the local Chabad community organized a day of Jewish Pride and community unity.
The Sanitation Department and the Mayor's Office announced in Crown Heights, Brooklyn on Tuesday a partnership with Housing Works for a new initiative to recycle old clothes, called refashionNYC.
City Unveils New Clothing Program in Crown Heights
The Sanitation Department and the Mayor’s Office announced in Crown Heights, Brooklyn on Tuesday a partnership with Housing Works for a new initiative to recycle old clothes, called refashionNYC.
Kfar Chabad Vaad Re-elected in Landslide
R’ Binyomin (Yami) Lifshitz was re-elected chairman of the Vaad of Kfar Chabad by almost ninety nine percent of the vote! New members to be joining the Vaad are: R’ Gershom Ohana, R’ Shimon Rabinowitz and R’ Mendel Gurewitz.
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — They 'injured' a car and a van, but managed to strike very little else. A dueling duo turned the intersection of Albany Avenue and President Street into their own O.K. Corral, firing over thirty shots at each other from opposite sides of the street.
Over 30 Shots Fired in Early Morning Shootout
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — They ‘injured’ a car and a van, but managed to strike very little else. A dueling duo turned the intersection of Albany Avenue and President Street into their own O.K. Corral, firing over thirty shots at each other from opposite sides of the street.
