Following reports that he had disparaged Chabad in a meeting with the Satmar Rebbe regarding participation in the upcoming “antinet” gathering in Citi Field, Rabbi Malkiel Kotler, Rosh Yeshiva of Beis Medrash Gevohah in Lakewood, released the following statement:
A fire broke out in the Montgomery Street home of Crown Heights’ senior rov, Rabbi Avrohom Osdoba, leaving the rov – and another family renting out their bottom floor – in need of a place to stay only a couple of hours before Shabbos.
Travel & Leisure magazine named La Guardia the nation’s worst major air hub for customer comfort.
It is dinner hour on a Wednesday evening and the Mozart Café in Deerfield Beach is filled. Servers scurry around the Israeli-owned kosher dairy restaurant. But on this night the servers are special needs children and teen volunteers from the Chabad of Parkland’s Friendship Circle of North Broward and South Palm Beach.
Vintage footage of the Lag Ba’omer Parade in front of 770, which took place on May 19, 1957.
Meir and Shiffy Shimshoni
431 Brooklyn Ave. [bet Montgomery St. and Empire Blvd.]
Levi and Tzippy (nee Marosov) Israel
810 Montgomery St. [between Albany and Troy Ave.]
Zalmi and Esty (nee Goldstein) Katz
694 Montgomery St. [between Kingston and Albany Ave.]
Meir and Shterna Shur
645 Lefferts Ave. [corner Albany Ave.] Apt. 3B
The Yeshiva Centre’s “Our Big Kitchen” in Bondi was recently the scene of a student demonstration – a demonstration of solidarity between various faiths.
Rabbi Berel Lipskier, a long time chozer of the Rebbe and current Mashpia in Beis Medrash Chovevei Torah, visited Yehshiva Torah Ohr in North Miami Beach, Florida Thursday night.
The Israeli consul general to New England called U.S. Senator Scott Brown “a true friend of Israel” at an event in the Lubavitch school in Worcester, Massachusetts.
This Shabbos at the Besht, Rabbi Motty Lipskier will lead a discussion on the topic, Ahavas Yisroel: Do You Love Your Children?
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Crownheights.info and the Avner Institute present this unique photo of the Rebbe during the visit of Israel’s Chief Rabbis, Rabbi Mordechai Eliyahu and Rabbi Avraham Shapira, on May 16, 1989.
Think again, says one Crown Heights bus driver. Although everyone seems to think you can’t get a ticket for double parking during alternate side parking hours, many discover the truth to their unpleasant surprise: Although they usually choose to ignore the practice, cops issue tickets for it all the time.
Years of littering and swarms of rude visitors has a group of Cambria Heights residents fighting an Orthodox Jewish synagogue’s plan to expand. The Ohel Chabad Lubavitch, adjacent to the graves of two of the sect’s former leaders, is seeking a zoning variance to expand its facility to better accommodate overnight visitors.
Start them young, they say, underscoring the value of a solid educational foundation. But in the world of Jewish education, such a firm footing may not come cheap.
The funeral of Yossi Melamed took place in Borough Park today with the participation of hundreds of admirers, friends and family, led by the Liska Rov Shlita. Mr. Melamed was known for his photography and ability to capture the moment, like he did on so many occasions at the headquarters of the Lubavitcher Rebbe in Crown Heights. He is survived by a daughter and grandchildren.
A protest was held today, May 3, 2012, in front of the Bolivian consulate in Manhattan for Jacob Ostreicher, an Orthodox Jewish man jailed in Bolivia for almost a year without charge. Assemblyman Dov Hikind was rallying the crowd.
After a month of intense preparation for Yud Alef Nissan, which included farbrangens and a weekly duch to the Rebbe, ULY Crown Street eighth graders earned a paintball shooting trip, with a barbecue to top it off.
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