An intoxicated New Years reveler discovered the perils of driving drunk early Monday morning when he attempted to drive the wrong way up Albany Ave and crashed into a parked school bus.
Chabad-Lubavitch Rabbi Menachem Aron, who directs Chabad of Rural and Regional Australia (RARA) with his wife Shevi, has been named one of the recipients of the Jewish Changemaker Award, given annually to 36 people under 36 years old who are impacting Jewish life in Australia.
With cash in the bank, the next phase of the Vital Brooklyn project – planned to transform the area between Crown Heights and Remsen Village into a haven of affordable housing and homeless shelters – is ready to kick off.
Merkaz Sefarad Chabad and the Zaetz family are proud to invite you to the annual Hiloula of Rabbi Yaacov Abuhatzeira, זצוק”ל, a.k.a the Abir Yaacov.
Rabbi Raleigh Resnick is known to thousands of students around the world for his popular online courses like Right on the Money, The Jewish Pathway to Forgiveness, and his monumental project to teach three chapters a day of Maimonides’ Mishneh Torah. But closer to home, in the picturesque northern California community of Pleasanton, he and his wife, Fruma, lead a thriving Jewish community as directors of Chabad of the Tri-Valley.
In honor of Chof Teves, the Hilulo of the Rambam, Rabbi Michoel Seligson has provided an audio overview of this day which includes the Rebbe’s Takana of the daily study of the Ramabam.
Mendy Nachmanson (Crown Heights) to Sarah Rivkah Cohen-Sidof (Kiryat Gat, EY)
Frank Meeink grew up in a rough neighborhood in South Pensilvania. At the impressionable age of thirteen, he discovered the Neo-Nazi movement. Frank’s fascinating journey from the notorious skinhead gang leader into a faithful Jew is a powerful message to us today — that hate ultimately destroys the one who is hating.
Starting Jan. 21, 2024, the price for a First-Class Forever U.S. Postage Stamp will increase from 66 cents to 68 cents, according to the U.S. Postal Service.
Alternate side parking (street cleaning) and parking meter regulations are suspended on New Year’s Day, Monday, January 1.
Last month, Chaim V’Chessed reported on burdensome new changes in the process for visa holders to obtain permission to work legally in Israel. Visa holders are most commonly students or kollel members who have not yet completed the Aliyah process, and their family members.
Mendy Althaus (Sydney, Australia) to Malky Simpson (Crown Heights) L’Chaim: Tuesday, Jan. 2nd, 8:00pm at Lubavitcher Yeshiva Crown St.
Dovid and Lifsha Weissman from Chicago, IL had a baby boy!
With great sadness we report the passing of Rabbi Chaim Burston OBM, a famed Rebbe and storyteller who educated hundreds of students throughout his career. He passed away on Shabbos, the 18th of Teves, 5784.
If you have a flight scheduled to leave JFK Airport in NYC on Monday, New Years, after 2:00pm, you might want to consider a backup plan as a planned Pro-Gaza Protest is scheduled to “Flood JFK For Gaza”.
X account @Ryansikorski10 had a “revelation”, among many other extreme views posted to his social media, in that the Battle of Brooklyn, a battle of the American Revolutionary War, took place all that a Jewish neighborhood could one day be built in Crown Heights.
A Baltimore Fire House has arranged an annual holiday display with a miniature train garden complete with a mini fire house, full town, and a special building with replicas around the world. Can we officially add it to the list of 770’s across the globe?
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