CrownHeights.info and the Avner Institute would like to present a photo of the Rebbe arriving at 770, with special thanks to the Garelik family archive.
Shmuly and Bella (nee Gopin) Levy (Crown Heights)
Set to break ground March 13, a Long Island Jewish center is undertaking a massive expansion project, doubling the size of its current location to better serve a vibrant and rapidly-growing Jewish community.
Another day and a new character shows up at 770. A reader sent us in this video, taken with his mobile phone, of the latest one to show up and preach his new message – the end of the Talmud. Police got involved and sent the man, who was dressed in a blue robe and cotton tzitzis, on his way after a crowd gathered and got loud.
Mr. Leo Weissman, a long-time resident of Crown Heights, has passed away.
OTTAWA – A rabbi, a minister and an imam walk into a barracks… The Canadian Armed Forces had hundreds of Christian chaplains, the Maltese Cross in its symbol, and “Onward Christian Soldiers” as the official March Past, but in 2007, after Chabad-Lubavitch Rabbi Chaim Mendelsohn became the first rabbi to serve as a chaplain since World War II, things began to change.
N. MIAMI BEACH, FL — With badges, Blackberries, uniforms and yamulkes, at any given night a group of beefed-up crime-watchers called the Shmira Patrol has a handful of volunteers cruising the streets in North Miami Beach.
While the Chabad Shliach in Tuscon, AZ, was mum about the shooting in his home town, more recently Rabbi Yossie Shemtov had a lot to say about the fall of Hosni Mubarak in Egypt:
A Montreal cabbie learned on Thursday that his taxi isn’t a vehicle for freedom of expression and religion. Arieh Perecowicz lost his court challenge against Montreal taxi authorities who fined him for filling his cab with an assortment of personal and religious objects.
As supporters and protesters chanted outside, Avi and Eliyahu Werdesheim, members of a Park Heights citizens patrol, pleaded not guilty Wednesday in Baltimore Circuit Court to beating a black teenager last fall as he walked through their neighborhood.
A Brooklyn police precinct is under scrutiny after cops told investigators their bosses manipulated crime statistics, sources said. The 77th Precinct, covering Crown Heights and Prospect Heights, first raised a red flag with unusually high numbers of unfounded cases – where cops respond to a report of crime and determine none was committed, sources said.
A new set of trading cards is helping Jewish children keep their foodstuffs straight, teaching them about the world of blessings made before eating.
AUSTRALIA — Under the guidance of Rabbi Aharon Serebryanski and in the presence of communal leaders and diplomats, the US Ambassador to Australia, His Excellency Jeffery Bleich, officially opened Mikvah Chaya Mushka Canberra on Tuesday 15th Febrary 2011, corresponding to 11 Adar 1 5771 in the Hebrew calendar.
Shabbat 1,000 pulls in record numbers of students for multi themed Shabbat dinners across the UK at Chabad on Campus.
MELBOURNE — Rabbi Chaim Herzog the Shliach of Chabad of Melbourne CBD organized a very successful business men & women’s luncheon on a very relevant topic in today’s time and world the topic was, “Taking Action On Climate Change.”
Revitalizing the Jewish Kids Radio paid off in a way we never expected! Over 1000 families have tuned in to our broadcasts, and so far 632 children called in answers to questions that were aired on the show. The show gives Jewish children an hour of kosher entertainment for the long Motzai Shabbosim, and the chance to win exciting prizes!
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