With great sadness we inform you of the untimely passing of Reb Avrohom Yitzchok Silverstein, a longtime resident of Crown Heights.
He is survived by his wife Leah, and his children.
NEW YORK [NY1] — City records reportedly show Manhattan streets were plowed long before parts of Brooklyn and Queens after Sunday’s blizzard.
Now playing, exclusively on CrownHeights.info, the Jewish Kids Radio! Kids of all ages can now tune in to a meaningful program which includes a few chances to win great prizes, a story about the Alter Rebbe, and more!
ALBANY — Andrew Cuomo became New York’s 56th governor at a stroke after midnight Saturday morning, making him the first son to follow his father into the office.
An ambulance crashed on a snow-clogged Brooklyn street last night as it tried to reach an elderly woman who had fallen in her apartment — the latest in a series of mishaps associated with the monster blizzard.
A Boro Park reader sent us in these incriminating photos of a sanitation worker conveniently “learning” Daf Yomi in Shul instead of plowing the streets.
Tonight United Lubavitcher Yeshiva is hosting their men’s benefit event, with an auction viewing and an evening of entertainment with comedian Dave Rosner. A hot grill and buffet will be served.
The viewing begins at 8:00pm with the entertainment starting at 9:30pm. Click here to order tickets online.
The Kinus Hashluchos Banquet will be held on January 30 in the 69th Regiment Armory in Crown Heights “for the convenience of Shluchos and guests,” organizers said.
It’s not just the snow cleanup that’s rotten in the city: A week’s worth of last year’s garbage is stinking things up for the start of 2011.
Promises by the mayor, and the sanitation commissioner to have every street in New York Cirty cleaned by Thursday morning, turned into a really big lie today with three blocks of Montgomery Street still remain unplowed.
We have great news for all our young readers! This Motzai Shabbos will feature the return of the Jewish Kids Radio! Perfect for these very long Motzai Shabbosim, the half-hour long program will feature high quality entertainment for kids, as well as chances to win amazing prizes.
There was a method to their madness.
The selfish Sanitation bosses who sabotaged the blizzard cleanup to fire a salvo at City Hall targeted politically connected and well-heeled neighborhoods in Queens and Brooklyn to get their twisted message across loud and clear, The Post has learned.
The 24th of Teves is the Yahrzeit of the Alter Rebbe, founder of Chabad Chassidus.
Communities worldwide will gather in Chabad houses to watch the latest video release from JEM, Jewish Educational Media, whose goal is to preserve and promote video and audio material of the Rebbe.
As the snow deepened Sunday and Monday, roughly 100 front-line 911 operators in Downtown Brooklyn fielded tens of thousands of calls, struggling to sort the true emergencies from an ocean of concerns about stranded cars, twisted ankles and people simply stuck in their homes.
Hate crimes across New York state jumped 14 percent in 2009, led by an increase in attacks on Jews and Jewish institutions, state records released yesterday show.
Today is the last day of the year 2010, and tonight 2011 begins, and what does that mean for car owners? That anyone who still has a gray colored New York State vehicle inspection sticker will get a ticket for having an expired sticker.
“Both religion and science are base on beliefs.” (Milton Steinberg)
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“It seems to me that when confronted with the marvels of life and the universe, one must ask why and not just how. The only possible answers are religious. . . . I find a need for God in the universe and in my own life.”(Arthur L. Schawlow (Professor of Physics at Stanford University, 1981 Nobel Prize in physics))
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“Sometimes you just have to look reality in the eye and deny it.” (Garrison Keilor)
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“Both religion and science are base on beliefs.” (Milton Steinberg)
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