With 650 Bochurim heading out on Merkos Shlichus this Pesach to conduct sedorim across the globe, a state of the art website – RovingRabbis.com has been setup to track the students and inform locals of seder times and locations.
Merchant and Moisad got together once again in order to help Crown Heights teachers and their families by providing produce, meat and wine at little to no cost ahead of Pesach. A total of 114 teachers from the local Moisdos were able to place orders, saving their families hundred of dollars in expenses.
The North of Boston Jew Crew headed to New York City between March 31 and April 3 for Jew Crew Takes Manhattan III, the focus of which is the opportunity to observe Shabbat in Crown Heights, a religious Jewish community in Brooklyn.
In honor of Pesach, over 150 Crown Heights Mechanchim received a very generous token of appreciation for their dedication and hard work. The gift is part of a new initiative which aims to show the community’s appreciation for the Mechanchim of Crown Heights.
The Lori Schottenstein Chabad Center for Jewish Tomorrow is bigger and better than ever at its new home in New Albany.
New court papers filed in the name of the Vaad Hakohol last week indicate that all the work done until now may be at risk of being undone. According to the filers, the papers are simply trying to enter the Psak Din of the Zablo Beis Din within the courts, but others claim that what they really do is reach far beyond the boundaries of the Psak.
This past Thursday night at The Beis Medrash the lights were on until 2 AM while several hundred people participated in a farbrengen with Rabbi Feller l’kovod yud aleph Nissan. Thanks to TorahCafe.com an additional 2,087 participated from the comfort of their homes – the only thing they were missing was some hot potato kugel!
An off-duty Triboro-Bridge and Tunnel officer was shot and wounded in a wild gunfight at a Brooklyn car stereo shop with a group of four armed thugs who tried to rob the place, police sources said.
Nochum and Chana (nee Amilov) Kaplan (Crown Heights)
Lubavitcher Yeshiva helped unburden parents by providing a meaningful program Sunday afternoon, which entertained children with lunch and a puppet show by the Small Wonder Puppet Theater.
As many as 400 cops could face disciplinary charges for fixing tickets in a widening corruption scandal.
In celebration of the upcoming holiday of Pesach, and the 109th Birthday of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Lubavitch Chabad of Illinois held a Mitzvah Tank parade on Tuesday.
Warsaw, Poland – A delegation from the Rabbinical Centre of Europe (RCE) was welcomed this past Friday, by the the Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski at the Belweder Palace. The RCE delegation presented the president with matza, the unleavened bread that is eaten by Jews on the Passover festival.
New York – The average price of gasoline is now above $4 per gallon in five states, and it could rise to that level in New York and Washington, D.C., this weekend.
The foundation for Mikvah Mei Chaya Mushkah, the new women’s Mikvah which is being constructed on Lefferts and Troy, was recently poured.
CrownHeights.info caught up with Eli Federman to get his comments on the criticism he was receiving that he should not have made the ‘exclusion of women from voting’ issue public. We raised a number of issues to Mr. Federman, all of which were asked by you – the readers – in the comments section of the original article.
Recovery is still a rarely-talked about concept in Japan, but with Pessah approaching, members of the devastated nation’s small Jewish community are making plans to celebrate the holiday’s signature Seder meals in Tokyo.
