TorahCafé.com is thrilled to announce the launch of a new streaming shiurim series, Chassidus and Coffee, featuring Rabbi Ruvi New of Chabad of East Boca, Florida. The class will be broadcast live on Sunday mornings 10-11 am.
Herbert and Hilda Grunburg, an elderly Jewish couple, appeared recently on the Peoples Court suing a tow company for what they claimed was their car being towed illegally, and that resulted in them having to walk over a mile back home. In the last appearance of a Frum couple appearing on this show, the result was a massive Chilul Hashem.
Messianic vigilantes, brawling Hasidim, and the battle for Jewish Brooklyn
In the 1860s, when the architect Frederick Law Olmsted arrived in Crow Hill, he found a wasteland of balding farms and graying shale, pimpled by shantytowns and pools of pig excrement. The squalor alarmed Olmsted, and together with his partner, Calvert Vaux, he obtained a commission from the city to design Eastern Parkway, a wide, tree-lined boulevard that eventually connected the brownstones of Park Slope to the tenements of Brownsville and brought a semblance of modernity to the neighborhoods in between.
When Chabad-Lubavitch Rabbi Yaakov and Zoey Saacks moved from Brooklyn to the Suffolk County community of Dix Hills, N.Y., their newly-formed Chai Center began in their home. Prayer services took place in their dining room; they ran a Hebrew school from their kitchen.
This article was prepared in honor of the Yohrtzeit of Rabbi Shmuel Schrage, which takes place on the 11th of Teves, by Rabbi Michoel Seligson.
“Crown Heights of 1964 turned from a nice neighborhood to a soft territory for crime. People were being robbed, hit, stabbed and even murdered. Five crimes were reported every night. People became prisoners in their own homes”, describes Dr. Morris Mindel. The streets emptied after seven in the evening. Owners of stores were afraid to open, too early in the morning. Women stopped participating in communal events. What was most shocking was an attempted attack on a Lubavitcher woman who did not close the door to her house, while her children were playing in the yard.
Chabad is the known leader in Jewish information and education on the web, as highlighted by an independent study conducted by JInsider which termed Chabad.org as the Jewish “Brand leader”.
Hershy and Chanie (nee Levin) Hertzel (Crown Heights)
Maxim (Mordechai Tzvi) and Chana (nee Rose) Cohen (Manchester, UK)
‘Tis the season to spread holiday cheer with festive cards – and for Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz to take a light-hearted swipe at the city’s bike lane craze.
IOWA CITY, Iowa [AP] — A federal judge has ordered members of the family that owned a kosher slaughterhouse in Iowa to pay more than $2 million after defaulting on financial agreements with one of their former banks, which has since collapsed.
In Dmitriy Salita’s second fight since his loss to Amir Kahn in England, he came out swinging, and in three short rounds Salita KO’d James Wayka. The sold out crowd at Roseland Ballroom also enjoyed Matisyahu as he sang Dmitriy into the ring with his classic “King Without a Crown”. A reader sent us this photo of Dmitriy in his dressing room after the fight, studying the daily Tanya portion.
Nachman Dov and Rochel (nee Muss) Wichnin
688 Montgomery St [between Kingston and Albany Ave]
Mendy and Leah (nee Grunblatt) Gurevitch
555 Crown St Apt #3H [Corner of Albany Ave]
Yitzy and Rochy (nee Flint) Kamman
729 Eastern Pkwy [between Kingston and Brooklyn Ave]
Yossi and Chaya Cohen
565 Crown Street Apt #4D
Tzvi and Rochie Shuchat
248 York Hill Blvd. Toronto, ON, Canada
Mendel and Dassie Prus (Doylestown, PA)
CrownHeights.info and the Avner Institute would like to present a photo of the Rebbe entering the shul for mincha [afternoon prayer] in the winter of 1972. Photo courtesy of the Hayward family.
Mendy and Leah (nee Grunblatt) Gurevitch (Crown Heights)
Yankel and Pessa Rochel (nee Katz) Lipsidge (Crown Heights)
NEW YORK — Former world title challenger and crowd favorite Dmitry “Star of David” Salita brutalized game veteran James Wayka en route to a third round stoppage Thursday evening before a packed house at the Roseland Ballroom in New York, NY.
