The vice-chairman of United Lubavitcher Yeshivos, Rabbi Yosef Wineberg (1918-2012) delivered weekly radio broadcasts on chasidic teachings for nearly fifty years. He was interviewed three times, in the years 2008 and 2009.
The current CHJCC, CHJCC candidates, the Jewish members of Community Board (“CB 9”) and the Jewish Political Action Committees should invite the final decision maker, Attorney General Letisha James, to hear from the public in an Emergency Town Hall Meeting to OPPOSE and MODIFY the current Vital Brooklyn Kingsboro Psych (aka 681 Clarkson Ave) proposal for new housing in the Shchuna.
Deadly shooting attack carried at gas station at entrance to Eli in Binyamin, the same location where four people were murdered in another shooting attack last year.
The New York Lottery today announced four third-prize-winning tickets were sold for the Feb 28th Powerball drawing. One of those winning tickets was sold at an East Flatbush store on Utica Ave.
With Purim approaching, the Pesach travel season is just around the corner. Tens of thousands of US citizens who reside in Israel may be considering traveling Stateside to visit family for the holiday. However, it’s crucial for them to ensure they have the proper travel documents in hand.
Tsemah Rubens (Paris, France) to Linoi Alzerah (Lyon, France)
Mendel Attuil (Paris, France) to Ilana Messika (Villeparises, France)
At the federal courthouse in Brooklyn, an indictment was unsealed charging Dawood Kassim and Dia Alqalisi with trafficking and stealing millions of dollars in benefits from SNAP. They carried out the fraud from a bodega in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood in Brooklyn which Kassim owned.
Amid rising antisemitism in Great Britain and a “deep concern” for its Jewish student community, the University of Manchester hosted a historic printing of the Tanya, the seminal work of Chabad-Lubavitch Chassidic philosophy, at the John Rylands Research Institute and Library on Feb. 14.
In a Sicha that is as relevant today as ever, the Rebbe talks about the housing situation in Crown Heights during the Yud Shvat Farbrengen of 5745 (1985).
Crown Heights Hatzalah volunteer, Dovi Andrusier, was seen administering first aid to a Nigerian orphan during a visit to Nigeria for a humanitarian program for his nephew’s Bar Mitzvah.
In an unique effort to unite bochurim worldwide, the Mivtza “Beat Swords into Plowshares” has achieved tremendous success. Winners have been announced and Bochurim will be receiving their Seforim gift voucher in the upcoming days.
The benefit dinner takes place every year close to Shushan Purim Katan, the yohrtzeit of the young shlucha Chaya Mushka o.b.m, who despite her young age merited to influence girls and even women to increase their mitzva observance. This year marks 27 years since this dear pure soul has departed from us.
Former head of IDF’s 8200 intelligence unit, Brig. Gen. (Res.) Hanan Gefen and former Mossad agent Sima Shine discuss how the intelligence failure of October 7th happened.
At a wedding hall in Jerusalem earlier this month, 50 girls—many of them dressed in white tulle—celebrated the milestone of becoming a bat mitzvah. Their shared joy, however, was underscored by shared feelings of grief as each one of them had a tragic life event that brought them together: the loss of a parent at a young age.
In 1914, Jewish Afghani brothers Rahamim and David Shamash returned from Jerusalem to Afghanistan along the well-trodden routes of the Silk Road with two new Torah scrolls, written for the Jewish communities of Afghanistan. A century later, after falling into disuse and disrepair, one of the Torah scrolls has found a new home, when two scions of the Shamash family—Hannah Zion and her brother, Ronald Abram—refurbished and rededicated it last month at Chabad-Lubavitch of Hong Kong.
A medical crisis can throw an entire family into a tailspin, with devastating ramifications for both the patient and the entire family. That’s where Bikur Cholim of Crown Heights steps in.
