Video in honor of the first Yahrtzeit Shula Swerdlov AH.
Video – First Yahrtzeit of Shula Swerdlov AH
Video in honor of the first Yahrtzeit Shula Swerdlov AH.
Video in honor of the first Yahrtzeit Shula Swerdlov AH.
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] – A group of demonstrators gathered in front of the Jewish Childrens Museum on Eastern Parkway earlier today to protest the use of chickens for Kapores.
KYRGYZSTAN — Police in the Kyrgyz capital have opened an investigation into an attack on the city synagogue, RFE/RL’s Kyrgyz Service reports.
Pesach Lifshitz, who has lived in Black Sea port Kherson, Ukraine, his whole life, can’t help but see the renovations of his hometown synagogue as historic.
HAMPTON COVE, AL — Making challah, the traditional braided bread that many Jews eat as they welcome the Sabbath each week, is a duty that requires digging in with both hands.
Kurton Grant was a typical teenager.
He was addicted to his PlayStation videogame. He loved dancing and music, particularly reggae, more popular in his native Trinidad, and hip-hop, which is favored in Flatbush where he moved in 2006.
Hundreds of Jewish pilgrims clash with police after crowd surrounded two Ukrainian men allegedly caught stealing.
NEW YORK [NY1] — The New York Police Department is denying a report it forces officers to write a certain number of summonses, despite new secret recordings suggesting a quota system is in place.
With emotions still raw and eyes still red, the 9/11 families marked nine years of mourning Saturday at a Ground Zero memorial where politics was mercifully missing.
Rabbi Yisroel Engel with the Shofar Factory this week at ‘A Taste of Colorado’, an annual Labor Day weekend event in downtown Denver which attracts five hundred thousand people.
Tens of thousands of Hasidic Jews from around the world gathered in a small Ukrainian city Thursday to mark the Jewish New Year at the tomb of their spiritual leader – an apparent record for the annual all-male pilgrimage banned for decades by the Soviets.
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — Six cars were broken into and their airbag were stolen Tuesday night, Erev Rosh Hashana. Despite the streets being flooded with cops, cars parked in Crown Heights are not safe.
Uri Foreman, a celebrity boxer, and his wife Leyla, celebrated the Bris of their first born son on Sunday, September 5th.
As they prepare for the High Holidays this week, the Jewish community in India’s financial capital Mumbai has good news to report two years after its rabbi there died in an Islamist assault on the city.
As we are all making our final preparations to usher in the new year, we – the staff at CrownHeights.info – would like to wish our loyal readers and fan a happy and healthy sweet new year, K’siva Vachasima Tova, Leshono Tova Tikosaivu V’Tichosemu and a Gut Gebentched Yohr. May this year be a safe, successful and prosperous year to all, and may we achive our ultimate goal and report the coming of Moshiach speedily in our days!
Tens of thousands of Jews made their way to Uman in the country of Ukrain, to spend Rosh Hashana close to grave site of Rabbi Nachaman of Breslove.