NEW YORK [WABC] — Mayor Bloomberg has declared a weather emergency ahead of the winter storm that is expected to dump significant snow on New York City.
ISRAEL — One of its kind Chabad house opens in Jerusalem’s Nachlaot neighborhood: Bar with concerts, drinks and food that also serves as religious center. ‘We hope we can show people they can receive substance and content from Judaism,’ says co-owner Rabbi Crombie.
ARGENTINA — There are a quarter of a million Jews in Argentina today. But “seven out of ten are dating non-Jews, and the rate of intermarriage is rising,” says director of Chabad in Argentina Rabbi Tzvi Grunblatt.
When someone is sick, loved ones pray for their health, recite Psalms and try to add a measure of goodness in this world in his merit. But for Rabbi Mendy Mathless, such efforts weren’t enough. Informed that someone he never knew was in need of a kidney, he gave him his.
This school teaches a fourth “R” — rats. Starting Wednesday, the city is offering Rat 101 — a three-hour cram course on keeping the long-tailed terrors from feasting on the fetid buffets inside trash bags.
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We are pleased to present our thirty-second online class in the “Torah in Ten” series, presented by the editor-in-chief of Kol Menachem, Rabbi Chaim Miller.
Chesky and Rochel (nee Gould) Wasserman (Crown Heights)
Hersh and Leah Shira (nee Casper) Batkin (Crown Heights)
This video was shown at the gathering of the first Yohrtziet for Reb Yossi Tevel OBM, where people shared their own individual stories with Yossi.
Yossi and Esti (nee Groner) Angyalfi (Scranton, PA)
Hundreds of Anash and Tmimim attended a Hachnosas Sefer Torah yesterday in Monsey in honor of a new Sefer Torah that was donated to Yeshivas Menachem Mendel Lubavitch of Monsey.
You may know that JEM’s My Encounter with the Rebbe is a time-sensitive project. The mission is to get people who’ve had important interactions with the Rebbe in an interview on tape.
Greater New York will be stuck between snowstorms Monday, as brisk winds chill the air ahead of another brewing storm.
This week a crazed gunman attempted to kill US Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords as she stood outside a grocery store in her district.
The children and friends of Reb Yossi Tevel took the microphone at his Yohrtzeit gather this Motzai Shabbos. Little known stories of his amazing selflessness were shared. CrownHeights.info is proud to present the stories told.
Moshe Yess, known composer and singer, passed away this Motzai Shabbos after battling a terminal illness. He was in his 60’s.
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