Meet Gabi, champion of “chess sub-18” in South America. He’s only 11 years old, and he has beaten professional chess players 7 years his senior. He’s a bright boy. And he’s Jewish too.
NY1 — A Brooklyn man is awaiting arraignment today on charges in last week’s deadly shooting of a liquor store clerk in Midwood, Brooklyn.
The morning pastries are homemade, the coffee is from Italian roaster Danesi, but the most remarkable thing about Basil, a café and wine bar in Crown Heights, may be who’s working the front and back of the house.
Bochurim studying in the optional Yeshivas Bein Hazmanim enjoyed a special Shiur with Rabbi Yehuda Clapman, a Crown Heights Sofer, who taught about Safrus and shared intriguing stories.
A just released viral hit music CD album titled “NON-STOP CHABAD” by Zalman Goldstein (“Chabad Classics”) broke a unique record in Jewish music, being the first to feature an entire 75-minute music CD filled end-to-end with a single non-stop continuous medley.
Cheskel and Chaya (nee Yaffee) Stein (Oak Park, MI)
Nechemia and Sarah (nee Turk) Dukesz (Toronto, Canada)
Shloimy Lederman (Sydney, Australia) and Miriam Siegler (Woodcliff Lake, NJ)
Benny Greenberg (Cleveland, OH) and Mor Binder (Sydney, Australia)
Shliach, Rabbi Elchonon Tenenbaum moved from Crown Heights to Napa Valley four years ago. At the time he hadn’t seen many vineyards, but now he is a wine maker.
In honor of the new school year, CrownHeights.info presents two pictures of Oholei Torah elementary students dating sometime in the 1970’s. Readers are invited to identify those in the pictures by using the comment system.
Game 1 of the Crown Heights Softball Leagues championship opened with Dovid Smetana, owner of Advantage Wholesale Supply which sponsors the Skullcaps team, throwing out the first pitch (a strike!) and opening the game which ended in an ugly loss for the Landmark Fundings Red Heifers.
Despite intense media coverage, Borough President Markowitz continued to use Department of Correction prisoners to set up and break down his concerts in Coney Island and Crown Heights, as these prisoners did on Friday morning after a B-52s show.
We are pleased to present our fourteenth online class in the “Torah in Ten” series, the editor-in-chief of Kol Menachem, Rabbi Chaim Miller.
Please take a moment and say a Kapitel Tehillim for a Refuah Shlaima
Rivkah bas Basya
A possible suspect in the murder of a Brooklyn liquor store clerk tried to escape Tuesday while being questioned inside a police stationhouse, sources said.
Sunday concluded JLI’s six-day National Jewish Retreat at the Hyatt Regency in Reston, Virginia. The retreat was attended by over 600 participants and featured 152 inspirational classes by 36 guest speakers.
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