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.
A city bus and three cars were involved in a serious multi-car crash on Eastern Parkway last night, send drivers and passengers to the hospital.
NEW YORK [AP] — The amount consumers owed on their credit cards in this year’s second quarter dropped to the lowest level in more than eight years as cardholders continued to pay off balances in the uncertain economy.
According to police, a taxi driver had his throat slashed last night after he told a passenger he was Muslim.
Huge photo gallery of another successful Lman Achai summer.
A new global series will be launched this Wednesday, 15 Elul, in Likkutei Torah by the Alter Rebbe.
University students heading back to school in the United Kingdom will find their Chabad centers on campus expanding in new directions. Opening a daycare, Hebrew schools and mikvahs, Chabad on Campus UK is serving students as their lives take on the complexities of adulthood and family.
Naftali and Esther Rivka Salomon (Crown Heights)
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