An elderly Black man collapsed Erev Yom Kippur on Carroll Street near Kingston Avenue, suffering from what appeared to be a heart attack and thanks to a call to Hatzalah the mans chances of survival were significantly increased.
The upcoming Sukkos edition of the Mishpacha Magazine will be featuring what it calls an “an unprecedented interview” with Rabbi Yehuda Krinsky.
The Rebbe at Mincha on Erev Yom Kippur.
Everyone, listen to yourselves! This is a little long, but please hear me out, since this is very important!
As a 16 year old Lubavitcher girl born and raised in Crown Heights, I observe adults who are supposed to be my role models getting all fired up about such little things! With all due respect, I just don’t understand why you’d be willing to give up Ahavas Yisroel, the most basic, fundamental principle that the entire Torah is based on and have such petty arguments!
Enough is enough!
CrownHeights.info is pleased to present our readers with this unique and never before published set of photos of the Rebbe all taken on Erev Yom Kippur in different years.
With sadness we inform you of the passing of Mrs. Hilda Brafman of Miami Beach, Florida.
She is survived by sons Chaim (Morristown, NJ), R. Yaakov (Miami Beach, FL) and R. Leibish (Crown Heights).
The Levaya will take place today, Sunday, 1:00 pm at Mount Sinai Cemetery in Miami Beach.
The Brafman family will be sitting Shiva today only.
For nichum aveilim email: namfarb@aol.com
Baruch Dayan Hoemes
Under a steady and unrelenting downpour last night people came out to perform the Kapores ritual as is the Minhag in Chabad where we do it in the early morning.
Following the Israeli Prime Ministers powerful speech to the United Nations General Assembly, and the subsequent interviews to the Israeli media, in which Benjamin Netanyahu repeatedly referred to the Lubavitcher Rebbe and to the advice he gave him, did so once again before a crowd of 1500 in the 92nd Street Y in Manhattan.
A father figure to thousands of Jews in the southern Israeli city of Arad, Rabbi Ben Tzion Lipsker passed away Wednesday at the age of 65. The sudden loss of one of the city’s two chief rabbis comes just a year before the slated completion of a massive complex to house institutions Lipsker personally founded over a career spanning more than three decades.
A member of Israel’s Chabad-Lubavitch Rabbinical Court, Lipsker and his wife Sarah opened the desert town’s central Chabad House 31 years ago after moving to the city at the suggestion of the Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, of righteous memory. Since then, he presided over the opening of two religious schools, a synagogue, soup kitchen, numerous Jewish ritual baths, and several learning institutes for immigrants and elderly citizens.
But after his burial Thursday, the rabbi – who in addition to his wife, leaves behind four daughters and dozens of grandchildren – was most remembered by locals as a spiritual guide and benevolent mentor to generations of Arad’s children and adults of all ages.
Soon after Lisa Wadler’s 1-year-old granddaughter Chana was rushed to the emergency room with a raging fever, she learned that an overnight hospital stay would be necessary.
As the Sabbath was approaching, the family, gathered at the hospital, became more anxious over what they would do. That’s when Chana’s pediatrician told Wadler about the Sabbath House, recently opened adjacent to the hospital in Mineola.
Rabbi Shea Hecht plucks a chicken off a truck parked behind a synagogue in Queens, N.Y., and demonstrates how to swing a chicken.
“You take it by the wing,” says the white-haired Hecht, careful not to get the chicken’s feathers or anything else on his black suit and tall black hat. “You put one wing over the other wing. See? It’s very relaxed. And you swing it very softly over your head like this.”
Over Shabbos there was lots of talk regarding the quote from Rabbi Elyashiv, in the Israeli media, regarding his recommendation of not wearing Crocs because “they are too comfortable.” Others wouldn’t wear them simply because they look silly, but CrownHeights.info spoke with Crown Heights Rabbonim to see what they think, and the majority contested.
Nearly two dozen members of the Jewish Defense Organization came out today and protested an anti-Semitic group from Kansas that spewed hate outside a Long Island synagogue just days before Yom Kippur.
The Jewish group and members of Westboro Baptist Church got into a shouting match outside Chabad of Great Neck as cops looked on.
Over Shabbos motorists are asked not to park on the following two streets:
* Kingston between Carroll and President
* Eastern Parkway between Kingston and Albany [Service Lane]
Starting at 4:00pm on Shabbos day police will be relocating cars to enable the prompt beginning of Kapores after Shabbos.
R. Moshe Pinson sits down for a professional shoe shine outside of Mr. Clean organic dry cleaners on Albany Avenue, the first such shoe shine in Crown Heights.
CrownHeights.info and the Crown Heights Photo blog present the following photo gallery of Aseres Yemei Teshuvah Around Crown Heights!
Never judge a book by its cover.
Never asses a person by his appearances and never look at the Shivas Haminim the same way again.
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