New York City Emergency Management and the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene today issued an advisory alerting New Yorkers to the possibility of deteriorating air quality due to fine particulate matter from significant, still-spreading wildfires in western Ontario, Canada.
Chabad.org, in partnership with the National Committee for the Furtherance of Jewish Education (NCFJE), will present a Daily Siyum each day of the Nine Days, from Rosh Chodesh Menachem Av through Tisha B’Av eve on 15 Menachem Av (July 15–29).
Emergency Management officials have issued a citywide Code Red due to extreme heat in New York City.
There is no single legislative fix — the cases get resolved one at a time. But the issue is heading to the highest court in the country.
A car fire gutted a vehicle Monday afternoon in the area of Rutland Road and Utica Ave, leaving a large swath of Crown Heights choking on smoke.
The Crown Heights Republican Committee (CHRC) will host New York State Republican gubernatorial nominee Bruce Blakeman on Wednesday, July 15, 2026, for a visit to the Crown Heights neighborhood focused on strengthening ties and addressing issues affecting the Jewish community.
With great sadness we report the passing of Mordechai (Motti) Rubinson OBM, he passed away on Monday, the 28th of Tammuz, 5786, after battling an extended illness.
For thousands of Jewish children, the school year is filled with meaningful Jewish learning at their local Chabad Hebrew School and Afterschool programs. They celebrate the holidays, learn Torah, discover meaning in Jewish values, and build friendships that strengthen their identity from September through June.
After reviewing dozens of submissions from educators and innovators around the world, the Chinuch Pitch judges have selected 10 standout ideas—each one aiming to strengthen and improve Chinuch in a meaningful way.
Anyone who has ever planned a Simcha knows the routine: a dozen phone calls to find an available hall, a frantic search for a caterer who can work with your date, texts back and forth with a photographer that somehow never get answered on time, and a growing pile of sticky notes trying to keep it all straight. A new platform, BookBeSimcha.com, was built to change that.
There is a specific kind of pain I want to address—one that is often left unspoken.
Oholei Torah’s overnight camp for Mechina, Mesivta, and Beis Medrash bochurim, Yeshivas Kayitz Program (YKP), has unveiled a brand new sports pavilion, an exciting addition that is already enhancing the summer experience for hundreds of bochurim.
The state-financed affordable housing project that has loomed over the future of one of Crown Heights’s oldest Shuls just got significantly bigger, and taller.
Rabbi Shmuel Lesches, Magid Shiur in the Yeshiva Gedola of Melbourne, Australia, has compiled a guide to the laws and customs of the Nine Days for the benefit of the wider Lubavitch community.
A sharp eyed Crown Heights Shomrim volunteer watched as the man pocketed the merchandise and left the store. He radioed in the theft and within a few minutes the shoplifter was under arrest.
Jewish constitutional lawyer Mark Levin, the host of The Mark Levin Show, made a visit to 770 on Sunday, stopping by the WLCC room and getting a tour from Rabbi Chaim Boruch Halberstam.
Today’s video teaches about the Heichal, from the steps in front of it to the tremendous height of its entrance, from the number of floors that it had to its height. You will aslo see the size of the Heichal relative to the area around 770.
