Today, the 29th of Shvat, is the 7th Yahrtzeit of Rabbi Joshua B. Gordon of blessed memory. In honor of this significant day, the announcement was made of the launch of a new website, rabbigordon.com.
Bruriah was a gifted and unusually knowledgeable woman in Talmudic times. Pity no one at the time saw fit to record her teachings. Had they done so, we might have had this.
As of April 1st, 2023, a major change is coming to Medicaid based health insurance plans including Fidelis Care, the most widely used health insurance in the Crown heights Jewish community.
Tens of dump trucks appeared in Crown Heights Monday prepared to pick up dirt from the construction site on the corner of Troy Ave and Crown Street. The site will soon be the new home of a building built by a Crown Heights Real Estate Developer.
Mendel and Rochel (nee Edelman) Fischer from Crown Heights had a baby boy!
Or Vechom Hahisakshrus is pleased to announce a new Whatsapp status to bring fresh Chassidishe content to your phone every single day
Tonight, Sunday Chof Tes Shvat (2/19/23), at 9:30pm 770time (EST) please join us on zoom as we learn the sicha that the Rebbe spoke at the ground breaking of expansion in 5748 so we remember why we need to Expand 770.
This year, once again, the Jews of Kaliningrad- Konigsburg, a small Russian enclave nestled between Lithuania and Poland on the Baltic sea coast, gathered in the old Jewish cemetery to pray at the resting place of Rabbi Yisroel Salanter of righteous memory, founder of the Mussar Movement.
A group of 25 teens gather in a large house in Tannersville NY, a small town located three hours north of New York City. They gathered together with some of their staff from Camp L’man Achai this past summer, for a Shabbaton that will be remembered.
A lethargic, possibly cold-shocked 4-foot-long alligator was hauled from Brooklyn’s Prospect Park Lake early Sunday near an area popular with kiddies, officials and passers-by said.
An Orthodox Jewish man from North Miami Beach, Florida was found murdered Sunday in what appears to be a robbery gone wrong.
CTeen Headquarters held a security meeting with several precincts of the New York Police Department, including 77th, 71st, Brooklyn South, and Transit, ahead of the 15th annual CTeen Shabbaton taking place in Crown Heights this weekend.
Classmates, teachers and mothers of the Nigri International Shluchim Online School joined together for their annual reunion, a once a year event where they get to see each other in person and connect.
Archeologists are eagerly requesting the public’s help in deciphering an ancient text discovered on the wall of a lavatory unearthed near Old Parksville. The text, believed to be in ancient Hebrew, could bring insight into the workings of ancient lavatories. Yet for the archeologists, the inscription remains baffling.
This coming Thursday, Beis Adar, we will be celebrating the 51st birthday of our fellow Chossid, Rabbi Yitzi Hurwitz, לאויוש״ט. But this day marks more than just his birthday.
Alternate side parking (street cleaning) regulations are suspended on Monday, February 20, 2023 for Washington’s Birthday (Pres. Day). Parking meters remain in effect.
The Rebbe’s passionate plea that Jews should not judge or rebuke each other. Sunday, Av 21, 5744 – August 19, 1984.
