Harav Moshe Raitport, Rov of the Beinoni Shtibel in Crown Heights, celebrated his birthday this past Thursday with a surprise farbrengen attended by dozens of chaverim and fellow Rabbonim.
Rabbi Chaim Dalfin, author and Chasidic historian shares interesting facts, many revealed for the first time. The purpose of his program is to inspire all but especially the youth. Watch another installment here on CrownHeights.info.
Give a welcome to the newest addition to Crown Heights. Composting! A brand new orange compost bin has been installed on Eastern Parkway across the street from the Jewish Children’s Museum and directly in front of Kehot.
Yossi and Rivki Diamont from Crown Heights had a baby boy! Shalom Zachor: 399 Crown Street
Since Chof Daled Teves was this week, I am posting a story that I said at a farbrengen in connection to the Alter Rebbe.
In this week’s Dvar Torah, Rabbi Katzman shows just how many practical lessons a Chossid gets from just a one-line teaching of the Tzemach Tzedek, a one liner that kept Chassidim going for many generations.
Alternate side parking (street cleaning) regulations are suspended on Saturday-Sunday, January 21-22, 2023 for a holiday. Parking meters remain in effect.
A festive ribbon cutting ceremony for the new state-of-the-art CTeen Lounge at the Chabad Center for Jewish Life in Monroe brought a crowd of teens, parents and supporters from across Orange County to celebrate.
Lidl, the rapidly growing supermarket chain in Brooklyn, has nabbed a coveted 33,000 square foot piece of Crown Heights Real Estate in a deal that will bring the supermarket to the edge of Crown Heights.
The U.S. wireless carrier T-Mobile said Thursday that an unidentified malicious intruder breached its network in late November and stole data on 37 million customers, including addresses, phone numbers and dates of birth.
It’s midwinter vacation at many Jewish day schools and yeshivahs across North America, and in the warm and sunny Caribbean island of Aruba, Rabbi Ahron Blasberg is hard at work koshering two restaurants in anticipation of the many Jewish families he’s expecting to arrive at the small island over the next few weeks.
Moti and Zlata (nee Nisselevitch) Levin from Caen, France had a baby girl!
In the spirit of Hakhel and Chassidim Ein Mishpacha, Bachurim from YTTL and OT energized a Bar Mitzvah celebration for a French boy who came to have his Aliya by the Rebbe
Harav Dovid Moshe Rosenbaum, the Rebbe of Kretshnif who lives in Kiryat Gat, is on a visit to New York and made a visit to 770 earlier on this week. He also made a stop at the Rebbe’s Ohel in Queens.
Areivim USA has announced that they are raising the payout amount per orphan, to one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
Crown Heights Shomrim has released an Alert notifying the community of a series of incidents that have taken place near the Schenectady/Eastern Parkway subway station, and are asking people to be vigilant.
Terrible news has surfaced Thursday night with reports from the FAA that a small plane that took off from JFK crashed near Westchester Airport. Two Jewish men were allegedly on board.
