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In this week’s Dvar Torah, Rabbi Katzman learns a parallel lesson from the exuberance and fascination of a child, with its unending energy a lesson for how we too should pursue life.
During a National Day of Prayer event at the White House on Thursday, US President Donald Trump discussed the situation of the hostages in Gaza, and said that fewer than 24 are still alive.
Courtesy of Crown Heights photographer Shmuli Evers, we present this incredible photograph of 770 Eastern Parkway.
More than 250 Shluchim gathered in Paris for their annual Regional Kinus Hashluchim this week.
An arrest was made Wednesday after a person accosted and attacked a Jewish man delivering food in the area of Crown Heights.
Every pool can now become dramatically safer thanks to groundbreaking technology that provides an essential additional layer of protection for our most precious treasures – our children.
Every Jewish community has one: that understated individual who, sitting outside the limelight, serves as the foundational pillar upon which the entire community stands. One such woman was Sandy Landes.
Yossi Gutnick (Sydney, Australia) to Chaya Eisnebach (Northwest, CT) L’Chaim: Tonight, Thursday, at the Garden House 1386 S. John’s Pl
Yaakov and Shevi (nee Katzman) Behrman from Crown Heights had a baby boy!
Now that we are counting the days in anticipation of receiving the Torah on Shavuos – after our liberation from Mitzrayim – we share some words of wisdom from the Rebbe’s letter about sefira, this special counting.
With great sadness we report the passing of R’ Ezra Raymond OBM, originally from London, and for the past 25 years Beitar, EY. He was niftar on Gimmel Iyar 5785-May 1, 2025.
The town’s blueprint has plans for 500 family homes, community buildings and a hotel—all atop a hill surrounded by a beautiful forest and biblical archeology.
As the school year winds down, many parents and bochurim begin exploring options for the next step in their yeshiva journey. The process of choosing a yeshiva can be filled with excitement, uncertainty, and sometimes pressure. It’s an important decision—and one that deserves much attention.
In honor of Rabbi Hodakov’s Yahrtzeit, the 3rd of Iyar, Rabbi Chaim Dalfin tells a personal story from 1981 while he was a student Shliach in the Yeshiva.
A large trash fire burning on the corner of Kingston Ave and Empire Blvd was extinguished Wednesday night leaving lots of smoke and no injuries.
The community is invited to join the Greenwald family for an event commemorating the first Yartzeit of Yehuda Leib Greenwald OBM. The event will take place on Thursday, May 1st, 8:00pm at Beis Avraham Aaron 1349 President Street Lower Level.
