NYPD Searching For Teens Who Robbed Jewish Boy of Scooter At Knifepoint
The NYPD are looking to identify three teenagers wanted in the knifepoint robbery of a Jewish teenager in Crown Heights.
New Engagement!
Yisroel Chanowitz (Monticello, NY) to Mushky Weinberger (Orlando, FL)
Seudas Yehudis: Providing Essential Support to Crown Heights Families
Seudas Yehudis has been an essential part of the Crown Heights community for over 20 years, providing support and resources to new mothers and divorced women. Please open up your hearts and wallets and help us continue this vital work.
Asian Regional Kinus Hashluchim Begins
Shluchim serving in the “not so near” east have come together for a regional Kinus Hashluchim. Rabbi Moshe Kotlarsky, who was entrusted by the Rebbe to facilitate regional Kinusim worldwide, traveled to Taiwan for the event.
New Engagement!
Menachem Mendel Partouche (Montpellier, France) to Nechama Dina Hecht (Crown Heights) L’Chaim: Sunday, Feb. 26th, 5:00pm to 10:00pm at F.R.E.E.
JLI: Students Question Rabbi on 15 Heated Jewish Topics
Three University students sit down with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, renowned spiritual leader, lecturer, and best-selling author, to unpack a diverse range of topics such as the evolution of the universe, long-term dating, ultimate truths, and exercising self-control.
“I Also Grew Up in Crown Heights, I Was Also A Yeshiva Bocher, I Will Also Get A Letter in the Sefer Torah”
The story begins about three months ago when the Bochurim of Shiur Alef and Beis of Oholei Torah went as usual on Friday afternoons to the Holocaust Museum in Manhattan. From there a friendship has developed that has culminated as he purchased a letter in a Sefer Torah.
New Website Launched For The 7th Yartzeit of Rabbi Joshua B. Gordon OBM
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.
SATIRE: Mishna Bruriah, The Never Written Teachings Of Bruriah
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.
Major Change Coming To Medicaid Based Health Insurance Plans April 1st
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.
Video of the Day
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.
Baby Boy!
Mendel and Rochel (nee Edelman) Fischer from Crown Heights had a baby boy!
Live With the Rebbe Every Single Day
Or Vechom Hahisakshrus is pleased to announce a new Whatsapp status to bring fresh Chassidishe content to your phone every single day
TONIGHT: Learn The Rebbe’s Sicha on the 5748 Expansion of 770
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.
Emotional Prayers at the Tziyun of Rabbi Yisroel Salanter zatza”l on his 140th Yohrtzeit
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.
Campers from L’man Achai Spend Freezing Shabbos In The Warmest Environment
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.
Workers Stunned As 4-Foot Alligator Hauled from Brooklyn’s Prospect Park Lake
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.
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