Rabbi Elkanah Shmotkin is the executive director of Jewish Educational Media (JEM), a multi-faceted organization dedicated to archival preservation and video presentation of the life and times of the Lubavitcher Rebbe. He sat down with the Meaningful People Podcast for an interview.
Schneur Zalman Notik (Riverwoods, IL) to Yasmin Triester (Tzfas, EY)
Hello Crown Heights 1890. The neighborhood was either referred to as Crow Hill, Eastern Parkway District, Saint Marks District, Weeksville or Pigtown. Read more about this map of Crown Heights in the extended article.
Rabbi Gershon Avtzon of Cincinnati, OH, answers a weekly question pertaining to relevant issues in the Chabad community.
Rabbi Pinny Andrusier of Chabad of Southwest Broward published the first images of construction of what will soon be Cooper City’s newest Jewish institution, a Men’s and Women’s Mikvah.
“He feels that he’s ill as his deceased friend was”. Father seeks advice for his son’s trauma. Event Date: 7 Tishrei 5751 – September 26, 1990.
Avremi and Sheina Zippel from Salt Lake City, UT had a baby boy!
A shocking hit and run in Crown Heights this past Friday is under investigation by the NYPD as a biased crime.
Shocking video has been released showing the coordinated vandalism that interrupted the weekly Geula U’Moshiach shiur in 770 this past Wednesday. The video shows the coordinated incident, including the barricading of 770’s doors so that those inside could not escape.
Mendy and Sarah (nee Glick) Korf from Crown Heights, had a baby girl!
No one hit all six numbers and won the estimated $940 million jackpot, pushing the lottery prize to an estimated $1.1 billion ahead of the next drawing Tuesday night.
Schneur and Hinda Esther (nee Nisilevitch) Teichtel from Bobigny, France had a baby girl!
There is no doubt that one of the fastest growing areas in Moscow is along “Leninsky Prospect”, one of the city’s major highways leading southward from its center. It comes as no surprise then, that there are already four active Chabad Houses dotting it, and there is still where to grow.
When the Chabad Headquarters at 770 Eastern Parkway purchased the two adjacent buildings in the 1960s, they expanded the main synagogue until Kingston Ave. This expansion took out the five street level stores.
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.
Upon hearing the details of the Rebbe’s campaign to sign up every Jew for a letter in a Sefer Torah at the Chabad Air stand at JFK Airport, Harav Herschel Shachter, a renowned Posek and Rav at YU, along with his Rebbetzin, purchased for their entire family in the Unity and Children’s Sefer Torah.
Shabbos at the BESHT: Rabbi Yosef Shmukler runs the smicha program in the kolel of Chabad of Upper West Side of Manhattan. He will be giving this weeks Shiur on Living with the Parsha.
