It was around 5:30pm Tuesday when a tall man, approximately 18 years old, entered Basil Restaurant in Crown Heights to use the restroom. By 2:00am, he will already be wanted for breaking into at least two Jewish stores on Kingston Ave and brandishing a gun.
When 13-year-old Nikita comes to Rabbi Danzinger, the Shliach of Rostov to ask for a Bris, the Shliach could hardly say no. But the amazing story behind the sudden need for a Bris inspired the Rabbi,
A disgusting prank call has surfaced in Crown Heights, scaring people into believing that something terrible has happened to a loved one. Don’t Fall For It!
At the Chanukah concert at Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in South Florida this Chanukah this duet between Avraham Fried and Ishai Ribo shook the hearts and enthralled the audience.
When did the first Hakhel that is mentioned in the Torah take place? Was it after the first Shmitta that the Jewish people observed? Guess again!
Jews have been living on the Caribbean island of Jamaica for well over 400 years. However, there is no evidence of there having ever been a purposely built mikvah on the island, until now.
Shmaryahu and Chaya Mushka (nee Zilberstrom) Lobkowski from Toronto, Canada had a baby girl!
Dozens of Chabad school principals and educational leaders plan to join a women-only leadership retreat in Great Neck, New York on 22-23 Teves, January 15-16. The retreat, organized by the Menachem Education Foundation, will take place at Chabad of Great Neck and the highly acclaimed Silverstein Hebrew Academy.
Orthodox Jews have been the target of more than a dozen misleading and one-sided portrayals of their community in the pages of The New York Times for the last four months. That’s why advocates have launched KnowUs: an initiative to combat negative stereotypes advanced by the The New York Times and others.
The New York Lottery today announced that there were multiple top-prize winning tickets sold for the January 3rd “TAKE 5” evening drawing, with one winning ticket sold at a Crown Heights store.
This series on Crown Heights History has been compiled by @crownheightshistory, a born and raised Crown Heightser, and shows some of the ongoing research taking place.
This poem was written by Avremi Zaetz, pouring our frustration in the lack of progress in the expansion of 770, and how the status quo is becoming our sad reality.
The first batch of books have been shipped to the eagerly expectant winners of Merkos’ library initiative. One of the many hachlatos undertaken at the historic kinus just last year, this library campaign launched by Rabbi Moshe Kotlarsky, Chairman of The International Kinus Hashluchim aims to establish 360 new libraries in Chabad houses across the globe.
An apparently homeless man collecting junk in Crown Heights was arrested Tuesday afternoon after being caught stealing a cell phone from a resident’s property.
In commemoration of the Taanis today, we present a moving JEM clip from Asara B’Teves of 5725 (1965), just a few short months after the passing of his mother, Rebbetzin Chana, when the Rebbe was Davening by the Amud.
With great sadness we report the passing of Levi Yitzchak Butbol OBM, the special son of Mendy and Dina Butbol, Shluchim of the Rebbe in Kiryat Gat.
Update: Watch the replay of the Shiur. On Sunday 9 Teves (1/1/23), at 9:30pm 770time (EST) please join on Zoom and learn the Kuntres Beis Rabbeinu, so we remember why we want to Expand 770.
