The car menorah is a uniquely American innovation—a marketing gimmick created by young yeshivah students in the early 1970s as a way to spread awareness and the message of the eight-day Jewish holiday. Today, they can be found across the globe and on all kinds of vehicles. Here is the story of the car Menorah.
70 students from Yeshiva University enjoyed an inspiring Shabbos in Crown Heights together with their Oholei Torah chavrusas over farbrengens, meals, a grand Melava Malka, and a visit to the Rebbe’s Room, House, and library.
Acting Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez today announced that 2017 will end as the safest year in Brooklyn’s recorded history, with the fewest number of homicides, shootings and shooting victims since record-keeping began. Crown Heights saw a particularly noteworthy 40% reduction in homicides.
In what is being pegged as possibly the largest ever developement in Crown Heights history, two real estate moguls are seeking approval for a 1-million-square-foot mixed-income residential project on Montgomery Street, at the site of a century-old spice warehouse.
The Chabad village of Kfar Chabad, Israel, located about 5 miles south of Tel Aviv, was established 68 years ago today – on the 21st of Iyar in 1949 – by the 6th Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn, of blessed memory.
The New York Times has finally achieved what not even the Crown Heights riot could accomplish: eradicating all trace of Jews or Judaism from that Brooklyn neighborhood.
Between two intense learning campaigns, for Yud Shevat and Yud Aleph Nissan, the Mechina students of Cheder at the Ohel were treated to a fascinating, fun and inspiring trip to Crown Heights.
History was made today in the suburb of Paddington in Sydney, Australia. Since its establishment in the mid-1800s, there has never been a public Menorah lighting in the suburb. Today, the first day of Chanukah, CBD-Chabad hosted Paddington’s first ever Public Menorah Lighting, with some 50 members of the Sydney Jewish community in attendance.
Within a sea of dark blue favoring Hillary Clinton, a small section of Crown Heights went red this election season, throwing support to Donald Trump within about a dozen square blocks, an analysis of polling data shows.
A few days ago, a historic event happened in a prestigious university in France. For the very first time in the country, a Sefer Torah was inaugurated on Campus.
On Sunday August 21st the Congress of Shluchim and Lay leader partners of Chabad Argentina was held in the city of Tucuman. To honor the Bicentennial of the Argentine Independence and the Jewish year of Hakhel, a year of gathering for the Jewish people, more than 70 Rabbis representing 40 national institutions of Chabad Lubavitch along with their partners took part in this congress.
For the grand finale trip, Yeshivas Kayitz Kingston went to one of the first cities where the Frierdiker Rebbe sent Shluchim – Worcester, Massachusetts. They were hosted by Rabbi Mendel Fogelman, whose father, Rabbi Hershel Fogelman, OBM, came to Worcester over 70 years ago.
Israeli newspaper Yediot Ahronot featured a profile of a Lubavitcher Chossid who made history in the Israeli Defense Forces. “Meet Segen (Lieutenant) Dr. Shmulik Soklik who is making history,” read the newspaper’s headline this morning.
Despite opposition from local Halachic authorities, an Eruv has been erected around Crown Heights for the first time in history, enabling Jewish residents who choose to use it to carry and push strollers on Shabbos.
Yesterday, a man went on a thieving spree in Crown Heights, attempting to steal from a Kingston Avenue store and stealing multiple packages from people’s doorsteps. Shomrim volunteers cornered the man into his apartment, but he still managed to evade arrest.
Last week Sunday, the third of Adar Sheini, shluchim and their communities from across the Tri-State area, including a large contingent from Philadelphia and a group of students from Tufts University – graduates of the acclaimed JLI Sinai Scholars program – came to Crown Heights for a full-day Jewish Unity Experience in honor of Hakhel, coordinated by the Merkos Suite 302 Hakhel Office.
For young Jewish teens in South Africa, history was made today as the first members of CTeen-Cape Town landed at NYC’s JFK airport, completing the maiden voyage to the international CTeen Shabbaton.
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