This week’s edition of MyLife: Chassidus Applied with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, Episode 51, will air tonight, Sunday, here on CrownHeights.info, beginning at 8:00pm. This week Rabbi Jacobson will address the topics: Mental Illness [Pt. 2], Is There Any Virtue to Madness? Unaffordable Housing in Crown Heights, Alternatives to Yelling [Pt. 2], Shabbos Peace With Young Children.
Conservative blogger and commentator Andrew Klavan takes a look at the disturbing history of Al Sharpton, and wonders how he became a black leader.
Two orientation sessions were held, one last Thursday and one this afternoon, to welcome 78 newly-sworn-in police officers assigned to the 71st Precinct in Crown Heights.
The World Cup may be days away, but in Brooklyn, the Crown Heights Cup game on Sunday may be almost as important. In some ways, it is more important.
The fifth annual Maternal Wisdom Jewish Doula Training, a unique opportunity for women who aspire to help others during childbirth, takes place this month in Crown Heights.
Rabbi Michoel Harari’s 7th and 8th grade American history class at United Lubavitcher Yeshiva on Ocean Parkway wanted to bring post Revolutionary war America to life by reliving some of the tasks of early Native Americans and frontier settlers.
On the eighth night of Chanukah, a most remarkable event took place in Albania. President Bujar Nishani personally invited the Jewish community to a formal and grand Chanukah lighting ceremony in his own palace.
Crown Heights [CHI] — Several dozen members of the Crown Heights Jewish community gathered tonight, August 26, at the Basil Pizza & Wine Bar to meet with Democratic candidate for New York City Comptroller Eliot Spitzer.
This Shabbos at the Besht, Rabbi Yaacov Sebbag will lead a discussion on the history of prayer.
Yeshiva University student Shayna Darling, a Baalas Teshuva from Oregon, didn’t find any particular identification with one sect in orthodox Judaisim, but Chabad’s open mindedness drew her in to the Chabad Club at YU.
Shluchim in Boston made history this Chanukah in Boston’s Copley Square with Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick and the newly commissioned Boston Menorah – one of the largest in the world
An aggressive and potentially dangerous panhandler has returned to Crown Heights’ streets after an extended hiatus, during which he was not sorely missed. Yosef (Lawrence) Hoffman has a history of violent behavior, including: assaulting a 21-year-old bochur, robbing and vandalizing stores on Kingston Ave., and being arrested and admitted to a psychiatric ward.
On Monday, 26 Tammuz, members of Bais Shmuel-Chabad in Crown Heights gathered at the home of Haysha Deitsch to hear a dynamic history lesson from Rabbi Y.Y. Jacobson, while enjoying a BBQ dinner.
This is the first year that Gimmel Tammuz falls out on Shabbos in 14 years. As such, the administrators of Ohel Chabad Lubavitch, led by Rabbi Abba Refson, are in a frenzy of preparation for an unprecedented amount of guests who will be spending Shabbos there.
Sausage is a sin no more – even for Passover. Two Crown Heights foodies who started a kosher meat and deli business 18 months ago are adding specially-made sausage for the holiday which starts Friday at sundown.
Hundreds of guests came to partake in an historic wedding in Kharkov, Ukraine. Rivka Moskovitz, daughter of the Shluchim to the city, got married in her hometown to Moishy Korf, son of Rabbi Yossi Korf from Crown Heights. Moishy’s grandfather, Reb Gedalya Korf, grew up in Kharkov, and was from the founders of “Ezras Achim” – an organization that kept the flames of Yiddishkeit alive throughout Soviet times. By Hashgocha Protis, it was Ezras Achim that was active in helping the Moskovitz family come as shluchim of the Rebbe to Kharkov in 1990.
Yesterday, Thursday the first of March, the Jewish Children’s Museum in Crown Heights had a Ribbon Cutting Ceremony Unveiling the Land of Israel Gallery on the all-new 6,000 square foot floor, ‘A Voyage through Jewish History’ which is set to open on April 1st 2012. Yuli Edelstein, Israel’s Minister of Public Affairs and the Diaspora opened the Gallery, in the presence of Eliezer Shkedi, CEO of El Al.
