A kosher ice cream truck war in Sullivan County, NY has resulted in two arrests. Update: CrownHeights.info has obtained a video of the incident.
During a brief thunderstorm this morning, lightning struck a 7-story building on New York Ave. between Winthrop and Hawthorne St., setting it ablaze. The smoke is blowing across the Crown Heights neighborhood as firefighters continue to try and bring the raging inferno under control.
A brazen daytime bombing that killed seven people and injured dozens on a bus full of Israeli tourists was most likely a suicide attack, Bulgarian officials said Thursday. Israel stood by its claim that Iranian-backed Hezbollah was responsible and vowed to hit back. [Update: Freed Guantanamo detainee?]
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At least seven Israelis were killed and 20 others injured this morning in a terror attack on Israeli tourists’ bus traveling in Burgas, Bulgaria.
A young yeshiva boy of 15 by the name of Shneur Chaim Yitzchak Alexander ben Nechama Dina is right now in critical condition with a bacterial infection that is ravaging his body. He needs the heartfelt Tefilos of every child in Klal Yisrael!
A beggar who spends most of his time collecting in and around 770 was arrested this morning after he threatened an Israeli bochur with a knife.
Oholei Torah will be sending out 182 Bochurim to 44 Communities around the Globe for a year of Shlichus. Rabbi Elchonon Lesches, Dean of the Beis Medrash Oholei Torah, noted that this is the largest Shlichus list Oholei Torah has ever presented.
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Unless Rabbi Pinchus Feldman can raise more than $20 million, Chabad’s Yeshiva College in Bondi could collapse. That was the message from Yeshiva’s spiritual leader when he recently approached a major communal philanthropist for desperately-needed funds.
Hundreds of Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries serving college campuses from around the world have gathered at the Hilton Stamford Hotel and Executive Meeting Center in Connecticut for the 11th annual Chabad on Campus International Emissaries Conference that ends yesterday.
This summer, New York subway riders might be able to actually get some work done on the train (rather than just beating their high scores in Angry Birds). Beginning Monday, free Wi-Fi will be available at a number of stations courtesy of Google.
One of the oldest and poorest neighborhoods in Yerushalayim, Katamon fell victim to a rampant epidemic of abortions toward the end of the 1960s and the beginning of the 1970s. Those who resided in the overly crowded red houses on Rechov Bar Yochai were particularly affected, with many left feeling helpless and without any other options.
While the rest of the South Florida Jewish community was preparing for the upcoming holiday weekend, Mark Rosenberg, Dovi Katz and Chaim Markowitz were up in Tallahassee. They were there to make a presentation to the commanders of the Police Departments and Highway Patrols of the State of Florida. Their topic? Jewish death.
On Monday, June 11, ’12, history was made as the National Hockey League’s Los Angeles Kings became champions. Wait a minute! What does a Chabad Chasidic Rabbi know about hockey? Actually, not a lot (but I am teachable).
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — A Jewish woman in her early 20s died after being struck by a truck as she was crossing an Empire Boulevard intersection this morning.
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R’ Yossi Melamed, OBM, was the photographer who spent thousands of hours photographing the Rebbe. He would regularly be seen attending Farbrengens and photographing life with the Rebbe at 770 Eastern Parkway- sometimes the only cameraman allowed in.
Even though statistics show that many women reading this right now have experienced the loss of a pregnancy, most of these women have not and likely never will publicly address or even mention in private the fact of their miscarriage. Being that this kind of death is a fact of many women’s lives, and that silence and shame only exaggerate the pain, I am opening up about my own miscarriage, which occurred a little over two months ago.
Crownheights.info has learned that Rabbi Yehudah Leib Schapiro, Rosh Yeshiva and Rov of the Lubavitch kehila in Miami, has resigned from the Va’ad Rabbonei Lubavitch after 20 years of service.
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