If you were considering a career as a package thief, you might try to snatch a box in the dark of night, or you could show up in broad daylight with a large bag to stuff with all the boxes you could carry. This Crown Heights thief went with the second option, carting off packages worth over $750 from a house on President St.
A child riding a scooter in Crown Heights was struck Sunday evening as he attempted to cross a street. The child, despite being thrown to the ground, avoided serious injury.
The topics in this week’s 292nd episode of the highly acclaimed MyLife: Chassidus Applied series, with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, will include: Announcing the 6th Annual MyLife Essay Contest; Chassidus Applied to 24 Teves and Vaeira; How to Prepare for the Approaching 70th Anniversary of the Rebbe’s Leadership? How Long Is the 7th Generation? What Was Moshe’s Birth Name Given by His Parents, and Why Is That Name Not the One We Use? Is There Anything Wrong With Secular Studies? Why Is Studying Science Not Like Studying Torah, Since They Both Come From G-d?
Ever wondered why your USPS packages magically appear on your doorstep without your bell being rung? This video of a USPS delivery in Williamsburg might be the answer.
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 the twentieth installment here on CrownHeights.info.
Following the news that he was diagnosed with a serious illness, Rabbi Akiva Wagner returned to address the talmidim of Yeshivas Lubavitch Toronto, sharing a message of emunah and bitachon.
A security incident took place around 9:15am Thursday morning at Beis Rivkah Crown Street, after a mentally disturbed person broke a window and threatened a security guard.
This weekend, Shabbos Parshas Shemos (January 17-19), close to 200 Young Professionals with their Shluchim and Shluchos, representing 42 different cities from around the world, will be coming to Crown Heights as part of Chabad Young Professionals annual Encounter.
A family involved in a severe accident two weeks ago on the Mario Cuomo bridge says that a New York State trooper reacted antisemitically, ignoring their obvious injuries and threatening the volunteers of Rockland Hatzoloh for attempting to give aid.
Healing Hearts Bikur Cholim of Florida currently has Chessed Houses near Joe DiMaggio Children’s Hospital and Jackson Memorial/UM Hospital, helping hundreds of families in their time of need. Now, it’s time for Nicklaus Children’s Hospital to have it’s own Chessed House.
A package thief was caught in the act and confronted by a Crown Heights resident this week. The resident snapped a photo of the thief, sending him away without his loot.
This past Sunday, Jan. 12th, hundreds gathered in Queens, displaying Jewish pride and rallying against the recent increase of antisemitism.
breakingisraelnews Rain fell for two weeks in Israel, breaking a 50-year record for the highest amount of precipitation in northern Israel on Thursday, according to the Israel Meteorological Service. A record was also broken in southern Israel where, according to […]
A Crown Heights resident who decided to check things out for himself was horrified to discover that the quinoa he had recently purchased was in fact teeming with bugs.
A New Jersey law that would have ended a religious exemption to vaccine requirements for children attending any school in the state was defeated on Monday.
A fire broke out in a third-floor apartment above a commercial location on Nostrand Ave late Tuesday morning at around 11:20am. No injuries were reported.
Eric Steger, a regular at Chabad of Sunnyvale, California, gave a life-saving liver donation last week to a man from Iowa. He says he gets his inspiration from a Rebbe card he keeps in his wallet.
Watch as Abie Rottenberg and Shlomo Simcha sit down in the home of Rabbi Yitzy Hurwitz, Shliach to Temacula, California for Kumzitz. Rabbi Yitzi suffers from ALS, a disease that has paralyzed him nearly completely, but has not stopped him from touching the hearts of tens of thousands.
Upon landing on a kashrus trip to the Bahamas on Monday, Rabbi Kalman Weinfeld, a Rabbinic Coordinator at OK Kosher had the opportunity to give the pilot a bar mitzvah and help him wrap tefillin for his first time ever.
Mr. Yaakov Schiffman joined his family in an audience with the Rebbe when his father was terminally ill. The Rebbe proceeded to teach him a page of Talmud, and a lesson that changed his life. (1975)
The topics in this week’s 291st episode of the highly acclaimed MyLife: Chassidus Applied series, with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, will include: How to Prepare for the Approaching 70th Anniversary of the Rebbe’s Leadership; Why Is the Story of the Exodus Not Corroborated by Archeological Evidence? Were Any of the Rebbeim Influenced by Secular Philosophers? Is Any Chassidus Based on Moreh Nevuchim? With so Many Competing Ideologies All Purporting to Tell the Truth, Is There Any Way to Objectively Determine the Truth of Judaism? How Was the Rambam Able to Live in Egypt? Can We Rationalize the Entire Torah?
Watch as Curator and Librarian of the Agudas Chasidei Chabad Library, Rabbi Berel Levine, continues his tour of the Library. In this video, he showcases an exhibition of the Alter Rebbe.