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“Gimel Tamuz”  edition of the Crown Heights Newspaper, available for print.
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A decades-long struggle between Chabad-Lubavitch and Russia can proceed in the American court system, a U.S. appeals court ruled. At issue are more than 12,000 religious texts and an archive of some 25,000 handwritten pages on Chabad philosophy and Jewish law dating back to the 18th century. Chabad has waged a 70-year battle with the […]

Lubavitch.com “A torrent of rain sent the thousands attending Staten Island fest for Russian speakers scurrying for cover, but not Chabad rabbinical student Aharon Teleshevsky and Mark Tokar, 16.Teleshevsky had helped Tokar wrap tefillin just moments before, a first for Tokar since his bar mitzvah. “I don’t do prayers, normally,” he said.” ” Only 13% […]

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For one day last week, sixteen-year-old Yosef Abrahamson, a black Chabad chassid from Omaha, Nebraska, was commanding officer of New York’s 71st precinct. He and 120 other teenagers were sworn in as temporary members of the New York City Police Department for writing winning essays on the topic: If you were […]

A new Shomer Shabbos gas station has opened in Crown Heights on Utica and E. New York Avenues. Shturem.net

Photo: Zelig Shaul

A source tells YWN, that Kelly suddenly arrived in Crown Heights unannounced at 11:30PM on Monday night, surprising all those that saw him sitting in his car parked outside Chabad Headquarters, located at 770 Eastern Parkway.The Commissioner sat talking to residents outside 770, and listened attentively to their complaints. The Commissioner […]

Crown Heights erupted in anger today as hundreds marched in protest after a 16-year-old Jewish teen was beaten and robbed in the early morning hours. Police have made no arrests and have named no suspects, but the incident raised tensions that have simmered since the racial uproar of the early 1990s. “Jewish blood is […]

4 Arrested After Throwing Rocks at School Bus

CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — Monday, A Lubavitcher Yeshiva school bus full of young children was pelted with stones earlier this afternoon as it was making its rounds dropping children off. The incident took place on President Street between Utica and Schenectady as the bus began pulling away, […]

On the evening of April 14, a 20-year-old black man named Andrew Charles was attacked with pepper spray and then beaten by a pair of Hasidic assailants in his Crown Heights neighborhood. The attackers escaped in a GMC Envoy, and although Charles didn’t catch the plate number, a witness did. Police traced its registration to […]

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