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“In an inconsiderate move to Crown Heights, Mayor Michael Bloomberg flattered the Rev. Al Sharpton Thursday, calling him a “calming influence on the city.” Sharpton marched in front to 770 after the violent riots in 1991 and called Hatzalah “an apartheid ambulance service.” more@COLLive.com

“Thursday morning hundreds of Bochurim and Children were seen milling around President Street, where they were all looking for their ‘Mitzvah Tanks’ and the group they will be sharing it with. The 59 Tanks, which correspond to the number of years of the Rebbe’s Nesius, were all lined up and ‘armed’ with Pesach Guides, Matzos, […]

 
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NEW YORK (AP) - New York City’s ultra-Orthodox Jews are giving the Amish a walking tour of their world. Several dozen Amish residents from Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, started the tour earlier Tuesday of Brooklyn’s Crown Heights neighborhood with members of the Hasidic Jewish community. Rabbi Beryl Epstein calls the tour “living Judaism.” The […]

“Today marks 15 years since a Hasidic teenager was gunned down on the entrance ramp of the Brooklyn Bridge. On March 1, 1994, 16-year-old Ari Halberstam was one of 15 Yeshiva students heading to Brooklyn when Lebanese national Rashid Baz opened fire on their van. Halberstam was shot in the head and died five days […]

photo:Rabbi Aaron Raskin shows off the empty space in the Congregation B’nai Avraham ark where a torah should be.
“Who would want a Torah? The hand-written scrolls can be worth tens of thousands of dollars, but for one problem: they can’t be fenced. Like most Torahs, this scroll had been previously stamped by the Universal Torah […]

Photograph: Carolyn Drake
“The Rubashkin family and the members of the Anash community for Pidyon Shivuyim extend their heartful request to all Anash to join us for special prayers at the Ohel this Monday, January 26th, Rosh Chodesh Shvat at 9:30 a.m. which will correspond to 8:30 a.m. in Iowa when the hearing will begin. Busses […]

“A few months ago CrownHeights.info published a video of Rabbi Hollander passing before the Rebbe for Sunday dollars in Elul 1991 after the Crown Heights riots where he asked the Rebbe if he should write articles urging Jews to come visit the neighborhood, and the Rebbe responded that he should make sure it would be […]

“According to the sages, sanctity lingers. “Holiness,” the Talmud says, “does not depart its place.” There are many places holy to Jews — the Western Wall and Joseph’s Tomb among them — but one of the plainest and least-known is the empty ground-floor study on your left just inside Lubavitch World Headquarters at 770 Eastern […]

 
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Brooklyn NY -This past week Hamodia published an article titled “My Brother have you put on teffilin yet today”. The article goes on to further say “In Response, Harav Aharon Kotler and the Ponovzher Rav issued a cry, instucting bachurim to try to rescue Jewish children from the clutches of the secular authorities and […]