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27 Jan 2012
New Engagement!

Naftali Zakon (Crown Heights) and Mussy Krazniansky (Manhattan) L'chaim will be Sunday, at Chabad of the Upper West Side 419 E. 77th St. [between York and 1st Ave.]

4 Sholom Zochors This Week!

Levi Yitzchak and Rivka (nee Reinitz) Spielman 1276 President St. [between Brooklyn and New York Ave.] Eli and Roche'le Raskin 615 Lefferts Ave. [between Kingston and Albany Ave.] Shlomo and Chana Rivka (nee Meyers) Simons 770 Lefferts Ave. [between Troy and Schenectady Ave.] Levi and R...

"Jewish Star" to Sing on Telethon

The winner of "A Jewish Star" singing competition - Season 3 will perform on the 2012 Chabad Telethon in Hollywood, broadcast to millions of homes across the globe.

First Bris on Island of St. Martin in Hundreds of Years

St. Martin (AKA St. Maarten) is a Caribbean island divided in two: Half of it belongs to the French and the other to the Dutch. Although the island had a significant Jewish population back in the early/mid 1700s, the island has not had a permanent Jewish community since the last synagogue was aban...

Shabbos at Besht: The Courage to Challenge Hashem

This Shabbos at the Besht, Rabbi Efraim Mintz, executive director of the Jewish Learning Institute, will lead a discussion on the topic, The Courage to Challenge Hashem: Three Conversations that define a Jewish leader.

New Mikvah App for iPhone and Android Released

Rabbi Fishel Jacobs announced that a new app for Family Purity is now available. “I've been involved in supervising the halachic development of this online program from its beginning, watching it grow into the largest taharas hamisphacha site,“ says Rabbi Jacobs. ”This is the one singl...

Op-Ed: The Birth of Sensationalism

by Simon Jacobson - Meaningful Life Center One of the interesting byproducts of our paradoxical times is the birth of sensationalism.

Can You Identify These Children for Oprah Winfrey?

In the midst of filming for the latest episode of her new show Next Chapter in the Brooklyn Chassidic community, Oprah Winfrey's team caught footage of a few Jewish Children in Crown Heights. According to law, the footage can not be shown without the permission from the children's guardian/s, so O...

Mazel Tov

Baby girl to Sholly and Feigie Cohen (nee Treitel ) - Crown Heights

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The neighborhood of Crown Heights is located near the center of Brooklyn, New York. This area was originally named Crow Hill in the early part of the century, and was renamed Crown Heights in 1916. The borders of Crown Heights extend all the way west to Washington Avenue, all the way east to East New York Avenue, all the way north to Atlantic Avenue, and all the way south to Empire Boulevard. Crown Heights is nearly two miles deep and two miles long and is close to other neighborhoods like Flatbush and Prospect Heights. Eastern Parkway is a well known two mile long street that runs through Crown Heights and is home to many well known locations such as 770, Prospect Park and the main branch of the Brooklyn Public Library.

A neighborhood of contrasts, Crown Heights has some beautiful areas with stunning architecture as well as empty and shabby buildings. Walking down the street, a visitor may run into a variety of people whose different styles of dress add character to the city - Hasidic Jews dressed in black suits with white shirts and black hats mingle among Afro-Caribbean residents dressed in brightly colored outfits. These days, you'll also find wealthier people in Crown Heights due to an increase in real estate value and the trend of people with higher incomes buying real estate in less prosperous neighborhoods.

Crown Heights is home to over 150,000 people. A good 90% of these residents are of African descent. Hasidic Jews make up the second largest group in the neighborhood at 9% of the total population. The remaining 1% of the population are from a variety of ethnic groups including Asian and Latino. Crown Heights is very well known in the Jewish world due to being the global headquarters of the Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidic movement. The headquarters are located in 770 Eastern Parkway and thus the building is universally known as 770. Most Hasidim in Crown Heights live south of Eastern Parkway.

For religious Jews, there are plenty of shopping opportunities and restaurants to be found throughout Crown Heights. For example, South of Eastern Parkway has two pedestrian malls across the street from each other and plenty of independent stores. If you're thinking of visiting Crown Heights during a particularly busy time of year due to Jewish holidays and Hasidic events, make sure to book hotels way ahead of time because they tend to fill up quickly in this area.

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