The gentrification of Franklin Avenue in Crown Heights is most evident between Sterling and Park Place.

One of the prohibitions mentioned in this weeks Parsha is where the Torah disallows any of the Amonim or Moavim to intermarry within Klal Yisroel. The two reasons given for this ban is because they refused to give us bread and water upon our exodus from Mitzrayim as well as having hired Bilam to curse [...]

????? ????? ??? ??? ??? ????? ?? ????? ?? ???? 21:11 The Gemora in Shabbos (130a) states that any mitzvah which was accepted by the Jewish people with happiness, such a circumcision, is still performed to the present day with gladness, but any mitzvah which was accepted with fighting – such as forbidden relationships – is [...]

Finance minsiter Steinitz praises move as "badge of honor" and reward for Israel's responsible actions during global economic crisis.

New York – It’s a name inextricably linked with Sept. 11, with huge, catastrophic loss — Cantor Fitzgerald. Of the companies and organizations that lost people that day, none was harder hit than the financial services firm that occupied the 101st to 105th floors of the north tower at the World Trade Center. Out of 960 [...]

This week’s Sedra goes into some detail as to what is to be done with a Ben Sorer Umoreh (the ‘wayward and rebellious son’). Chazal explain in great detail what exactly a Ben Sorer Umoreh has to do in order to be liable to the death penalty, how the parents must proceed with him, and [...]

Authorities in Belgium are investigating a case that may turn out to be the country’s largest ever fraud. De Tijd this week published some of the names from a list of 170 of Antwerp diamond traders who it claims are being investigated by authorities for spiriting almost $1 billion (€700 million) in unpaid taxes into [...]

CrownHeights.info and the Avner Institute presents a photo of the Rebbe at a children's rally Chanukah 1972.

Brussels – Almost two years after an HSBC employee handed to French authorities a list of tens of thousands of HSBC’s private banking clients, ricochets from the affair are hitting Antwerp’s diamond community. The list allegedly contains information revealing massive tax evasions. In 2009, HSBC IT employee Herve Falciani handed to French tax authorities a [...]