A crew of men robbing neighborhood businesses at gunpoint hit up two more spots in Crown Heights, bringing the total number of stick-ups in one week to five, police said • Full Story

Not just in Crown Heights: Two dozen seemingly random slashings since November have residents of NYC on edge • Full Story

The reward for information leading to an arrest and conviction of the suspect who stabbed 25-year-old Yehuda Leib Brikman last month in Crown Heights was increased to $22,500 • That includes $12,500 from NYPD crime stoppers, and $10,000 being offered by the Anti-Defamation League • Full Story

On Tuesday, a burglar entered 1469 President Street in Crown Heights and made off with $2000 in cash ● Crown Heights Shmira was able to obtain the surveillance footage from the time of the incident ● In the footage a woman is seen entering the building and ringing all the bells until an unsuspecting tenant buzzed her in. She then walks directly to one of the apartments on the ground floor, disappears inside, and within three minutes is seen leaving the premises ● Video

On a sunny Saturday morning last August, Rabbi Joseph Raksin was shot and killed by two young African American men as he walked to a synagogue in an unincorporated neighborhood in North Miami Beach ● Despite the Police and public officials denying that he was murdered just for being Jewish, Jeff Lipkes of the American Thinker presents a different take on the matter, explaining why this assertion is far from the truth ● Opinion

Chabad Shluchim in North Brooklyn lit a Menorah at the site where NYPD officers Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu were murdered execution-style earlier this week in Brooklyn’s Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood ● Pictures

Leaders of the Crown Heights community came to the local police station, NYPD 71st Precinct, to show support and to thank the police after the recent tragedy which saw two cops murdered in Bed-Stuy ● The celebration included a Menorah lighting by Levi Rosenblatt, the Bochur who was stabbed in 770 ● Full Story, Pictures

Chanukah Miracle: Yitzchak Shuchat pleaded guilty to assault on Friday in exchange for prosecutors dropping a more serious bias charge. He’s to serve one day in jail and perform 25 days of community service as a penalty for the 2008 attack on Andrew Charles in Crown Heights ● Full Story

Levi Rosenblatt, the Bochur who was recently stabbed in 770, has been released from the Hospital, much earlier than predicted by his doctors, arriving in 770 to a crowd of Bochurim and Anash who were celebrating the miracle ● Full Story, Pictures

Yesterday (Wednesday) at 2:00pm Shmira members responded to a scene on Kingston Avenue near President Street where a male, who bystanders overheard yelling anti-Semitic slurs, took a hammer out of his car and smashed the window of a parked car ● The perpetrator claimed that the owner of the vehicle had thrown an onion at his car and therefore felt justified in his actions ● Police soon arrived and after questioning the perpetrator, he readily admitted to the crime, and was placed under arrest ● Pictures

The space is open around the clock, never without someone in the room, and like other endlessly open spaces like Jerusalem’s Wall or the Lincoln Memorial, it is often most beautiful in the wee small hours… It has been everything a building can be — but never a crime scene ● Jonathan Mark visited Crown Heights in the aftermath of the Levi Rosenblatt stabbing, and shares his views ● Op-Ed

Earlier tonight, over 2,000 protesters from around New York City marched in Brooklyn with their hands up protesting Police brutality in recent cases such as the Eric Garner case in Staten Island; the protestors chanted slogans “Hands Up, Don’t Shoot” ● When the peaceful march passed by 770, the Police put the Shul under lockdown, until the protest continued north towards Atlantic Avenue ● ChabadInfo.com photographer was on the scene and presents Pictures

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio met with members of the Jewish community in Crown Heights Thursday to reassure the troubled community that he was hearing their cries ● Full Story, Pictures

Debra Nussbaum Cohen, a writer for Haaretz, analyzes the current “open door” policy of Chabad, especially the Rebbe’s Shul, interviewing members of the Crown Heights community and asking them what they think the response should be ● Will adding security damage the image of 770? ● Op-Ed

Reizy Rosenblatt arrived in New York Wednesday after flying from Israel to see her son, Levi, who was recovering at Bellevue Hospital ● On Tuesday, he was stabbed in the head and neck by Calvin Peters, who was shot and killed in a confrontation with police ● Full Story

Last night, Bochurim sat down for a lively Farbrengen in 770, thanking G-d for the miracles of the previous night, and saying L’chaim for the complete recovery of the stabbed Bochur, Levi Yitzchak Ben Reizel ● Full Story, Pictures

After a frightening 18 hours in which the stabbed Bochur Levi Rosenblatt was in critical condition, he has woken up from the medically-induced coma, and the doctors in Bellevue Hospital have decided he does not need an operation ● He is expected to fully recover in the upcoming days ● Please continue to say Tehillim for Levi Yitzchak Ben Reizel.

Earlier this morning, the 770 Shul was closed, with NYPD and FBI analyzing the crime scene, and collecting evidence ● The Rebbe’s Shacharis Minyan was relocated to the upstairs Zal ● A few hours ago, the Shul was reopened to the public ● Pictures

Breaking News: Tuesday morning Around 1:45am EST, a black man entered 770, Chabad World Headquarters, proceeded to the Farbrengen Bimah and stabbed an Israeli Bochur in the neck ● UPDATE 11:30am: The Bochur has been transferred to Bellevue Hospital in critical condition ● Full Story, Pictures

A new trust has been formed to benefit the children of Rabbi Joseph Raksin, who was murdered while walking to his synagogue in Miami on the Sabbath ● Full Story, Details

A 22-year-old Israeli was the victim of an apparent hate crime attack in Berlin on Sunday, after being hit by four Muslims as he was leaving a Chabad house in Berlin’s Wilmersdorf neighborhood ● “Right after I left, four people suddenly jumped me and cursed me in German with an Arab accent. They beat and kicked me” ● Full Story

Thousands of Shluchim are expected to arrive in Crown Heights for the Kinus HaShluchim weekend, and the Crown Heights Shmira Patrol compiled a list of “Safety Tips” for Shluchim who forgot the security risks Crown Heights poses ● Read More

After receiving an anonymous tip by phone at about 3 p.m., police from the 71st Precinct searched the ALIYA Institute in Crown Heights, finding an AR-15 rifle, a BB gun, an air rifle and ammunition in addition to a bag of acid, mushrooms, hallucinogenic pills and marijuana, police said ● Police arrested 28-year-old Aaron Akaberi, who had been staying at the youth center ● Full Story

Dutch Chief Rabbi Binyomin Jacobs filed a complaint with police against two men whom he said tried to intimidate him at a gas station last week ● “I was putting in fuel and noticed two men, who had a Middle Eastern appearance, watching me from their car nearby. When I walked past their car to pay, they started the car and lunged in my direction, laughing” ● Full Story

R’ Levi Yitzchak Choukroun, a Chabad Chossid from Netanya, was cited for “Putting on Tefillin in a Public Place,” the fine 730 Shekels (roughly $200) ● More