Shomrim Apprehend Career Shoplifter

At around 2:00pm today [Thursday] Shomrim had received complaints of an alleged shoplifter going up and down Kingston Ave. at that time an alert member spotted a man carrying a large garbage bag down Crown St. towards Troy Ave. and when the Shomrim member approached he threw the bag at the member and began to run. The member put in the call for a chase on foot and immediately there were over 10 members responding and had stopped him a mere block away on Troy between Carroll & Crown!

The police were then called in, and arrived instantly, and began a search of his person and the bag that the man tried to get rid of was brought to the scene, and found 6 brand new coats in the bag and in a makeshift hidden compartment of the coat he was wearing police found a bunch of air fresheners and other assorted items!

Police then held him until witnesses that had seen him in the store where he allegedly lifted the coats from, were brought by another Shomrim member to the scene and identified him as the shoplifter. Down in the police station they locked him up and ran his name which came back with more then 20 prior arrests ranging from shoplifting to burglary!

If you see such an incident or anything else don’t hesitate to call Shomrim anytime at (718) 774-3333

More extensive pictures in the Extended Article!

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Oholei Torah Pre1A Children Learn About The Rambam

In a new program for the Pre 1A grade, the children began learning about the Rambam and that he was a doctor as well as a great scholar and for the occasion Hatzalah of Crown Heights volunteered an ambulance and 2 of their members to give the kids a tour of the inside of an ambulance and during the tour they learned about the necessity of wearing seatbelts and some of the basic things Hatzalah do.

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Robbery at gunpoint in the 770 Montgomery Mikvah

The Shul 770 Montgomery

This morning [Thursday] at around 5:00am one man was in the Mikvah that is located behind 770 Montgomery (between Albany & Troy) when all of a sudden 2 masked men came bursting into the Mikvah with guns in their hands demanding money form the man, he gave up his money and was not hurt.

Police arrived and took a report and posted one squad car in front of the Shul until later in the day.

A particularly disturbing fact about this incident is these gun toting robbers knew when the Mikvah opens and when to strike. This should be a cause for concern to all members of the community. So we ask of you, tonight is the Police Council Meeting please be there if not to complain, then to just show support. And another thing is if you see anyone or anything suspicious don’t hesitate to call 911 and then immediately after Shomrim at (718) 774-3333 24/7.

Orthodox Rethinking Campus Outreach

Forward

Following on the heels of Chabad-Lubavitch’s successful campus programs, other Orthodox groups are now reaching out in new ways to college students of every Jewish denomination.

Non-Hasidic, ultra-Orthodox Jews — or mitnagdim — have adopted an approach that is startlingly similar to the one presented by Chabad, the Hasidic sect whose outreach efforts have made it a growing presence at universities across America, according to Bar-Ilan University sociology professor Adam Ferziger.

In a paper that he recently presented at an academic conference at New York University, Ferziger described what students experience at campus Chabad houses: “The individual who enters is given the opportunity to interact with a knowledgeable Jew on a level that is rare in a large, established congregation…. Questioning is encouraged and the tenor of the discussions, often peppered with raucous Hasidic melodies, is motivating, but generally nonjudgmental.”

Police Council Meeting Today, Be There!

As a few of our commenter’s have mentioned, there is a Police Council Meeting held once a month which is open to all residents to come and voice any concern or complaint they you may have, which we all know we do.

The meeting takes place in the IS 61/MS 61 (the public school) which is located on Empire and New York (diagonally across from the police station) at 7:30pm today [Thursday].

Another note is that to be eligible to vote for the precinct council meeting you need to attend to at least 3 meeting of the possible 10 meeting’s that take palace a year. So be there and be heard and make it count.

New Orleans Day School Reopens

Rebecca Rosenthal – Lubavitch.org
Children share dolls on opening day

When 26 students trickled back into Chabad-Lubavitch of New Orleans’s Torah Academy on January 5, the only thing that looked familiar was the school building and the smiling faces of their teachers. Everything else had been washed away by Hurricane Katrina.

The only Jewish day school in the New Orleans area to reopen since the devatstion, Torah Academy is still working to replace desks, textbooks, workbooks, computers, art supplies and the entire school library. “I went to get lettering for a bulletin board, but that is gone, too,” said Chabad of New Orleans representative Bluma Rivkin, who teaches at the school.

Tense Quiet in Hevron, Now the Stories Come Out

Arutz Sheva

Police harassment of Jews in Hevron is not a new phenomenon. Long-time residents David Shirel and Shani Horowitz tell their harrowing stories of the past two days.

With police and army forces walking freely around buildings and onto private porches and roofs, the feeling in Hevron is that the unrest of the past few days is not yet over. “I just had a few moments of great tension,” one resident told Arutz-7 at around 5 PM today, “when a rumor went around that it’s about to happen – the police are coming to take us and throw us out. But then we heard that it wasn’t true, so we have another short respite…”