Daily Archives: June 26, 2006

Hundreds Attend the Levaya of Reb Sholom Morozov OB”M

Under pouring rain, hundreds of Anash and Tmimim joined the Levaya of Reb Sholom Marozov, A”H, Mashpia and Mashgiach of the central Tomchei Temimim and member of the International Agudas Chassidei Chabad who passed away Sunday morning in Crown Heights. The Levaya started out from the ‘Shomrei Hachomos’ chapel and passed 770 on its way to the Montefiore Cemetery in Queens where he was buried near the Ohel.

More pictures in the Extended Article.

Hollywood to pay synagogue $2 million

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Hollywood, FL — The city and an Orthodox Jewish synagogue reached a deal Monday in a dispute that will allow the group to continue holding services in two buildings located in a residential area.

The Hollywood Community Synagogue Chabad Lubavitch sued the city after it ordered the group to shut down in October 2003. The Justice Department sided with the synagogue, noting the city was violating the federal Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act enacted in 2000.

The city claimed the group was violating its zoning laws by operating without a permit in a residential neighborhood.

Crown Heights Politics Takes A Drastic Turn For The Worse

Crown Heights politics took another decided turn for the horrible last week, as Jewish Community Council/Vaad HaKahal chairman Moshe Rubashkin and Netzigim chairman—according to some—Yisroel Best were arrested following a violent incident Monday night.

The violence, which occurred at a N’tzigim meeting Mr. Rubashkin had convened in his home, took place against the backdrop of ongoing contention and strife that has plagued the Rubashkin administration from the outset. Rooted in the controversy involving the Beis Din (sad to say, it must now be clarified that the controversy referred to is the original one, not the more recent controversy involving elections), the continuing struggle heated up after the N’tzigim’s annual election in September, when that body’s Executive Board, then chaired by Reuven Lipkind, was ousted by a slate critical of Mr. Rubashkin’s policies. The winning slate was chaired by Mr. Best. Subsequently, in April, Mr. Rubashkin called a meeting of N’tzigim in his home, at which the Vaad chairman’s supporters purported to hold a special election to replace the Best administration with a new Executive Committee—favorable to Mr. Rubashkin—chaired by Yankel Wice. Since that time, the Best slate and the Wice slate have each claimed to be the sole legitimate Executive Committee of the N’tzigim.