Daily Archives: August 3, 2006

Mazal Tov! 2 Baby Boys on Tisha B’Av!

We would like to wish a hearty Mazal Tov to Moishe and Deena Gutleizer (Crown Heights) on the birth of their first born son! Born On Tisha B’Av.

The Sholom Zochor will IY”H be at 1301 Carroll St. [between Kingston Ave and Brooklyn Ave].

And another Mazal Tov to Shloime and Shaindle (nee Reiter) Hect, Shluchim at the University of Connecticut (Storrs Mansfield, CT) on the birth of their newborn Baby Boy! Born on Tisha B’Av.

May they be a constant source of Nachas to his parents, grandparents, relatives and klal yisroel.

Hundreds Attend the Levaya of R. Yaisef Deitsch OB”M

A large motorcade escorting R. Yosef Yitzchok Deitsch pulled up in front of 770, the Lubavitch World Headquarters, where hundreds of Bochurim, Men and Woman joined the Levaya from where it made its way to the Montefiore Cemetery in Queens where he was buried.

Jewish boarding school to open

Facility will be only such school in Minnesota

A Jewish boarding school for boys will open its doors in Cottage Grove this fall.

Yeshiva High School of the Twin Cities is buying the vacant Eagle Grove Baptist Church and hopes to teach and house about 30 boys from across the United States and other countries, said Rabbi Mottel Friedman, its director.

Picture of the Night – 3:00am

3:00am the streets are deserted, aside from the occasional car passing and the few individuals hurrying along to wherever it is they are going, a light glows in the Shain Shul, upon closer observation a man is seen through the window fixing and binding the spines of old and new Seforim.

Lubavitcher Shul Attacked In Sydney, AU

Click Here for a Newscast of this event.

Community and political leaders have condemned attacks on a synagogue and a mosque in Sydney at the weekend as police searched for those involved.

On Saturday a brick was thrown at a mosque in Eden Street, Arncliffe, smashing a window.

In another attack, police say up to 10 people, whom they described as “Middle Eastern men”, threw concrete blocks at a residence attached to a synagogue in Parramatta on Sunday night, smashing the windows of two parked cars.

Manhole Blows in Crown Heights

As the heat swells above 100 degrees the fear of a blackout continues along with the urging from the Mayor’s office and ConEd requesting that residents conserve energy. Blackouts all across Brooklyn and other parts of New York City, have come and gone.

Tuesday on the corner of Albany Ave. & President St. there was an explosion in a manhole on the corner of President St. and Albany Ave., the cover was blown off and FDNY responded and taped off the area and advised ConEd on the situation, who responded within a half an hour and began fixing what had exploded. The crew just arrived from Park Slope where they had restored power after small outage in that area.

More pictures in the Extended Article.

Cooper City’s zoning blocks Chabad center

Cooper City — Rabbi Shmuel Posner has a lease to open a Chabad Outreach Center in the Timberlake Plaza, but a city code won’t let him operate in a commercial district.

“I’ve been trying to get my [occupational license],” said Posner, of the Chabad of Nova congregation. “They said it’s not the right zoning.”

After spending three years looking for a south Broward location for his congregation, Posner, 32, of Davie, says he’s ready to fight Cooper City, and he’s recruiting a lawyer who just successfully represented another Chabad congregation against another Broward County city.

Anti-Semitic Acts Raise Concerns

North Miami Beach, FL – As Israel’s battle against Hizbullah attacks enters its third week, Jewish communities around the world are reacting with caution and calm to a spike in anti-Semitic incidents.

Sydney and North Miami Beach have been rocked by episodes of anti-Jewish actions over the weekend. They come after as the Jewish world mourns the shooting death, at the hands of a proclaimed Muslim, of a Jewish woman in the headquarters of Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle. Late Monday night, a “visibly orthodox Jewish” man was attacked in Melbourne, according to Australia’s Herald Sun, and two more suburban synagogues were defaced with swastikas there.