CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — Today, Sunday at around 2:30pm, a 13 year old Bochur was struck by a car while riding his bike on Kingston Avenue and Carroll Street, moments later the offending vehicle fled the scene.
More pictures in the Extended Article.
ORMOND BEACH, FL [CHI] — When Rabbi Pinchas Ezagui and his wife Chani arrived in Ormond Beach 15 years ago to open a Jewish Center, a new branch of the Chabad Lubavitch movement, they resembled Dale Earnhardt’s humble beginnings, making his first appearance on the racetrack with his Pink 1956 Ford Victoria. Holding their first synagogue services and Hebrew school classes from the confines of their small living room did not seem promising for a Rabbi claiming to turn Daytona into a flourishing Jewish community.
VLADIVOSTOK, Russia [CHI] — As occurred across Russia, May 9th was celebrated in the far east port city of Vladivostok. This is a national holiday – otherwise known as V-Day – which pays tribute to war veterans and honors the victims of both World Wars, including both civilians and soldiers. The Jewish community of Vladivostok – a member of the Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia – held a gathering for its elders on this occasion.
CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — English interview with the Mr Howard Sherman, whose 16 year old son Alon was brutally assaulted Thursday night (Click Here for Story), full interview with his mother, Iris Sherman, in hebrew in the Extended Article.
In light of all the recent attacks against the Orthodox Jewish community of Crown Heights. NY State Assemblyman Dov Hikind is coming, to hear firsthand how bad the security situation in our neighborhood really is.
We encourage everyone to come and participate tonight, 9:00pm in 770 and at 10:00pm in 1241 Carroll Street, between Brooklyn and New York avenues so your voices are heard. This is not a political event and all are welcome.
-Jewish Leadership Council
With sadness we inform you of the untimely passing of Horav Meir Chai Hokohen Kohen OBM.
His wife, Mrs. Yocheved Baitelman Cohen and his family are sitting Shiva in Israel.
They can be reached at yocheved733@gmail.com
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NIZHNY NOVGOROD, Russia — Members of the Jewish community of Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, discovered several graves in the city’s historic Marina Roscha Jewish cemetery that had been vandalized by unknown perpetrators.
CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — As residents were returning home from Shul on Motzoai Shabbos one Black teen on a bicycle assaulted a Man and later a woman along Empire Boulevard, and witnesses claim that one police officer watched part of it and did nothing.
The incident began on Brooklyn and Empire where the man was kicked by the cycling teen, who than made another pass and pulled out a large ‘box cutter’ type knife and cursed at the man he has assaulted. A police officer who was posted on that corner witnessed the incident and immediately called for backup and began giving chase after the perp who fled towards Kingston.
More pictures in the Extended Article.
With sadness we inform you of the passing of Hirsh Katz, son of Reb Yankel Katz.
Tzvi Hirsh HaKohen Katz is known to many as the child who for many years asked the Ma Nishtana at the Rebbe’s Pesach Seder table. His father, Reb Yankel Katz from Chicago, was a stalwart supporter of both the Frierdiker Rebbe and the Rebbe.
Reb Yankel was one of the key supporters who funded of the Frierdiker Rebbe’s escape from the Nazis, and subsequently the Frierdiker Rebbe’s and then the Rebbe’s work in America. The Rebbe would speak with Reb Yankel Katz by telephone monthly, and called him “a true friend.”
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