Shliach’s Thoughts on Jews Defending Their Loved Ones

Shliach Rabbi Mordechai Z. Hecht left and the front page of the NY Post with Gary Moscowitz right.

Dear Friend,
and whom this may concern,

With the most recent exposure of the “Martial Arts & Gun training” training story in the media, also now known by many other names – puns and embarrassing terminologies of which I was associated with – I would like to make some things clear. I will not go into the plethora of Torah sources for self-defense and the like rather address the issue at hand.

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Photos: Kol-Tuv Ends Summer with Fireworks Show

MONTICELLO, NY [CHI] — With summer drawing to a close, families packed up and enjoyed their last Motzai Shabbos in the Catskill Mountains. One bungalow colony marked it with a 45 minutes fireworks show followed by a Kumzitz Bon Fire.

Boruch Dayan Haemes – R. Shmuel Tzvi (Herschel) Fox OBM

With great sadness we inform you of the passing of R. Shmuel Tzvi (Ben R. Dovber) Fox, of Crown Heights.

The Niftar is survived by Yibadlu Lechaim Tovim his wife Mrs. Dvorah Fox and his son R. Dovber Fox (Crown Heights) and daughters, Mrs. Sara Gottlieb (Oak Park, Michigan) and Mrs. Shifra Galperin (Crown Heights).

The Levaya will take place Monday and will be leaving from the Shomrei Hadas Chaples at 8:00am and passing by 770 at around 9:00am.

Boruch Dayan Hoemes

Councilmen Unhappy With Parking Ticket Blizzard

The New York Post

NEW YORK — Ticket-happy traffic agents are slapping Big Apple drivers with “unfair” summonses, according to a lawmaker who wants to put the brakes on the orange blizzard.

“Over the last six months, complaints about traffic summonses have surpassed anything else in my office,” said City Councilman Peter Vallone Jr.

Faith-Based Forgery Bust

By John Doyle for the NY Post

Illustration Photo

BROOKLYN, NY — A Brooklyn priest has a new appreciation for interfaith dialogue — after a neighborhood patrol of religious Jews helped collar the check-forger targeting his church.

Quick-acting members of the Shomrim Patrol, a volunteer watchdog group of Orthodox Jews, tipped off cops to the location of the alleged serial forger who wrote three phony checks in the name of Our Lady of Refuge Church on Ocean Avenue in Kensington, police said.

Parking Regulations for Sunday and Monday, Labor Day

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CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — Due to Labor Day and the West Indian Day Parade there are a slew of driving and parking regulation changes in Crown Heights.

On Sunday starting at 4:00pm there will be no parking on Eastern Parkway and on all avenues from President Street to S. Johns Place, places where you cant park are marked in red in the <%popup(2/20070901-no-parking-800.jpg|800|405|MAP ABOVE)%>. Tow trucks will be going around starting at 4:00pm towing and relocating vehicles. You will be allowed to park there once again on Monday at 9:00pm.

Alternate side parking regulations and parking meter regulations will be suspended on Monday. Click the Extended Article for street closures info.

The best time to leave Crown Heights on Monday morning would be before 9:00am and the best return time would be after 9:00pm.