CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — Stuck pedals aren’t limited to Toyotas alone, they can happen to city busses too and one family found that out after a one smashed into their car twice while they waited for a red light.
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — CrownHeights.info has learned that the contractors doing the rehab work on Kingston Avenue applied for permits to allow them to work throughout Saturday.
It’s official. Last Wednesday at exactly 7:34 pm, the staff at Tzivos Hashem headquarters noticed a little red blip on their screen. It’s indication? The first chayol in Chayolei Tzivos Hashem, Menachem Mendel Shemtov of Riverdale, NY, had reached the “cloud-touching” rank of a Major!
City Councilman James Sanders, who is black, says that he has always had difficulties hailing a cab.
This Shabbos afternoon Rabbi Chaim Miller will be delivering the weekly talk at the Besh”t.
Two unrelated Jews from different walks of life meet in an unlikely place and discover they are connected. You’ve heard that story before in Jewish folklore. Well, it happened to me recently.
Tragedy in Netanya: Two young girls age 16 left for home from a shiur in Netanya, not before taking Neshek kits to be given out on their weekly mivtzoim route. But this was not destined to happen, as they lost their young lives r”l in a gas explosion in Netanya last night. The Lubavitcher community, and Rabbi Yaakov Mazoz, who they studied with, are in shock after learning who the blast victims are.
A message on Rabbi Yitzchok Ginzberg’s website – Gal Enai – states as follows:
Rabbi Shidler’s, Limudei Chol 6th Grade class at ULY Crown Street spent their second to last day of class – Wednesday afternoon on a special trip, to the Statute of Liberty and Ellis Island. The trip was a nice end of the year trip, to top off a lot of history learned in class.
CrownHeights.info and the Avner Institute presents a photo of Ephraim Levy, former IDF Chief of Staff, receiving a dollar from the Rebbe after yechidus with an entourage headed by then Israeli President Zalman Shazar in 5734/1973.
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — An early morning fire broke out in the apartment of a Jewish family on Eastern Parkway, forcing the evacuation of the entire building. A number of reported injuries were all non-life threatening.
The Blesofsky Family will be sitting Shiva after the passing of Mrs. Sara Blesofsky OBM at 473 Crown Street until Wednesday morning.
Shacharis at 7:00, 7:45, 8:30 and 9:15 AM. Mincha at 7:15, 7:30, 7:45, 8:00 PM. Maariv bizmano.
Condolences can be sent to blesofsky473@gmail.com
Hamokom Yenachem Eschem Besoch Shaar Avaylay Tzion VeYerushalayim
“If only G-d would give me a sign… such as, say, a large deposit in a Swiss bank account under my name…” (Woody Allen)
– – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – –Sam is unrelenting in his petition of Heaven. His unremitting prayer causes such an uproar above that G-d dispatches an angel to determine what it is that troubles this tenacious petitioner.
”It’s the lottery,” Sam tells the querying angel. “How big a deal is it for G-d to let me win the lottery?
Rabbi Nissan Dovid Dubov saw a need, and he’s spent the past three years trying to fill it.
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