Boruch Dayan Ha’emes: Reb Dovid Malka OBM
It is with great sadness that we inform you of the untimely passing of longtime Crown Heights resident and beloved culinarian Reb Dovid Malka OBM.
Daily Archives: October 23, 2011
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Binyamin Simantov-Linkov
Monticello, NY [CHI] - UPDATE: 10:26 PM: The child was B"H found in Monticello across from his house at 31 Landsfield Ave hiding under a bed. He is in good condition.
Missing Boy Found B”H, Safe and Sound
Binyamin Simantov-Linkov
Monticello, NY [CHI] – UPDATE: 10:26 PM: The child was B”H found in Monticello across from his house at 31 Landsfield Ave hiding under a bed. He is in good condition.
Commish Kelly Would Lead in Race for NYC Mayor
NY Post
NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly (right) standing next to NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
The NYPD’s clashes with Wall Street protestors haven’t done much to diminish Police Commissioner Ray Kelly’s popularity. A Quinnipiac University poll released today found that Kelly would lead the current field of candidates if he decided to run for mayor in 2013, even though the top cop has said repeatedly that he doesn’t have the DNA for elective politics.
Loose Translation: Israeli Jew is late and cannot find parking. In Frustration, he turns to G-d and prays for parking, promising that if answered, he will begin putting on Tefillin, Keep Kosher and do Teshuvah. Just then a parking spot becomes available; the Israeli turns to G-d and says “never mind, I can take care of this myself.”
Video: “I Beseech You O Lord – I Need Parking!”
Loose Translation: Israeli Jew is late and cannot find parking. In Frustration, he turns to G-d and prays for parking, promising that if answered, he will begin putting on Tefillin, Keep Kosher and do Teshuvah. Just then a parking spot becomes available; the Israeli turns to G-d and says “never mind, I can take care of this myself.”
Crown Heightsers March to End Gun Violence
Brooklyn Ink
Map of Gun-Violence in Crown Heights this year. To enlarge map click here.
Residents of Crown Heights walked together on Thursday evening in a peace march to end gun violence, but also to call attention to increased safety in the neighborhood in recent years.
Brooklyn Orthodox Jews See Spike in Measles Cases
NY Times
Six cases of childhood measles have been reported in Brooklyn over the last two weeks, the New York City health department said Friday, contributing to a spike in measles cases this year.
Powerful Earthquake Hits Turkey, Israeli Help Refused
AP, YWN
People try to save people trapped under debris in Tabanli village near the city of Van after a powerful earthquake struck eastern Turkey today.
A powerful 7.2-magnitude earthquake struck eastern Turkey on Sunday, collapsing dozens of buildings into piles of twisted steel and chunks of concrete. Desperate survivors dug into the rubble with their bare hands, trying to rescue the trapped and injured. State-run television reported that 45 people were killed and 150 others injured in the eastern town of Ercis, but scientists estimated that up to 1,000 people could already be dead, due to low housing standards in the area and the size of the quake.
FEATURE: Bochurim Join OWS, the Satmar Rebbe; and a Special Story About the Rebbe on Tahalucha
‘Simchas Torah’ by Zalman Kleinman
A story about the Rebbe from a Litvish ‘Hoch Ah Chainik’ who used to live in Crown Heights, Bochurim who got lost in Manhattan get invited to join the Occupied Wall Street Hakafos and a closed Chabad House in Williamsburg leads a group to join the Satmar Rebbe for Hakofos in the main Shul on Kent Avenue. Read these readers experiences on Tahalucha!
Yoel Vs. the Port Authority
NY Post
He is a 30-year-old college student who gets by on loans and freelance jobs as a legal assistant and public notary. He does not have a bank account. He does not have a credit card. When he says he lives paycheck to paycheck, he means it quite literally: If he runs out of the money he keeps in the (sometimes torn) pocket of his pants, it means he has nothing until his next check comes along.
NYPD Morale Perilously Low as Scandals Put Cops Under Fire
NY Daily News
It’s a tough time to be one of New York’s Finest. With the NYPD facing a blizzard of damning incidents in recent months, cops and police brass say morale among the force is perilously low.
Chabad Library Dispute Keeps Russian Ship out of S.F.
San Francisco Chronicle
The Nadezhda
A goodwill visit to San Francisco and the Sonoma Coast by a big, handsome Russian sailing ship was suddenly canceled Friday, the result of a complicated legal problem that involves both history and cultural treasures.
Yeshiva Student Stabbed on Shabbos in Jerusalem
AP, YWN
An 18-year-old Israeli was critically wounded on Saturday, October 22, 2011, after being stabbed near his home in the Ramot neighborhood, Jerusalem.
Israeli police say a 20-year-old yeshiva student has been stabbed by a Palestinian assailant in Jerusalem yesterday.
Efraim Gershowitz is sitting shiva after the passing of his dear mother Batya Pessa OBM, at 821 eastern pkwy until Thursday.
Shacharis: 9:30 Mincha: 5:30 Maariv: B'Zman
Phone: 917-355-9459
Hamokom Yenachem Eschem Besoch Shaar Avaylay Tzion VeYerushalayim.
Shacharis: 9:30 Mincha: 5:30 Maariv: B'Zman
Phone: 917-355-9459
Hamokom Yenachem Eschem Besoch Shaar Avaylay Tzion VeYerushalayim.
Info to be Menachem Avel Efraim Gershowitz
Efraim Gershowitz is sitting shiva after the passing of his dear mother Batya Pessa OBM, at 821 eastern pkwy until Thursday.
Shacharis: 9:30 Mincha: 5:30 Maariv: B’Zman
Phone: 917-355-9459
Hamokom Yenachem Eschem Besoch Shaar Avaylay Tzion VeYerushalayim.
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