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WCBSTV
This officer parked a personal vehicle
in front of a hydrant before heading
in to the courthouse. CBS
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(CBS) NEW YORK — A picture may be worth a thousands words, but if the photo is of a police officer’s personal car parked illegally, you may need some of those words to talk your way out of a pair of handcuffs.

Three people said recently police detained them for nothing more than taking pictures on public, New York City sidewalks.

It happened to Jan Lee. The Chinatown businessman, frustrated by city employees parking illegally in front of his antique store on Mott Street, decided to start documenting the abuses.

Selective Enforcement: NYC’s Finest Strike Back?

WCBSTV
This officer parked a personal vehicle
in front of a hydrant before heading
in to the courthouse. CBS

Click here for a newscast of this event! (CBS2)

(CBS) NEW YORK — A picture may be worth a thousands words, but if the photo is of a police officer’s personal car parked illegally, you may need some of those words to talk your way out of a pair of handcuffs.

Three people said recently police detained them for nothing more than taking pictures on public, New York City sidewalks.

It happened to Jan Lee. The Chinatown businessman, frustrated by city employees parking illegally in front of his antique store on Mott Street, decided to start documenting the abuses.

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New Engagement!

Yaakov Levy (Crown Heights) to Mimi Stern (Houston, TX)
New Engagement!

Mendel Schaffran (Brooklyn, NY) to Chana Friedman (Pittsburgh, PA) L’Chaim: Tonight, Wednesday, 8:00pm at Lubavitcher Yeshiva Crown Street
Baby Boy!

Zev and Chaya Mushka Shusterman from Coral Springs, FL had a baby boy!
New Engagement!

Mendel Vardi (Yerushalayim, EY) to Sara Namdar (Gothenburg, Sweden) L’Chaim: Tuesday, the 4th of Av, 8:30pm at The Garden House 1386 S. Johns Pl
Baby Girl!

Sholom and Chaya Mushka (nee Rosenfeld) Katz from Lauderhill, FL had a baby girl!
Baby Girl!

Ari and Chanie Greenwald from Crown Heights had a baby girl!
New Engagement!

Israel Guetta (Netanya ,Israel) to Sterna Benmoussa (Paris ,France )
New Engagement!

Avremel Rapoport(Clarks Summit, PA) to Faigy Liberow (London, UK) L’Chaim: Tonight, Tuesday, 8:00pm at Lubavitcher Yeshiva Crown Street
New Engagement!

Menny Leitner (Monsey, NY) to Bracha Goldberg (Monsey, NY) L’Chaim: Sunday, July 20th, 7:30pm at Bais Yosef Meir Simcha Hall 19 Olympia Ln, Monsey
New Engagement!

Mendy Sulami (Los Angeles, CA) to Aidel Spielman (Crown Heights)
New Engagement!

Tsvi Feygin  (Teaneck, NJ) to Faigy Kahn (London, UK)
New Engagement!

Shmuel Gurary (Buffalo, NY) to Esther Leeba Eidelman (Manchester, UK) L’Chaim: Tonight, Thursday, 8:00pm at Rubashkin’s Downstairs
Baby Boy!

Sendy and Mali (nee New) Labkowsky from Crown Heights had a baby boy!
Baby Boy!

Yehuda and Raizel Marrus from Davie, FL, had a baby boy!
New Engagement!

Shalom Alon (Kfar Gidon, EY) to Bluma Potash (Noe Valley, SF, CA)
New Engagement!

Jack Abramson (NW4, London, UK) to Shayna Ash (Johannesburg, South Africa)
Baby Boy!

Mendel and Soro (nee Brennan) Manne from Penn Wynne, PA had a baby boy!

At around 10:45pm on President between Kingston and Brooklyn a Mexican worker who resides at the construction site next to the school on the corner of Brooklyn Ave and protects the site, entered the house, which is easily accessible, and by his account was jumped by one or two Black males, and was assaulted and robbed.

The Mexican worker, not knowing a word of English, made his way stumbling down Kingston Ave to Kol-Tuv where he knew a worker who he told what had happened and he in turn called police. Response time was instant, 7 police cars showed up and began searching the house which turned up nothing. When taking the statement from the victim police officers noticed the man smelled of alcohol and began questioning if this whole incident even took place. Just to be sure they took him around for a canvass of the area for the two alleged Black males, which yielded no results either.

Robbery Gone Awry, Or A Drunk Mans Illusion?

At around 10:45pm on President between Kingston and Brooklyn a Mexican worker who resides at the construction site next to the school on the corner of Brooklyn Ave and protects the site, entered the house, which is easily accessible, and by his account was jumped by one or two Black males, and was assaulted and robbed.

The Mexican worker, not knowing a word of English, made his way stumbling down Kingston Ave to Kol-Tuv where he knew a worker who he told what had happened and he in turn called police. Response time was instant, 7 police cars showed up and began searching the house which turned up nothing. When taking the statement from the victim police officers noticed the man smelled of alcohol and began questioning if this whole incident even took place. Just to be sure they took him around for a canvass of the area for the two alleged Black males, which yielded no results either.

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Mr. Greens Vegetables for the Needy Campaign

Building on the success of previous Fruit and Vegetable distribution for this past Pesach, Mr. Greens has done it again, donating pallets of Fruits and Vegetables for the needy.

The produce was set up on the corner of Albany and Union where the people lined up received what they needed. From early in the morning the owners were seen unloading the pallets onto the sidewalk and laying it all out in a neat and organized fashion.

One of the owners, Shloime Klein told CrownHeights.info that after last Pesach’s article on CrownHeights.info he was approached by several individuals who wanted to help with the cost of the program, and that he would like to thank those people that allowed him make this years program bigger than ever.

More pictures in the Extended Article!

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by Shloime Drimmer
In response to the numerous comments that have been posted to my previous letters, i would like to address some of them and hope that this letter will clarify the purpose of my original letters.

My objective was not to inflame the rampant fires that have engulfed us all, but rather to point out the fervor of dissention that we have witnessed since the elections three years ago. I did not place the blame on any one Rov, and had no intention of publicly besmirching a Rov. I simply noted that this public debacle began at that time.

It is regretful that those that wish to misconstrue my words are using them as fodder for further controversy.

Challenges to our community

by Shloime Drimmer

In response to the numerous comments that have been posted to my previous letters, i would like to address some of them and hope that this letter will clarify the purpose of my original letters.

My objective was not to inflame the rampant fires that have engulfed us all, but rather to point out the fervor of dissention that we have witnessed since the elections three years ago. I did not place the blame on any one Rov, and had no intention of publicly besmirching a Rov. I simply noted that this public debacle began at that time.

It is regretful that those that wish to misconstrue my words are using them as fodder for further controversy.

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Yom Kippur is now behind us, but one chicken was left behind, hanging around Eastern Pkwy between Kingston and Albany is a lone chicken that was being chased by young children. A concerned resident told CrownHeights.info that he was working with Animal Control and the NYPD to find a new home for the poor chicken. ;-)

Picture of the Night! – The Last Chicken!

Yom Kippur is now behind us, but one chicken was left behind, hanging around Eastern Pkwy between Kingston and Albany is a lone chicken that was being chased by young children. A concerned resident told CrownHeights.info that he was working with Animal Control and the NYPD to find a new home for the poor chicken. ;-)

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Miami Herald
Cooper City, FL - Rabbi Shmuel Posner has spent years trying to reopen his Chabad outreach center in a Griffin Road shopping center.

Although proposed Cooper City zoning changes still would prevent him from returning the orthodox center to its former storefront home, it would give him more options in picking a new location.

Cooper City commissioners tonight will introduce zoning changes to allow churches and other places of worship in office parks and park/recreation districts. This would allow places of worship like Posner's outreach center, Chabad Nova, to open in office buildings or in city parks and recreation areas. The changes still would not allow them in commercial districts, like shopping centers or retail developments, where the city does not permit places of worship or community assembly.

Cooper City considers changes to worship site zoning

Miami Herald

Cooper City, FL – Rabbi Shmuel Posner has spent years trying to reopen his Chabad outreach center in a Griffin Road shopping center.

Although proposed Cooper City zoning changes still would prevent him from returning the orthodox center to its former storefront home, it would give him more options in picking a new location.

Cooper City commissioners tonight will introduce zoning changes to allow churches and other places of worship in office parks and park/recreation districts. This would allow places of worship like Posner’s outreach center, Chabad Nova, to open in office buildings or in city parks and recreation areas. The changes still would not allow them in commercial districts, like shopping centers or retail developments, where the city does not permit places of worship or community assembly.

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Cleveland Jewish News
Shanghai, China - Dina Greenberg is back home in Shanghai. Back to her multiple leading lady and supportive roles at the Chabad Center of Shanghai; it’s headed by her husband Rabbi Shalom Greenberg, the first rabbi to serve in Shanghai in over 50 years. With school starting for the fall semester and the Jewish holidays around the corner, Rabbi Greenberg is happy to have his family back.

Dina and the four children — Mendel, 7, Chaya, 5, Levi, 3, and Chana, 11 months — spent several wonderful weeks of vacation on home grounds at the University Heights home of her parents, Devorah and Rabbi Leibel Alevsky. They were enveloped with love and warmth by Dina’s meshpochah and her many friends in Cleveland.

It was wonderful, Dina says, “not to have to disinfect vegetables and to drink water from the tap, niceties that we can’t do in Shanghai.”

Singing a song of Shanghai

Cleveland Jewish News

Shanghai, China – Dina Greenberg is back home in Shanghai. Back to her multiple leading lady and supportive roles at the Chabad Center of Shanghai; it’s headed by her husband Rabbi Shalom Greenberg, the first rabbi to serve in Shanghai in over 50 years. With school starting for the fall semester and the Jewish holidays around the corner, Rabbi Greenberg is happy to have his family back.

Dina and the four children — Mendel, 7, Chaya, 5, Levi, 3, and Chana, 11 months — spent several wonderful weeks of vacation on home grounds at the University Heights home of her parents, Devorah and Rabbi Leibel Alevsky. They were enveloped with love and warmth by Dina’s meshpochah and her many friends in Cleveland.

It was wonderful, Dina says, “not to have to disinfect vegetables and to drink water from the tap, niceties that we can’t do in Shanghai.”

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Torah Studies, a JLI program designed to spark prominence, prestige and professionalism to weekly Parsha classes at Chabad Centers worldwide, is now being launched in over 240 cities around the world and scheduled to begin shortly with a new 12-week series on Sefer Bereishis.

Torah Studies is the brainchild of Rabbi Moshe Kotlarsky and was launched as a resolution of last year’s Kinus Hashluchim to “provide all shluchim with the necessary tools to enhance and upgrade their adult education efforts, and has rapidly developed to be the largest Parsha class in the world”, said Rabbi Moshe Kotlarsky, who spearheaded its creation and development over the past year “with as many as 10,000 students studying the very same text weekly” he added.

Torah Studies to Be Launched by 240 Shluchim Worldwide

Torah Studies, a JLI program designed to spark prominence, prestige and professionalism to weekly Parsha classes at Chabad Centers worldwide, is now being launched in over 240 cities around the world and scheduled to begin shortly with a new 12-week series on Sefer Bereishis.

Torah Studies is the brainchild of Rabbi Moshe Kotlarsky and was launched as a resolution of last year’s Kinus Hashluchim to “provide all shluchim with the necessary tools to enhance and upgrade their adult education efforts, and has rapidly developed to be the largest Parsha class in the world”, said Rabbi Moshe Kotlarsky, who spearheaded its creation and development over the past year “with as many as 10,000 students studying the very same text weekly” he added.

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Blood spatter from the attack that was still visible on Motzoai Yom Kippur

After Davening, at around 9:30 pm a sixteen year old Bochur was assaulted on Carroll St between Troy and Schenectady. The incident began when a group of about five to seven Black males surrounded the Bochur and hit the him in the head, followed by a wave of blows from the group, leaving the Bochur in need of medical attention.

Upon hearing calls for help, bystanders came forward, scaring off the group, who fled on Carroll towards Troy with a group of Yidden hot on their trail. Police stationed on President and Troy saw what was going on and joined in on the pursuit, catching result of which ended in the apprehension of three out of the group.

Back on Carroll street, Hatzalah responded and began treating the Bochur for the extensive injuries to his head, including a broken nose, cuts to the back of his head and face, and his eyes swollen shut. When being questioned as to what had taken place the Bochur was incoherent and mixed up, which worried Hatzalah. At first he said that they demanded money, while the assault didn’t look like that of an attempted mugging.

Brutal Assault on the Night of Yom Kippur

Blood spatter from the attack that was still visible on Motzoai Yom Kippur

After Davening, at around 9:30 pm a sixteen year old Bochur was assaulted on Carroll St between Troy and Schenectady. The incident began when a group of about five to seven Black males surrounded the Bochur and hit the him in the head, followed by a wave of blows from the group, leaving the Bochur in need of medical attention.

Upon hearing calls for help, bystanders came forward, scaring off the group, who fled on Carroll towards Troy with a group of Yidden hot on their trail. Police stationed on President and Troy saw what was going on and joined in on the pursuit, catching result of which ended in the apprehension of three out of the group.

Back on Carroll street, Hatzalah responded and began treating the Bochur for the extensive injuries to his head, including a broken nose, cuts to the back of his head and face, and his eyes swollen shut. When being questioned as to what had taken place the Bochur was incoherent and mixed up, which worried Hatzalah. At first he said that they demanded money, while the assault didn’t look like that of an attempted mugging.

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Erev Yom Kippur at the Ohel by Getty Images

Hasidic Jewish men laugh while performing a ritual whipping before sunset outside the grave of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the seventh grand rebbe of the Chabad Lubavitch Hasidic movement, to mark the start of Yom Kippur October 1, 2006 in Cambria Heights, New York. Yom Kippur, the Jewish New Year, is considered the holiest day of the year and hundreds of men are visiting the holy pilgrimage site to mark the holiday. Married men wear white on the holiday to symbolize angelic presence. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)

Getty Images, one of the largest image banks on the internet had one of its contributing photographers Mario Tama at the Ohel on Erev Yom Kippur.

More pictures in the Extended Article!

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Hacnosas Safer Torah at the Ohel

Photos by COL.org.il

Motzoai Shabbos Haazinu and Erev Yom Kippur a Hacnosas Safer Torah to the Ohel took place. The Torah donated in memory of Reb Yisroel Ben Reb Schneir Zalman Halevi Duchman and Reb Yisroel Yakov Ben Shlomo Hamer, L’ezchus their their Wives, Children, Grandchildren, and Great Grandchildren.

More pictures in the Extended Article!

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We have seen the scooters zipping around day and night, and for the first time ever Crown Heights Shomrim Division is putting a fully marked patrol car on the road. Donated by Aron & Mirit Hershkop of Everything Automotive this is the first of two cars that have been donated, in memory of Ephraim Klein HY”D who was murdered on the streets of Crown Heights. The second car is due to hit the streets next month.

The idea behind the marked patrol car is with ‘crime prevention’ in mind. Every night there are one or two Shomrim members patrolling in their private cars keeping a watchful eye on the neighborhood, while this is good for an immediate response to call's and to spot the crime as it happens, it is not as affective for preventing crime.

More pictures in the Extended Article!

Shomrim Put Out First Marked Patrol Car

We have seen the scooters zipping around day and night, and for the first time ever Crown Heights Shomrim Division is putting a fully marked patrol car on the road. Donated by Aron & Mirit Hershkop of Everything Automotive this is the first of two cars that have been donated, in memory of Ephraim Klein HY”D who was murdered on the streets of Crown Heights. The second car is due to hit the streets next month.

The idea behind the marked patrol car is with ‘crime prevention’ in mind. Every night there are one or two Shomrim members patrolling in their private cars keeping a watchful eye on the neighborhood, while this is good for an immediate response to call’s and to spot the crime as it happens, it is not as affective for preventing crime.

More pictures in the Extended Article!

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Brighton, Boston - The city is cracking down on the rabbi who ruffled feathers in his Brighton neighborhood by slaughtering dozens of chickens Erev Yom Kippur as part of a religious ritual and later turned his driveway into a makeshift butcher shop.

The city plans to issue a nuisance notice today to the owner of 239 Chestnut Hill Ave., where yesterday dozens of squawking chickens were beheaded as part of a ritual preceding.

Rabbi Pinchus Krinsky of the Lubavitcher Shul, started performing the slaughter at his home five years ago after his butcher shop closed, said next-door neighbor Larry Loew who says he complained to the city about the unsanitary conditions. “This is not a religious issue. This is a health issue,” Loew said. “You can’t butcher in the name of any God in your back yard without the proper drainage and meeting health codes. He’s putting everyone around him at risk.”

Lubavitch Rabbi Ruffles Wrong Feathers

Brighton, Boston – The city is cracking down on the rabbi who ruffled feathers in his Brighton neighborhood by slaughtering dozens of chickens Erev Yom Kippur as part of a religious ritual and later turned his driveway into a makeshift butcher shop.

The city plans to issue a nuisance notice today to the owner of 239 Chestnut Hill Ave., where yesterday dozens of squawking chickens were beheaded as part of a ritual preceding.

Rabbi Pinchus Krinsky of the Lubavitcher Shul, started performing the slaughter at his home five years ago after his butcher shop closed, said next-door neighbor Larry Loew who says he complained to the city about the unsanitary conditions. “This is not a religious issue. This is a health issue,” Loew said. “You can’t butcher in the name of any God in your back yard without the proper drainage and meeting health codes. He’s putting everyone around him at risk.”

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Hit and Run on Kingston and Empire

Motzoai Shabbos, the streets bustling with people heading to and from Kapores around the neighborhood. One elderly couple driving up Kingston, crossing Empire Blvd, struck a red Mitsubishi who by all witness accounts ran the light and was previously observed driving recklessly with loud music playing.

The impact sent the red car into a traffic light pole, immediately after which all three occupants, who according to eye witnesses were all teenage Black males, got out of the car leaving the engine running and ran from the scene. A few Israeli Bochurim who witnessed the accident began perusing the trio managing to catch one of them and a passing Shomrim member held the suspect until police arrived.

More pictures in the Extended Article!

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Over 1000 Attended the Vov Tishrai Farbrengen in Bais Rivkah

Thursday, Vov Tishrei a Farbrengen in honor of the Yortziet of the Rebbe’s mother Rebbetzin Chana A”H was held in the Bais Rivkah Campus Chomes ballroom around set tables. Over 1000 Bochurim attended with Reb Yoel Kahan Farbrenging, organized by the Vaad Talmidai Hatmimim for the Bochurim that were visiting and living in Crown Heights. Prior to the Farbrengen a video of ‘Farbrengen with the Rebbe’ was displayed along with special parts of the events of Vov Tishrei 5748.

More pictures in the Extended Article.

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