Yes they will be saying good bye to Rabbi Yosef Braun, but it’s the Sydney community in which he served for 7 years that will be bidding their farewells as the Braun family will be making their controversial move to Crown Heights.
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — Family and friends gathered this past Motzai Shabbos for a Melava Malka marking one year to the passing of Reb Issac Zellermaier, a stalwart of chesed who dedicated his life to helping people.
Milton Balkany, a Brooklyn rabbi, was sentenced to four years in prison for trying to extort $4 million from Steven Cohen’s SAC Capital Advisors LP.
BUFFALO, NY, [CHI] — Recent studies have determined that alcohol ranks “most harmful” among a list of 20 drugs, according to an article on the study released by The Lancet Journal last November. Yet in many yeshivos Adar ushers in a month of fabrengens and of course L’chaim! Many young bochurim will be exposed to tremendous peer pressure to take a sip, and unwittingly start on the road to a terrible addiction. In Buffalo, Mesivta Menachem has taken preemptive action.
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — Alternate side parking has been in effect since Monday, but to little avail as massive piles of frozen snow still take up many parking spaces, and the sanitation department did nothing with the cleaning rules being in effect. This did not stop the traffic cops from issuing tens of thousands of tickets.
This Sunday marked the successful conclusion of a Crown Heights Moisads fundraising auction, but this wasn’t the only auction. Lubavitcher Yeshiva, Oholei Torah, and Keren Simchas Chosson V’Kallah all held auctions this year and thanked CrownHeights.info for helping make it the successes they were.
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — In a letter to the Vaad Hakohol an age old fight was finally put to rest for good. The letter from Rabbi Avrohom Osdoba informs that the Siruv and Nidui against R. Dovid Fischer is null, void and completely canceled.
Today, the 30th of Shvat, marks 5 years to the cold blooded murder of Efraim Klein HYD, a resident of Crown Heights who had been a staple in the community and a figure known and liked by all, who was shot and killed. The investigation into his murder has long since gone cold.
A storm of allegations and questions has arisen about the election of Rabbi Yosef Braun. Most recently an ikul, a rabbinic injunction, was imposed on the Vaad Hakohol until further inquiry could be made by a neutral Beis Din.
BREAKING NEWS: A Beis Din issued an Ikkul [temporary restraining order] against the installment of Rabbi Yosef Braun. A Beis Din has instructed the Vaah Hakohol not to do any actions in bringing Rabbi Braun until a neutral Beis Din can overlook the issues concerning his election process and allegations of forgeries in his Semicha certificate.
As of Friday, Rabbi Yaacov Schwei moved back into the offices of the Crown Heights Bais Din at 390 Kingston Avenue after years of divide. “One Crown Heights, one Badatz” is the new reality since last Friday, Erev Shabbos Parshas Mishpotim, perhaps signaling a new era in the Brooklyn neighborhood’s Jewish leadership.
A typical trip from the parking lot of Beis Rivkah on Crown Street to Carroll and Troy should take no longer then 5 minutes, but thanks to inconsiderate motorists along with construction projects around our neighborhood that trip took over 20 minutes.
There are no words to describe the recent events our community has been through, amongst them the untimely passing of Hachosson Yossi Kreiman OB”M. In light of this, the bochurim of Yeshiva Ohr Elchonon Chabad have composed a song in his memory, which expresses the troubled times we live in, as well as the positive manner in which we respond to our troubles, as we strive to stay strong through these final darkest days of golus.
A letter from Rabbi Amram Klein of Ungvar revealed a troubling behind the scenes look at the ‘installation ceremony’ of Rabbi Yosef Braun last week. The letter was addressed to Rabbi Avrohom Osdoba, who boycotted the event, apologizing to him for his attendance at the ceremony, saying he was duped into it.
On January 30, 2011, at 1 pm, at Synagogue Beis Shmuel in Crown Heights, constitutional lawyers Norman Siegel and Earl Ward along with 57th District Assemblyman Hakeem Jeffries and Senator Eric Adams will be coming together to help educate citizens about their rights and responsibilities when stopped, questioned, arrested, ticketed or searched by the police.
Amid a firestorm of allegations, Zaki Tamir closed his personal blog with which he gave unfiltered updates to the community.
Crown Heights Vaad Hakohol Chairman Zaki Tamir said businessman Sam Chanin “is the Executive Director of the Vaad Hakohol over the next 6 months.”
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