Maybe they can call themselves the Rikers Jailbirds and warm up audiences with a spirited rendition of “Working on the Chain Gang.”
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — Major changes are afoot for the upcoming school year at Oholei Torah’s elementary school. CrownHeights.info has learned that neighborhoods largest school made structural changes to its educational administration by hiring three new principals.
On Tuesday evening, August 3, the Menachem Education Foundation’s Principal Leadership Program came to a conclusion following 16 full days of leadership training and additional hours of mentoring and collaborative work.
In an email last night from Rabbi Rosenberg only two candidates have been confirmed to run in the elections for Rabonus.
Three candidates in total have been nominated to run in elections for Rabonus in Crown Heights. The final day to submit candidates was Friday, the 26th of Av.
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — Motorists were punished this afternoon, yet again, by the police departments traffic division. Over 10 drivers who parked on Crown Street between Albany and Kingston during street cleaning got a $115 double parking ticket.
CrownHeights.info has received a number of emails alerting us to missionary activity in the neighborhood. A group of 5 to 10 has been seen knocking on doors all around the neighborhood, targeting Jewish homes specifically.
Just a short while ago the recount of the election ballots was completed, and there were no changes to the outcome of the elections. The recount took place over the last two days in the conference room of the Vaad Hakohol under the eye of Rabbi Avrohom Rosenberg.
In the first post election meeting members of each side sat down with Rabbi Avrohom Rosenberg in the offices of the Vaad Hakohol to discuss the elections and its outcome. Members of the ‘Achdus Team’, who were the ones to call for the meeting, gave various suggestions from remaining in office throughout the summer, to calling for new elections, and even refusing to work with individual Vaad members.
A 19-year-old Israeli Bochur was seriously injured yesterday when he attempted to scale a wall and vandalize one of 770’s security surveillance cameras.
In a letter dated today, 5th of Tamuz, Rabbi Avrohom Osdoba writes to the newly elected Gaboim reminding them that the reason the community came out with such to vote was under the promise of the end of secular court actions and infighting, and in his letter he urges them to postpone the actions and ultimately withdraw them entirely.
In a chaotic and tumultuous day, which drew out a record number of voters, the only victor turned out to be Zaki Tamir who is the only candidate to secure over 50% of the vote. An additional 2 are needed to meet the minimum of 3 required to run the Vaad, and there will be a runoff between candidates Shea Hecht, Yossi Hackner and Fishel Brownstein.
A total of 1932 ballots were confirmed in the elections for Gaboim, and a candidate would require a minimum of 967 to be elected as Gabbai, the winners are Menachem Gerlitzky, Avrohom Holtzberg, and Yosef Losh. Zalman Lipsker made it by with 3 votes and his will be recounted.
We urge to come out and vote for us this Sunday in the Vaad Hakohol elections. We decided to run for Vaad Hakohol because we believe we can make a difference. Since you are already taking your time to read this paper, you already know the importance of having a viable Vaad. Therefore, we will not spend time explaining what we think the Vaad should do; instead, we will explain what we can do for the Vaad and for the community.
The members of the ‘old Vaad’, Rabbi Shmuel Plotkin, Moshe Rubashkin, and Dr. Zvi Lang weigh in on the current elections with a very sharp letter that was delivered to homes in the neighborhood. The letter takes issue with a number of important topics on the upcoming elections.
CROWN HEIGHTS — After much bickering over how to withdraw the new Vaad’s Messira from court, Rabbi Avraham Rosenberg put the issue to rest in his most recent ruling. He instructed the Osdoba camp to accept the stipulation as means to end the court action, and they must sign it immediately. A copy of the document was forwarded to CrownHeights.info showing the Osdoba camp immediate compliance with the ruling.
Once the list of candidates was finalized, residents of the community were given the opportunity to challenge any of the candidates based on a set of criteria’s. Among them, a candidate must be religious and keep torah and mitzvos.
Two challenges were posed against candidates Chanina Sperlin and Eli Poltorak, on the Halachic grounds. Which more specifically cite that they both participated and perpetrated a Messira on Jews which directly resulted in their arrest and prosecution.
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