COVID-19 Update for the Crown Heights Community #12
An twelfth update of guidelines for the Crown Heights Jewish community has been published with new recommendations as well as reminders for measures that will keep Crown Heights safe.
An twelfth update of guidelines for the Crown Heights Jewish community has been published with new recommendations as well as reminders for measures that will keep Crown Heights safe.
Come out with your family, and cheer up the choson and kallah, Berel Lavner and Rivkie Levinson with your signs, instruments, dancing, clapping and cheering.
An eleventh update of guidelines for the Crown Heights Jewish community has been published with new recommendations as well as reminders for measures that will keep Crown Heights safe.
A tenth update of guidelines for the Crown Heights Jewish community has been published with new recommendations as well as reminders for measures that will keep Crown Heights safe.
The Beis Din of Crown Heights has released a letter addressed to the Crown Heights community regarding Erev Rosh Chodesh, and the question of whether the community should fast.
If you found a Hatzalah members car parked in an ambulance only parking zone, identified with EMS licence plates and a placard in the window, what would you do? For New York City’s Sheriffs, the answer is apparently to ticket them.
A ninth update of guidelines for the Crown Heights Jewish community has been published with new recommendations from the CDC as well as reminders for measures that will keep Crown Heights safe.
Rabbi Yeshaya Braun, a member of the Beis Din of Crown Heights, published a request for all members of the Crown Heights Jewish community to say Tehillim each day in an effort to combat the virus plaguing our community. He also noted that Monday, Chof Zayin Adar would be marked as a day of Prayer.
During this trying time, Sunday was marked with an unusual amount of Simchas. Thirteen weddings took place in small ceremonies throughout the day, and one decided to share their joy with the community by driving through the streets, allowing every person to say Mazal Tov.
A eighth update of guidelines for the Crown Heights Jewish community has been published with new recommendations from the CDC as well as reminders for measures that will keep Crown Heights safe.
In an escalation on enforcing the closure orders made by the state and city, 770 Eastern Parkway will be patrolled, and arrests made, for anyone breaking the closure and congregation restrictions put in place to combat the COVID-19 virus.
In these uncertain times, times of social distancing and isolation, it is more important than ever to stand together and be united. A Unity Sefer Torah is currently being written and you have the opportunity to take part.
The wives of Hatzalah volunteers of Crown Heights received an appreciation gift erev shabbos for allowing their husbands to do the tireless work in combating the COVID-19 virus sweeping the community. The Hatzalah volunteers have fielded hundreds of calls from Crown Heights residents as the virus spreads its way through the community.
As part of a new initiative to combat bias attacks and anti-semitism in New York City, the NYPD has installed cameras in Crown Heights to monitor well trafficked corners of the community.
In times of stress and worry, our Sages tell us, “A worry in one’s heart, discuss it with another.” Over 40 Crown Heights women will be making themselves available on the phone to listen and lend chizuk.
A Seventh update of guidelines for the Crown Heights Jewish community has been published Erev Shabbos, with new recommendations from the CDC as well as reminders for measures that will keep Crown Heights safe.
Crown Heights’s Apple Bank branch has closed its doors for two weeks after the branch had what was identified as a “Coronavirus exposure.” The plan to close the store irritated an already on edge community deep into the Coronavirus pandemic.