Crown Heights, Brooklyn — Crown Heights today celebrated a double Simcha, the completion and inauguration of two Sifrai Torah! The letters were filled in the home of Rabbi Don Yoel Levy after which the gather crowed danced through the streets of Crown Heights to the new Shul ‘Beis Eliezer Yitchok’ on Kingston Ave.
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The following is a Blog post that has been brought to our attention and we thought it would be a good point to bring up to our readers here at CrownHeights.info. The following post was written by a Blog called ‘ChaBlog’, readers are welcome to share their thoughts on the matter.Lubavitchers know how to argue. It’s just one of the things we’re good at. As politics rage around the world from Head Shluchim to High Schools, CrownHeights.info takes the cake. Don’t get the wrong idea; CrownHeights.info is a great news site. In just a few short years it grabbed Chabad viewers and now it’s more popular then the overrated Shmais. The content is usually good and it always has big bright pictures to go along with even the dullest articles.
The following is a Blog post that has been brought to our attention and we thought it would be a good point to bring up to our readers here at CrownHeights.info. The following post was written by a Blog called ‘ChaBlog’, readers are welcome to share their thoughts on the matter.
Lubavitchers know how to argue. It’s just one of the things we’re good at. As politics rage around the world from Head Shluchim to High Schools, CrownHeights.info takes the cake. Don’t get the wrong idea; CrownHeights.info is a great news site. In just a few short years it grabbed Chabad viewers and now it’s more popular then the overrated Shmais. The content is usually good and it always has big bright pictures to go along with even the dullest articles.
My issue is not with the website, but the viewers. CrownHeights.info has a cool feature over the other chabad news sites by letting you post comments on anything. After observing these comments for a while it’s starting to get to me. On every news piece, picture, article, there is someone who has to write something stupid or senselessly negative and start an argument. Not just any arguments but heated ones where the commentators attack each other.
Crown Heights, Brooklyn –- Last night, the Jewish Children’s Museum hosted an innovative and exciting dinner in appreciation of the Friendship Circle at the Jewish Children’s Museum volunteers. Two New York TV reporters hosted the “Tomorrow Show“ celebrating the Friendship Circle’s mission of providing children with special needs with a brighter tomorrow. A take-off of the popular Today Show, the Tomorrow Show was full of moving ”news“ features, a hilarious ”weather report,” mock commercials and live musical accompaniment by Gershon Veroba and the Neshoma Orchestra.
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S. Monica, CA – Hundreds of Friends, Mekuravim, Supports and Family members escorted Rabbi Avrohom Levitansky OBM Shliach to S. Monica California. The Levaya passed a number of locations on its way to the ‘Bais HaChaim’ including Yeshivas Ohr Elchonon, Cheder Menachem and the Bais Chabad of Simcha Monica which R. Avrohom was the founder and director of.
More pictures in the Extended Article. (Photo Credit: Rabbi Arye D. Gordon)
In a unique auction arranged by the PTA of Bnos Mencham participants put in their tickets for a chance to win ‘Gift Certificates’ for Simcha Halls, Jewelers and Camp Tuition among those being offerd. The following is a list of the winners of the auction.
Razag Ballroom – Daniella Chayo
Simpson Jewlery – Dina Shur
Camp Emunah – Esther Turk
Bnos Menachem Day Camp – Cindi Topol
Sheitel – Kraina Lepkivker
List continues in the Extended Article!
Jackpot – Rimler
Split the Pot – Mordechai Hershkowitz
Grand Prize – Eddie and Ephraim
2. Choice of furniture – Shiendee Klineman
3. Trip to Israel – Dina Katzenberg
4. Children’s bedroom set – Bella Kahana
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The Women’s Auxiliary of the United Lubavitcher Yeshiva and Mesivta of Ocean Parkway proudly presents this years Chinese Auction titled “We are all Connected”. Organizers and volunteers were up throughout the night preparing the show and arranged the prizes which will be available for viewing through out the day today.
The event is taking place Today at Bais Rivka ‘Campus Chomesh. The auction viewing hours will be; Women, 1:30 – 5 PM (Free $10 ticket to each attendee till 3 PM). Men, 5 – 6 PM. Women, 6 – 9 PM. The program will begin at 7:30 PM and the auction drawing at 9:00 PM.
Cordoba, Argentina — You may not think you’re lucky to be able to buy pretzels in the market. But, after spending the entire month of January as a volunteer in the Beit Chabad of Cordoba, Argentina, I learned the value of a simple kosher pretzel.
The city of Cordoba is not like Buenos Aires. The latter is the third-largest Jewish community in the world. The former can barely find a minyan. Buenos Aires is home to many Jewish stores, restaurants, markets and shuls. Cordoba has but one kosher mini-mart.
Crown Heights used to be synonymous for tensions between blacks and Jews. In the following Brooklyn, Then & Now report, NY1’s Jeanine Ramirez looks back at the days when those tensions came to a boiling point, and how community leaders hope a new approach will make such confrontations a thing of the past.
The wounds were still raw in 1992, and the anger of blacks and Jews in Crown Heights surfaced once again.
Hasidic Jews took to the streets in protest after the acquittal of Lemerick Nelson in his first trial for the death of Yankel Rosenbaum. There were random fights, and a march over the bridge. Nelson was the only one arrested in Rosenbaum’s stabbing death in the riots the summer before.
Crown Heights, Brooklyn –- The neighborhood nosh and ice cream store, Nosh World Was shut down late last week by New York City’s Health Department. Last week Thursday, May 17th, a two hour long inspection left the store closed and the owner, Moshe Machputz an extensive list of items he needs to fix and correct.
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A special Shavuot feature just added to the Chabad.org Tzivos Hashem Jewish Kids Zone is “Live The Challenge: Take it to the Top”.
Kids can complete their special Shavuot mission that includes fulfilling some or all of the special Shavuot observances and have a chance at winning fantastic prizes!
Crown Heights, Brooklyn — Today, Sunday at 10:30 AM, the Hachnosas Sefer Torah in memory of Hatomim Chaim Dovid Shlomo Reiber AH, started the parents home on Empire Blvd, where the final letters were completed.
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As the holiday of Shavuot approaches Shluchim seem to be taking the opportunity to welcome a new Sefar Torah into their Shuls and Chabad Houses.
Today, Sunday nine of the ten events will be taking place in Chabad Houses in Franklin Lakes, NJ, Allentown, PA, Hollywood, FL, Santa Fe, NM, Camarillo, CA, Plano, TX, Redondo Beach, CA and Plainview, Long Island along with one more dedication here in Crown Heights.
More details in the Extended Article!
At around 2:00am on Friday night the Shomrim hotline received a call from a frantic mother saying that her son who’s 30 years old with a history of mental heath issues did not return home since leaving to Shul at 8:00pm.
A number of members responded and began grid searching the neighborhood on foot, and after a short 20 minutes they found him roaming the streets in the vicinity of 770. A Shomrim member wrapped him in his jacket and notified the other units that he had been found, and together they walked him home.
As Gimmel Tammuz is rapidly approaching, 4,000 Talmidim in the Rebbe’s Yeshivos around the world, are uniting in an intense study cycle of Sichos and Maamorim to strengthen their connection to the Rebbe in preparation for the day, with the hope that very soon we will be reunited with the Rebbe leading us to the Geulah Shleimah.
More in the Extended Article.
The following is In Connection with the forty years of the Rebbe’s Mivtza Tefillin. This is a tale about a gentle lad named Chaim Jacobs who came from England in the early ’60’s to study in 770 as told to Rabbi Ari Kirschenbaum – Shliach of the Rebbe to Prospect Heights Brooklyn by Rabbi Elkanah Schwartz, Rav Cong. Kol Israel of Prospect Heights.
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