B’klyn Senator Compars The Gaza Pullout To Slavery

A Brooklyn politician running for district attorney has compared the evacuation of Jewish residents in the Gaza Strip to the experience of black Americans with slavery.

State Sen. John Sampson (D-East Flatbush) made the controversial comments while on a tour of Israel this month with Assemblyman Dov Hikind (D-Borough Park).

“This, in certain ways, is like slavery,” Sampson told Worldnet Daily last week. “It’s the same general concept … completely violating these Gaza residents’ civil rights and kicking them out of their homes.”

Sampson’s comments brought a swift response from Abraham Foxman, national director of the Anti-Defamation League, who called the remarks “the height of arrogance.”

Sunday: Gathering in memory of Rabbi Levi Bialo OBM

On Sunday morning at 10:30am, a gathering in memory of Rabbi Levi Bialo A”H, will take place in Bais Binyomin, Montgomery St. (btw Kingston and Albany).

Brunch will be served.

Levi was killed in a terrible accident in Toronto when a train collided with his car.

Sunday: Sium Safer Torah

On Sunday morning there will be a Siyum Sefer Torah that was written in memory of R’ Nechemiah ben R’ Mordechai Kessler a”h.

The Sium will take place @ 737 Eastern Pkwy. (between Kingston Ave. & Brooklyn Ave.) from 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

There will be a special program for children the Small Wonder Puppet Theatre at 11:00 a.m.

Afterward there will be a procession to Empire Shtiebel.

City reaches $1.25M settlement with family of Crown Heights victim

Admitting that the hospital that treated Yankel Rosenbaum 14 years ago made errors, the city on Friday reached a $1.25-million settlement with the family of the slain doctoral student.

The negotiated settlement was announced Friday in State Supreme Court in Brooklyn, where a jury was deliberating a $10-million malpractice lawsuit brought by the family shortly after Rosenbaum’s death in 1991.

The Rosenbaum family, which could not be reached for comment, had recently declined a city offer to settle the case for $1 million because city officials would not admit that Kings County Hospital had botched Rosenbaum’s care.

Rosenbaum was stabbed four times by Lemrick Nelson on Aug. 20, 1991, during a race riot in Crown Heights that erupted after a Hasidic driver accidentally struck and killed Gavin Cato, 7, an African-American boy.

Another Wild Night In Crown Heights

Thursday night June 16 2005 at 11:42PM: Shomrim was called to respond to Carroll St. and Troy Ave. where a bunch of (about nine) black teenager were attacking two Jew’s, as a mater of fact they were father and son, on their way to a wedding at Oholie Torah. They were setting off fire works and aimed it at them, in addition they also threw water balloons. All the wile screaming racial slurs.

NYPD was called at the same time as Shomrim but Shomrim got there about 4mins after the call was received as opposed to NYPD which got there 20mins later (no joke).

The Shvartzes ran into the building as Shomrim arrived at the scene and then when the police finally showed up the two men filed a police report and were given a ride by a Shomrim member to the wedding.

Friday morning June 17 2005 12:15AM: two car’s involved in an accident on Union St. between Albany Ave. and Troy Ave. involving a police officer’s wife and a citizen. EMS, five squad cars and 2 unmarked Police cars responded to the scene. This happened when one of the cars was trying to pull out of a parking spot and the other car came down the block too fast and couldn’t stop. No one was hurt. Neither of the drivers were Jewish.

Friday morning June 17 2005 8:55AM: a pedestrian struck on crown and Nostrand Ave. Shomrim got the call and responded immediately. EMS was on scene and the patient was transported to Kings County Hospital Trauma Center where the patient was listed in stable condition. No Jew’s were involved B”H Shomrim were there to verify that.

Orthodox Site Becomes Orange

This from “The Jewish Journal Of Greater Los Angeles”
A Chabad-Lubavitch news site has adopted an orange color scheme to protest the Israeli government’s Gaza withdrawal plan.

“I’m sitting here in Brooklyn, N.Y.,” Shmais.com’s CEO and founder, Levi Hodakov, told JTA, “and I’m really feeling for the Jews in Gaza here.”

Hodakov said the initiative aims to send a message to his readers to oppose the withdrawal and to inspire them to pray and learn on the Gaza Jews’ behalf.

“Every little bit counts,” he said.

Welcome Us Back!

After nearly 2 weeks of me (or any of the staff) not updating anything on the News section of the web site, I am back.

So pass out the word, tell whoever you know about this site, with more visitors visiting the site it will only encourage use to keep on going.

To date we have had a steady turnout of 200 hits (visits) a day! lets double that over the next week.

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Spectacular manhunt follows Crown Heights mugging

By Yitzchok Wagshul – Editor of Crown Heights Chronicle, on behalf of SHOMRIM CROWN HEIGHTS DIVISION and crownheights.info

A spectacular manhunt Wednesday morning shook up the routine of residents on Montgomery and Crown Streets between Albany and Troy Avenues, as police searched for two young men who had just attempted to mug a woman at gunpoint.

At approximately 9:15 a.m., the victim was walking to work along Montgomery Street between Kingston and Brooklyn Avenues, when she noticed two black males across the street from her acting suspiciously. They were talking in a conspiratorial way and gave her the impression that they were eying a bicycle chained to a corner up ahead. Each wore white mesh shirts and one wore a white kerchief, or “do-rag,” over his head.

The Matzaiva pacement of Chaim Dovid Shlomo A”H Reiber will take place on thursday at 2:30 in the Bais HaCaim Montifur

Canadian Artist Pierre Grünberg Visited 770

This week Canadian artist Pierre Grünberg visted 770 and show’d off some of his work.

Pierre can be contacted @ grunberg_p@hotmail.com and visit his website @ grunbergarts.com

2 more images in the extended article

Java justice finally served

It took almost 14 years, but Brooklyn Rabbi Israel Steinberg can finally drink his coffee from a paper cup in a Manhattan eatery in peace.
Steinberg made what seemed to be a simple request when he ordered coffee at the Nations Cafe in 1992: He asked the waiter to pour the beverage into a takeout cup because Jewish dietary laws forbid the use of nonkosher porcelain.

But Steinberg said the waiter told him he had to drink from the porcelain cups, just like other customers – or get out.

“He embarrassed and ridiculed me because I’m Jewish – in front of all the customers,” Steinberg said.

The confrontation escalated when Steinberg, who lives in Borough Park and is head of an Orthodox Jewish congregation in Queens, told the waiter that refusing such a request violated state law.

“He said, ‘Get out, you ******** Jew,’ ” Steinberg recalled.

The Campaign to End PLO Funding

It is very intresting to see the names on the list and which of them refused.

Please visit this link: Click Here

Our proclamation, calling on all Jews to participate in the campaign against PLO funding, is being sent to a variety of rabbis for their signatures.

Unfortunately, others apparently fear being “controversial,” perhaps thinking that even merely supporting our campaign might endanger fundraising, social acceptance, or something else.

Chabad tour of Brooklyn offers spirituality, nostalgia

by Marilyn Silverstein
NJJN Middlesex Correspondent

Standing beside the monument memorializing Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the late Lubavitcher rebbe, Bill Levy of Monroe reread the letter of prayer he had just written. Then he folded the paper, tore it once, twice, and scattered the pieces atop the thousands of other pieces of prayer that formed a kind of solemn confetti on the rebbe’s grave.

“I can’t say I was overwhelmed. I don’t know if I’d even say it was moving,” Levy said a few moments later as he sat beneath a tent at the Ohel (Tent) Chabad Lubavitch near the gravesite at Montefiore Cemetery in Springfield Gardens, NY. “But I think it was interesting and enlightening. I think it’s certainly worthwhile.

“I just wanted to open my mind and enlighten myself about what’s out there,” he said. “I’m close to 80 years old, and I’m still searching. This was a way of exploring part of my Judaism. I’m still trying to find what it’s all about.”

Of chicken soup And Medication

Who Needs the Doctor? And Other Inherited Traits
By PERRI KLASS, M.D., and SHEILA SOLOMON KLASS
Among the many things a mother influences in a daughter’s life is her attitude toward health and doctors. Sheila Solomon Klass and her daughter, Dr. Perri Klass, were recently asked to trade thoughts on the topic.

PERRI Several years ago, I had a bad cold that wouldn’t go away. My voice sounded terrible and my mother was worried. It is my policy never to tell my mother very much about my health. I can’t stand solicitous inquiries, and I find that the loving concern of others often gets in the way of my own precious denial. But in this case, my mother could hear that I sounded lousy. And she wanted me to see a doctor.

I pointed out that I am, in fact, a doctor, and would know if something major was wrong. I pointed out that I hate going to doctors, and that I get that directly from her.

Shooting In Crown Heights

A 12-year-old boy is recovering after being shot in the arm Saturday in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn.

Horrified onlookers dropped to the ground when the shooter began spraying bullets on Nostrand Ave. in Crown Heights about 4 p.m.

One shot hit the man, who was apparently the intended target, and another struck a 12-year-old boy, cops said. Both victims suffered arm wounds.

Witnesses say a man with long dreadlocks fired at least nine bullets at the 48-year-old, and then fled in a gold color car.

The 12-year-old was struck as be was leaving a nearby store.

Police are asking anyone with information about the shootings to call the Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS.

Boy battles for life after bucket plunge

A 10-month-old Brooklyn boy was near death yesterday after he tumbled into a mop bucket filled with water and cleaning chemicals, his worried family said.

“Nobody wants to think the worst, but only God knows now,” said the boy’s aunt.

Jaccob Baker fell head-first into a bucket Thursday night as his brother, 14, mopped the kitchen floor of his family’s Crown Heights apartment.

Jaccob went into cardiac arrest while being rushed to Interfaith Medical Center, but was revived. The chemicals in the bucket destroyed one of his lungs and kidneys, and his heart was severely damaged.

Shomrim Assist Williamsburg Wtih A Missing Person

At 3:16am Shomrim in Williamsburg called Crown Heights Shomrim to assist them on a call for a missing person, at 3:35am the Shomrim search and rescue dog was brought to the scene and started picking up the scent of the 84 year old gentelman with altzeimers and started searching while on the walk with the dog in the right direction the gentelman was returned to his house by FDNY and boruch hashem he was without any injury when we returned to the scene FDNY asked us which way we went and after hearing the directions they told us we were a block away from where they picked him up, at this time we would like to thank the members of Shomrim, FDNY and the Shomrim Dog Unit for the successfull return which finished at 3:45am.