Crown Heights Shomrim get Another Shoplifter Arrested

At approx 2:15pm on Thursday Ta’anis Esther a SHOMRIM call came in with a report of a shoplifter stealing from Sunshine Pharmacy on Kingston Avenue Between Empire and Montgomery by the time Sunshine had put down the phone from the SHOMRIM dispatcher 2 members were already on the chase and within a 2 minute chase the suspect was on the floor where his pants and jacket were emptied of his 16 Head & Shoulders Toiletries freshly stolen from the Pharmacy the police responded within 5 minutes and cuffed the guy straight away we would like to take this opportunity to thank the members who assisted in the arrest and wish them good luck and a quiet purim.

If you need SHOMRIM call 718 774 3333 and we urge the community to save the number in your cellphones for quick response no matter what time or day they are always on the ready to help the members of our community.

Freilichen Purim!!

The staff here at CrownHeights.info would like to wish everyone an easy fast and a safe and Freilichen Purim!!

Jewish community celebrates its salvation with Purim feast

This is an interesting article that appeared in a newspaper in Pocono Pennsylvania.

By CAROL O’NEILL
Pocono Life Writer

Chabad Lubavitch of the Poconos invites everyone to experience one of the most joyous events in Jewish history. Purim marks the time when Queen Esther intervened to foil a plot to wipe out every Jewish man, woman and child living in Persia.

Ever since that miraculous time in 365 B.C., Jews have observed Purim, the 14th day of Adar on the Hebrew calendar, by reading the biblical Book of Esther, having a festive meal, giving gifts to the poor and food to friends.

“It’s a festive day, a happy day,” said Rabbi Mendel Bendet, who heads the local Chabad Lubavitch.

Crown Heights Riot Fiend Lemrick Goes Free

By: Kati Cornell Smith

March 21, 2005 — Less than 14 years after the death of a Hasidic scholar stabbed at the peak of the Crown Heights riots, the man who wielded the knife is walking free.

Lemrick Nelson, 29, has been released from a halfway house where he lived for nine months while finishing a 10-year federal prison sentence for violating the civil rights of Yankel Rosenbaum.

Nelson’s lawyers told The Post he is working full-time in the bakery industry and intends to continue his education. “He’s looking to put all this behind him. But there’s not a day that goes by when he doesn’t think of Yankel Rosenbaum,” attorney Peter Quijano said.

Nelson, who was released earlier this month, was spared a possible life sentence in 2003 when a federal jury found that, although he stabbed Rosenbaum, he didn’t cause his death.

He is now living with his mother in New Jersey while he serves a 27-month term of probation, sources said.

Rosenbaum’s relatives believe it’s only a matter of time before Nelson engages in new violence.

“Lemrick Nelson is a bad person. Until I see something tangible to the contrary, he’s a threat to society,” the victim’s brother, Norman Rosenbaum, said in a phone interview.

Nelson was 16 years old when he attacked Rosenbaum, 29 on Aug. 19, 1991, during race riots sparked by the death of a black child who’d been struck by a car in the grand rebbe’s motorcade.

He beat a state murder rap the following year, but was convicted of federal civil-rights violations in 1997. A judge sentenced him to nearly 20 years, but an appeals court later tossed that verdict based on jury-selection problems.

Nelson’s 2003 retrial finally resulted in a standing conviction for violating Rosenbaum’s civil rights.

Hightend Missionary Activities In Our Neighborhood!

People, Parents, please be aware and keep an eye out for such activity, these people disguise well and they know how to talk “nicely” KEEP AWAY FROM THEM.

Last night I noticed on my doorstep 2 inconspicuous books and at first glance I thought that they were ArtScroll Seforim that someone had left so I bent down to pick it up and how shocked I was to discover in both Hebrew and English written “הברית החדשה” and “New Testament”. Here is a picture.

Please make sure that no one has accidentally brought these books into your home unknowingly, they are what the Rebbe once referred to certain books as “Bomb’s in you House” so get rid of them in a way that none can come to harm by them.

I want to warn you all to please be careful whom your kids talk to and talk to you kids and warn them, and if you see such activity don’t hesitate to call Shomrim @ 718-774-3333

Chabad mitzva tank memorializes mistaken identity tragedy victims

“God willing, a proud Jewish settlement will be built in this place,” said Baruch Ben-Yosef, who stood on a barren hilltop just south of Ma’aleh Hever near Hebron on Sunday.

About 100 people gathered on the wind-swept hill called Mitzpor Ziv, the scene of the accidental killings of Ben-Yosef’s son, Yehuda, and Yoav Doron.

Two years ago this Sunday, the two young men, just out of the army, were killed by soldiers who mistook them for terrorists. Ben-Yosef and Doron were guarding an outpost built on the hilltop.

Kneset Member Uzi Landau Visits Crown Heights

MK Uzi Landau and a group of the heads of Yesh”a spent the Shabbos in Crown Heights.

On Motzoai Shabbos there was a party in honor of the heads of Yesh”a with MK Landau in Meir Gutnick’s house. Preasent at the party were R’ Schwei R’ Groner R’ Butman and R’ Rapp.

Oholei Torah Students Learn 25,979 Lines Of Tanya

25,979 LINES OF TANYA MEMORIZED IN THE TANYA BAAL PEH HEVRON LEARN-A-THON

Students who thought they could only memorize a few lines, memorized a few pages. Those who expected to learn a few pages, learned a few Perakim. During recess the hallways became filled with Talmidim practicing their lines while older Bochurim Farhered those ready to add more lines to their total. All this took place from Chuf Daled Teves until Rosh Chodesh Adar, for the Tanya Baal Peh Hevron Learn-a-thon of third through fifth grades in Oholei Menachem, in which sponsors specified a set amount for each line memorized. The money will be given to the Rebbe’s Shliach in Hevron, Rabbi Danny Cohen, for projects for children in the Holy City of Hevron, the first Chabad capital city in Eretz Yisroel. The website chevronlearnathon.com was set up to facilitate the sponsoring of lines. The site will remain active until the final testing is done.

Fallen astronaut’s diary recovered

Experts piece together notebook used by Israeli during Columbia mission

The Associated Press
Updated: 6:45 p.m. ET Feb. 26, 2005

NEW ORLEANS – A small heap of paper that survived the fiery
disintegration of space shuttle Columbia, a 38-mile fall to Earth and
two months of exposure to rain and sun in a Texas field has been
painstakingly restored by forensic scientists, yielding the flight
diary and notes of Israeli astronaut Ilan Ramon.

Scientists used computer image-enhancement technology and infrared
light to read the charred and tattered pages and pieced some of them
together like jigsaw puzzles.

Not everything could be deciphered. But Sharon Brown, the Israeli
police document examiner who pieced the material together, said she was
amazed that the metal-ring cardboard-bound notebook had even survived.

Crown Heights Auxiliary Police Honored

Auxiliary Police Officer E. Klein, a Crown Heights resident, was honored as “Auxiliary Police Officer of the Year” for Patrol Borough Brooklyn South Wednesday night.

He is seen in the accompanying thubnail photo flanked by Auxiliary Police Officers Mendel Biston (L) and Rafael Lefkowitz (R), two other Chassidic auxiliaries and also members of the Crown Heights community, who were awarded certificates of recognition at the ceremony.

“There are currently about 60 Auxiliary Police Officers in the 71st Precinct, and numerous Precincts throughout Brooklyn South, so Mr. Klein’s selection was a significant honor.”

Soul II Soul’s Massive Success

This past Motzoei Shabbos at 8:15 in the “George Wingate High School’s” auditorium gatherd a massive crowd which over filled the halls capacity of 1000 people by a long shot yet still people were seen standing in the corners sitting on the steps dubbling up in chairs, for the great event performed by Avraham Fried, backed by the Neshoma Orchestra which was conducted by Steve Bill.

This event was made by the Chasdei Zahavi Foundation for its third year running, all proceds of the concert went to this organization that helps nurturing children with special needs and funding for education.

Ambulance hits minivan on call to an emergency

Last night a FDNY Ambulance was responding to an emergency call, racing up Troy Ave. while apparently not having his sirens on, hit a minivan that was crossing the Crown St. and Troy Ave. intersection.

Just looking at the extensive damage and then later hearing that the driver only went into shock and no physical injury, I must say this a a miracle.

More pictures in the extended article