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Are You Driving With A Suspended License?

This letter was sent out by the Council of Jewish Organizations of Flatbush, we are republishing it as it affects every single motor vehicle operator in New York State.

Dear Friend:

Each year hundreds of people within our community are arrested while driving with a suspended driver license. The Department of Motor Vehicles can suspend your driving privileges for a variety of reasons. The most common reason a license is suspended is if you don’t answer a traffic summons, or if you fail to pay the full fine or surcharge listed on the summons. If your license is suspended, it will remain in effect until you correct the condition that led to the suspension. All too often – hard working individuals end up in jail simply because they have neglected to answer traffic summonses.

We Are Changing the Clock

Tonight at 2:00 AM we change our clock’s 1 hour ahead and becomes 3:00 AM, we lose an hour of sleep.

So make sure to change your clocks before you get to bed as to avoid any confusion (and being an hour late to everything).

A Gutten Voch.

Note: To learn more about “Standard Time” and “Daylight Savings time” Click on them.

Daylight Saving Time Begins Sunday

Weekend Reminder: Spring Forward! Daylight Saving Time is here, so don’t forget to turn your clocks forward an hour.

This Sunday, March 11, some three weeks earlier than usual, Daylight Saving Time kicks in at 2 a.m. and will last until the first Sunday in November. Based on the passage of the 2005 Energy Policy Act that takes affect this year, DST has been extended by four weeks. Typically, DST begins the first Sunday in April and runs through the last Sunday in October.

The theory behind DST is that people make better use of the extended daylight hours. With longer “synthetic sunshine” consumers have less need for lights, and other appliances. Studies show that energy demand is directly connected to bedtime. During DST, the sun is already up by the time most people wake. Less energy is needed to light the home, so less energy is consumed overall.

More in the Extended Article.

Happy Purim From CrownHeights.info!

We, the staff of CrownHeights.info (such a BIG ‘staff’ ;-) would like to wish all of our readers (all the thousands of you) who come to this site from all over the world to get real Crown Heights and Chabad news, a Happy and Frailichen Purim.

We would also like to caution you all to take extra care and keep this time a joyous one and not to have one of our photographers around taking pictures of some unwanted incident ;-), rather have them take pictures of people all dressed up running around delivering Shalach Manot!

So if you plan on drinking, drop the car keys and don’t drive, and when you drink even tough it’s a mitzvah to exaggerate, be sensible (what an oxymoron), and may it be a real Venahafoch Hu that this Golus should change into Geulah!

Also, if you have any nice Purim pictures that you think should be in our Purim gallery email it to us at news@crownheights.info

Tomorrow – Taanit Esther – the Fast of Esther

Because Adar 13 (the day before Purim) falls on a Shabbos this year, the “Fast of Esther,” usually observed on that date, is moved back to Thursday, the 11th of Adar, March 1st.

Fast Begins: 5:09 AM
Fast Ends: 6:26 PM

The fast — which is observed on Adar 11 by all adults (i.e., over bar or bat mitzvah age) — is in commemoration of the three-day fast called at Esther’s behest before she risked her life to appear unsummoned before King Achashveirosh to save the Jewish people from Haman’s evil decree (as related in the Book of Esther, chapter 4). The fast also commemorates Esther’s fasting on the 13th of Adar, as the Jews fought their enemies (see “Today in Jewish History” for Adar 13). No food or drink is partaken of from daybreak to nightfall. Pregnant, nursing women or people in ill health are exempted from fasting.

7th Yartzeit of Hatomim Sholom Brashevitzky A”H

This Wednesday Yud Adar is the 7th yartzeit of Habochor Hatomim Shlomo Sholom Brashevitzky a“h. Please join us on Tuesday night for a farbrengen in honor of Sholom’s Yartzeit at 9:00pm at his brother’s house 432 Brooklyn Ave, [between Montogomery St and Empire Blvd].

We, his siblings would like to put together a booklet of storys and memorys of Sholom’s a”h years. We would greatly apprectiate if his classmates, friends, students that were with him in Tzfas that year, or anyone that knew him to please send in your storys and memorys to sholombresh@yahoo.com.

We should only hear good news and the ultimate news with the coming of moshiach tzidkeinu and once again we should see Sholom here in a guf gashmi bekorov mamash. Thank you very much his siblings.

Siyum and Hachnosas Sefer Torah in Memory of Rabbi Gansburg OBM

Family, friends, and acquaintances, men, women and children, are all invited to join us on Motzei Shabbos Parshas Titzaveh, Purim eve 5767, for a Siyum Sefer Torah in honor of the Yartzeit of the Chossid, Reb Yitzchok Ganzburg, OBM.

It will take place at 55 Broad Street (opposite the N.Y. Stock Exchange), 2nd floor, New York, N.Y.

Buses will leave 1367 President Street (Machon Chana) at 7:15 and at 7:45 PM.