Reminder: Don’t Forget To Make An Eruv Tavshilin

Ordinarily, on Holidays we are permitted to prepare only the foods necessary for that same day.

This year, Shavuot falls out on a Friday, and the Shabbat meals must, as always, be prepared before Shabbat.

Special action is required, so that we may prepare the Shabbat meals on Friday. The Eruv Tavshilin ceremony, performed on Thursday, June 1st, before sundown, renders this permissible.

More information on how to perfom an Eruv Tavshilin in the Extended Article.

Designated Ticket Car Goes Undercover

Residents should be aware, the Police Car designated to giving tickets for seatbelts and cell phones [also knows as an APL car or Accident Prone Location car] got a snazzy upgrade, they went undercover. Now they are out giving tickets in an unmarked black Chevy Impala. And are still very successful L”A.

So drivers beware, and please take care to wear you seat belts and don’t use your cell phones while driving as it posses a hazard to yourself and other drivers as well as pedestrians.

CH Hatzalah Raffle Campaign Is Underway! Grand Prize $18,000

Crown Heights Hatzalah will be hosting their annual fundraising Raffle on June 19, 2006 – 23 Sivan 5766 beginning at 8:00 pm – Lubavitch Yeshiva, 570 Crown St . It is the most important fund raising event of the year for our community and we urge all members of Anash to support this indispensable service.

The drawing will take place in conjunction with a special free symposium on preventative health care titled “Heart to Heart Talk….Early Detection”. Guest Speakers will include:

Joshua Kerstein M.D. Associate Director of Clinical Cardiology
Robert Frankel M.D. Associate Director of Interventional Cardiology
Stephen J. Lahey M.D. Chief of Cardiothoracic Surgery at Maimonides Medical Center

Shabbos Achdus in Crown Heights

Dear Parents,

Presently the world is shaking. Everyone is thinking of what could be done for the world at large and specifically to help our brothers and sisters in Eretz Yisroel & around the world.

At this time, it is important to remember the words the Rebbe has quoted so many times: “From the mouths of infants and young children” Hashem has “established strength to destroy the enemy and the avenger.” It is specifically the children who can and will make a difference.

In the year 5746, the Rebbe made a “ziytp dywa” that on Shabbos Parshas Bamidbor, the Shabbos before Shavuos, we should gather together to strengthen our Ahavas Yisroel in order to bring the Geulah.

Full flyer and the raffle ticket in Extended Article.

Rally At The Ohel – Pesach Sheini/Lag BaOmer

COMMUNITY ALERT

The Crown Heights Shomrim urgently advises all community parents and educators of the following:

We have received reports that a man is trying to pick up young children by posing as a “police officer” from a Cleveland. He is said to have approached children showing them a badge and asking them to “show him directions” to different local streets or avenues.

Description; white male, with a small beard and a silver tooth, wearing a blue and black cap, blue jeans, and a white T-shirt with a picture on it. (Be advised that while this is the clothing he was wearing when he was first spotted and it is thus worth nothing, he could easily change into other clothing – a different hat, a jacket covering his shirt, etc.). He was seen driving a dark-colored (dark blue, black, dark green, etc.) an SUV type vehicle.

Today Elections For Rabbonim

The polls open up today at 2 locations, one at the Kingston Ave. entrance to 770 (Tiferes Zikeinim Levi Yizchak), and the second location is at 392 Kingston Ave.. The polls will open at 8:00 am and 9:00 am respectively, and will close at 11:00 pm.

The candidates are Rabbi Yitzchok Raitport, Rabbi Shloime Segal and Rabbi Yitzchok Zirkind.

After all the letters that have gone back and forth and the litter of “Pashkvillin” in 770, what to do is totally in your hands. To vote or not to vote.

Tonight – The Precinct Council Meeting

Lets all make our voices heard! Tonight at 7:30pm in the I.S. 61 [400 Empire Blvd. corner of New York Ave. and Empire Blvd.].

Raise our voices against the barrage of shootings that have been going on along with the number of murders there were in the past week. Demand protection!

Pesach Times For The Brooklyn Area

Wednesday April 12;

Last time for eating Chometz: 10:40am,
Burn Chometz: 11:45am,
Eruv Tavshilin,
Candle Lighting: 7:14pm

Thursday April 13;

Midday & Midnight: 12:56
Last time for Krias Shema (both days): 9:35am
Candle Lighting Second Night: after 8:15pm

Friday & Shabbos April 14-15;

Candle Lighting: 7:16pm
Motzai Shabbos: 8:19pm

Activities for Children Erev Pesach

Erev Pesach, the kitchens upside-down, parents are just trying to get all the Pesach cleaning done, so sometimes the best Pesach help is to have the kids entertained someplace outside the house. So here is one idea! If you know of any other such programs please email me and ill add them!

Small Wonder Puppet Theater! @ ULY

In Lubavitcher Yeshiva Crown St. on Tuesday (Yortziat of the Tzemach Tzedek) there will be a puppet show and lunch for the kids during the afternoon.

12:30 – 1:00 will be lunch, the puppet show starts at 1:00pm. Admission is $1 a Sandwich is $1 and a Drink is $1.

Tonight: Daylight Savings Time!

Tonight at 2:00am we will be entering Daylight Savings Time and we move the clock one hour forward, and loose 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).

The New York City Office of Emergency Management reminds New Yorkers to change the batteries in their smoke detectors as well.

A Gut Voch,

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