5 Car Collision on Empire and Troy

3:00pm on the corner of Empire Blvd. and Troy Ave. a massive crash was heard, there was a collision involving 5 cars, 3 of which were operated by Jews.

Apparently 2 cars coming up Troy Ave. somehow made it into a van and parked car. The van being operated by a Jew with a passenger, both were taken to KCH [Kings County Hospital] by Hatzalah, and the car that hit the van was operated by a black man who was evacuated to KCH by FDNY and the third car which was also operated by a Jew that had hit the parked car was taken to KCH as well. The extents of the injuries are unknown at this time. A fourth car which had not sustained much damaged was dismissed by police.

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Chabad of West Hempstead’s Slichot

For the first time ever Chabad of West Hempstead which is headed by Rabbi Yossi Lieberman has had a Minyan for Slichot, there were just above 2 Minyonim. R. Yossi Lifshitz was Chazzan.

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Fertile Blessings Indeed

The New York Times
By Corey Kilgannon

One recent afternoon, three sets of parents, each with early-teenage triplets in tow, arrived at the Old Montefiore Cemetery and filed into the entranceway of a roofless mausoleum, which was lined with shelves of lighted candles and prayer books. Inside is the gravesite of the Lubavitcher grand rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, who died in 1994, leaving no successor.

The children waited restlessly in the small courtyard around the rebbe’s grave as their parents tore up pieces of paper bearing handwritten prayers and scattered the scraps by the grave. The parents said they had come to the cemetery, in Cambria Heights, Queens, to offer thanks. All had once struggled with infertility until they received a dollar bill and a blessing from the rabbi, who would dispense plenty of both on Sundays at 770 Eastern Parkway, the Lubavitch headquarters in Crown Heights.