Daily Archives: October 16, 2005

Sharpton denies playing the race card in election

Rev. Al Sharpton yesterday called allegations that he is playing the race card in New York’s upcoming mayoral election “ridiculous.”

Some have accused Sharpton of trying to eat away at Republican Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s sizable black support base by pointing out that the incumbent did not attend a debate in Harlem. Bloomberg is a Jew.

The former Democratic presidential candidate is backing his party’s candidate Fernando Ferrer, who is behind in the polls.

Another tree collapse

As we have reported, Crown Heights has been hit be severe weather for some time now, a lot of rain and wind. Last week a tree fell on 2 cars, but only damaging them minimally. This time the damage was a lot more severe.

This happened on the corner of President St. and Kingston Ave. while there were a lot of people shopping preparing for Yom Tov, a large part of a tree broke off and landed on top of a “Hacnosas Orchim” Van, and B”H didn’t hurt any people.

Giant Sukkah in Midtown Manhattan

As in previous years, the Chabad House of Manhattan, directed by Rabbi Yehoshua Metzger has constructed a giant Sukkah in the center of the city, resembling a sophisticated restaurant. The Sukkah will be opened 24 hours a day catering to a huge crowd of businessmen and tourists who visit it on a daily basis.

The Sukkah, which in itself become a tourists attraction, is located on 40th and 5th in the Bryant Park with is right next to the midtown branch of the New York Public Library, which, as the rumor has it, is where the Rebbe stood over sixty years ago distributing leaflets called ‘Lialter Letshuva – Lialter Ligeula’ (a declaration of the previous Rebbe indicating that repentance will hasten the redemption). Rabbi Metzger calls all the Tmimim who intend to do Mivtzoim in the area to tell the Jews they encounter about this Sukkah.

Robbery at Kol-Tuv

This past shabbos the grocery store Kol-Tuv, on Kingston and Montgomery was broken into. The grocery has recently expanded by taking over the space Flash used to occupy.

The thieves allegedly gained entry to the store by cutting the gate and breaking the glass door. They stole the calling cards that Kol-Tuv sells but apparently they did not try for the cash in the register.

This Sukkot, No Blue-Light Specials on Lulavs

Among the sea of bobbing black hats that filled Hamafitz, a Judaica store in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, on Tuesday was the high, rumpled headgear of Shlomo Zuntz, a man in his 60’s with hangdog features and a wispy white beard. Mr. Zuntz pushed to the back of the store, looking for lulavs, the long, straight date-palm fronds used in celebration of Sukkot, the Jewish weeklong harvest festival, which begins Monday.