The Beis Levi Yitzchock shul located on Albany Between Crown and Montgomery just got a new beautiful Aron Kodesh, donated by the Katz family in memory of their grandparents. The Kravitzky family donated the new Peroches.
The Aron Kodesh was hand crafted, using maple wood and birds eye maple wood, by Eli Kreinman.
Terrorists killed more than 14,500 people in 11,000 attacks across the globe last year, the U.S. State Department said in its annual report on terrorism.
Fifty-six of those killed were Americans, the report said. Three thousand of the deaths were attributable to 360 suicide bombings. There were 25,000 people wounded and 35,000 people kidnapped, the report said.
“We saw indications of an increase in suicide bombings,” the report said, noting that the July 7, 2005, bombings in London that killed 54 people were the first such attacks in Europe.
The report sums up a year in which suicide bombers also attacked in Iraq, Jordan, Israel, Egypt and Indonesia. The most significant attack for which al-Qaeda claimed responsibility was the Nov. 9, 2005, suicide attack against hotels in Amman, in which at least 57 people died, the report said.
A powerful real-estate developer has bought the Jewish Press building near the Gowanus Canal — the latest in a series of moves that could transform the industrial area into a village of housing, stores, art galleries and waterfront esplanades.
“We are very excited about the acquisition of the JP site,” said Sara Mirski, spokeswoman for developer Shaya Boymelgreen. “The site provides improved access opportunities to [a] proposed waterfront esplanade and park” along the canal.
The sale of the building, on Third Avenue between First and Third streets, coupled with construction of a Whole Foods market one block south and development along Fourth Avenue one block east, accelerates the perception that Park Slope is expanding through the old Gowanus neighborhood all the way to the canal (“Park Slope River,” anyone?).
Thursday evening, Chovevei Torah (Lubavitch Yeshiva) on Eastern Parkway saw a unique event. Catered from the newly constructed kitchen, and served by a few bochurim. It was an event unlike most others; the primary purpose of this elaborate feast was for the beis medrash bochurim to bond with each other as well as with the mesivta bochurim.
After a while of chitchat among the bochurim, Rabbi Weinfeld got up to explain the peculiar event. “Bochurim are always asking me when will we have time to be able to just talk with one another? We can’t do it during seder, by meal breaks we have to eat, and after seder’s over, there’s Seder Sichos and then we must get to sleep to be up for seder the next morning?” “So” he answered, “tonight is your night, now is the time, we are having this se’uda with the primary intention of giving you boys a chance to socialize in a different setting. Yeah there will be niggunim, and Divrei Torah, for we know what it says about those who eat without Divrei Torah, but the main goal is to socialize as well as bond with the Mesivta boys.”
Yesterday evening a reversing black sedan struck a 13 year old Bochur rollerblading on President St. between Brooklyn and New York avenues. B”H there were no serious injuries and while Hatzalah treated him on the scene, as a precaution they nevertheless took him to Kings County Hospital. NYPD responded to the call as well.
This would be the time to remind children that plan on bike riding or rollerblading in this beautiful weather of the rules that will keep them safe. These should include; that they should get off their bike when crossing streets, look in all directions, hey it’s Brooklyn you may never know when someone will decide to drive a few blocks in reverse, and when rollerblading to wear protective gear (i.e. helmet, etc.). Don’t forget that anyone under 14 riding a bicycle is required by law to wear a helmet.
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Late Wednesday night the carpet the little girl had been laying upon bleeding, was rolled up and taken out of the home. The carpet will be buried with the 4-year-old’s body as required by Orthodox Jewish tradition.
Just after 6 p.m. Wednesday night, neighbor Naama Jakobov saw the toddler’s panicked father carry the child out of the home at 624 Ave. M to a waiting ambulance.
“I came outside saw the father holding the daughter,” Jakobov said. “His shirt was soaked with blood. And I just heard that unfortunately it was fatal.”
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