Daily Archives: September 10, 2006

Today! Hachnosas Safer Torah to the Frankel Shul!

A Sefer Torah dedication is being held tonight in Crown Heights, in memory of Reuven Brenenson and Yehudah Efraim Lipkind. The procession is setting out from 1703 President Street between Utica and Rochester and will head to the Frankel shul with singing and dancing, which will be concluded with a Seudas Mitzvah.

If you would like to sponsor a letter or Posuk in the Torah please call Tova at (347) 420-1700.

Cat Burglar Breaks Into Two Homes and attempts another

Wednesday morning a Jewish family on Montgomery St. between Kingston and Albany woke up to find their home not exactly as they had left it the night before when they went to bed. Sometime during the night a thief had broken into their home from the side door and helped himself to a large sum of cash, jewelry, food from the freezer and more they had yet to discover.

The first thing they noticed was that things on the table wasn’t the way they had left it, and while trying to put things away they noticed money missing from where they usually kept some loose dollars. After noticing this they went to look for the jewelry and items were missing from there.

Police were called and determined the magnitude of what had taken place. A burglar let himself into their home by breaking the lock on the side door of the home and while the family was asleep he silently moved about and helped himself to the various goods in the home. To describe the brazenness of this burglar, he helped himself to money and jewelry yet that wasn’t enough, he emptied the freezer which contained a few packages of frozen hotdogs and other frozen goods, into shopping bags and left it at the door so he can come back later and take it.

Bais Rivkah Tuition Committee Resigns!

This letter comes after a large number of students at the Bais Rivkah Schools were turned away from classes this year.

Dear Parents,

We, the undersigned, were volunteer members of the Tuition Committee of Bais Rivkah. Pursuant to the letter that was sent out on 6 Elul, regretfully we wish to publicly disassociate ourselves from the last-minute decision made by the School Advisory Board: Rabbis Abraham Shemtov, Yossi Kazanovski (Monsey, NY), Mendy Gansburg, Meyer Eichler, Shalom Duchman and Faitel Levin, to require parents with outstanding tuition balances to apply for a Gemach before issuing admission cards.

The decision to renege on the signed agreements we had made with parents was decided by the Advisory Board without our knowledge or approval. In light of the above development, we feel we had no alternative but to resign from the committee.

Respectfully yours,
Zalman Chein as Chairman of the Tuition Committee

What Nerve – Hatzalah Cable Cut

Late Wednesday night, some time between eleven o’clock at night and three o’clock in the morning, the electric cable that charges the hatzalah ambulances in front of 770 was cut by vandals.

Note: this is not the first time the Hatzalah Ambulances have been the target of vandalism. There have been two other incidents we reported one where the tires of the ambulances were slashed and two when CH-3 had both its mirrors broken off.

Pictures of the repair crew repairing the damage in the Extended Article