Crown Heights, Brooklyn — Crown Heights today celebrated a double Simcha, the completion and inauguration of two Sifrai Torah! The letters were filled in the home of Rabbi Don Yoel Levy after which the gather crowed danced through the streets of Crown Heights to the new Shul ‘Beis Eliezer Yitchok’ on Kingston Ave.
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Dear Friends, שיחיו,
This past Sunday the world of Shlichus had a tremendous loss with the untimely passing of Hachossid Hagoan Horav Hatomim R. Avrohom ben Yitzchok Isaac Halevi Levitansky, leaving behind a wife and large Mishpachah, ka”h.
Rabbi Levitansky was a shliach and a Rav who was loved and held dear by the entire family of shluchim. We witnessed his ready commitment to be available to us and do anything he could to help when we reached out to him without ever asking for anything in return. He will sorely be missed by all.
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Crown Heights, Brooklyn – In an early morning fire a bodega and an apartment were completely destroyed and what firefighters are calling a suspicious fire. The fire broke out at around 7:20am in 690 E New York Ave which is on the corner of Albany, FDNY arrived on scene within moments and began battling the fire and the fire was subdued shortly thereafter.
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The following is a Blog post that has been brought to our attention and we thought it would be a good point to bring up to our readers here at CrownHeights.info. The following post was written by a Blog called ‘ChaBlog’, readers are welcome to share their thoughts on the matter.Lubavitchers know how to argue. It’s just one of the things we’re good at. As politics rage around the world from Head Shluchim to High Schools, CrownHeights.info takes the cake. Don’t get the wrong idea; CrownHeights.info is a great news site. In just a few short years it grabbed Chabad viewers and now it’s more popular then the overrated Shmais. The content is usually good and it always has big bright pictures to go along with even the dullest articles.
The following is a Blog post that has been brought to our attention and we thought it would be a good point to bring up to our readers here at CrownHeights.info. The following post was written by a Blog called ‘ChaBlog’, readers are welcome to share their thoughts on the matter.
Lubavitchers know how to argue. It’s just one of the things we’re good at. As politics rage around the world from Head Shluchim to High Schools, CrownHeights.info takes the cake. Don’t get the wrong idea; CrownHeights.info is a great news site. In just a few short years it grabbed Chabad viewers and now it’s more popular then the overrated Shmais. The content is usually good and it always has big bright pictures to go along with even the dullest articles.
My issue is not with the website, but the viewers. CrownHeights.info has a cool feature over the other chabad news sites by letting you post comments on anything. After observing these comments for a while it’s starting to get to me. On every news piece, picture, article, there is someone who has to write something stupid or senselessly negative and start an argument. Not just any arguments but heated ones where the commentators attack each other.
Scheduled to take place today, Sunday June 3rd is the Siyum [completion] of a Safer Torah which is being dedicated in loving memory of R. Eliezer Yitzchok Levy OBM, and it is being donated by his mother Mrs. Thelma Levy and his brother Rabbi Don Yoel Levy. And in memory of Rabbi Avrohom Moshe & Mrs. Hitzel Deitsch OBM, Donated by their son-in-law and daughter, Rabbi Don Yoel & Mrs. Malka Levy.
The completion of the Torah will take place at 1:30pm in the home of Rabbi and Mrs. Levy, 1347 Carroll Street and at 3:00pm the Parade and Hakafos to Beis Eliezer Yitchok 394 Kingston Avenue will take place.
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Queens, NY — Four men, including a onetime airport cargo handler and a former member of the Parliament of Guyana, were charged yesterday with plotting to blow up fuel tanks, terminal buildings and the web of fuel lines running beneath Kennedy International Airport.
Following a recent initiative to expand the adult education services offered by Chabad-Lubavitch centers nationwide and abroad, Lubavitch Headquarters disclosed today through Lubavitch.com the names of 20 additional cities that have been approved for the program, for a total of 43 participating cities.
Port Washington, NY — A new Mikva has been built at Chabad of Port Washington and will be open as soon as they get a couple good rains and fills up the Mikva.
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Baku, Azerbaijan — May 31st in the capital of Azerbaijan, a festive ceremony took place for laying the first stone of the Baku ‘Chabad Ohr Avner’ Educational Complex. This event signifies the joyous beginning a massive undertaking, sponsored by the Ohr Avner Foundation in partnership with the Geider Aliyev Foundation.
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