CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] – At around 7:30 this evening an abandoned car that had been parked in an alleyway between Crown and Montgomery Streets and Schenectady and Troy Avenues caught fire, residents called 911 and FDNY reasponded within moments.
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CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] – Last night, Monday, at around 9:45pm a Bochur was struck by a passing car in front of 749 Eastern Parkway. The driver, a member of Anash, stopped and called Hatzalah and waited at the scene.
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This past Chol Hamoed The“ Tmimim Boys Choir” led by Rabbi Yossi Goldstein, performed at Dorney and Sesame parks. Together with the enthusiastic audience they sang Chabad Yom Tov Nigunim as well as Geula songs making a Kiddush Lubavitch and instilling pride in our boys.
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CLEVELAND, OH [CHI] — Last Sunday, September 30, Tzivos Hashem in conjunction with the Joseph Winer Children’s Jewish Center, held a communal cruise on board the Majestic cruise liner in honor of Chol HaMoed Sukkos.
For the first time in Cleveland history, a Sukkah sailed down Lake Erie with amazing juggling feats with musical entertainment by Mosher Pekar and a children’s rally lead by Rabbi Eli Jacobs aboard the boat.
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Police at the University of California at Davis are investigating the vandalism of a sukkah constructed by the off-campus Chabad House.
According to a report over the weekend in the school’s California Aggie newspaper, representatives of the university’s Student Programs and Activities Center reported discovering anti-Israel statements spray-painted on the interior of the sukkah. Photographs taken at the time show two messages: “End Israeli Occupation” took up a good portion of a blank wall; “Free Palestine!” appeared on a sign belonging to Chabad-Lubavitch of Davis and wishing passersby a “Happy Sukkot.”
CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] – A second assault and mugging took place Sunday night at around 10:30pm, this time on Eastern Parkway between Washington Avenue and Classon Avenue. A couple taking an evening stroll were surrounded by gang of black teens and youths and attacked and mugged, the woman’s purse was taken as well as the mans cell phone.
It may surprise some cyclists, but New York City has been honored as one of the nation’s most bike-friendly cities.
New York rode away with a bronze medal from the League of American Bicyclists, which recently put the city on par with the college town of Davis, Calif.
The nod comes as Mayor Bloomberg works to promote cycling – installing 400 to 500 bike racks a year, and setting aside 400 miles of bike lanes and paths by 2009.
Chabad of Georgia grows to 10 centers with no end in sight
Throughout their yeshiva years, Chabad rabbis are trained to be men on the street in cities across the country and around the world that could use an extra Jewish touch. They are sent to cities and rural towns to offer the essence of Chabad – the Hebrew acronym for chachmah (wisdom); binah (comprehension); and da’at (knowledge) – to Jews or anyone embracing the Jewish soul.
It may seem a lot like a Christian missionary model, like the young Mormons riding their bikes and wearing ties while searching for converts, but the Chabad approach has worked well for members of the Lubavitch branch of Chasidism since its arrival in America nearly 66 years ago.
NEW YORK, NY — Con Ed charges the highest rates of any major U.S. electric utility, yet rotting paper wrapped around aging high-voltage wires is all that separates the city from its next blackout.
For years, the state Public Service Commission has been after Con Ed to replace its 10,000-volt paper-insulated cables, some of which failed during the 1999 Washington Heights blackout and last year’s nine-day Astoria and Long Island City outage.
Con Ed concedes that the underground cables have a higher failure rate than newer ones, but it has no plan to replace them all before 2024.
CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] – Yesterday, Sunday, an Israeli Bochur who was walking to 770 at around 8:40pm from one of the ‘Hachnosas Orchim’ houses in the vicinity of Park Place and Brooklyn Avenue, was viciously assaulted by a gang of blacks.
The assault took place on St. Johns Place and Brooklyn Avenue where the Bochur was struck with the glass bottle, but did not know what had hit him, and his possessions, including his Tefillin, wallet and passport were taken from him.
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