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Daily Archives: July 8, 2008


CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] – A bizarre scene unfolded earlier this Tuesday morning, at around 11:00am a city bus pulled to a stop on Crown and Kingston alongside a few Community Policing Officers and the driver asked them for help with removing a passenger, a Black female who was spitting, being loud and did not pay the bus fair.

More pictures in the Extended Article.

Woman Thrown Off City Bus Spits at Bystanders, Cops

CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] – A bizarre scene unfolded earlier this Tuesday morning, at around 11:00am a city bus pulled to a stop on Crown and Kingston alongside a few Community Policing Officers and the driver asked them for help with removing a passenger, a Black female who was spitting, being loud and did not pay the bus fair.

More pictures in the Extended Article.

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New Engagement!

Moti Kuperman (Moscow, Russia) to Sharona Kulski (Paris, France)
New Engagement!

Yaakov Hirsch (Coral Springs, FL) to Chani Salami (Beverly Hills, CA)
New Engagement!

Mendy Holtzberg (Monterey, CA) to Leah Schmerling (Crown Heights) L’Chaim: Wednesday, May 14th, 8:30pm at the JCM
Baby Boy!

Lippy and Mushky Kosofsky from Crown Heights had a baby boy!
Baby Boy!

Yisroel and Nechama Dina Silberstrom from Remsen Village, Brooklyn had a baby boy.
Baby Boy!

Zalmy and Shevy Tauby from Toronto, Canada had a baby boy!
Baby Girl!

Kovi and Rivky (nee Danzinger) Raksin from Hollywood Florida had a baby girl!
New Engagement!

Chaim Uziel Starik (Vienna, Austria) to Batsheva Spivak (Pembroke Pines, FL)
New Engagement!

Zalman Friedman (Coral Springs, FL) to Lea Dukes (Santiago, Chile) L’Chaim: Monday, May 5th, 7:00pm at 9400 NW 4th Street, Coral Springs, FL
New Engagement!

Yossi Gutnick (Sydney, Australia) to Chaya Eisnebach (Northwest, CT) L’Chaim: Tonight, Thursday, at the Garden House 1386 S. John’s Pl
Baby Boy!

Yaakov and Shevi (nee Katzman) Behrman from Crown Heights had a baby boy!
Baby Boy!

Moishe and Frayda (nee Aber) Scheinfeld from Brooklyn, NY had a baby boy!
Baby Boy!

Yermi and Daniella Liam (nee Pohlman) Kurkus from Lake Lure, NC had a baby boy!
New Engagement!

Levi Kalmenson (Crown Heights) to Chanale Baitch (Crown Heights) L’Chaim: Monday, April 28th, 8:00pm at Anshei Lubavitch 578 Albany Ave
New Engagement!

Zevi Jacobson (De Moines, IA) to Ita Gurevitch (Crown Heights) L’Chaim: Monday, April 28th, 8:00pm at the JCM
New Engagement!

Sruli Friedman (Coral Springs, FL) to Adina Izgelov (Milwaukee, WI) L’Chaim: Monday, April 28th, 8:00pm at Albany Manor 641 Rutland Rd
New Engagement!

Shlomo Werde (Crown Heights) to Gila Bensusan (London, UK)
A live feed has been set up via the Internet, which will be telecasting the Levaya taking place Wednesday afternoon for Rabbi Yitzchok Dovid Groner OBM.

The service is scheduled to commence at 2:00pm in Australia (12:00 midnight EDT)

Click Here for the live feed

Internet Broadcast of the Levaya of Rabbi Y. D. Groner OBM

A live feed has been set up via the Internet, which will be telecasting the Levaya taking place Wednesday afternoon for Rabbi Yitzchok Dovid Groner OBM.

The service is scheduled to commence at 2:00pm in Australia (12:00 midnight EDT)

Click Here for the live feed

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Hillside, NJ [CHI] — Sunday, June 29th, Bris Avrohom of Hillside New Jersey dedicated the new Bat Sheva~Chaya Esther Mikvah. The Bat Sheva~Chaya Esther Mikvah was built in memory of Bat Sheva ob”m Kanelsky, an innocent infant taken from this world after only 65 days, and Rebbetzin Chaya Esther ob”m Zaltzman, a righteous woman who was tragically taken, on Erev Yom Kippur, in a horrific car accident. This Mikvah was built to give life to their legacies, as well as to provide a luxurious spa-like mikvah for the use of the Jewish community of New Jersey.

Bris Avrohom of Hillside Dedicate New Mikvah

Hillside, NJ [CHI] — Sunday, June 29th, Bris Avrohom of Hillside New Jersey dedicated the new Bat Sheva~Chaya Esther Mikvah. The Bat Sheva~Chaya Esther Mikvah was built in memory of Bat Sheva ob”m Kanelsky, an innocent infant taken from this world after only 65 days, and Rebbetzin Chaya Esther ob”m Zaltzman, a righteous woman who was tragically taken, on Erev Yom Kippur, in a horrific car accident. This Mikvah was built to give life to their legacies, as well as to provide a luxurious spa-like mikvah for the use of the Jewish community of New Jersey.

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Gala Chag HaSmicha in Los Angeles

LOS ANGELES, CA [CHI] — Family and friends came to rejoice and share their good wishes amongst hundreds of guests as 29 talmidim ka’h from Kollel Tiferes Menachem in Los Angeles celebrated a gala Chag HaSmicha on Wednesday 15 Sivan. Hailing from Australia, England and across the States, parents came to radiate with pride as their sons reached this distinguishing milestone.

More pictures in the Extended Article!

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Gershon and Shlomo Shapiro are sitting Shiva after the passing of their father Reb Yaakov Shapiro of the Bronx, NY. At the residence of Besalel Jacobson, 668 Lefferts Ave, [between Albany and Troy Ave], until Friday afternoon.

Shachris, 9:15am
Mincha, 7:30pm
Maariv Bizman (app.9:10pm)
Mincha Erev Shabbos 4:00pm

Hamokom Yenachem Eschem Besoch Shaar Avaylay Tzion VeYerushalayim.

Info to be Menachem Avel Shapiro Family

Gershon and Shlomo Shapiro are sitting Shiva after the passing of their father Reb Yaakov Shapiro of the Bronx, NY. At the residence of Besalel Jacobson, 668 Lefferts Ave, [between Albany and Troy Ave], until Friday afternoon.

Shachris, 9:15am
Mincha, 7:30pm
Maariv Bizman (app.9:10pm)
Mincha Erev Shabbos 4:00pm

Hamokom Yenachem Eschem Besoch Shaar Avaylay Tzion VeYerushalayim.

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This is the 5th year that Anash in Crown Height have arranged special Summer program for Baley Batim, while the family is vacationing in the Catskill Mountains and the kids are in camp.

The shiurim take place in the center of Crown Heights at Reb Getzel's shull.

More information and full flyer in the Extended Article!

Summer Crown Heights Shiurim Program

This is the 5th year that Anash in Crown Height have arranged special Summer program for Baley Batim, while the family is vacationing in the Catskill Mountains and the kids are in camp.

The shiurim take place in the center of Crown Heights at Reb Getzel’s shull.

More information and full flyer in the Extended Article!

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New Shluchim to North Carolina

Rabbi Yosef and Hindy (nee Zaklos) Plotkin of Crown Heights will IYH be moving on Shlichus to Greensboro, North Carolina, where they will establish a new Chabad House serving Jews in the area.

The new Shluchim were appointed by Rabbi Yossi Groner head Shliach to the Carolina’s.

The new Shluchim can be reached via e-mail at yosefplotkin@gmail.com

CrownHeights.info would like to wish the new Shluchim Hatzlocha Rabba on their Shlichus!

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By Rabbi Shmuley Boteach
The Muscular Humility of Rabbi Yitzchok Dovid Groner


Rabbi Yitzchok Dovid Groner, who died on Monday, was one of a kind. It is rare that I refer to someone as a truly great man, but Rabbi Groner earned the epitaph in spades. If the test of Judaism lies in its ability to create men and women of outstanding righteousness and humanity, then Rabbi Groner was one of those rare individuals who made his faith sparkle. He was an outstanding scholar. A builder of enormous institutions. A world-class orator. The head of a large and prosperous family. A devoted disciple of the Lubavitcher Rebbe who spent 50 years heading Chabad in Australia.

A Larger-than-Life Jewish Giant

By Rabbi Shmuley Boteach

The Muscular Humility of Rabbi Yitzchok Dovid Groner

Rabbi Yitzchok Dovid Groner, who died on Monday, was one of a kind. It is rare that I refer to someone as a truly great man, but Rabbi Groner earned the epitaph in spades. If the test of Judaism lies in its ability to create men and women of outstanding righteousness and humanity, then Rabbi Groner was one of those rare individuals who made his faith sparkle. He was an outstanding scholar. A builder of enormous institutions. A world-class orator. The head of a large and prosperous family. A devoted disciple of the Lubavitcher Rebbe who spent 50 years heading Chabad in Australia.

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The Levaya/Tehillim service for Rabbi Yitzchok Dovid Groner o’bm will be held in the Yeshivah Centre Werdiger Hall, 90 Hotham Street, St. Kilda East, at 2:00pm on Wednesday 6th Tammuz, 5768 July 9, 2008.

In line with Chabad customs and Rabbi Y.D. Groner's wishes, a eulogy will not be said.

People may come to say Tehillim for Rabbi Y.D. Groner o’bm at the Melbourne Chevra Kadisha 115 - 119 Inkerman Street, St Kilda at any time until 1:00pm on Wednesday July 9, 2008.

Levaya Info for Rabbi Y.D. Groner OBM

The Levaya/Tehillim service for Rabbi Yitzchok Dovid Groner o’bm will be held in the Yeshivah Centre Werdiger Hall, 90 Hotham Street, St. Kilda East, at 2:00pm on Wednesday 6th Tammuz, 5768 July 9, 2008.

In line with Chabad customs and Rabbi Y.D. Groner’s wishes, a eulogy will not be said.

People may come to say Tehillim for Rabbi Y.D. Groner o’bm at the Melbourne Chevra Kadisha 115 – 119 Inkerman Street, St Kilda at any time until 1:00pm on Wednesday July 9, 2008.

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Reb Yoel Kahan Farbrenges in the Catskills

SOUTH FALLSBURG, NY [CHI] — This past Shabbos hundreds of Chassidim from various krayzen joined together to hear Reb Yoel Kahan Farbreng in honor of Gimmel Tammuz. Mei Menuchos, a Lubavitcher Bungalow colony in South Fallsburg which is surrounded by several Chassidishe camps and bungalow colonies, hosted the Shiurim and Chassidishe Farbrengen which lasted all afternoon.

More pictures in the Extended Article!

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by Sue Fishkoff

BROOKLYN, NY [JTA] — On the first day of class at a new kosher cooking school in Brooklyn, 22-year-old Erica Zimmerman carefully slices raw potatoes into a stainless steel bowl.

Zimmerman, a student at New York University, says she’s always been interested in cooking, but as an observant Jew only wanted a kosher school. Why learn to cook food she'd never be able to eat?

Kosher Cooking School Steps up to the Plate in Brooklyn

by Sue Fishkoff

BROOKLYN, NY [JTA] — On the first day of class at a new kosher cooking school in Brooklyn, 22-year-old Erica Zimmerman carefully slices raw potatoes into a stainless steel bowl.

Zimmerman, a student at New York University, says she’s always been interested in cooking, but as an observant Jew only wanted a kosher school. Why learn to cook food she’d never be able to eat?

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Over 1000 at 3 Tammuz Farbrengen in Tarzana

TARZANA, CA [CHI] — More than 1000 men and women participated Sunday evening (last night) in the largest Gimmel Tammuz Farbrengen in the State at the Chabad of the Valley Headquarters in Tarzana, California, where they watched a video about the Rebbe and heard various inspirational talks from the local Shluchim including master of ceremonies was Rabbi Mordechai Einbinder and Rabbi Yehoshua Binyomin Gordon.

More pictures in the Extended Article!

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Mrs. Sara Chazan is sitting Shiva after the sudden and untimely passing of her sister Susan Jampolsky-Murray OBM.

She will be sitting Shiva at her home 734 Empire Blvd Between Albany & Troy.

Her sister Helene Smiley will be sitting with her.

Hamokom Yenachem Eschem Besoch Shaar Avaylay Tzion VeYerushalayim.

Info to be Menachem Avel Mrs. Sara Chazan

Mrs. Sara Chazan is sitting Shiva after the sudden and untimely passing of her sister Susan Jampolsky-Murray OBM.

She will be sitting Shiva at her home 734 Empire Blvd Between Albany & Troy.

Her sister Helene Smiley will be sitting with her.

Hamokom Yenachem Eschem Besoch Shaar Avaylay Tzion VeYerushalayim.

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MARIUPOL, Ukraine [FJC] — This summer, Jewish children from Mariupol have already commenced their summer camp season. Run by the local Jewish community, the 'Shalom State' camp has its very own Prime Minister and Minister of Finances, Health, and Education. These are the counselors, while all of the children fulfill the roles of deputies. Like any state, participants are learning about the traditions, laws and culture association with living a full Jewish life.

Jewish Camp Livens Up Summer in Mariupol

MARIUPOL, Ukraine [FJC] — This summer, Jewish children from Mariupol have already commenced their summer camp season. Run by the local Jewish community, the ‘Shalom State’ camp has its very own Prime Minister and Minister of Finances, Health, and Education. These are the counselors, while all of the children fulfill the roles of deputies. Like any state, participants are learning about the traditions, laws and culture association with living a full Jewish life.

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