Suspicious Fire in a Vacant Apartment

CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] – Friday afternoon at around 2pm, a fire was started in an empty apartment. Located on the 4th floor of 1622 President Street, a Jewish owned building, on the corner of Schenectady Avenue. The apartment building has 46 residential units.

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New from Chabad.org – Stick Figure Vignettes Videos

The idea of G-d wanting a home in this world is one that comes up a lot and is a central theme in Chassidic Philosophy. So it’s one that I thought about quite often. Usually I think of it in terms of us making the world a Home for G-d by filling it with things we know make Him happy, and by making it clear that it (the world) belongs to Him. And the Mishkan (the portable temple that we learn about in this week’s Torah Portion) is an even more tangible representation of that.

WSJ Profiles Lipa – Dancing & Shaking With an Exultant Spirit

By Peter Duffy for the Wall Street Journal

Lipa Schmeltzer in performance mode.

Rabbi Israel ben Eliezer, the 18th-century founder of modern Hasidism, was once asked why his followers worshipped in an ecstatic style full of singing and dancing. He responded by telling a parable about a street-corner fiddler who played with such skill that everyone who heard him began to jig. A deaf man, unable to hear the beautiful sounds, walked by and wondered if the world had gone mad. “Why are they jumping up and down, waving their arms and turning in circles in the middle of the street?” he asked.

“My disciples are moved by the melody that issues forth from each and every thing that God, blessed be He, has created,” said the Baal Shem Tov, as the rabbi was known. “If so, how can they keep from dancing?”

Rabbi Perl Hosts live webcast celebrating Moshe Rabbenu’s 3402nd Birthday Party

On Monday March 2nd, 2009 at 7pm, Rabbi Anchelle Perl will host a special webcast on the eve of the 3402nd birthday of Moses who was born in Egypt on the 7th of Adar of the year 2368 from creation (1393 BCE).

Be sure to tune to Moses’ Jewish Birthday tribute from 7pm-9pm EST on Monday evening March 2nd, 2009, for this live streaming two hour party farbrengen. Login party at www.chabadmineola.com

Give Until It Feels Good – The Torah Perspective On Giving

Rabbi Yossi Kahanov Shliach to Jacksonville, FL

Old time buddies Irving and Seymour enjoyed their golden years fishing and boating together. One afternoon, as they were off at play, a violent storm blew in from nowhere. Before long the two friends found themselves in the water clinging to their capsized boat for dear life.

Knowing that Seymour could not swim to save his life, Irving tried to help. But no matter how much he begged for Seymour’s hand, Seymour defiantly refused. No amount of pleading seemed to matter.

Excelling Students of Darchai Menachem go Skiing!

DELAWARE, PA [CHI] — Students of Darchai Menachem who excelled in school and accumulated the right amount of ‘points’ over the last 12 weeks, were all rewarded with a full day trip up to the Shawnee Mountain, a ski resort that’s a two hour drive from Brooklyn, where the students took skiing lessons and spent a day on the ski slopes.

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Fines for Flyer Blitz Flatten Small Biz

NY Daily News
Posters on a wall. Illustration Photo.

CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn — A Crown Heights business could go under after it was slapped with nearly $10,000 in fines for posting flyers on city light poles.

Quinton Spikener, 27, the owner of Xyayx Multimedia, a music and video production company, woke up last Thursday to find his mailbox stuffed with 47 letters from the city, each charging a $200 fine. The total bill was $9,400.