CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — A car plowed into a busy street corned and ended up in a front yard of a home after loosing control. The incident took place at around 6:00pm today, Monday at the intersection of Lefferts and New York Avenue.
New York State Senator Eric Adams recently met with Dr. Harvey Lang and Shmuel Plotkin, representing the Crown Heights Jewish Community Council to hand over a $2.7 million dollar stimulus package to provide jobs in the community. Jobs in the city’s Housing Department are available through the Council.
Yesterday, Sunday evening there was a reunion for former alumni of Yeshivas Chanoch Lenaar in Crown Heights. It was a United Lubavicher Yeshiva. Alumni came from all over the world.
PERYVILLE, NJ [CHI] — Chabad of Hunterdon County, NJ celebrated its 6th Anniversary Dinner Banquet with a memorable Dinner Banquet at the Grand Colonial Inn in Peryville.
It was a special event with many community business leaders, organizational leaders as well as political leaders joining the over two hundred and thirty people in attendance.
TZFAT, ISRAEL [CHI] — The bochurim at YNS Chabad in Tzfas were tested this week in Melicha both by HaRav Yitzchak Yehuda Yerushlavski, secretary of the Bais Din Chabad in Eretz Yisroel and HaRav Dovid Meir Druckman, Rav of Kiryat Motzkin.
The Smicha project is headed by HaShliach Rabbi Yaacov Orimland, Rosh Yeshiva of YNS Chabad and guided by Rav Gafni and Rav Landesman.
CROWN HEIGHTS — A top Jewish leader of a new Crown Heights, Brooklyn, neighborhood patrol group created to improve racial harmony has a criminal record for beating a black girl 14 years ago, the Daily News has learned.
Leib Skoblo, 33, who appeared with Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly at the group’s launch last week, spewed racial epithets and punched a black girl in 1995, court records show.
BROOKLYN, NY — Whoa, babies!
As maternity wards in hospitals across Brooklyn have closed their doors, those in the borough that haven’t are scrambling to keep up with a big influx of births.
People of various faiths are helping a Camarillo Jewish preschool, the target of anti-Semitic graffiti, pay for a surveillance and security system.
Last week workers installed cameras outside and a security system inside the Gan Camarillo Preschool in Old Town.
Aid Alert Security of Westlake Village is charging the preschool $5,000—about $3,000 off the retail price—for the system.
“The reason we’re doing it is because it’s wrong,” owner Ed Nuki said of the Nazirelated vandalism that appeared at the preschool three times last year.
The preschool was hit in July, August and December with Nazirelated graffiti, said Camarillo Police Detective Pete Seery.
“I just can’t believe it happened here. But it’s everywhere, I guess,” Seery said at the preschool last week while offering the workers advice on the security installation.
Jonathan Samuel Latino of Camarillo pleaded guilty to committing a hate crime and felony vandalism for the August incident at the preschool and elsewhere in town.
In April, he was sentenced to a year in jail and a $1,100 fine.
Investigation into the other incidents is ongoing, Seery said.
CROWN HEIGHTS — A grand end of the year Homework Helper meeting took place last night at the Shluchim Lounge in The Shluchim Center.
This meeting was a great opportunity to thank the Homework Helpers, a group of 10th grade volunteers from Beis Rivka High School, for the time they dedicated to helping Online School students throughout the year with their homework.
Please take a moment and say a Kapitel Tehillim for a Refuah Shlaima.
Leah Rivka bas Basheva Zissel
She is a Shlucha who is undergoing serious surgery on today, Monday
LOS ANGELES, CA — Bonfires at overnight camps throughout the country will have spare marshmallows and graham crackers this summer. Day camps are scrounging for campers and parents are searching for scholarships.
Welcome to the summer of the recession.
CROWN HEIGHTS — Don’t get too comfortable!
That was Mayor Bloomberg’s message to dozens of lucky homeless families who scored a posh pad at a luxury condo that has been turned into a homeless shelter in Brooklyn.
Pictures from the L’Chaim of Ari (ben Reb Nochum) Markowitz (Crown Heights) and Rivky (bas Reb Zalman) Lokshin (Crown Heights) at the Jewish Children’s Museum. Photos by BYK.
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