CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — Friday afternoon, a woman preparing for Shabbos was startled when someone tried gain access to her house through the back door. The incident took place at 3:00pm, in the alleyway of Carroll and Crown St between Albany and Troy Ave.
The staff of Ohel Chabad Lubavitch is asking whoever is planning to spend the Shabbos after Gimmel Tammuz near the Ohel, should notify the office at info@ohelchabad.org or call 718-723-4545.
The accommodations provided this year will include a very large tent situated a 5 minute walk from the Ohel which can hold up to a thousand people.
PORT WASHINGTON, NY [CHI] — Chabad of Port Washington celebrated their 18th anniversary this week with a gala dinner at the Woodbury Jewish Center. The Shliach Rabbi Sholom Paltiel thanked honorees Tami Ruben, Karen and Alan Salzbank, Dr. Robert and Rachel-Maria Weiner, Deputy Chief Ron DeMeo, and Adam Katz, sponsor of the grand prize raffle – a plane trip for 6 aboard a luxury private jet, worth more than $5000.
CEDARHURST, NY [CHI] — Friday morning parents and families gathere in the Five Towns to watch Gan Chamesh preschool students march in their annual year end graduation parade. The students marched from the Chabad House and through the streets Five Towns. Each class marched to the tune of another country. Local Shluchim Rabbi Zalman and Chanie Wolowik and Meir and Hadassah Geisinsky run the preschool.
CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — Friday morning a bicyclist was struck by a car and seriously injured. The victim, a Lubavitcher man on his way to work, was found by Hatzalah face down near the intersection of Rogers Avenue and Empire Boulevard as he was just regaining consciousness.
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