The Crown Heights JCC has once again arranged with the Forestry division of the NYC Parks Dept. to have all the S’chach picked up. During the next few days, the S’chach will be picked up by the local Sanitation Dept. on the regular garbage pick up days for your block. Please put the S’chach in the area where your regular household garbage is being picked up. If you put your garbage in front of your house, please put your S’chach along the curbside.
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For those who own a car but not a driveway or garage, Alternate Side Parking regulations can be quite a burden; none more so than in Crown Heights where it happens four times a week (as opposed to the standard two). At last, for those residents living north of Eastern Parkway in NYC District 8, relief may be on its way.
Kingston Ave. is filled with Israelis and others shopping last minute items from peddlers and merchants on the street before they fly back home.
The Malka family is sitting Shiva after the passing of their father, Reb Dovid OBM, at 440 Brooklyn Ave Apt. 2G [between Empire Blvd. and Sterling St.]
Shachris 7:30
Mincha 5:45
Maariv Bizmana.
The family asks that people not come after 10pm. They have also set up an email address for people to send memories and condolences: malkafamily440@gmail.com
Hamakom Yenachem Eschem Besoch She’ar Aveilei Tzion VeYerushalayim
Skechers is teaming up with Kids Foot Locker to kick off the third annual Skechers Pier to Pier Friendship Walk to raise funds for children with special needs and education on October 30, 2011.
Oprah Winfrey, in New York as part of a new television series, “Oprah’s Next Chapter,” that premieres in January, visited the neighborhoods of Crown Heights, Borough Park and Brooklyn Heights for a glimpse into the daily life of Chasidic Jews and how their intense spiritual devotion informs and strengthens their dealings with the outside world.
Pete Sutherland traveled to Zuccotti Park all the way from Georgia Friday, shivering as he wielded a handmade sign that read, “The Reason the Arabs Hate Us.”
While the tzibur is just beginning to recover from the bochrim in Japan incident, which all continue davening will end soon and end well, there is now a story of a Yerushalmi bachur involved with drugs and imprisoned in India.
Six more people are alleging that they were abused by a security guard at an Orthodox Jewish school in Melbourne, according to police.
A special full-day Yom Iyun was hosted by the Vaad Talmidei Hatmimim for Bochurim as they take leave for the upcoming year on Shlichus to Chabad Yeshivos worldwide, held in Congregation B’nei Jacob – Chabad of Park Slope, NY.
I think it’s high time there was some new cultural diffusion. I don’t mean cultural diffusion on a grand scale, where one nation spreads its lifestyles and outlooks to another nation or anything of the sort. Rather, I am proposing a small-scale exchange of ideas, lifestyles, and philosophies within two sectors of the Jewish world: Modern Orthodoxy and Chabad Lubavitch.
The Orthodox Jewish-run Brooklyn bus company that stuck women in the back seats is putting an end to the controversial practice after a reprimand from the city.
The Maimonides Day School published a new scholarly journal featuring dissertations in Hebrew and English by students, parents, alumnae and staff of the Albany, N.Y., institution.
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