Schach Pickup Information

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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Meeting to Reduce Alternate Side Parking for District 8

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.

Info to Be Menachem Avel the Malka Family

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

Askanim Take Up Case of Bachur Imprisione​d in India

Yeshiva World News

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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.

Op-Ed: What Chabad-Lubavitch and Modern Orthodox Communities Can Teach Each Other

by Rachel Renz – YU Beacon

Oholei Torah bochurim learn Chasidus with students at Yeshiva University on a Thursday night.

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.