Hundreds of women and girls turned out Sunday evening in support of Oholei Torah, the neighborhoods largest boys school, for their annual auction benefiting the PTA and their year round activities. The evening was dedicated in memory of Mrs. Brana Shaina Deitsch OBM. UPDATE: Winners list added!
A 5-year-old boy suffered deep lacerations on his face after he was attacked by pit-bull while walking on Empire Boulevard with his father and older brother.
Josh Wolff, a documentary filmmaker, was annoyed. It was Rosh Hashana, and Chabad students eager to share the mitzvah of shofar were canvassing the streets of Brooklyn offering to blow the ram’s horn for any Jew who hadn’t made it to services.
Alternate side parking (street cleaning) regulations will be suspended Monday, December 8, for a Catholic holiday. All other regulations, including parking meters, remain in effect.
This week’s edition of MyLife: Chassidus Applied with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, Episode 46, will air tonight, Sunday, here on CrownHeights.info beginning at 8:00pm. This week Rabbi Jacobson will address the following topics: Yechi and Meshichism; Activism vs. Avodah; Integrity in Applying Chassidus; and follow-up on Infertility, Special Children, and Prayer.
In an editorial titled Jets? Giants? There Are Better Ways to Spend Your Sunday, The New York Times on Friday offered a short list of recommended activities for New Yorkers looking for a fulfilling way to spend their day off, including such tips as visiting the swamps of New Jersey or enjoying an opera at Carnegie Hall.
Oholei Torah PTA hosted an all men’s event benefiting their annual auction this Motzai Shabbos. The crowd enjoyed an auction viewing along with a lavish buffet dinner, sushi bar and cocktails and concluding with a special Kumzitz.
A brass Chanukah menorah that survived the ravages of WWII and had been in the hands of a Christian family for three generations was donated by a family member to the Chabad Ottowa Torah Center last week. It will be kindled this Chanukah, December 16, for the first time in many decades.
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