New Engagement!
Yitzi Shimshoni (Crown Heights) and Chana Blachman (Crown Heights)
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Drunk Man Assaults Kingston Shop Owner
An intoxicated man who was acting rowdy and belligerent on Kingston Avenue assaulted two shop owners when they attempted to calm him down. One man, well known community activist Reb Yisroel Shemtov, was punched in the face and suffered serious injuries.
Slovakian Man Fulfills His Father’s Dying Wish, 70 Years Later
They sat together in the car, driving from Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia, to Vienna, Austria, just an hour away. Rabbi Baruch Myers was accompanying Ivan Pasternak, a 70-year-old member of his community who was going to have his circumcision, finally entering into the covenant of Abraham.
As Rowan University Grows, So Does Its Jewish Community
Rabbi Hersh Loschak, a Californian, first heard about Rowan University in the same way that many students start their college searches; he Googled it. In his national quest to find a college town where a new Chabad House would likely thrive, Loschak, 28, honed in on Rowan. From online research, he quickly gathered that the Glassboro, NJ, based school—founded some 90 years ago as a teacher-training program—was in the throes of a massive transformation.
Picture of the Day: Blessing the Trees
A special mitzvah, which can be fulfilled only once a year, is to recite a brachah upon seeing a fruit tree in bloom. A group of Beis Rivkah Pre-1a students went out to make the blessing on an apple and cherry tree! Plus: Locations of fruit trees in Crown Heights.
Book on Rebbe’s Wisdom Wins the Gold
Daily Wisdom, an anthology of 378 lessons from the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, was the gold winner of the prestigious 2015 Benjamin Franklin Award. The Independent Book Publishers Association award is one of the highest awards in American independent publishing.
Anti-Semitism Up 400% Worldwide
Since the beginning of 2014, there has been an increase of 400 percent in the number of antisemitic incidents in Europe and around the world as compared with 2013.
Merkos and Tzivos Hashem Launch ‘Chidon’ Website
With only one week left, students hit the books harder than ever: Hundreds of students across the globe are busy studying for the upcoming Sefer Hamitzvos competition event. A new website www.chidon613.com, will serve as a valuable resource for entrants and their parents.
Teen Commits Hate Crime, Bystanders Enable Escape
Yesterday afternoon, an African-American teenager from a local high school drew a swastika on the property of a Jewish home in Crown Heights. When Shomrim volunteers were close to apprehending him, a few locals rushed him into an apartment building and away from the hands of justice.
Baby Boy!
Levy and Beila (nee Matusof) Edelman (Paris, France)
Picture of the Day: Charlie Protests Police Brutality
Photographer Mo Gelber captured this photo of Charlie Buttons, an ubiquitous figure in the Crown Heights Jewish community, attending an anti-police-brutality protest in Manhattan yesterday, Tuesday.
Baby Girl!
Avremy and Rivky (nee Schapiro) Bergstein (Fair Lawn, NJ)
Website of the Jewish Press Hacked
The website for one the largest print newspapers in the Jewish world, the Jewish Press, has been hacked and their homepage has been replaced with messages of hate and threats by a group calling themselves ‘Gaza Hackers Team’.
Georgian Synagogue Returned to Jews After 86 Years
The former Soviet republic of Georgia’s State Agency on Religious Issues on Thursday decided to transfer ownership of the magnificent Batumi synagogue to the Jewish community.
Shul Sends Gift to Tucson Police After Recovering Stolen Items
Officials with Congregation Young Israel-Chabad in Tucson, Ariz., announced that they will be donating body armor to the Tucson Police Department after detectives there recovered several silver items that were stolen nearly two months ago from the synagogue building.
PSA: New Traffic Rule on Lincoln Pl.
The traffic rules for the Northern side of Lincoln Place, from Brooklyn Avenue and eastward, were changed during the last days of Pesach. Originally ‘no parking anytime,’ the signs now say ‘no standing -fire zone.’
Man Jailed for Jamming MetroCard Machines
Have you ever arrived at the Utica Ave-Crown Heights subway station in a hurry to board the train, only to find that the MetroCard Machine was out of order? According to a recent police report, the machine’s malfunction may not have been a mechanical error, but the work of a criminal intent on forcing you to buy an illegal ‘swipe’ through the turnstile from him.
