Debate raged in a small New Jersey town. It was 1980 and a large Chanukah menorah had been erected in the garden of the court house in Hackensack, New Jersey. The menorah attracted Jews and heightened the holiday awareness and celebration in the area.
Tonight, Monday, an event will be held marking the Shloshim to the passing of Mrs. Luba Friedman OBM a beloved educator and wife of Oholei Torah Rosh Yeshiva Reb Yisroel Friedman ybd”l.
On Motzai Shabbos a massive crowd gathered in the large hall of the Beis Chaya Mushka School for a Melava Malkah and Farbrengen marking Yud Daled Kislev and the Shloshim of R’ Shmuel ‘Muleh’ Azimov OBM, the beloved head Shliach of Paris.
Osher and Rivka Karnowsky (Crown Heights)
Mendel and Kaila Rivka Feldman (Crown Heights)
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.
Yonatan Gemmi (Palm Beach Gardens, FL) and Avigael Bismuth (Montreal, Canada)
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.
The Civilian Review Complaint Board (CCRB), the New York City agency that oversees complaints of police brutality, launched a new online mapping feature that allows NYers to see the number of complaints filed against the police, per week and by type. The 71st Precinct scores relatively well, with fewer complaints than most neighboring precincts.
With sadness we inform you of the passing of Rabbi Yosef Waldman, OBM, a longtime resident of Crown Heights and a chossid whom the Rebbe credited with inspiring the continuation of the Rashi Sichos. He was 84 years old.
