Records compiled by New York City’s Department of Transportation (DOT) reveal that a single speed camera located Brooklyn pumped out an astonishing 1,551 tickets on a single day this past July, totaling a staggering $77,550 for the city.
After having fed hundreds of Tishrei guests prior to the fast of Tzom Gedalia, veteran Hachnosas Orchim activist Nachum Markowitz was spotted by a CrownHeights.info reader tidying up Eastern Parkway’s service lane during the fast on Sunday afternoon.
Shmuly and Dini (nee Korolitzky) Gutnik (Boca Raton, FL)
Following fellow California Shliach Rabbi Elchonon Tenenbaum’s foray into the winemaking profession, Rabbi Raleigh Resnick of Chabad of the Tri-Valley is trying his hand at the craft, with the release of a Cabernet Sauvignon named “Alef.”
Chabad of Tamarac, FL, teamed up with the local Winn-Dixie store to host a “Challahpalooza Family Fest” in preparation for Rosh Hashanah. About two-hundred people came out to sample foods from the store’s kosher deli, as well as taking part in a hands-on challah-making activity, holiday-themed arts-and-crafts and interactive storytelling.
Shimmy and Itty (nee Fellig) Gerlitzky (Crown Heights)
Thousands of guests have flocked to New York in order to spend the month of Tishrei in the Rebbes vicinity, and yesterday the Vaad Hatmimim HaOlami – who has set up accommodations and a comprehensive program for Bochurim – held a Kinus and Farbrengen welcoming the guests.
Moshe and Miriam Moskovitz (Kharkov, Ukraine)
With sadness we inform you of the passing of Mrs. Esther Rabinovich OBM a long time resident of Crown Heights and a member of the Russian community. She passed away on the second day of Rosh Hashana.
Chabad-Lubavitch leadership met early Sunday morning with Nepal Prime Minister Sushil Koirala in New York, where he is participating at the 69th session of the UN General Assembly.
The ‘Running Rabbi’, Rabbi Chalom Boujnah of Chabad at San Diego State University, ran 4 miles on Rosh Hashana to blow Shofar for those who couldn’t make it to Shul.
A visit that was meant to be a pre-Rosh Hashana whirlwind four-day speaking tour and a yartzeit commemoration, turned out to be much more than that. Rabbi Simon Jacobson traveled to Sydney this past weekend to inspire the community for the Yamim Nora’im (Days of Awe). Just as he arrived, the entire city was left reeling by an aborted terrorist plot and pre-dawn raids in north-west Sydney.
This week’s edition of MyLife: Chassidus Applied with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, Episode 36, will air tonight, Sunday, here on CrownHeights.info beginning at 8:00pm. This week, in a Special Aseres Yemei Teshuva and Pre-Yom Kippur Edition, Rabbi Jacobson will address the topic: How forgiveness heals wounds.
The monthly meeting of Community Board 9 at Medgar Evers College in Crown Heights turned hostile Tuesday night, when critics of a controversial plan to rezone Empire Blvd. showed up en masse and loudly demanded that the board rescind its request for a study of the move.
Yosef Levi and Rivi Andrusier (Crown Heights)
On Tuesday night, the Vaad Talmidei Hatmimim Ha’olami, the organization seeing to the needs of the numerous guests who arrived in Crown Heights for Tishrei, organized a Shiur on Chassidus delivered by Rabbi Yoel Kahan.
Yaacov and Chaya Hoffinger (Crown Heights)
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