Unusually strong winds persisted throughout the evening in parts of Brooklyn including Crown Heights, leaving the streets littered with tree limbs. Carroll Street was blocked off for hours after a large portion of a tree blocked the roadway.
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Moishe Gurewitz (Lyon, France) and Brocha Greenwald (Long Beach, CA)
L’Chaim will be Wednesday at Chovevei Torah
885 Eastern Pkwy [between Albany and Troy Ave]
What can you do with a plain white sock, some cotton swabs, a swath of bubble wrap and a box of raisins? How can you make volunteering opportunities more meaningful for teenagers? What do parents of children with special needs require from an organization that provides programming for their youngsters?
In this photo from the late ’90s, a younger Benny Friedman puts on his very first concert while a Yeshiva student in Postville, Iowa. On the right-hand side, holding a wire, is Sholom Mordechai Rubashkin, may he speedily be freed from imprisonment.
Moshe and Chani (nee Karasik) Holtzberg (Crown Heights)
Two orientation sessions were held, one last Thursday and one this afternoon, to welcome 78 newly-sworn-in police officers assigned to the 71st Precinct in Crown Heights.
Over 120 rockets have fallen on Israel over the past 24 hours; Baruch Hashem, there were no casualties. All summer camp programs have been cancelled – the children and their parents must remain at home so that they are near shelters. It is a very anxiety-filled situation, never knowing when or where the next rocket will hit. One can feel the tension and fear everywhere, especially among the children.
Yossi and Malki (nee Lever) Rodal (Melbourne, Australia)
Tzemach and Mushky (nee Galatz) Aronow (Kfar Chabad, Israel)
More than 60 rockets were launched out of Gaza in one hour alone this afternoon, many of them landing deep inside Israeli territory. With the IDF authorized to mobilize 40,000 troops, many fear that Israel is on the brink of yet another full-scale war.
A group of Park Slope mothers is demanding that the city ban the sale of ice cream in Prospect Park, in a bid to offset the inevitable tantrum when they tell their child they can’t have any.
Yankee and Binah (nee Lipkind) Teitelbaum (Crown Heights)
Sholom Zochor at 1703 President St. [between Utica and Rochester Aves.]
Dovid Shapiro (Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine) and Rochel Rudovskaya (Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine)
Sarah Fitoussi, a mother of three living on the outskirts of Paris, speaks about her kids’ switch to a Jewish school in dramatic terms. Her children had been subjected to anti-Semitic abuse in their previous school and their recent move to a Chabad Jewish day school, something she hadn’t considered before, brought her relief and peace of mind. “The school didn’t just save our kids, they saved our entire family.”
Rabbi Zalmy Goldstein of Yeshiva College joined together with Rabbi Yehuda Straiton of Kesser Torah College to bring together some 80 children from around Sydney for a rally in honor of Gimmel Tammuz.
Zalmy and Chanala (nee Lew) Raskin (Crown Heights)
Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz, director of Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida, delivers his insights on this week’s Parsha – Pinchas. This week Rabbi Minkowicz answers the question: How can one achieve his/her dreams?
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