Tomorrow, Tuesday, February 25, Community Board 9 – which encompasses the southern and largely Jewish half of Crown Heights – will gather for their monthly meeting. Among other items on the agenda, the board will vote on whether a study should done on the impact of a zoning change of the Jewish area of the neighborhood from R-2 to 2-6.
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By all accounts Gedalia Greenzayd OBM was a special person who had a quiet charm and magnetism along with a zeal for learning. In the Morristown Yeshiva he would occasionally give a Shiur in Moshiach and Geulah which were recorded and made available online.
Hurricane Sandy left many victims in its wake. One of the buildings to succumb to the hurricane was The Chabad Neshama Center in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn.
The Levaya for Hatomim Gedalia Greenzayd, OBM, who passed away yesterday in a tragic accident, will be taking place tonight at 9:30pm in front of 770 Eastern Parkway in Crown Heights.
A woman was in serious condition after she was shot by police on Saturday afternoon inside an apartment building, police confirmed.
Eilezer (ben R’ Motty) Gurary (Crown Heights) and Mushky (bas R’ Yosef, OBM) Deitch (Crown Heights)
A number of police checkpoints have been spotted in Crown Heights over the past 24 hours, one of which is currently ongoing on Empire Blvd. between Kingston and Albany Avenues.
A synagogue firebombed in eastern Ukraine sustained minor damage. The firebombs hit the Giymat Rosa Synagogue in Zaporizhia, located 250 miles southeast of Kiev, on Sunday night.
Rabbi Berry and Shayna Nash have been appointed Shluchim to Missoula, Montana where they will cater to the Jewish community and University of Montana students in Missoula, the Bitterroot Valley and NW Montana.
Nuttie and Brochie (nee Barnett) Shpigelman (Crown Heights)
Sholom Zochor will be at 327 Crown St. [between New York and Nostrand Aves.]
Rabbi Aaron Rubashkin, founder of Agriprocessors and namesake of Aaron’s Best meat products, visited a Kosher poultry farm in Kiryas Yoel, NY, last week.
Photographer Shmuli Evers captured a mother and daughter enjoying the unseasonably balmy weather in Crown Heights yesterday. Can you figure out the full message they are writing in chalk?
Yechiel and Basia (nee Yakunt) Pelman (Kfar Chabad, Israel)
Please take a moment and say a Kapitel Tehillim for a Refuah Shlaima for Meir Nissim ben Rachel Abehsera, known as ‘the Rebbe’s whistler,’ who is currently in critical condition in a hospital in Israel.
A blood drive will take place Tuesday, February 25 (25 Adar I) from 2:30pm to 9:30pm at Lubavitcher Yeshiva, 570 Crown St. [corner Albany Ave.]. Refreshments will be served. Please bring identification.
The New York City Department of Transportation has announced that alternate side parking rules are back in effect today, Monday, February 24.
This morning, a tragic accident claimed the life of 25-year-old Gedalia Greenzayd, a special Tomim who friends and acquaintances described as a quiet Bochur with a large following. He organized ‘unofficial’ Shiurim in Inyonei Geulah U’Moshiach, and learned diligently with many ‘new’ Bochurim. He merited to an amazing spiritual journey which brought him to Chabad – twice.
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