With sadness we inform you of the passing of Reb Yosef Rogatsky, OBM, a longtime resident of Crown Heights, at the age of 94.
A grand opening and mezuza ceremony was held for a new bikur cholim room at the Brooklyn Hospital Center in Fort Greene, Brooklyn.
For the first time in several years, a sitting U.S. president visited Brooklyn. President Barack Obama’s trip to the city’s largest borough on Friday was to deliver what the White House called a major policy speech. It was about the future of the U.S. economy as told through the story of one very unique Crown Heights school.
Yaakov and Chana Devorah (nee Bogomilsky) Feldman (Crown Heights)
Sholom Zochor will be at 544 Crown St. [between Kingston and Albany Aves.]
Thousands of people lined up along the route of President Obama’s motorcade as it passed through the streets of Crown Heights. Lining Kingston Avenue were hundreds of posters calling for the president to investigate the prosecution of Sholom Mordechai Rubashkin. WATCH the president’s speech live – ended.
Danny Amishai (Crown Heights and Batsheva (bas Mayer) Rivkin (Bay Harbor Islands, FL/Crown Heights)
As anticipation grows for the arrival of President Barrack Obama to Crown Heights, hundreds of reserve police officers are out in force making sure the route is cleared of parked vehicles and ready for the motorcade to travel through, which it is scheduled to do sometime between 3:00 and 6:00 this afternoon.
Lone soldiers, young men who give up comfortable lives abroad to join the Israeli army, have found a home away from home with a young couple in Jerusalem who dedicate their lives to helping them.
An elderly Jewish holocaust survivor celebrated his 90th birthday this morning in the main synagogue of Zhitomir in western Ukraine.
Yossi and Chanie Apfelbaum (Crown Heights)
Sholom Zochor will be at 916 Lincoln Pl. [between Brooklyn and New York Aves.]
In an effort to bring the case of Sholom Rubashkin to the attention of the President and media, volunteers have worked hard and prepared hundreds of catchy signs in support of Rubashkin.
The Center for Kosher Culinary Arts — the world’s only professional Kosher Culinary Arts school, will be co-producing for the third straight year the Kosher “Iron-Chef” culinary competition. Three top chefs will have thirty minutes to cook one entrée from scratch using only a basket of mystery ingredients and a limited pantry of basic staples. The winner will take home a cash prize of $1000.
Last year the Crown Heights Parents Safety Alliance, a project of the Merkos Chinuch Office, initiated a very successful child-safety program for K-3rd grade in all the Mosdos in Crown Heights, empowering children and teaching them what’s appropriate touch and what’s not and how to respond when situations come up.
Yossi and Chanie Apfelbaum
916 Lincoln Pl. [between Brooklyn and New York Aves.]
Yossi and Leah (nee Rapoport) Itzinger
580 Crown St. [between Albany and Troy Aves.] Apt. #415
Gamliel and Chana (nee Nemni) Dray
1548 President St. [corner Troy Ave.] Apt. #N
Shimi and Dalya (nee Lisker) Backer
1404 President St. [between Kingston and Brooklyn Aves.]
Jonathan and Sarah Tuller
717 Eastern Pkwy. [Between Kingston and Brooklyn Aves.] Apt. #4
Menachem and Altie (nee Maness) Silverberg
770 Lefferts Ave. [between Troy and Schenectady Aves.] Apt. # A1L
Yossi and Nechama Piekarski
1151 Lincoln Pl. [between Albany and Troy Aves.]
Yossi and Nechama Piekarski (Crown Heights)
Sholom Zochor will be at 1151 Lincoln Pl. [between Albany and Troy Aves.]
The Jewish community of Harlem will welcome its newest member this weekend — the first sacred, handwritten Hebrew scriptures to grace a synagogue in the neighborhood in nearly a century.
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