Its load was just too much. The bus which many Crown Heightsers count on for transportation to and from Boro Park broke down last night on Ocean Avenue, its suspension simply collapsed and left stranded in the middle of the street.
Sruly (ben Eliezer) Halon (Crown Heights) and Sara Baitz (Crown Heights)
CROWN HEIGHTS — An out of control SUV speeding down Nostrand Avenue lost control, rolled onto its side and ended up sliding onto a sidewalk. Luckily no pedestrians were there and the only minor injuries were to the occupants of the vehicle.
Shmuly and Musy (nee Matusof) Wolf (Crown Heights)
Mendy and Hadassa (nee Katz) Dalfin (Coral Springs, FL)
Chabad Terror Victims Project welcomed a group of tourists from the Chabad of Fox Chapel, under the leadership of Rabbi Ely and Shterny Rosenfeld. The group was in israel on a Chabad Israel Mission organized by Shalom Stark of ShalomIsraelTours.com and came to volunteer their time to help CTVP pack hundreds of gifts for victims of terror and wounded IDF soldiers and their families throughout Israel.
Rabbi Benny Hershcovich, Shliach in Cabo, Mexico, delivers his brief and hilarious thought on this weeks Parasha, Shemot, titled ‘Get out of De-Nile’.
CROWN HEIGHTS — Shomrim scooters, a symbol of vigilance seen all around our neighborhood, was recently the target of two vandals. Captured on surveillance video two young teenagers are seen slashing two tires of a parked scooter.
Jonathan Pollard saved millions of human beings in the Middle East and worldwide from excruciating deaths and painful lifelong physical disabilities. To do that, Pollard sacrificed his freedom.
Meir and Chaviva (nee Katz) New (Crown Heights)
The Chof Daled Teves farbrengen held on Dec. 31, 1980 marked the occasion of the Alter Rebbe’s yom hilulah. At that farbrengen, the Rebbe speaks about how the Alter Rebbe’s influence is still felt today and also asks the question which is more important: disseminating basic Judaism or teaching chasidus?
MORRISTOWN, NJ — An afternoon fire alarm forced the evacuation of the building which house the Morristown Yeshiva and Chabad Headquarters of New Jersey. Not wasting any time Bochurim seized the opportunity to continue their torah studies, despite the frigid temperatures.
She doesn’t spin on Shabbos. Ping-pong prodigy Estee Ackerman, an 11-year-old from Long Island, was disqualified from her final event at the 2012 US National Table Tennis Championships in Las Vegas last Dec. 21 when her match fell on the Jewish holy day of rest and she chose not to play.
Yair and Rochie (nee Piekarski) Sandhaus (Crown Heights)
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