A press conference was held today at the Lubavitcher Yeshiva hall on Crown St., amid widespread outrage over the video released by CrownHeights.info, which shows officers from the 71st precinct beating a defenseless Jewish man at the Aliya Institute.
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — Councilman David G. Greenfield is calling on the NYPD to fire and criminally investigate the two officers caught on surveillance video severely beating an unarmed Crown Heights man inside the Alternative Learning Institute for Young Adults Center on East New York Avenue last week.
Chasidic Boxing welterweight contender Dmitriy Salita campaigned for New York State Senator David Storobin‘s re-election on the Brighton Beach Boardwalk Sunday, where they greeted fellow Russian-Americans.
Students at Ohel Chana Seminary in Melbourne, Australia have taken the inspiration from Tishrei to restrengthen and increase their commitment to learning chitas. And they have the Dvar Malchus and Chayeinus to prove it!
One of the most visible and outspoken Jewish politicians in United States history passed away, taking with him a quixotic voting record that defied labels. But on the issues of religious freedom and Israel’s right to self-defense, say leaders of American Jewish organizations, former Sen. Arlen Specter – who lost a long battle with non-Hodgkins lymphoma Sunday at the age of 82 – left little doubt as to his positions.
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — On Monday evening, October 8, 2012, police were called about a man who was sleeping in the lounge of the Aliya Institute on East New York Ave. The caller may have mistakenly believed that the homeless man, Ehud H. Halevi, was loitering on the center’s property without permission.
Chaim Shollar (Pittsburgh, PA) and Chaya (bas Yosef) Hershkowitz (Crown Heights)
A fire broke out tonight at a private home on Montgomery St. between Kingston and Brooklyn Ave.
A fire has damaged the historic Hebrew Congregation of Woodmont, but the synagogue’s Chabad Rabbi, who was on the fire scene Sunday morning is grateful two Torahs, a Shofar and a citron box were saved.
Zalman (ben R’ Yossi) Korf (Crown Heights) and Mushka Wolowik (Los Angeles, CA)
L’chaim will be Monday night at the Jewish Children’s Museum
792 Eastern Pkwy. [corner Kingston Ave.]
When Gina Mulligan of Folsom, Calif., found out that her community would be commissioning a Torah scroll of its own, she called her mother. And now her mother’s got a plane ticket to visit the Sacramento suburb to see the big event for herself.
When US Congresswoman Shelley Berkeley (D. Nevada) met Rabbi Shea Harlig twenty one years ago, she tried to hide her skepticism. New to Vegas and just married, Harlig and his wife Dina were reaching out to local Jews, getting acquainted. Berkeley was then Vice President of Government and Legal Affairs at the Sands Hotel.
As the rabbi left her office, she recalls thinking, “This will never happen.”
Naftali Schechter (Toronto, Canada) and Risa Sheingarten (Argentina)
Beis Levi Yitzchok, 556 Crown St. [entrance on Albany Ave.]
Heshie Goldfein (Philadelphia, PA) and Malka Grosh (Crown Heights)
Jewish Children’s Museum, 792 Eastern Pkwy. [corner Kingston Ave.]
Yehudah Leib Ahearn (Sharon, MA) and Fruma Khazanovich (Sharon, MA)
F.R.E.E., 1383 President St. [between Kingston and Brooklyn Ave.]
Yossi and Mushky (nee Plotka) Birman (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Next Sunday, the Jewish community in Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine will celebrate the dedication of the world’s largest Jewish community center, named The Menorah.
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