An altercation between a Mexican cleaning crew hired to prepare 770 for Shabbos and a group of ‘Tzfati’ Bochurim took a violent turn last night, after the Bochurim refused to budge so that the floor could be cleaned.
Chaim Shaul and Blumi Brook
1335 Carroll St. [Between Kingston and Brooklyn Ave.]
Yerachmiel and Rivka Leah Jacobson
1377 Carroll st. [Between Kingston and Albany Ave.]
Michoel Dovid and Chava (nee Zviklin) Shapiro
1550 Union St. [between Albany and Troy Ave.]
Moish and Devorie (nee Weiss) Ringler
1347 Union St. [between Brooklyn and New York Ave.]
Zalman and Pessie Schochet
654 Eastern Parkway [between Brooklyn and New York Ave.]
Shimon and Breiny (nee Putter) Liani
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Despite barriers erected by the Police Department to deter such activities, many Israeli Bochurim visiting Crown Heights for Tishrei continue to cut across Eastern Parkway, dodging speeding traffic and crating a major hazard.
This Year ten Sukkahs on Bicycle, “Pedi-Sukkahs,” will roam the streets on New York looking for Jews willing to perform the Mitzvah of Lulav and Esrog.
This Shabbos at the Besht, located for the holidays at Lubavitcher Yeshiva on Crown St., Rabbi Yossi Keller will lead a discussion on the topic of the Esrog.
In this photo gallery appearing on MyCentralJersey.com, Rabbi Eliezer Zaklikovsky and volunteer Stan Edelman build a Sukkah for Chabad of Monroe, NJ.
An explosive device was set off outside a Jewish community center in Malmo, Sweden late on Thursday night. Nobody was hurt in the blast, but the building sustained damage.
Dozens of Hasidic Jews visiting from Israel were forced to vacate what officials say is an illegal transient hotel in the basement of a Brooklyn apartment building Thursday. NY1’s Michael Herzenberg filed the following report.
Yerachmiel and Rivka Leah Jacobson (Crown Heights)
Sholom Zochor will be at 1377 Carroll st.
[Between Kingston and Albany Ave.]
Michoel Dovid and Chava (nee Zviklin) Shapiro (Crown Heights)
Sholom Zochor will be at 1550 Union St.
[between Albany and Troy Ave.]
Members of the Chassidic anti-Zionist Neturei Karta faction met with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in New York City, where he is attending the annual United Nations General Assembly.
Community Board 13 in Cambria Heights, Queens voted down a proposal by Ohel Chabad-Lubavitch for a charter bus stop near Montefire Cemetery. The unanimous vote comes two weeks after residents rejected, also unanimously, the charter bus stop at a public hearing. The final decision rests with the City’s Department of Transportation.
Dovid Efune, director of the Algemeiner Journal, took to the airwaves today, first at CNBC and later at Huffington Post Live, to defend Israel’s right to destroy Iran’s dangerous nuclear aspirations, and counter the lies its President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, told yesterday at the pulpit of the United Nations General Assembly.
Yakov Levertov (Crown Heights) and Nechama Rochel Davydovitch (Flatbush)
L’chaim will be tonight, Thursday at F.R.E.E.
1383 President St. [between Kingston and Brooklyn Ave.]
It was another year’s chagim spent abroad, away from Israel where Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kipur (and Simcha Torah and Shemini Atzeret and Succot…) are a matter of course; where in a spiritual analog of the Soviet agents who once visited America and pointing in any direction were astonished to be taken to a supermarket stuffed with food, so in Israel in any direction that can be pointed to a synagogue lies; where the Days of Awe do not require instructions on the packaging: It was another year for me away from those kinds of comfort.
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Sunday afternoon marked a joyous celebration when members of New Canaan, Connecticut’s Jewish community marked the dedication of the town’s first Torah.
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