Shortly after the hustle and bustle of Tishrei subsided over 250 Crown Heights high school girls, and some 40 Yeshiva Bochurim, gathered for their annual Friendship Circle volunteer training and kickoff.
Although garbage collection trucks are not meant for tree cleanup, that did not stop the sanitation from using the powerful machines to get rid of the large tree limbs and trunks.
Zalman and Chani Greenbaum (Crown Heights)
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In the last week, there has been an attempted rape of an engaged woman and a brutal beating and mugging of a Jewish man in Crown Heights. In the case of the attempted rape, despite the woman’s attempts to convince them otherwise, the police refused to classify it as an attempted rape.
Shmuel and Chaya (nee Hertz) Schapiro (Crown Heights)
Drivers and homeowners scrambled to secure fuel for their cars and generators in the U.S. Northeast on Wednesday as storm-hit gasoline stations started to run dry.
As residents all over New York and New Jersey have begun clean up from the effects of Hurricane Sandy, the Shluchim to Long Beach, Long Island find themselves with no home and a badly damaged Shul.
Treacherous road conditions forced organizers to reconsider holding this month’s ‘Rally at the Ohel’ – at the Ohel. Electing to play it safe, the rally was relocated to Rebbe’s house on President Street, with some 100 children in attendance!
Last night volunteers from the Rabbinical College of America – Chabad Headquarters of New Jersey together with its relatively new division “Rutgers Jewish Outreach” headed into the evacuated and powerless city of New Brunswick to hand out free self heating Kosher meals to all the students stuck without electricity or food, they visited the University shelters where all the students living in university dormitories were evacuated to.
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Alternate side parking (street cleaning) will be suspended on Thursday, November 1st, due to severe weather conditions.
Parking meter regulations will be in effect.
The neighborhoods of Marine Park, Coney Island, Brighton Beach and Seagate were hit hardest by hurricane Sandy. Photographer Mo Gelber captured some of the scenes of utter devastation left in the storms wake.
Update: Limited Subway service to resume tomorrow, Thursday.
The headquarters of F.R.E.E. (Friends of Refugees of Eastern Europe) in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, was submerged in deep water by Hurricane Sandy. The building houses a synagogue, offices and the Mazel Jewish Day School.
Rabbi Leibel Miller, Director of Chevra Kadisha-Chabad of Florida, joined with Chesed Shel Emes (CSE) and the Miami Beach Fire Rescue & Police Departments for the staging of a mock DUI accident, fatality and funeral at the Miami Beach Hebrew Academy High School.
A shocking and painful discovery was made yesterday in 770, when a hidden ‘trash’ pile was found into which booklets, pamphlets and papers containing the Rebbe’s holy teachings were discarded by extremists – for the sin of having been printed by people who don’t share their beliefs.
Elad Sagi (Crown Heights/Toronto) and Menucha Perlstein (Brooklyn/Israel)
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