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With the bleak central Brooklyn cityscape as a backdrop, you might be surprised what a little color is capable of. Crown Heights, a neighborhood scarred by riots between blacks and Jews in back in 1991, is coming together over something everyone needs — food, WCBS 880′s Alex Silverman reported.
Broken glass is covering several streets in Williamsburg after authorities say nearly a dozen cars were vandalized with a BB gun. In a separate incident, a car driven by Rabbi Aron Kraus of Williamsburg was traveling southbound on the Harlem River Drive from Monsey when an unknown assailant in a dark colored SUV pulled up next to his car and shot out its windows with a pellet gun.
Labie Vail (Crown Heights) and Shaindel Greenberg (Crown Heights)
L’chaim will be Wednesday at Empire Shteibel
489 Empire Blvd. [between Brooklyn and New York Ave.]
When Emma Caplan learned about the role Friendship Circle of Fairfield County plays in the lives of special needs children during a class at Chabad Lubavitch of Westport, she decided she had to take part.
New York Boys Choir, under the guidance of renowned producer Yitzy Bald and film producer Danny Finkelman, join forces with Kids of Courage, the famed volunteer organization that turns the dreams of children with serious medical conditions into reality by providing them with medically supervised trips, weekends and other events.
Sholomke and Mushka (nee Greenberg) Nagar (Crown Heights)
The State of Connecticut is joining Jewish communities around the world in commemorating the 18th anniversary of the passing of the Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, of righteous memory, by proclaiming June 22, 2012 as a “Day of Goodness and Kindness.”
Any day now, the Supreme Court is scheduled to rule on the Affordable Care Act, and whatever your opinion is of the legislation, I think it’s high time we talked about health care in Crown Heights. Anyone who has ever worked here can probably attest to the fact that local businesses rarely offer employees health insurance. While businesses may have many financial reasons for not offering such benefits, I believe those justifications pale in comparison to the harm caused by withholding health insurance.
Shluchim and Baalei Batim from the countries in and around Central American spent a meaningful Shabbos together in Cancun, Mexico.
120 girls of Beis Rivkah High School’s senior class graduated on Sunday at the Campus Chomesh ballroom in Crown Heights.
For $235,000, you could indulge in a shiny new Ferrari — or raise a child for 17 years! A government report released Thursday found that a middle-income family with a child born last year will spend about that much in child-related expenses from birth through age 17. This doesn’t include tuition costs for private schooling or Bar/Bas Mitzvah expenses, so raising a child in the Orthodox Jewish community actually costs a whole lot more.
Tens of thousands of fans and hundreds of journalists came to Kharkov, Ukraine over the past two weeks to take part in the Euro 2012 Football playoffs. Many of the fans stopped in to look at the great choral synagogue on Pushkinskaya St.
About one thousand Temimim from all over Eretz Yisroel gathered in Kfar Chabad for a Shabbos of preparation for Gimmel Tammuz. The annual gathering is organized by the Vaad Talmidei Hatmimim, and was joined this year by a special guest: head Shliach of Minnesota Rabbi Moshe Feller.
This Sunday, a sefer Torah will be completed in honor of the Yahrtzeit of Reb Lipe Schapiro, OBM. It will also be dedicated in memory of his wife, Rebbetzin Chana Schapiro, OBM, and his son, Reb Levi Yitzchok Schapiro, OBM.
Yesterday, parents, siblings and staff alike joined the students for our annual Recognition and Awards Ceremony and each student received an award in recognition for his achievements this year.
A full-fledged heat wave will hit Greater New York later this week, with public health implications for the New York City area.
Laiby Vail (Crown Heights) and Shaindel Greenberg (Morristown, NJ)
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