This morning my sister called to ask what she should do about the parade on Sunday. Her children were so excited about it but considering the recent bombings, she was reconsidering whether it was wise to go. Having two little children of my own I didn’t know what to say.
Assistant Chief Thomas Chan, the current commanding officer of Patrol Borough Brooklyn South, was promoted today to serve as the new chief of the NYPD Community Affairs Bureau. Replacing him will be Assistant Chief Owen J. Monaghan, coming from the Transit Bureau where he served as the executive officer.
This Shabbos at the Besht, Rabbi Levi Kaplan will lead a discussion into the Rashb”i and Pesach Sheini.
Shlomo Cohen (Houston, TX) and Chana Rosenberger (Crown Heights)
In honor of Lag Baomer, CrownHeights.info and the Lubavitch Archives presents a special photo gallery of the Parade with the Rebbe in 1980.
Yossi and Sterna (nee Gabay) Zwiebel
559 Empire Blvd, [between Kingston and Brooklyn Avenues]
Yitzchok and Doba (nee Raskin) Rimler
1266 Carroll St, [between New York and Brooklyn Avenues]
Yehoshua and Chaya (nee Karnowsky) Einbinder
760 Montgomery St, Basement – Side Entrance [between Albany and Troy Avenues]
Mendy and Deena (nee Kashy) Holzman (Miami Beach, FL)
It’s hard to say what the best part was of the Midwest Shabbaton, held April 19-21, 2013 at the Chabad Center of Jewish Life at the Univeristy of Illinois. Just spending Shabbat with over 300 fellow college students representing 10 universities at the largest Jewish gathering in the Midwest was pretty exceptional.
Police are on the hunt for a man who they say is stealing personal information by looking over victims’ shoulders at a Crown Heights bank.
One of the more sobering realities of life is that it isn’t always fair. No matter how much we try to right the wrongs in the world, life still seems unfair for someone somewhere. It may be unfortunate, but that’s just the way things are and complaining about it doesn’t do any good.
A group of pre-Teen hoodlums attempted to mug an iPhone from a Jewish girl on Montgomery Street, she bravely fought them off. A passing cop car witnessed the incident, chased the muggers and caught them – a riot nearly broke out.
The Lag B’omer Parade of 1983 was going to be extra special. A beautiful regal platform was built for the Rebbe. On his side was a smaller platform for Rabbi JJ Hecht and Rabbi “Uncle” Yossi Goldstein who would emcee the program, and Eli Lipskier’s band.
Rabbi Benny Hershcovich, Shliach in Cabo, Mexico, delivers his brief and hilarious thought on this weeks Parasha, Emor.
Shlomo and Leah Jacobs (Pittsburgh, PA)
Lazer and Mookie (nee Blasenstein) Cohen (Jerusalem, Israel)
Yehoshua and Chana (nee Crayk) Tibor (Tzfas, Israel)
A Kingston Avenue merchant made a stunning discovery this morning. Two FedEx package containing over 25lbs of distribution grade marijuana, the strange part was a part of his name was on the package.
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