NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg said that the NYC 911 system received 10,000 calls per half hour on Monday night. A quick math suggests that this is 333.3 calls per minute, which in turn means 5.5 calls per second!
Parts of the roof and facade of the 1414 President St. dormitory came crashing to the ground Monday night, after coming loose due to strong winds from the hurricane.
He was a black-hatted chassid, but I thought he could be a storm chaser.
Rabbi Yisroel Engel of Denver, Colorado leads a program at the Gan Gabi and Rivkie Early Learning Centre in East Bentleigh, Victoria. Rabbi Engel is in Australia for his grandson’s bris.
A time-lapse video of a portrait of the Rebbe drawn in charcoal by Estee Klein. Background music by Moshe Kravitsky.
All schools and public transportation have been shutdown across the eastern seaboard for the next few days. Nevertheless, students at Cheder at the Ohel continue to learn.
Alternate side parking (street cleaning) and parking meter regulations will be suspended on Tuesday, October 30, due to severe weather conditions.
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CrownHeights.info has compiled a collection of live camera feeds streaming video of Hurricane Sandy from various places in the Tri-State area.
While strong winds of the impending hurricane blew outside, a crowd of over 600 parents gathered inside the Oholei Torah ballroom for the Safety Kid seminar.
At a Tisch in Williamsburg, Reb Dovid Twersky, the Rebbe of Rachmastrivka, and his older brother Reb Nachman Yosef Twersky, a Lubavitcher Chosid, lead a crowd of mostly Satmar Chassidim in singing a Lubavitcher melody – the Rebbe Rashab’s ‘Rostover Nigun.’
Avraham Meir (Maychee) Sherr (Crown Heights) and Shaindee Cadaner (Crown Heights)
Eishel, 276 Kingston Ave. [between Eastern Parkway and Lincoln Pl.] at 8:00pm.
Yitsy Drelich (Edmonton, Canada) and Ahuva Kittner (Milwaukee, WI)
Pomodori Pizzeria on Kingston Ave. will remain open today despite the impending hurricane. So if your food supply is running low, you can always venture out for some delicious Italian-style lunch!
They are the lost Jewish boys of Brooklyn, finding solace inside a shabby Crown Heights storefront where signs of vice are the norm.
Bais Rebbe Junior High of L.A., California, held a mother and daughter brunch in Honor of Yud Alef Chesvan; the yartzeit of Rochel Imeinu. The girls prepared a special presentation of special woman throughout Jewish history.
