Baby Boy!
Chaim Meir and Rivki (nee Solomon) Steigman (Crown Heights)
With sadness we inform you of the passing of HaRav HaChossid, HaRav HaTomim Rabbi Aaron ben HaRav Yehuda Chitrik OBM of Crown Heights at age 73. Rabbi Chitrik was the director of the editorial board of the Hebrew Department of Vaad Kisvei Kodesh which was responsible for publishing the Chassidus Seforim of the Rebbeim.
He is survived by his dear wife Slava and son Hershey Chitrik (Crown Heights / Miami), and daughter Mrs. Rochel Gross (Crown Heights), as well as his brother Tzvi Hersh Chitrik (Crown Heights), and sisters Mrs. Chaya Lieberman (Belgium) and Mrs. Shaindel Schneerson (Brooklyn). He was predeceased by his son Shmully.
Boruch Dayan Hoemes – Rabbi Aaron Chitrik OBM
With sadness we inform you of the passing of HaRav HaChossid, HaRav HaTomim Rabbi Aaron ben HaRav Yehuda Chitrik OBM of Crown Heights at age 73. Rabbi Chitrik was the director of the editorial board of the Hebrew Department of Vaad Kisvei Kodesh which was responsible for publishing the Chassidus Seforim of the Rebbeim.
He is survived by his dear wife Slava and son Hershey Chitrik (Crown Heights / Miami), and daughter Mrs. Rochel Gross (Crown Heights), as well as his brother Tzvi Hersh Chitrik (Crown Heights), and sisters Mrs. Chaya Lieberman (Belgium) and Mrs. Shaindel Schneerson (Brooklyn). He was predeceased by his son Shmully.
‘Mountain Jews’ Celebrate Historic Simchat Torah
For the first time ever, the community of Mountain Jews of Baku celebrated the holiday of Simchat Torah in their new synagogue.
South African Émigrés Build a Home in Australia
An intensive building campaign launched five years ago by the Central Shule Chabad in Melbourne, Australia, has achieved close to 90 percent of its goal towards establishing a community center that will benefit not only its congregants, but the entire local Jewish community as well.
Schach Pickup Information
The Crown Heights JCC has once again arranged with the Forestry division of the NYC Parks Dept. to have all the S’chach picked up. During the next few days, the S’chach will be picked up by the local Sanitation Dept. on the regular garbage pick up days for your block. Please put the S’chach in the area where your regular household garbage is being picked up. If you put your garbage in front of your house, please put your S’chach along the curbside.
Meeting to Reduce Alternate Side Parking for District 8
For those who own a car but not a driveway or garage, Alternate Side Parking regulations can be quite a burden; none more so than in Crown Heights where it happens four times a week (as opposed to the standard two). At last, for those residents living north of Eastern Parkway in NYC District 8, relief may be on its way.
Kingston Ave. is filled with Israelis and others shopping last minute items from peddlers and merchants on the street before they fly back home.
Video of the Day: The Crown Heights Bazaar
Kingston Ave. is filled with Israelis and others shopping last minute items from peddlers and merchants on the street before they fly back home.
Baby Girl!
Nadiv and Toby (nee Ezagui) Kehaty (Crown Heights)
Shachris 7:30
Mincha 5:45
Maariv Bizmana.
The family asks that people not come after 10pm. They have also set up an email address for people to send memories and condolences: malkafamily440@gmail.com
Hamakom Yenachem Eschem Besoch She'ar Aveilei Tzion VeYerushalayim
Info to Be Menachem Avel the Malka Family
The Malka family is sitting Shiva after the passing of their father, Reb Dovid OBM, at 440 Brooklyn Ave Apt. 2G [between Empire Blvd. and Sterling St.]
Shachris 7:30
Mincha 5:45
Maariv Bizmana.
The family asks that people not come after 10pm. They have also set up an email address for people to send memories and condolences: malkafamily440@gmail.com
Hamakom Yenachem Eschem Besoch She’ar Aveilei Tzion VeYerushalayim
Skechers & Foot Locker Team Up for Friendship Circle
Skechers is teaming up with Kids Foot Locker to kick off the third annual Skechers Pier to Pier Friendship Walk to raise funds for children with special needs and education on October 30, 2011.
Oprah Winfrey Spotted in Crown Heights
Oprah Winfrey, in New York as part of a new television series, “Oprah’s Next Chapter,” that premieres in January, visited the neighborhoods of Crown Heights, Borough Park and Brooklyn Heights for a glimpse into the daily life of Chasidic Jews and how their intense spiritual devotion informs and strengthens their dealings with the outside world.
Pete Sutherland traveled to Zuccotti Park all the way from Georgia Friday, shivering as he wielded a handmade sign that read, “The Reason the Arabs Hate Us.”
The Hate in Zuccotti Park
Pete Sutherland traveled to Zuccotti Park all the way from Georgia Friday, shivering as he wielded a handmade sign that read, “The Reason the Arabs Hate Us.”
While the tzibur is just beginning to recover from the bochrim in Japan incident, which all continue davening will end soon and end well, there is now a story of a Yerushalmi bachur involved with drugs and imprisoned in India.
Askanim Take Up Case of Bachur Imprisioned in India
While the tzibur is just beginning to recover from the bochrim in Japan incident, which all continue davening will end soon and end well, there is now a story of a Yerushalmi bachur involved with drugs and imprisoned in India.
Baby Boy!
Yossi and Sarah’le (nee Lipsker) Langsam (Crown Heights)
More Victims Come Forward in Melbourne
Six more people are alleging that they were abused by a security guard at an Orthodox Jewish school in Melbourne, according to police.
3 Wednesday Night L’Chaims!
Menachem Mendel Simon (Crown Heights) and Leah Rochel Rubenstein (London)
1485 President St. [between Albany and Troy Ave]
Mendy Abergel (Crown Heights/Kfar Chabad) and Chaya Esther Katz (Crown Heights)
Lubavitcher Yeshiva 570 Crown St [hall entrance on Albany Ave]
Dani Saul (Pittsburgh) and Yael Konsker (Toronto)
Lubavitcher Yeshiva 570 Crown St [hall entrance on Albany Ave]
Talmidim Hashluchim Spend Day in Preparation
A special full-day Yom Iyun was hosted by the Vaad Talmidei Hatmimim for Bochurim as they take leave for the upcoming year on Shlichus to Chabad Yeshivos worldwide, held in Congregation B’nei Jacob – Chabad of Park Slope, NY.
