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Remembering The Riots: 20 Years Later

By Tamar Adelstein for Ami Magazine

I fought for my family’s safety in a community under fire

Cowering in a tiny, windowless bathroom with my children, in a state of terror, I cried out to my dear, departed mother. “Sarah Basha bas Reb Shimon, save us!” I could hear the shouts of the mob outside…. How had an ordinary Monday evening in Brooklyn, New York in 1991, turned into Russia of the 1800s? There we were, a Jewish family fearing for our lives as the mobs outside our front door ran wildly through the streets, calling for our death.

Info to be Menachem Avel the Popack Family

The Popack siblings are sitting Shiva of their sister, Mirel bas Yehudah Leib Halevi a”h, yesterday in Israel.

They are sitting Shiva at 317 Crown Street [between New York and Nostrand Ave]

Shacharis is at 10:00am
Mincha at 7:30pm
Maariv at 8:20pm

Hamokom Yenachem Eschem Besoch Shaar Avaylay Tzion VeYerushalayim

Plantation Rabbi at Ease in Front of Camera

Sun Sentinal

Rabbi Pinchas Taylor is as comfortable in front of the camera as he is when he is teaching adult education classes at Chabad of Plantation.

Rabbi Pinchas Taylor was at ease in front of the camera as it recorded his lecture on “Dreams in the Jewish Tradition” during an adult education class at Chabad of Plantation. The 27-year-old rabbi’s presentation was being taped for Torah Café, an Internet-based collection of video lectures, classes and presentations by Torah scholars and experts operated by the Chabad-Lubavitch’s Rohr Jewish Learning Institute.

Yankel Rosenbaum’s Brother Sets the Record Straight About Al Sharpton

Daily News

The Rev. Al Sharpton’s recent reflections on the Crown Heights riots were egregiously sanitized.

On Sunday, Rev. Al Sharpton gave his version of what happened 20 years ago in Crown Heights. But although he purports to have reflected on and learned from the riots, the truth is his recollection is egregiously distorted and sanitized.

Maid Kidnaps Shluchim’s 6-Month-Old Daughter

Surrounded by her siblings and mother, Esti Chayempour sleeps peacefully after being reunited with her family.

GREAT NECK, NY [CHI] — It is every parent’s worst nightmare, and for Rabbi Yitzchok and Tamar Chayempour, Shluchim in Great Neck, Long Island, it came true this morning when their live-in maid walked out and vanished with their six-month old daughter Esti.

Picture of the Day: The Rebbe and the Campers

1976: The Rebbe walks in to daven Mincha in 770 during the month of Menachem Av and pauses to give Tzedakkah in a Pushka held by a camper from the Gan Israel day camp of Queens. From the archives of Shmuel Zalmanov – Montreal.

Video: Day 4 of the Crown Heights Riots

CBS, ABC, FOX, WOR and PIX news covered the outbreak of the Crown Heights Riots, or Pogrom, on August 19th 1991. In this six minute clip obtained exclusively by CrownHeights.info we see the reports filed by these reporters and their observation on how the riots unfolded.