911 Will Soon Accept Texts, Photos, Video
FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski announced a five-step plan on Wednesday to update the technology that powers the 911 emergency response system.
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Weekly Unique Photos of the Rebbe!
CrownHeights.info and the Avner Institute presents a series of photos the Rebbe talking with Rabbi Pupko in the front of 770.
The Jewish Week
Several City Council members who bankroll volunteer patrol groups in Orthodox Brooklyn neighborhoods with their discretionary funds say they will continue to do so amid some recent criticism of how such groups operate.
Council Members Defend Shomrim
The Jewish Week
Several City Council members who bankroll volunteer patrol groups in Orthodox Brooklyn neighborhoods with their discretionary funds say they will continue to do so amid some recent criticism of how such groups operate.
The Rabbi and the Police Chief
A new video from Jewish.TV features expert mechanech, Rabbi Yakov Horowitz, along with Tenafly Chief of Police, Michael P. Bruno, answering parents’ questions about how to protect their children from predators.
3 Sholom Zochors This Week!
Dovber and Brochie (nee Goldman) Segelman (Crown Heights)
860 Eastern Pkwy [between Kingston and Albany Ave]
Yossel and Mushka Gerlitzky
313 Crown St [between New York and Nostrand Ave]
Mendy and Nechama (nee Baras) Minsky
510 Crown St Apt 3E [between Kingston and Albany Ave]
A family of four from Florida visiting relatives in New Jersey got an unwelcome surprise at the Customs gate — all because of some forgotten fruit and vegetables.
Family Fined $300 For Vegetables In Backpack At Newark
A family of four from Florida visiting relatives in New Jersey got an unwelcome surprise at the Customs gate — all because of some forgotten fruit and vegetables.
Largest Jewish Camp Network in World Turns 55
Campers at the original Camp Gan Israel in upstate New York pose for a group picture in 1958.
In the spring of 1956, faculty of the central Chabad-Lubavitch grade-school yeshiva in New York, including its dean, Rabbi Chaim Meir Bukiet, sought a solution to the distinctly modern problem of summer vacation: They had no place to send their students to continue their studies during the summer months.
New Engagement!
Berry Tzfasman (Crown Heights) and Raizy (bas R Dovid) Kahanov (Crown Heights)
Shabbos at Besht: The Function of a Rebbe
This Shabbos at the Besht, Rabbi Avraham Shlomo will lead a disscussion on the Function of a Rebbe – Why is a Rav not enough?
Rabbi YY Jacobson – Israel’s Significance Today
The state of Israel means many different things to different people. There are those that see it as an entirely political entity, those who believe its creation is an indication of the immanent redemption and even others who, while they see the physical land as holy, do not believe that the political state holds any spiritual significance.
VIN News
A Borough Park camp found a unique way to both entertain its campers and provide a service to the community by offering free car washes the day after Tisha B’Av.
Video: “Du Iz Shmitzik!” – Boro Park Day Camp Car Wash!
VIN News
A Borough Park camp found a unique way to both entertain its campers and provide a service to the community by offering free car washes the day after Tisha B’Av.
Loan to Russian Museum Cancled over Chabad Archive
New York Times, Art Info
New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art has canceled plans to loan items by fashion designer Paul Poiret to the Kremlin Museum, making that show the latest casualty in an ongoing legal and diplomatic dispute that has suspended Russian loans to American museums. The conflict centers on an archive of thousands of religious books and documents that has been held in Russia since World War II. Last August, a United States court ruled that the Brooklyn-based Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidic movement had rightful ownership to the trove, and Russia banned all exhibitions traveling to the United States in response.
Chabad Rabbis to Avrohom Fried: “Nothing Personal”
Arutz 7
Rav Yeshayahu Herzl, Chief Rabbi of Natzerat Illit, said Thursday that a flyer signed by Chabad rabbis against mixed-audience music performances was not directed against an upcoming show in Afula, located at the northwest corner of the Jezreel Valley, by singer Avraham Fried.
Ynet
The Shomrim (“guardians”), a volunteer-based Jewish organization, has been keeping London’s Jewish neighborhoods safe in cooperation with the Scotland Yard for years. Now, with the riots in the British capital, their work has become doubly important.
Shomrim Kept Jewish Neighborhoods Safe During London Riots
Ynet
The Shomrim (“guardians”), a volunteer-based Jewish organization, has been keeping London’s Jewish neighborhoods safe in cooperation with the Scotland Yard for years. Now, with the riots in the British capital, their work has become doubly important.
Psych Evaluation Finds Levi Aron Has “Disorder;” Daily News Slams Insanity Defense
NBC, Daily News
Leiby’s Funeral
A man charged with abducting, killing and dismembering an 8-year-old Brooklyn boy is confused and apathetic, a “practically blank” personality whose younger sister died while institutionalized with schizophrenia, according to a psychiatric evaluation obtained by The Associated Press.
Telling It Like It Wasn’t – The Crown Heights Riots
Ari L. Goldman – The Jewish Week
In iconic New York Post page one photo, Isaac Bitton lies injured on Crown Heights street with his son cowering next to him.
Former Times reporter looks back on coverage of the event, and what went wrong.
Twenty years ago next week, on the night of Aug. 19, 1991 — the night that Gavin Cato and Yankel Rosenbaum were killed — my editor called me at home to tell me that riots had broken out on the streets of Crown Heights. “We’re covered for tonight but I want you to start your day there tomorrow,” he said.
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