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Chabad-Lubavitch centers across the United States are planning a plethora of events commemorating the 10-year anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon that claimed the lives of more than 3,000 people.
This year’s West Indian Day Parade was marred by an unusual amount of violence, not seen in past years parade. The parade violence was preceded by a particularly gruesome J’ouvert celebration the night before. CrownHeights.info has compiled a list of serious incidents throughout the day.
The following is a letter sent by distraught parents to a regional Chabad Yeshiva after trying, unsuccessfully, to enroll their son for another year of learning. The Yeshiva ignored the parents’ pleas, and so the parents decided to publicize the letter in order to bring a major community problem out from under the rug, and into the public’s conscience.
Going for a walk the Monday evening, following the thousands who paraded on Eastern Parkway marking Labor Day, our photographer observed crews hard at work cleaning up the mounds of trash left behind in their wake.
As life goes digital, people are using social media tools to broadcast more about themselves to their friends. One such service, foursquare, allows users to tell others where they are using a game-like mechanism. Even 770 Eastern Parkway has a “mayor” of its own.
A Balaclava man has appeared in court charged with molesting children at a Melbourne Jewish school.
A tough-looking, leather-clad gang of Hasidic bikers who call themselves “Rebbe’s Riders” are cruising the tri-state area, bringing God’s word to other motorcycle-riding Jews they meet on the road.
Levi Shusterman (Melbourne, Australia) and Chaya Gansburg (Crown Heights)
L’Chaim Tonight Tuesday at the Jewish Children’s Museum792 Eastern Pkwy [corner Kingston Ave]
Two cops were wounded in a gun battle Monday night, capping off a terrifying spate of shootings that left four people dead on Monday – one a bystander – and marred Brooklyn’s West Indian Day Parade.
Yoel Lipszyc (Simferopol, Crimea) and Miriam Leaf (Oak Park, MI)
Lechaim Tuesday at 706 East 7th St
Kensington, Brooklyn [between Ditmas and 18th Ave]
Elisha and Tanya (nee Landa) Rogalsky (Crown Heights)
Shimi (ben Simcha) Piekarski (Crown Heights) and Esther (bas Shmuel Chaim) Bluming (Crown Heights)
Crown Heights [CHI] — Reports are flooding in about an ongoing hostage situation on the corner of Montgomery St. and Troy Ave., where a stabbing occured. It appears the suspect fled into the corner building – 840 Montgomery – and holed himself up in one of the apartments.
Gunfire erupted today near the massive West Indian Day Parade in Brooklyn — not far from where Mayor Bloomberg was marching — as the entire city reeled from a epidemic of shootings over the past two days.
By noon today, a total of 46 people had been shot in the city since Saturday morning, authorities said.
Visitors from around Wisconsin joined out-of-state guests at the Chabad-Lubavitch center in Kenosha to celebrate the dedication of a new Torah scroll commissioned after the theft of the center’s previous two scrolls.
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