Stumbling and Bumbling: Police Have No Record of the Brutal Assault

This is how the NYPD fights crime, by have no record of it! It seems that being taken away by ambulance after a brutal beating and calling 911 is not enough for the cops to hear about an incident in which police officers actually responded to. CrownHeights.info has learned that more than four days after the incident took place neither the local precinct, nor the Patrol Borough of Brooklyn South have any idea that this crime took place.

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Wedding Unites Families in a Show of Jewish Life Revival

by Yonit Tanenbaum – Ami Magazine

Zalmy Yehudis Futerfas at their wedding. Inset: [L-R] Reb Avrohom Mayor Drizin, the bride’s
great-grandfather. Reb Mendel Futerfas, the groom’s great-
grandfather. Photos: Lubavitch Archives

A Jewish wedding celebration in Dnepropetrovsk this month bound two families whose grandfathers were once persecuted by the very government now embracing the religious revival taking place in Ukraine.

Jewish Boy Brutally Beaten and Pistol Whipped

Inset: The two inch gash right above the victims right eye, the result of being pistol whipped.

CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — Two thugs accosted a Jewish boy Monday night, putting a gun to his head and brutally beating him on his head and body. The victim recounted his terrifying ordeal in detail to our reporter.

60 Chabad Houses sign up for JLI Annual Retreat

With the JLI National Jewish Retreat less than two months away, over 60 Chabad Houses across the US,Canada and abroad have already signed up as delegates. The five day retreat (August 16-21) combines the best of Jewish learning with a luxurious setting at the Hyatt Regency in Old Greenwich, CT. To quote a participant from last year, “It is more fantastic and more amazing than I could ever imagine.”

Video: Wings of Song

“Wings of Song” with Violinist Miri Ben Ari, is a selected song from the highly anticipated album “New Sinai Sound” by Composer / lyricist Cecelia Margules. The clip tells the story of a young boy who embarks on a journey involving different situations in life. In the process, he discovers that his journey is a metaphor of the Jewish people’s yearning for the Messiah.

Crown Heights Riots Anniversary Sparks Dialogue Around Racial Sensitivity

To be featured in exhibit “Crown Heights Gold” from July 28 – Sept 30, 2011, at the Skylight Gallery in Restoration Plaza.

Nearly two decades have passed since the death of seven-year-old Gavin Cato, the son of Guyanese immigrants. In August 1991, Cato was walking down President Street in Crown Heights when 22-year-old Yosef Lifsh, who was driving as a part of the three-car motorcade of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson—then-leader of the Chabad Lubavitch Hasidic sect—accidentally hit the car in front of him and then veered off onto the sidewalk, striking little Cato and ending his life.

Montreal FC Celebrates 10th Anniversary

MONTREAL, Canada — More than 500 people attended the Friendship Circle’s 10th anniversary celebration gala, held May 31. The Friendship Circle, which pairs teen volunteers and children with special needs in friendships that enrich young lives, was honoring its more than 400 teen and adult volunteers from 35 schools and the children and families with whom they work.