City Bus Rear-ends Car after Pedal Gets Stuck
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — Stuck pedals aren’t limited to Toyotas alone, they can happen to city busses too and one family found that out after a one smashed into their car twice while they waited for a red light.
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — CrownHeights.info has learned that the contractors doing the rehab work on Kingston Avenue applied for permits to allow them to work throughout Saturday.
Kingston Construction May Continue Through Shabbos
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — CrownHeights.info has learned that the contractors doing the rehab work on Kingston Avenue applied for permits to allow them to work throughout Saturday.

This Is Major! Tzivos Hashems Newest Major!
It’s official. Last Wednesday at exactly 7:34 pm, the staff at Tzivos Hashem headquarters noticed a little red blip on their screen. It’s indication? The first chayol in Chayolei Tzivos Hashem, Menachem Mendel Shemtov of Riverdale, NY, had reached the “cloud-touching” rank of a Major!
City Councilman James Sanders, who is black, says that he has always had difficulties hailing a cab.
Cabbies Refuse Ride for Black Councilman
City Councilman James Sanders, who is black, says that he has always had difficulties hailing a cab.
Twin Boys!
Chaim and Chani Hanoka (Pasadena, CA)
New Engagement!
Lazer (ben Uri) Posner (Crown Heights) and Shterni (bas Shloma) Majeski (Crown Heights)
New Engagement!
Yosef Yakubov (Crown Heights) and Tanya Yakobov (Lod, Israel)
This Shabbos afternoon Rabbi Chaim Miller will be delivering the weekly talk at the Besh"t.
Rabbi Chaim Miller at the Besht this Shabbos
This Shabbos afternoon Rabbi Chaim Miller will be delivering the weekly talk at the Besh”t.

A Jewish King and Queen of England?
Two unrelated Jews from different walks of life meet in an unlikely place and discover they are connected. You’ve heard that story before in Jewish folklore. Well, it happened to me recently.

2 Girls Connected to Chabad Killed in Netanya Blast
Tragedy in Netanya: Two young girls age 16 left for home from a shiur in Netanya, not before taking Neshek kits to be given out on their weekly mivtzoim route. But this was not destined to happen, as they lost their young lives r”l in a gas explosion in Netanya last night. The Lubavitcher community, and Rabbi Yaakov Mazoz, who they studied with, are in shock after learning who the blast victims are.

Noted Lubavitch Kabbalist Suffers Heart Attack
A message on Rabbi Yitzchok Ginzberg’s website – Gal Enai – states as follows:
8 Sholom Zochors This Week!
Shauly and Chaya Teller
597 Montgomery St [between Brooklyn and Kingston Ave]
Ahron and Chaya (nee Angyalfi) Blasberg
621 East New York Ave #6L [between Kingston and Albany Ave]
Mendy and Sara Paris
1551 Carroll St [between Troy and Schenectady Ave]
Yossi and Chanie Chein (Crown Heights)
Mendel and Rochie Levin (Staten Island)
Sruly and Tovi (nee Eisenberg) Goldberg
1 Gigi Court Monsey, NY 10952
Gavriel and Shainy (nee Kalmanson) Levin (Postville, IA)
Shlomo and Devorah (nee Brenner) Elkan (Oberlin, OH)

ULY 6th Grade Trip To Statue and Ellis Island
Rabbi Shidler’s, Limudei Chol 6th Grade class at ULY Crown Street spent their second to last day of class – Wednesday afternoon on a special trip, to the Statute of Liberty and Ellis Island. The trip was a nice end of the year trip, to top off a lot of history learned in class.

Weekly Unique Photos of the Rebbe
CrownHeights.info and the Avner Institute presents a photo of Ephraim Levy, former IDF Chief of Staff, receiving a dollar from the Rebbe after yechidus with an entourage headed by then Israeli President Zalman Shazar in 5734/1973.

Early Morning Fire Displaces Tens of Families
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — An early morning fire broke out in the apartment of a Jewish family on Eastern Parkway, forcing the evacuation of the entire building. A number of reported injuries were all non-life threatening.