Defense attorneys for a New York City man charged with abducting, killing and dismembering an 8-year-old boy say his confession was coerced. They are also expected to request that the trial be moved elsewhere, believing that he will not be able to get a fair trial in Brooklyn.
Bullets are flying over Broadway — and everywhere else in the city. The number of people shot surged 154 percent two weeks ago — to 56 from 22 over the same week last year — and spiked 28 percent in the last month.
Chabad of NW Metro Denver’s first Sukkah Hop Bike Ride took place on Sunday October 16.
It is with great sadness that we inform you of the untimely passing of longtime Crown Heights resident and beloved culinarian Reb Dovid Malka OBM.
Monticello, NY [CHI] – UPDATE: 10:26 PM: The child was B”H found in Monticello across from his house at 31 Landsfield Ave hiding under a bed. He is in good condition.
Shmuli Akselrod (Crown Heights) and Devoree Miller (Chicago, IL)
L’Chaim Monday at Bais Rivkah
310 Crown St [between New York and Nostrand Ave]
Sholom Ber Prus (Newton, MA) and Itty Barber (Crown Heights)
L’Chaim Monday at Chovevei Torah
885 Eastern Pkwy [between Albany and Troy Ave]
Yosef Tzeiger (Borough Park, NY/Jerusalem, Israel) and Dina Tsymuk (Borough Park, NY)
L’Chaim Monday at Lubavitcher Yeshiva
570 Crown St [hall entrance on Albany Ave]
The NYPD’s clashes with Wall Street protestors haven’t done much to diminish Police Commissioner Ray Kelly’s popularity. A Quinnipiac University poll released today found that Kelly would lead the current field of candidates if he decided to run for mayor in 2013, even though the top cop has said repeatedly that he doesn’t have the DNA for elective politics.
Loose Translation: Israeli Jew is late and cannot find parking. In Frustration, he turns to G-d and prays for parking, promising that if answered, he will begin putting on Tefillin, Keep Kosher and do Teshuvah. Just then a parking spot becomes available; the Israeli turns to G-d and says “never mind, I can take care of this myself.”
Residents of Crown Heights walked together on Thursday evening in a peace march to end gun violence, but also to call attention to increased safety in the neighborhood in recent years.
Six cases of childhood measles have been reported in Brooklyn over the last two weeks, the New York City health department said Friday, contributing to a spike in measles cases this year.
A powerful 7.2-magnitude earthquake struck eastern Turkey on Sunday, collapsing dozens of buildings into piles of twisted steel and chunks of concrete. Desperate survivors dug into the rubble with their bare hands, trying to rescue the trapped and injured. State-run television reported that 45 people were killed and 150 others injured in the eastern town of Ercis, but scientists estimated that up to 1,000 people could already be dead, due to low housing standards in the area and the size of the quake.
A story about the Rebbe from a Litvish ‘Hoch Ah Chainik’ who used to live in Crown Heights, Bochurim who got lost in Manhattan get invited to join the Occupied Wall Street Hakafos and a closed Chabad House in Williamsburg leads a group to join the Satmar Rebbe for Hakofos in the main Shul on Kent Avenue. Read these readers experiences on Tahalucha!
He is a 30-year-old college student who gets by on loans and freelance jobs as a legal assistant and public notary. He does not have a bank account. He does not have a credit card. When he says he lives paycheck to paycheck, he means it quite literally: If he runs out of the money he keeps in the (sometimes torn) pocket of his pants, it means he has nothing until his next check comes along.
It’s a tough time to be one of New York’s Finest. With the NYPD facing a blizzard of damning incidents in recent months, cops and police brass say morale among the force is perilously low.
A goodwill visit to San Francisco and the Sonoma Coast by a big, handsome Russian sailing ship was suddenly canceled Friday, the result of a complicated legal problem that involves both history and cultural treasures.
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