Mayor Michael Bloomberg is upset that the city will not receive all the funds it requested from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to help cover the costs for the Dec. 26 blizzard.
The children of Cheder at the Ohel enjoyed a dressing up topsy turvey on this special day as they had an amazing farbregin filled with chayus.
The theft of a cars cars tires was captured in its entirety on surveillance video, which CrownHeights.info obtained. the scene unfolded with a pair of black males scoping out the car, then spending over a half and hour on committing their deed.
Moshe Cheruff (Chicago, IL) and Rivka Yehudis Kupfer (Boro Park)
L’Chaim tonight, Sunday at Lubavitcher Yeshiva
570 Crown St [hall entrance on Albany Ave]
What’s your daily routine like? You wake up, go to work, eat, sleep and repeat? One thing you presumably take for granted is that most people are indifferent towards you and don’t pay you much attention being different from them.
Close to fifty men and women in uniform from the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines and Coast Guard spent Shabbat with the community of the Shul of Bal Harbour. The event, which is sponsored by the Aleph Institute, is a training conference for Jewish chaplains and lay leaders in the military.
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — It seems like we spoke to soon. In our Friday article we reported the theft of rims off of parked cars in the neighborhood, and we noted that airbag thefts seem to have subsided, but that changed this Shabbos after more than five cars were broken into and their airbags were stolen.
Dinner used to mean hotel rooms and canned meals for Benjamin Fishoff.
Motzei Shabbos, Darchai Menachem Yeshiva students celebrated Purim Katan in a drum circle with Professional drummer, Shlomo Racu.
MOSCOW [FJC] — The Moscow Jewish Community Center hosted a graduation ceremony upon the completion of the first Russian training course for the personnel of ZAKA, an international Jewish organization dedicated to rescuing disaster victims and identifying corpses.
Thursday night at Lubavitcher Yeshiva, Itchke’s Shteibel and the Besht joined for a Farbrengen and Kumzits in honor of Purim Katan.
Developers are courting a new class of upscale condo buyers in Crown Heights, as gentrification marches east from what has been traditionally known as “Brownstone Brooklyn,” as The Journal reported Friday.
With sadness we inform you of the passing of R’ Mordechai Shmuel Susskind of Flatbush, NY, brother of Yibadel Lechaim Tovim R’ Moshe Susskind of Crown Heights.
Gershy and Chaya (nee Greenman) Deutsch (London, UK)
Menachem and Chana Shayna (nee Marosov) Gansburg (Toronto, Canada)
BROOKLYN [CBS] The cause of Saturday’s five-alarm fire at a Brooklyn apartment building remains unclear after officials discovered the body of an elderly woman who died in the flames.
TBILISI — Synagogue attendance in Tbilisi drops by 70% Saturday after Israel issues warning against possible attacks by Hezbollah, which threatened revenge recently on third anniversary of Mughniyeh’s death.
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