Despite the snow still being piled high, and many streets remain unplowed, Lubavitcher Yeshiva on Crown Street had full classes, with most students attending classes today.
“Mordechai Lightstone filmed Rabbi Menachem Zev Greenglass, known affectionately as Reb Volf, the mashpia in Tomchei Temimim in Montreal. The first video is of Reb Volf relating a vart said by the Tosher Rebbe about the Rebbe.
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — A Jewish woman bravely fought off a thug who attacked and mugged her in the lobby of her apartment building, and followed her assailant while calling for help. Bochurim sprung to action and grabbed the thug, while calling Shomrim and Police.
A blizzard baby delivered inside the lobby of a snowbound Crown Heights building died after an emergency call of a woman in labor brought no help for nine excruciating hours.
A testy Mayor Bloomberg fended off criticism of the city’s failure to clear hundreds of snow-choked streets Tuesday as an avalanche of critics attacked his reputation as a supermanager.
Sanitation workers were hard at work yesterday on Sterling Street where one of their plow trucks got stuck, and sat stranded for over 2 days.
Yaakov and Rivki (nee Greenberg) Greenberg (Long Branch,NJ)
Sholom and Avigayil (nee Greenbaum) Raskin (Crown Heights)
It has been four days since the first flurries began falling, and becoming the blizzard of 2010, earning the nickname Blizzageddon by many NY bloggers, and Crown Heights is still mostly entombed in a snowy frozen zone.
Over 100 people took advantage of the Qcumber Cafe and CrownHeights.info’s free hot chocolate special, and once again we are offering another special, only this time it’s for children. Come in with a friend and buy one slice of pizza, and get a second one free!
With sadness we inform you of the passing of the Mashpiah Rabbi Menachem Zev Greenglass, of Montreal Canada. Rabbi Greenglass was one of the most prominent Mashpiim of our time, and merited to have influenced generations of Temimim and Chassidim. He survived the holocaust and was counted among the 9 Shluchim of the Previous Rebbe that were sent to Canada, and later established Tomchei Temimim.
Sanitation workers parked their plow trucks in the middle of the blizzard for a five-hour coffee break in Dunkin Donuts on Coney Island Avenue while drivers struggle to free their trapped vehicles.
Some creative minded folks in Boro Park substituted the use of a fork lift from its regular heavy lifting duties, to help get stuck cars out of the snow!
We are pleased to present our thirtieth online class in the “Torah in Ten” series, presented by the editor-in-chief of Kol Menachem, Rabbi Chaim Miller.
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — Marking the Yahrzeit of The Rambam, The Alter Rebbe, and Rabbi Yaakov Abuchatzera, a wonderful Meleva Malka took place in Lubavitch Yeshiva of Crown Heights Hall on Crown Street and was attended by many families and individuals of the community.
A photographer in New Jersey captured the blizzard falling there by taking a single picture every five minutes starting when the snow first began to fall and ending after the last flake.
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