New Engagement!
Shuki Greenberg (Crown Heights) to Sheina Kanar (London, UK)
L’Chaim Motzai Shabbos at Beis Levi Yitzchok
556 Crown St [entrance on Albany Ave]

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Eek! Here's one subway ride that will make your skin crawl.
The nightmare of every subway rider was caught on video after a chubby sewer rat crawled up the leg of a sleeping straphanger on a No. 4 train in Brooklyn and came face-to-face with the man.
Loose Rat Crawls Up Sleeping Subway Rider’s Leg
Eek! Here’s one subway ride that will make your skin crawl.
The nightmare of every subway rider was caught on video after a chubby sewer rat crawled up the leg of a sleeping straphanger on a No. 4 train in Brooklyn and came face-to-face with the man.

Alternate Side Parking Suspened through Monday
New York, NY – Alternate side parking (street cleaning) regulations will be suspended Friday and Saturday, January 14-15, for snow removal, and on Monday, January 17 for Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday.

Amazing Pictures – Yud Shevat 5735
JEM has released a set of never before seen photos taken by Velvel Schildkraut at the Rebbe’s Yud Shvat Farbrengen in 1975.
Zaki Tamir, Chairman of the Crown Heights Jewish Community Council (CHJCC), said Thursday the third elected member of the neighborhood's Bais Din (Badatz) Rabbi Yossi Braun will be inaugurated in the near future, even after a scheduling error and some opposition.
New Rabbi’s Inauguration Delayed
Zaki Tamir, Chairman of the Crown Heights Jewish Community Council (CHJCC), said Thursday the third elected member of the neighborhood’s Bais Din (Badatz) Rabbi Yossi Braun will be inaugurated in the near future, even after a scheduling error and some opposition.

A Closer Look into the Ahavas Yisroel Shul
FEATURE ARTICLE: Did you hear? There’s a new shul in town. The elaborate rumor is that it’s operating out of a flower shop on Albany Avenue with young men and women singing Carlebach songs, participating in kiddushim…there’s even an instrumental havdallah. How radical, one might think. A traditional Lubavitch shul is often perceived as a place where men daven and chitchat while the chazan sings solely Lubavitch tunes and women are sectioned off to daven quietly among themselves. Do traditional shuls meet the needs of all Lubavitchers or is this new shul necessary? And what is really going on there?
German Parliament Welcomes First Rabbinical Delegation
For the first time in history, the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia welcomed a rabbinical delegation to its modern headquarters along the Rhine River in Dusseldorf, Germany.
Baby Girl!
Shaul and Rosie (nee Duchman) Perlstein (Chattanooga, TN)
New Engagement!
Sruly Greenbaum (Crown Heights) and Chavy Schaffer (Canada)
L’Chaim Sunday at the Jewish Children’s Museum
792 Eastern Pkwy [corner Kingston Ave]
Aleph Champ for Adults in Brighton Beach
A group of Oholei Menachem 8th grade students directed by their classmate Mendel Winner, a thirteen year old Shliach in Brighton Beach, graciously gave 3 hours a week of their precious after school hours to teach adults basic Hebrew reading.

Prosecutors Scramble To Suppress Friend-of-the-Court Briefs in Rubashkin Appeal
Washington Legal Foundation (WLF), American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL) reinforced the appeal by Sholom Rubashkin’s appellate team.
Hundreds braved the frigid weather to participate in the Levaya of Reb Moshe Morosow OBM, one of Lubavitches Elder Chassidim, in front of 770 this morning.
Hundreds Attend the Levaya of Reb Moshe Morosow
Hundreds braved the frigid weather to participate in the Levaya of Reb Moshe Morosow OBM, one of Lubavitches Elder Chassidim, in front of 770 this morning.
If Sarah Palin's seven-minute video blaming the media was meant to tamp down the rhetoric in the aftermath of the assassination attempt against Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, she may have added fuel to the fire by hitting a jarringly off-note:
Within hours of a tragedy unfolding, journalists and pundits should not manufacture a blood libel that serves only to incite the very hatred and violence that they purport to condemn. That is reprehensible.
Palin’s Comments Insensitive to Jewish History?
If Sarah Palin’s seven-minute video blaming the media was meant to tamp down the rhetoric in the aftermath of the assassination attempt against Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, she may have added fuel to the fire by hitting a jarringly off-note:
Within hours of a tragedy unfolding, journalists and pundits should not manufacture a blood libel that serves only to incite the very hatred and violence that they purport to condemn. That is reprehensible.

Op-Ed: What Obama Reminded Us
A Talmud story and President Obama’s inspiring talk to honor the victims and heroes of the Arizona shooting, reminds us all how to treat and respect children and adults.
Rabbi Moshe Greenwald, director of Chabad of Downtown Los Angeles, delivered the invocation at the ceremony where John R. Noguez took the oath of office as county assessor in the city of Los Angeles, CA.
Shliach Delivers Invocation at Oath of Office Ceremony
Rabbi Moshe Greenwald, director of Chabad of Downtown Los Angeles, delivered the invocation at the ceremony where John R. Noguez took the oath of office as county assessor in the city of Los Angeles, CA.

Foreclosure Filings May Jump 20% as Crisis Peaks
The number of U.S. homes receiving a foreclosure filing will climb about 20 percent in 2011, reaching a peak for the housing crisis, as unemployment remains high and banks resume seizures after a slowdown, RealtyTrac Inc. said.
Baby Girl!
Yossi and Devorei (nee Kaplan) Raitport (Crown Heights)