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.
EAST GREENBUSH, NY — What happens when a blizzard hits a retreat attended by over sixty-five girls from across the country? They get an extra day of fun, friendship, and activities! Girls from as far as Atlanta, Baltimore, and Chicago flew in to for the five day Jewish Girls Winter Retreat which was held at the the Comfort Suites and Inn in East Greenbush, NY.
Friends and family joined together to celebrate the Bar Mitzvah of Chaim Wolf, despite the storm, many came celebrated the Bar Mitzvah in Beis Rivkah.
As one of the biggest blizzards in decades hammers states up and down the east coast, dumping 20 inches of snow in some cities and with winds upwards of 60 mph, Chabad Houses from Massachusetts to Pennsylvania have been forced to rethink, reschedule, and in some cases, cancel many activities of their annual Gan Israel winter camps.
NEW YORK — Public transportation, crippled by the Sunday blizzard, is limping along today and, contradicting Mayor Bloomberg, MTA Chairman Jay Walder warned that problems will continue throughout Tuesday.
Breathe new life into your old Sheitel by donating it to the Pesha Leah Sheitel G’mach. Today, Tuesday, Chof Alef Teves, marks the first yahrtzeit of Pesha Leah (nee Roetter) Azoulay. Mrs. Azoulay was tragically taken from us in a terrible car accident at the age of 23.
TEHRAN [AFP] — Iran on Tuesday hanged a man found guilty of feeding Israeli spy agency Mossad with Iranian military secrets and information on its missile programme over a period of six years, news agency IRNA reported.
As the city goes in to its third day since the heavy snow storm blanked New York, people have been forging ahead, and kids are enjoying the winter wonderland.
LONDON — Nine terror suspects plotted a bomb blitz in London, a London court heard. Two Rabbis were listed a possible targets in the attack. Other potential targets were tourist attractions, the Stock Exchange, the mayor of London, the dean of a cathedral, and the U.S. Embassy.
Haight-Ashbury in San Francisco was ground zero of the counterculture movement in the 1960’s when the neighborhood threw its arms wide open, embracing the hippies and flower children of the Summer of Love.
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