The Crown Heights JCC has once again arranged with the Forestry division of the NYC Parks Dept. to have all the S’chach picked up.
New Yorkers on food stamps would not be allowed to spend them on sugar-sweetened drinks under an obesity-fighting proposal being floated by Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Gov. David Paterson.
Some things are almost universally avoided whenever possible: jury duty, dental work, parking tickets.
Tonight there will be a distribution of free baby food to Kollel yungerlite, from 8:00pm to 9:30pm. More details on the flyer in the Extended Article.
NEW YORK [AP] — The cost of riding New York City’s subways, buses and commuter rails is going up again, the third fare increase in three years.
A concert benefiting a victim of a terrible apartment fire will be held this Mon.
Crown Heights community members helped organize the concert set for Oct. 11th
at the Chabad Loft in the Flatiron District of NYC. The fund-raising show will feature
a rare, intimate, acoustic performance by Moshe Hecht. Billed as a special guest,
Zacharia, a talented songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, will perform as well. He is
coming in directly from Israel and this will be his first-ever NYC public performance.
On Oct 1, 2010, Rabbi Anchelle Perl, director of Chabad of Mineola and the National Committee for the Furtherance of Jewish Education, was appointed by the Nassau County Executive Edward P. Mangano, to join a distinguished panel of individuals representing health and human services, education, law enforcement and the judiciary to review the problems of family and domestic violence in Nassau County.
Mendi and Hannah (nee Kantor) Katan (Kfar Chabad, Israel)
As the launch of JLI’s new “Medicine and Morals” course approaches, enthusiastic endorsements have been pouring in from top lawyers, doctors, professors, and medical ethicists all over the world.
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — An impatient driver was the cause of a serious accident between her Toyota sedan and an 18-wheeler. Eyewitnesses to the accident said that the tractor trailer was making a left turn from New York on to Lefferts Avenue when the car attempted to pass it and the two collided.
After hosting the banquet of the International Kinus Hashluchim in the armory in Crown Heights last year, and at Manhattan’s Pier 94 two years ago, Rabbi Moshe Kotlarsky has announced on behalf of the Vaad Hakinus that this year the banquet will take place at the Brooklyn Cruise Terminal, located at Pier 12 in the Red Hook section of Brooklyn.
Chaim and Chanie (nee Kesselman) Brod (Crown Heights)
Mendy and Esther (nee Rosenfeld) Schapiro (Monroeville, PA)
Akiva Plutno (Miami, FL) and Tova Adler (Toronto, Ontario)
L’Chaim Tonight Wednesday at Aliyah Shul
527 E. New York Ave between Kingston and Brooklyn Ave
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On Sunday, Chabad of Ho Chi Minh moved to a new building double the size of its previous location in one of the city’s busiest areas. The new move makes room for the growing number of Jews drawn to Vietnam’s attractive economic opportunities and alluring beaches, to participate in Chabad’s activities.
On the 4th day of Chol HaMoed Sukkos the Rebbe’s Diamond Daveners – Kol Yakov Yehuda of Los Angeles – boarded “a genuine London double Decker convertible bus” to go Sukka hopping in the metropolitan Los Angeles area.
