Just as hundreds of Crown Heights homes finished ‘turning over’ their kitchens back to normal, the lines in the neighborhoods two pizza shops, Kingston Pizza and The Kertchme, kept getting longer and longer.
The date, 3rd of Cheshvan 5768, 66 years to the foundation of Yeshivas Tomchei Temimim in Montreal, after Maariv Rabbi Moshe Eliyahu Gerlitzky, from the elder of the Gaboim, askes everyone to say Lechaim and be b’simcha.
There was a major accident on the New York State Thruway involving three Frum families. The accident took place at about 5am early Wednesday morning. The families were on their way home, after spending time away for Pesach.
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration has taken the extraordinary step of authorizing the targeted killing of an American citizen, the radical Muslim cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, who is believed to have shifted from encouraging attacks on the United States to directly participating in them, intelligence and counterterrorism officials said Tuesday.
Sruli and Dina (nee Shpigelman) Krasnianski (Crown Heights)
Lipa and Baila (nee Nadler) Baumgarten (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
ISRAEL — New initiative in ultra-Orthodox neighborhood suggests that non-Jewish laborers seeking to work for haredi families will be forced to stop practicing idolatry
NEW YORK — Because of a $45 million budget gap, the New York City Housing Authority may have to revoke rental-assistance vouchers from more than 10,000 low-income tenants, a drastic move that could cause families to lose their apartments.
Moshe and Shaina (nee Raskin) Serebryanski (Melbourne, Australia)
BROOKLYN, NY [CHI] — A father, son and another older Jewish man were attacked and injured while on Tahalucha. The incident took place on Eastern Parkway near the entrance to the botanical gardens where a number of black youths pelted them with stones, striking the group and injuring them.
Some stores on Nostrand Avenue in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, don’t only offer up food, music and clothes; you can even get your drug fix, according to police. That is, until Today, Tuesday.
The NYPD made a sweep of the neighborhood, putting an end to the drug dealing at six different businesses, police said. Cops busted variety stores, a music store, and three take-out restaurants.
After selling the Chometz before Pesach, Rabbi Moshe Bogomilsky and Rabbi Shimon Hecht got together with Gregg, the gentile who purchased the Chometz and bought the Chometz back.
CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — The last day of Passover (“Acharon Shel Pesach”) is particularly associated with Moshiach and the future redemption. The Baal Shem Tov instituted the custom of partaking of a “Seudas Moshiach” (Moshiachs Meal) on the afternoon of the last day of Passover; in addition to the Matzah eaten at “ Seudas Moshiach”, the Rebbes of Chabad added the custom of drinking four cups of wine, as in the Seder held on Passover’s first days.
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