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Mazal Tov! – It’s A Girl!

CrownHeights.info wishes Mazal Tov to Menachem Mendel and Sara Malka (nee Kahn) Gottlieb (Los Angeles, CA) on the birth of their daughter, Leah.

May the newborn be a source of Nachas to her parents, grandparents and Klal Yisroel.

ULYOP in a League of their Own

Probably one of the best organized Yeshiva intramural leagues in Brooklyn is ULYOP’s LubaSfard Soccer league under the Reb. Shmuel Shrage Middos banner. Not only does the league empower students to be team captains and coaches but also gives them a sence team work. Besides learning interpersonal skills, they have to know Hallacha as well!

AT&T and 1 Hour Cellular Friends and Family Day (a)

AT&T of Kingston is offering the community a special deal – it’s called “Friends and Family Day” a special offer that One Hour Cellular, AT&T on Kingston is passing along to all their friends in Crown heights. This Wednesday, March 3 – Receive up to $50 off your bill Just for Upgrading your current phone or purchasing a whole new line.

Photos: Friendship Circle Celebrates Shushan Purim in China!

The Friendship Circle of Crown Heights celebrated a themed Shushan Purim yesterday in the Jewish Childrens Museum. Volunteers and children enjoyed the Purim in China carnival with activities and games, all topped off with an amazing show by Yang Xiao Di, an amazing acrobat from the Shanghai circus.

Accident Injures Chabad Girls and Shomrim Volunteer

QUEENS, NY [CHI] — A group of girls traveling home in a ‘Chabad Car’ lost one of their wheels as they pulled off the Belt Parkway stranding them for nearly two hours on the side of the busy roadway. One girl called Shomrim who responded with one volunteer, only making matter worse when his car was struck by a passing car.

Purim Partying goes Wild: JCC Tries Western Theme

Press of Atlantic City

Milo Turk, of Absecon, and his father, Edward Turk, of Atlantic City, dressed in western attire for the Purim celebration in Margate.

MARGATE, NJ — What does the Wild Wild West have to do with the Book of Esther, which was set in Persia more than 2,000 years ago?

Police on a Purim Ticket Blitz

CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — Despite ‘reports’ that police promised to ‘ease up’ on Purim, many Crown Heights residents couldn’t help but notice the very opposite. White NYPD cars were out on the avenues and streets pulling over motorists on the Jewish holiday.

Living Torah Video – In-Reach

Mr. Shimshon Stock headed the Chevra Simchas Shabbos V’Yom Tov charity fund for thirty years. As a teenager in the 1940s, he studied at the Lubavitcher Yeshiva in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. During that time, he was privileged to study one-on-one with the Rebbe.

Seeing POD People? It’s No Sci-Fi Film

The New York Times

Taking care at Quality Health Center in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, Joel Friedman receives a measles-mumps-rubella, or M.M.R., shot from Dov Landra, a physician assistant.

PODs are the sleeper cells of public health, assuming a different shape and observing different local mores each time a crisis emerges. When hepatitis A was diagnosed in a bartender at the Manhattan nightclub Socialista two years ago, POD people were on hand to vaccinate patrons, including some guests at Ashton Kutcher’s birthday party. In the case of a bioterrorism attack, they might turn up in your neighborhood dispensing anthrax antidote. On Feb. 18, they were in Anshe Sfard Hall in the Borough Park section of Brooklyn, rolling up the sleeves of Hasidic Jews. That’s a long way from Ashton Kutcher.