CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — Wet roads and an emergency contributed to a nasty crash between a taxi and a police car in Crown Heights. The incident took place in the intersection of Lefferts Avenue and Bedford Avenue at around 11:00am, where a police car ‘t-boned’ the taxi, causing multiple injuries to both officers and passengers in the taxi.
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CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — Just in the past few years the Crown Heights Jewish Community Council sponsored a Seudas Purim for the entire community in the Oholei Torah ballroom.
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CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — At around 8:30pm tonight, Tuesday; two Israeli bochurim were assaulted on Albany Ave and Crown St. Both bochurim were beaten and sustained injuries all about their bodies, BH nothing serious.
We would like to wish Mazal Tov a to friend Chanoch Henoch Junik (Crown Heights) and Eti Klien (Monsey, NY) on their engagement.
The L’Chaim will IYH be Tuesday night at the Frankel Shul, 1699 President St, [between Utica and Rochester Ave].
Email your Simcha or Mazal Tov to MazalTov@CrownHeights.info !!
Huge gallery with over 100 pictures in the Extended Article! (By Webby)
We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Mendy and Yachevet (nee Lerman) Wilhelm (Crown Heights) on the birth of their daughter on purim.
May the newborn be a source of Nachas to her parents, grandparents and Klal Yisroel.
This Wednesday, Tes Vov Adar at the monthly ‘Rally at the Ohel’, there will be a concert by Chaim Fogelman. It will be for all children, ages 5-12. Busses leave 770 at 11:00am and return at 1:45pm. Admission $6.00. For more information call 718-773-1688.
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BROOKLYN, NY — For the second time in less than a week, a packed Brooklyn, New York, synagogue has been the target of threats of violence by intruders.
On Monday, according to Yeshiva World News, an Arab man in his mid-30s entered Boro Park’s ‘Sephardish Shul’ and began making proclamations of jihad. Members of a Jewish volunteer security organization, the Shomrim, apprehended the threatening individual. They held him until police officers arrived at the scene, arresting the suspect. Detectives spoke with the “Middle Eastern man” at a station house near the synagogue.
Huge gallery with over 150 pictures in the Extended Article! (By Chana Lewis)
Oholei Torah’s Eighth Grade is hosting their third Shushan Purim Carnival this Wednesday at 1:00pm in Oholei Torah’s Gym. There will be lots of booths • Split the pot • Raffles • Prizes • Food will be sold • And much more! Admission only $1 tickets 25¢.
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Today is Purim, a day we are all merry and are celebrating our holiday. We drive around in our cars loaded with our families and goodies to distribute around the neighborhood; one of the days Mitzvot. We stop for a moment run into someone house to drop off one Shalach Manot and the greatness and jolliness of the day comes to a screeching halt. It gets spoiled with a $115 double parking violation.
The NYPD has been extremely over zealous with issuing parking summonses and bike summonses. In the past they targeted Jews in the most vicious manner on one of the happiest of holidays.
Don’t become a victim.
MYFOXNY.COM — New York City leaders boast about how they aggressively crack down on “quality of life issues.” But Fox 5 uncovered an interesting controversy in one Brooklyn neighborhood. Some residents in Borough Park say the city is simply afraid to deal with a nuisance that is ruining their lives. As Fox 5’s John Deutzman reports, a situation with a catering hall seems to revolve around religion.
NEW YORK, NY — The NYPD this week plans to crack down on motorists who use cellphones while driving.
Beginning at 12:01 a.m. Thursday, there will be stepped-up enforcement, and more cops will be assigned to catch people chatting behind the wheel.
Men, women and children alike don colorful costumes as part of the traditional celebration of Purim at the Chabad of Stamford on Monday night.
SUSA, Iran — Iranians have turned a huge excavation site in the city of Shush, site of “Susa,” the ancient city of Shushan — center of the events in the Purim story — into a garbage dump.
Culture heritage backers put a stop to construction of a hotel on the site, according to the Tehran News, which added that residents of the Shush municipality are now filling the huge, gaping 300-foot by 300-foot hole with rubbish.
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