Two hours before Shabbos police closed off President Street between Troy and Albany Avenues. Officers clad in armor and armed with assault rifles converged on 1499 President Street, in search of evidence of two suspects who are accused of kidnapping a 14-year-old black girl. They are accused of holding her captive there for two weeks, and assaulting her repeatedly.
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“The Chabad House Compass” – a magazine for shluchim by shluchim, has been published by Merkos Suite 302, designed to help shluchim – “navigate the world of shlichus”.
As the network of Shluchim continues to grow, the request for a forum in print where shluchim can connect and share their experiences was put forth.
Motti and Temmi (nee Kornfeld) Hadar (Johannesburg, South Africa)
On Sunday May 16, 2010, over 20,000 viewers representing the Jewish community from countries around the globe are expected to commune at TorahCafe.com for a webcast featuring Rabbi Shaar Yashuv Cohen, Chief Rabbi of Haifa, Israel, in a lecture titled “One Nation Under G-d.”
Let us sit together and ponder. We’ll come up with ideas on how to achieve Achdus.
WRONG!
We are approaching the issue backward!
Why do we crave Achdus? What truly unifies us? Simple — our Neshamas are all part of one unit and therefore we intuitively crave Achdus. Intuitively, we feel fragmented without Achdus.
Practically, what is the key to expressing the Neshamah’s desire for Achdus? Torah and Halacha. Simply put, adherence to Halacha unifies Yidden. Without Halacha as our guide, all efforts for peace will at best be temporary. Halacha creates true homogeny and guides us to a single cause. Why do we eat food that has a Hasgachah from a Rav that belongs to a community that is very different from us socially and ideologically? Because we share common ground –Halacha.
The man at the center of the 1991 Crown Heights riot now lives incognito in a New Jersey town, untroubled by memories of his terrible deed.
“Up until today, I left it alone,” Lemrick Nelson Jr., now 34, told The Post. “I don’t even think about it.”
“That was 19 years ago,” he said about fatally stabbing Hasid scholar Yankel Rosenbaum at the height of the notorious race riot. “I was a kid then. I made a mistake. Kids make mistakes. I’m a man now. I’ve never been in or out of trouble. I don’t live that life.”
Chezky and Chanah’le (nee Sossonko) Altein (Crown Heights)
Meir and Chanie (nee Kanelsky) Wilschanski (Crown Heights)
Bentzi Cousin (London) and Osnas Grinman (Detroit, MI)
Crown Condos, 580 Crown St [between Albany and Troy Ave]
Mendy Gurkov (Wayne, NJ) and Esty Mintz (Crown Heights)
Lubavitcher Yeshiva, 570 Crown St [hall entrance on Albany Ave]
Ari Schapiro (CH) and Messody Ezagui (CH)
Bais Rivkah, 310 Crown St [between New York and Nostrand Ave]
Following our report last week about an attempted abduction of an 8-year-old Lubavitcher girl, the New York Post ran a startlingly similar story which took place in the Bay Ridge Area of Brooklyn, in which a 12-year-old girl was lured in a similar fashion:
NY Post: This is a sketch of the pervert who grabbed a 12-year-old Brooklyn girl on her way to school, dragged her into an SUV and [assaulted] her before she managed to break free, police said.
The sicko struck at 7:50 a.m. Tuesday on 67th Street near 12th Avenue in Bay Ridge.
He approached the youngster, pulled her into the rear of the Jeep Laredo […]. She bravely pushed him off, opened the door and escaped.
The following is the second gallery that was submitted to our Photo Competition, depicting “Our Beautiful Community”.
To learn more or join the competition visit awarmfocus.org
As hundreds of girls from all over New York City and beyond, poured into Lubavitch Yeshiva, the air was filled with anticipation. What different perspective would be portrayed? What would be said that we hadn’t heard before? I had the same question myself. But not for long.
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