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Blacks and Jews Signing Up for New NYPD Multicultural Civilian Patrol

NY Daily News

Crown Heights, NY — A new civilian watch group in Crown Heights is bringing together blacks and Jews in a neighborhood once synonymous with racial tension.

If all goes as planned, a Caribbean-American pastor could share a car with an Orthodox Jew on the NYPD Civilian Observation Patrol – or blacks might volunteer for Friday night shifts, when their Jewish neighbors can’t work.

Info to be Menachem Avel the Strauss Family

The Strauss family is sitting Shiva after the passing of hteir dear father Reb Shmuel Leib Straus OBM, at 960 St. Johns Place (between Bklyn & NY ave.)

The times of Davenning is at the following times

Shacharis at 9:30 Sharp
Mincha at 8:00
Maariv bizmana

phone 718.735.2752 fax 347.365.2681 E-mail address: sastrauss@gmail.com

Shomrim to Distribute Non-Perishable Goods

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CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — There will be a distribution of non-perishable goods, such as flour and canned goods, for the community on Sunday starting at 1:00pm in the parking lot of Beis Rivka on Montgomery Street between Nostrand and New York Avenues. As they have done Erev Pesach, Shomrim is involved once again in making this happen.

Mazal Tov! – New Engagement!

We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Ari (ben Reb Nochum) Markowitz (Crown Heights) and Rivky (bas Reb Zalman) Lokshin (Crown Heights) on their engagement.

The L’Chaim will IYH be Sunday at the Jewish Children’s Museum, 792 Eastern Pkwy [corner Kingston Ave].

Op-Ed – A Culture of Democracy – Something has to Change

Something has to change

We have two Botei Din claiming authority over this community.

We have two factions now fist fighting over the community council.

We have two groups (shomrim, shmira) who are “ensuring” that we are safe, meanwhile ensuring that the other group sits in jail.

Something has to change!

We have two boards both claiming to be the legitimate (Netzigim) representatives of the community.

We now even have two different Hechsherim both claiming to be under the supervision of the badatz dekak decrown heights.

Something HAS to change!!!

Mazal Tov! – New Engagement!

We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Zalmy Hillel (Montreal, Canada) and Rozy Duchman (Miami Beach, FL) on their engagement.

The L’Chaim will IYH be Tuesday night Jewish Learning Center (JLC) , 411 W 41ST St, Miami Beach, FL 33140

Judge Orders Hearing on the Vaad Hakohol Elections Matter

CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] – Lawyers representing both the old and new Vaad’s appeared in court yesterday, and each left with the feeling that they were victorious. In arguments the judge dismissed the initial action attempting to bar the elections from taking place altogether, saying it was moot since the elections have already taken place. But the judge ordered a hearing on an action contesting the “legality and validity” if the entire election process.

The Weekly Sicha of the Rebbe – Parshas Nasso

The Rebbe says:

1. In this week’s Torah portion the Sotah (a woman suspected of adultery) is discussed. A Sotah is a woman who was alone with another man other than her husband after her husband zealously warned her saying, “Do not be alone with so-and-so”.

2. Our Sages tell us that, “A person does not commit a transgression unless a spirit of foolishness enters him”. They bring a proof to this adage from a verse in this week’s Torah portion regarding the Sotah which reads, “Any man whose wife shall go astray (Sisteh)”. Our Sages explain that the word “Sisteh”, literally meaning, “shall go astray”, can also be read, “Sishteh”, meaning, “acted foolishly”, therefore they learn that, “A person does not commit a transgression unless a spirit of foolishness enters him”.

3. The Rebbe questions this, as an opportunity to begin explaining a deeper dimension of the Sotah: