CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — A Jewish woman was mugged at gunpoint and the masked mugger made off with her purse. The incident took place earlier this evening at around 6:45pm at the intersection of Brooklyn Avenue and President Street.
NEW YORK [WSYR] — It appears New York roads are no safer than those in states that don’t ban use of hand held cell phones. A new Highway Loss Data Institute study finds no reductions in crashes after these laws take effect.
According to the study it’s not just New York. Other states that’ve enacted cell phone laws have also seen little change in the number of crashes.
CrownHeights.info wishes Mazal Tov to Shomie and Hindy (nee Chazanow) Schechter (Manalapan, NJ) on the birth of their firstborn son.
May the newborn be a source of Nachas to his parents, grandparents and Klal Yisroel.
Fifty congressmen signed a letter which was sent to President Barak Obama urging him to put diplomatic pressure on Israel to resolve the Gaza blockade, the troubling signature in the mix was that of Rep. Yvette Clarke (D-NY), who represents the 11th district which includes Crown Heights.
Please take a moment and say a Kapitel Tehillim for a Refuah Shlaima.
Moshe Ben Chana Leah.
New weapon: To avoid detection by airport body scanners (above), Al Qaeda are said to be planning to surgically insert explosives into suicide bombers' bodiesBritain is facing a new Al Qaeda terror threat from suicide ‘body bombers’ with explosives surgically inserted inside them.
New weapon: To avoid detection by airport body scanners (above), Al Qaeda are said to be planning to surgically insert explosives into suicide bombers’ bodies
Britain is facing a new Al Qaeda terror threat from suicide ‘body bombers’ with explosives surgically inserted inside them.
Rabbi Levi Hodakov quietly admitted he was nervous as the crowd streamed into Young Israel-Chabad of Pinellas County last week.
Two days after Israel submitted its response to the Goldstone report that accused the IDF of possible crimes against humanity during last year’s Operation Cast Lead, prominent lawyer and political commentator Professor Alan Dershowitz said that the jurist, someone he once considered a friend, was “a traitor to the Jewish people.”
CrownHeights.info wishes Mazal Tov to Shmuel Chaim and Esther (nee Weisberg) Scharf (Chicago, IL) on the birth of their daughter.
May the newborn be a source of Nachas to her parents, grandparents and Klal Yisroel.
CrownHeights.info wishes Mazal Tov to Levi and Nechama Dina (nee Zirkind) Milecki (Crown Heights) on the birth of their firstborn daughter.
May the newborn be a source of Nachas to her parents, grandparents and Klal Yisroel.
Scores of men enjoyed a relaxing evening of food, drink and entertainment on Motzai Shabbos in support of Keren Simchas Chosson V’Kallah, a vital Crown Heights organization which helps Brides and Grooms with their weddings.
NEW YORK [NY1] — The toy retailer Toys R Us is urging customers to turn in potentially unsafe children’s products, as it launches its second “Great Trade-In” event.
From now through February 20, customers can bring in used cribs, strollers, high chairs and play pens among other baby items.
CrownHeights.info wishes Mazal Tov to Daniel Menachem Yaffe (Leeds, UK) and Sara-Tova Levi (Sydney, Australia) on their engagement.
Their L’Chaim will IYH be tonight, Sunday at 662 Eastern Pkwy [between New York and Brooklyn Ave]
Have a Mazal Tov you want to share? Email us at MazalTov@CrownHeights.info!
CrownHeights.info wishes Mazal Tov to Moishe Ginsburg (Myrtle Beach, SC) and Mushka (Mushi) Deitch (Jerusalem) on their engagement.
The L’Chaim will IYH be Motzei Shabbos, Parshas Yisro at Beis Levi Yitzchock, 556 Crown St [entrance ramp on Albany Ave]
GOSHEN, NY [CHI] — Chabad’s Teen Club, which meets with Rabbi Pesach Burston every Monday, recently enjoyed a unique program: The teens made kosher hero sandwiches and had an interactive discussion about what really makes a hero?
The mivtza for Yud Shevat was announced by the shluchim a month before Yud Shevat. The mivtza consisted of brochos before chassidus, chitas, seder sichos twice a week, history of the Rebbeim and a daily quiz on that days chumash. The bochurim were eligible to win weekly trips such as jeeping, dinner at a chinese restaurant, ice skating and bowling and a two night three day stay at Hotel Lavi with the shluchim. The grand raffle of the mivtza was a laptop and each bochur who successfully entered this raffle was also given 150 shekels. To gain entry into the grand raffle bochurim were tested on Basi Legani 5711. Mazel tov to Habochur Hatomim Yosef Yitzchok Simpson upon winning the laptop!
BROOKLYN, NY [CHI] — Over three hundred people filled the Merkaz Hasimcha hall in Flatbush, to pay tribute to the young Shliach, Avrohom Dovid Liberow, whose Neshama was taken away from us last month in a horrific car accident along with Pesha Leah Azoulay.
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