Alternate side parking (street cleaning) regulations will be suspended today, Monday, January 18 for observance of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s birthday. All other regulations, including parking meters, remain in effect.
ORANGE, CT — Through the work of Rabbi Enan Francis, Judaic and secular studies at Southern Connecticut Hebrew Academy have come together like never before in the school’s 65-year history.
Francis, 34, is the first person at the private academy at 261 Derby Ave. to serve as principal for both Judaic and secular studies. Francis said it is “not generally the norm” to have one principal for both.
Last week on Sunday January 10th, a group from Chabad of West Side traveled to Crown Heights to bake Matzahs along with their Shliach Rabbi Shlomo Kugel.
Pictures from the wedding of Leibel Kahanov (Jacksonville, FL) and Chana Stery Bryski (Agoura Hills, CA) took place Wednesday night at the Warner Center Marriott Hotel in Woodland Hills, CA.
The Fire Department has booted the city’s volunteer ambulance companies from its emergency 911 system, The Post has learned.
The volunteer ambulances “are no longer required,” a high-ranking EMS chief told dispatchers in an e-mail last month.
Rabbi Shimon Pelman, the director of Chabad-Lubavitch of the Dominican Republic who crossed the border into neighboring Haiti on Friday, described the contrasts as day and night. The rabbi counseled earthquake survivors in the devastated capital of Port-au-Prince and was briefed on efforts undertaken by United Nations troops and aid workers in the city.
The Facebook-based Chase Community Giving Challenge has been underway since Friday, January 15th. Lasting for one week, this competition challenges 100 nationwide non-profits to harness the power of social networking to gather the most votes. The winning organization wins $1 million from JP Morgan Chase. The subsequent top five organizations win $100,000.
Friendship Circle, the sole Jewish contestant, quickly advanced into 2nd place in a matter of hours. But as the only Jewish organization, they had to suspend their campaign for Shabbos, which began less than 20 hours after voting began.
Over Shabbos, Friendship Circle fell into 9th place, nearly 13,000 votes behind the current first-place leader. Now, Friendship Circle is calling upon the Jewish community to regain their momentum and reclaim their spot in the Top 3.
Please take a moment and say a Kapitel Tehillim for a Refuah Shlaima.
Yosef ben Doba Gitta
TACOMA, WA [CHI] — This past Friday, Rabbi Zalman Heber, director of Chabad of Peirce County in Tacoma, Washington, had the privilege and honor to give the invocation prayer at the opening session for the State Senate floor of Washington State. After the prayer many senators approached Rabbi Heber and thanked him for “truly praying” for them.
This Motzai Shabbos Beis Shmuel Chabad celebrated their annual Melava Malka under the banner of “Sheves Achim Gam Yachad”. The crowd enjoyed a performance by Mordechai Ben David as well as a Dvar Malchus from the Shuls spiritual leader Rabbi Yossi Jacobson.
The staff at CrownHeights.info would like to wish a very hearty Mazal Tov! Mazal Tov! to Shaya and his wife Chanie Gordon (Crown Heights) on the birth of a baby girl!
May the newborn be a source of Nachas to her parents, grandparents and Klal Yisroel.
Following a recent article, about a particular singer subjecting his wife and children to years of physical and mental abuse, Yoni Shlomo posted a YouTUBE video surrounded by Seforim and photos of his family explaining that matters aren’t so simple, and that the truth “belongs only to me and my family”.
After composing the hit song “Birshus” for Yaakov Shwekey, he took some time to compose his own songs. He’s already working on his first Single for his new Album of Chassidish Genre, and the Album is expected to be out sometime this upcoming year.
CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] – Anash, Bochurim and Shluchim attended a Kinus Hisorrerus in 770 on Thursday night. The event was triggered by the recent tragedy in which a young wife and boy were killed in a car crash last week.
The following photo was sent in by an avid CrownHeights.info reader with the following caption from this weeks Parash.
Parashas Va’eira: 7:9. “When Pharaoh speaks to you, saying, ‘Provide a sign for yourselves,’ you shall say to Aaron, ‘Take your staff, [and] cast [it] before Pharaoh; it will become a serpent.’ ”
CrownHeights.info wishes Mazal Tov to Yossi Lebovic (Crown Heights) and Chayah Hirsch (Crown Heights) on their engagement.
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SEINE-ET-MARNE, France [CHI] — A new Mikvah celebrated its receiving Kosher certification in a suburb of Paris this week.
