PARIS, France [LAP] — A Hasidic super star was arrested for assaulting his wife and children at his home, in Montreuil near Paris, France.
CrownHeights.info wishes Mazal Tov to Zalmen Zarchi (Crown Heights) And Dishy Blachman (Crown Heights) on their engagement.
The L’Chaim will IYH be Sunday night at Lubavitcher Yeshiva, 570 Crown St [hall entrance on Albany Ave].
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City marshals, who are tasked with enforcing judgments, took to the streets today and repossessed cars that owe outstanding tickets in excess of $350. Agents of the marshals scoured the streets for scofflaws, and netted over 100 vehicles, after not enforcing the scofflaws for the holiday season.
Rabbi Elkanah Shmotkin, director of Jewish Educational Media, JEM will be interviewed tonight, Monday by Jewish radio personality Zev Brenner.
Rabbi Shmotkin will be joined by Yechiel Cagen who will talking about the new movie JEM produced, the “Faithful and Fortified.” The video is about Rebbe and Israel’s security. Cagen is the director of the My Encounter with the Rebbe project.
LONDON, UK — With his dark-blue uniform, earpiece and walkie-talkie, Nochem Perlberger could pass for a police officer as he patrols the leafy streets of London’s Stamford Hill neighbourhood. Like an officer of the law, he responds to emergency calls, visits crime scenes and pursues suspects.
However, he is a member not of the constabulary but of the Stamford Hill Shomrim Rescue Patrol, a group of Orthodox Jewish men who, for the past two years, have been “policing” the streets of their community in Hackney.
JERUSALEM — It smells like a McDonald’s french fry, it tastes like a McDonald’s french fry, but if it’s from the McDonald’s at Jerusalem’s Central Bus Station, it won’t look like a McDonald’s french fry – at least the wrapping won’t.
Following the outstanding success of their first Mens event, woman turned for Lubavitcher Yeshivas Auction, and enjoyed a beautiful evening with food, inspiration and comedy.
Winners:
Mens night winner $1,000 raffles – Namdar
Admission – Mrs. Levine
Jackpot – Gavriel Friedman
Split the pot – Hudi Slater
$15,000 – Tammy Chayempour
BROOKLYN, NY [CHI] — Leah is a young and vibrant wife and mother living in Flatbush, Brooklyn. Aliza is a middle aged grandmother of twenty six living in Bnei Brak. The two might never have met except for the fact that Aliza was ill and desperately in need of a kidney transplant in order to survive. Leah was determined to be a donor and to save someone else’s life. And that’s how these two brave women formed an indelible bond.
A new exhibit at a Jewish archive in New York City is shedding light on the dissemination of religious material in the days before the printing press.
Comprised of old manuscripts, fading marriage certificates and handwritten editions of the Talmud – once consigned to be nothing more than filler for the bindings of printed books – the display at the central Chabad-Lubavitch library in Brooklyn represents the collective discovery of staff members cataloguing the library’s vast holdings.
Symmes Township, IL — Jack Greenberg, of Symmes Township, throws himself one heck of a birthday party every year: lunch and limousine service for 37 friends and their guests, a nice speech about himself, group photographs, and gifts of $1,500 for each invitee.
CrownHeights.info wishes Mazal Tov to Zalman and Raizy (nee Roston) Mendelsohn (Shluchim to Jackson, WY) on the birth of their daughter.
May the newborn be a source of Nachas to her parents, grandparents and Klal Yisroel.
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CrownHeights.info wishes Mazal Tov to Yisroel Meir and Shira (nee Green) Abramson (Crown Heights) 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 Dovid and Chana Shifra (nee Rabinowitz) Tenenbaum (S. Monica, CA) on the birth of their firstborn daughter.
May the newborn be a source of Nachas to her parents, grandparents and Klal Yisroel.
CrownHeights.info wishes Mazal Tov to Shmuly and Chani Rothman (Pittsburgh, PA) ) on the birth of their son.
May the newborn be a source of Nachas to his parents, grandparents and Klal Yisroel.
The surviving members of a family ripped apart by a suicide bomber’s blast extracted some measure of consolation from the tragedy by dedicating a Torah to a synagogue and community center in Sweden.
For the more than 100 people who paraded the holy scroll through the streets of Gothenburg and on to the city’s Chabad-Lubavitch center, the celebration reflected a mix of emotions. On the one hand, it brought back the sorrow and pain experienced eight years ago by the Schijveschuurder family when a Palestinian terrorist targeted a popular Jerusalem pizzeria.
NEW YORK — The New York Police Department has sent its officers to 11 cities around the globe — even once dispatching a husband and wife to Abu Dhabi. But the return from the world has been far greater.
Of the 5,593 officers hired since July 2006, when the department began tracking the nationalities of police officers, 1,042 of them were foreign-born — hailing from 88 countries, according to department records.
NEW YORK — Here’s the latest smack on taxpayers.
The city spent $32,000 on 70,000 fliers that tell you how to shoot heroin, complete with detailed tips on prepping the dope and injecting it into your arm.
The Health Department handout has outraged New York’s top drug prosecutors and abuse experts.
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