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Mazal Tov! – It’s A Girl!

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.

Swedish Torah Memorializes Family Lost in Jerusalem Bombing

By Tamar Runyan for Chabad.org

Rabbi Alexander Namdar, right, planned a Torah dedication for two brothers who lost their parents and three siblings in the Aug. 9, 2001 bombing of a Jerusalem pizzeria.

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.

From Around the Globe, Serving New York

By Al Baker for the New York Times

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 City Publishes Drugs Guide Book

By Brad Hamilton for NY Post

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.

Kfar Chabad: New Campus for Tzac”h

Last Wednesday, Gimel Tevet marked the birthday of Rabbi Yossi Raichik, director of Project Children of Chernobyl, who passed away over a year ago. As it was known, Rabbi Raichik was entirely devoted and given over to the activating of Tzeirei Chabad.

Photos: Released Time Winter Camp!

During last week, the Jewish Released Time program under the auspices of the NCFJE arranged winter camps for public school children during their winter vacation. Over 120 children attended the Brooklyn and Queens camps.

Surveillance Video: Suspects in Robbery at Gunpoint Entering Building

Surveillance Footage Courtesy of SafeZone24.

Captured on an infrared surveillance camera, which monitors the entrance to 742 Montgomery Street, an eerily lit picture shows the couple returning home on Motzai Shabbos, and apparently held the door open for their assailants.

Meter Moron Issues Tickets to String of Manhattan Cars on New Year’s

Bosko Savanovic holds $115 ticket for parking on New Year’s Day.

Stupidity didn’t take a holiday on E. 38th St.

A traffic agent inexplicably hit at least 10 cars parked along a block in Murray Hill with $115 tickets Friday, even though rules were suspended for New Year’s Day.

When confronted by angry drivers, the meterman refused to back down. Instead, he insisted he was following the orders of a supervisor.

ULY Crown’s Scholarship Fund (a)

Tonight, Motzoai Shabbos starting at 8:00pm will be the Mens viewing and event, and tomorrow, Sunday starting at 3:00pm will be the womens event. More details on the auction website.

Joy reverberated through the room as the bris ceremony ended and well-wishers congratulated Yossel, the new father. “And Yoss, don’t forget to register the baby at Yeshiva.”

Mount Sinai Hospital Welcomes ‘Baby New Year’

Just 13 seconds after the ball dropped, baby “new year” came bouncing into the world.

“We’re proud, very happy, very excited,” said proud mom Brucha Strulevich, who hasn’t even picked out a name for the third addition to her family of all boys.

Sefer Torah that Survived the Holocaust getting Rededicated

On Sunday, January 10th an historical event will be taking place at the Garfield Theater at the Jewish Community Center in La Jolla, California. A 200 year-old Torah scroll, which miraculously survived the Holocaust in Carlsbad, Czechoslovakia, buried under a basement, will be dedicated by its new owner, Chabad at La Costa, located in Carlsbad, California.

Letter: The Lesson I Learned from my Younger Brother

Rabbi Yehudah Tiechtel, from Chabad of Berlin, Germany, the father of the Bar Mitzvah boy, with Rabbi Yitzchok Tiechtel.

Family, what does it mean when we say this word? Is it just a name for people who happen to be our parents or siblings? Is it a way to refer to those who share our blood with whom we speak to on occasion? Or is family a network we need to lean on in times of crisis or tragedy?