Exactly one year after their children perished in the Mumbai terror attacks, Rabbi Nachman and Freida Holtzberg of New York and Rabbi Shimon Rosenberg of Afula, Israel, will participate in a memorial ceremony at the Nariman House, the heavily-damaged structure that once housed the city’s Chabad-Lubavitch center.
Amid complaints about flaws in the city’s new 911 system, New York City’s Police and Fire Departments on Friday announced steps to reduce the likelihood of mistakes in handling emergency fire calls.
The agencies said Police Department workers who take 911 calls would consult with a Fire Department operator to ask questions and verify the accuracy of the information before sending a computer message to a fire dispatcher to put firefighters into action.
The daughters of Mrs. Syma Lezerowitz OBM are sitting Shiva after her passing.
They are sitting at 1383 Union Street, between Brooklyn and New York Avenues. Phone: (718) 604-0624.
Hamokom Yenachem Eschem Besoch Shaar Avaylay Tzion VeYerushalayim.
Some people in Postville are doing what they can to get Sholom Rubashkin released from jail.
Rubashkin was found guilty of 86 charges of financial fraud earlier this month. He’s remained in jail ever since, facing possible sentencing of 1200 years.
Rabbi Yehuda Krinsky, Chairman of Merkos, arrived at the Nariman House this morning in Mumbai, India to partake in a memorial ceremony marking one year to the visiuse murders of the victims of 26/11.
Peretz Chein seems like a traditional Chabad rabbi-except for the fact that he reads Maimonides teachings from his BlackBerry and runs marathons in his spare time.
On Oct. 25, Rabbi Peretz Chein, the rabbi and director of Chabad at Brandeis, ran the Cape Cod Marathon with the Chabad Brandeis Marathon Team. Five of the team’s members are current Brandeis students: Yoni Cohen ’10, Josh Jick ’12, Meir Krinsky ’11, Dan Litwok ’10 and Justin Meltzer ’11. Two alumni, Michael Kann ’81 and Aaron Voldman ’09, also ran with the team.
CrownHeights.info wishes Mazal Tov to Mendel Shemtov (Toledo, Ohio) and Shterna Sarah Wilansky (Portland, Maine) on their engagement.
IYH at Beis Levi Yitzchok, 556 Crown St. [entrance on Albany Ave].
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CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — Last week, on 29th of Cheshvan OK Kosher Certification held its 11th annual Mashgiach Conference in Chovevei Torah in Crown Heights. Over 100 OK personnel and mashgichim were in attendance, including many from around the world.
CrownHeights.info wishes Mazal Tov to Zali Lurie (Montreal/Florida) and Yehudis Pinson (Crown Heights) on their engagement.
To submit your Simcha or Mazal Tov email us at MazalTov@CrownHeights.info!
A large group made their way up Mount Olives to the final resting place of Rabbi Gavriel and Rivky Holtzberg to pray, marking a year to their vicious murder in their Chabad House in Mumbai.
CrownHeights.info wishes Mazal Tov to Srully and Mushka (nee Lerman) Deitsch (Crown Heights) on the birth of their firstborn daughter.
May the newborn be a source of Nachas to her parents, grandparents and Klal Yisroel.
CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — A young Bochur was viciously attacked and robbed Monday evening as he cut through Lefferts Park. The incident took place at around 5:30pm where a group of around five black teens pounced on the Bochur, punching him in the face a number of times and stealing his cell phone.
Beaten and severely injured the Bochur made his was out of the park screaming for help, and the first person he encountered, a Lubavitcher, called Shomrim and Hatzalah. “It was horrifying, [the victim] approached me gushing blood from all over his head and face and begged me for help” said the bystander, who asked not to be named.
A Brooklyn judge has thrown out a rabbinical court’s arbitration award, finding that the court’s refusal to allow the claimant to select his own counsel violated New York law, notwithstanding the fact that the claimant participated in the proceeding without objection.
The decision constitutes the first time a New York court has addressed in a written opinion the issue of whether an arbitration panel can require that attorneys appearing before them must receive their approval.
It is also a rare reversal of an arbitration award, in which even mistakes of fact and misapplications of the law are insufficient grounds for reversal.
AFULA, Israel [CHI] – A new Sefer Torah was completed and dedicated in memory of Rabbi Gavriel and Rivky Holtzberg in the home of the Rosenbergs in Afula.
MUMBAI, India [CHI] – A group of Rabbis and Bochurim were granted permission to enter Nariman House, the building which housed the Chabad House of Rabbi Gavriel and Rivka Holtzberg HYD.
Chabad.org recently created a new section in their “Lifecycles” category, called “The Upsherin,” when a three-year-old Jewish boy’s takes his first haircut.
Construction is currently underway at Chabad of Curitiba, Brazil; on an exciting new Menorah. Being that this year reached a milestone of 120 years of the immigration of the first Jews to the state; a Menorah is being constructed from 120 stones, each stone representing another year. Every stone has golden numbers attached, with a year.
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