CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — CrownHeights.info received reports of a suspicious package on the platform of the Kingston Avenue subway station in front of 770. The station has been shut down until the police can conclude their investigation.
Update 9:58am: The package has been identified, service should return to normal shortly.
N. MIAMI BEACH, Florida [CHI] — On December 29, 2009, twenty one university students with little formal Jewish education from around the country arrived in North Miami Beach to participate in the Miami Torah Experience, a ten day torah study program.
FOX News is displaying a picture of a Lubavitcher Bochur, Shmuel Aziza powering his laptop off a car battery during the 2003 blackout. The picture is part of a larger photo gallery with pictures of events that captured the decade.
JERUSALEM, Israel [CHI] — Yesterday in Jerusalem Vaad Rabonei Lubavitch held the first part of a conference on the topic of the “Jewish home”. Hundreds of Rabbis from a wide spectrum partook.
CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — A water main break forced the evacuation of the Mosdos Day Care Center on Lefferts Avenue earlier today, at around 2:30pm this afternoon.
CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — Oholei Torah recently received a substantial pledge for the renovation of the dormitory on Eastern Parkway. The dormitory houses students that are learning in Zal.
A letter sent by Shlomo L., a former student of Yeshivas Nishmas Shlomo, a Yesivah in Tzfas, Israel, known as YNS, thanking “Rabbi O”. Affectionately known by his students as “Rabbi O,” Rabbi Yaacov Orimland established the Yeshivah and is now its Rosh Yeshivah. In the letter the student writes, “When I first arrived to YNS I was confused and lost in direction.” He goes on to say, “I want to thank you for spending those countless hours with me in your office instilling in me the right way and valuable lessons for lifetime.” Rabbi Orimland is known for taking extra care, helping each student on their level.
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].
Have a Mazal Tov you want to share? Email us at MazalTov@CrownHeights.info!
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.
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