CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — The entire fourth floor of 784-788 Eastern Parkway is dark leaving Chabad on Campus, Chabad.org, and JEM in the dark. At this time it is unclear why the electricity was cut off.
Aircraft maintenance has Yehuda and me delayed for a few hours at Jakarta’s Soekarno Hatta International Airport, as we await departure for Bali. Grounded passengers look gloomy as they lounge on oversized surfboards and grumble. They have been forced to replace adrenaline-rushed calls for “surf’s up” with anxious anticipation for “gear’s up.”
CrownHeights.info wishes Mazal Tov to Mendy and Devorah (nee Assouline) Benhamou (Paris, France) on the birth of their twins, a boy and a girl.
May the newborn be a source of Nachas to their parents, grandparents and Klal Yisroel.
In what has become a longstanding tradition, the campers of Gan Israel of Parksville, NY make their way to Crown Heights in honor of Chof Av, the day of the Yohrtziet of Reb Levi Yitzchok, the Rebbes father.
CrownHeights.info wishes Mazal Tov to Yossi and Estee (nee Schreiber) Majerczyk on the birth of their daughter.
May the newborn be a source of Nachas to her parents, grandparents and Klal Yisroel.
Preparations for an annual walkathon benefiting the founding chapter of the Friendship Circle – a Chabad-Lubavitch network of programs that pair teenage volunteers with children with special needs – is generating a buzz among Detroit-area residents thanks to the endorsement of a local radio personality and a cadre of dedicated volunteers.
CrownHeights.info wishes Mazal Tov to Levi Piekarski (Crown Heights) and Dikla Farkash (Ashkelon, Israel) on their engagement.
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CrownHeights.info wishes Mazal Tov to Shmully Tennenhaus (Hallandale, FL) and Rosie (Bas R. Mendel) Levin (Crown Heights) on their engagement.
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CrownHeights.info wishes Mazal Tov to Shmuel and Kayla (nee Feiner) Freeman (Los Angeles, CA) on the birth of their daughter.
May the newborn be a source of Nachas to her parents, grandparents and Klal Yisroel.
MANCHESTER, England [CHI] — Every Sunday evening between 8:00 and 9:00pm, members of Anash come to Kollel Chassidus in Beis Menachem to learn Chassidus b’Chavrusa.
CrownHeights.info wishes Mazal Tov to Yudi and Bruchy (nee Moskowitz) Winterfeld (Montreal,Canada) 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 Adi and Malky Goodman (Cooper City, FL) on the birth of their daughter.
May the newborn be a source of Nachas to her parents, grandparents and Klal Yisroel.
Complaining that the Indian government was not giving them long-term visas, Rabbi Yaakov-David Leiter and his wife Sara, who were hoping to carry forward the legacy of Sara’s sister Rivka Holtzberg and her husband Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg at Chabad House in Mumbai, have apparently changed their mind and decided not to take up the assignment.
Despite a shrinking NYPD, the number of mistreatment claims against city cops jumped 7 percent in the first six months of 2009 — a pace that would shatter the annual record filed with the Civilian Complaint Review Board, The Post has learned.
CCRB stats show 4,028 complaints filed between Jan. 1 and June 30, compared with 3,764 in the first half of ’08. At that rate, there’d be 8,056 this year, eclipsing the 2006 record of 7,663.
With more complaints usually filed in the second half of the calendar year, a CCRB official acknowledged in May that as many as 8,200, or an 11 percent rise over last year, would likely be tallied in ’09, sources said.
ATLANTA, GA — A Cobb rabbi is seeking to declare Georgia’s Kosher Food Labeling Act unconstitutional, saying it de-legitimizes interpretations of “kosher” by different Jewish communities.
Shalom Lewis, rabbi of Congregation Etz Chaim, filed suit Thursday in Fulton County Superior Court. He is represented by the American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of Georgia and Atlanta law firm King & Spalding.
The Kosher Food Labeling Act, enacted in 1980, mandates that any food sold as kosher must meet “orthodox Hebrew religious rules and requirements.”
PARKSVILLE, NY [CHI] — After slipping in the first inning and giving up 7 runs, the staff paved the way for the visitors to victory in an upsetting final score of 13-5.
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