Mazal Tov! – It’s A Girl!
CrownHeights.info wishes Mazal Tov to Chaim and Rochi (nee Rapoport) Benjaminson (Crown Heights) on the birth of their firstborn daughter.
May the newborn be a source of Nachas to her parents, grandparents and Klal Yisroel.
NEW YORK [NY1] — New Yorkers are now paying a little extra at the cash register.
The city sales tax hike went into effect Saturday, bumping the burden up half a percentage point, to 8.875 percent.
New York City Sales Tax Increases to 8.875%
NEW YORK [NY1] — New Yorkers are now paying a little extra at the cash register.
The city sales tax hike went into effect Saturday, bumping the burden up half a percentage point, to 8.875 percent.
SALT LAKE CITY — From New York City to San Francisco and back again in a van, the traveling troupe is three young rabbis in training.
These young men came through Salt Lake City because they are members of the Lubavitch Youth Organization, and Rabbi Benny Zippel of Chabad Lubavitch of Utah welcomed them. We found them meeting and greeting downtown.
Video – Road Sage Visits Utah During Cross-Country Trip
SALT LAKE CITY — From New York City to San Francisco and back again in a van, the traveling troupe is three young rabbis in training.
These young men came through Salt Lake City because they are members of the Lubavitch Youth Organization, and Rabbi Benny Zippel of Chabad Lubavitch of Utah welcomed them. We found them meeting and greeting downtown.
Jonathan Arkush, the Board of Deputies’ senior vice-president and a US member, publicly revived the idea of a unified approach at a Board meeting last week in order to prevent disputes over who is a Jew.
But RCUS leader Rabbi Yitzchak Schochet said this week: “Reform and Liberal and conversions are generally not accepted by Orthodox and Masorti movements. Masorti conversions cannot be accepted by Orthodox. The only one that is acceptable throughout is Orthodox conversion.”
Single Conversion Standard Resisted
The head of the United Synagogue’s Rabbinical Council (RCUS) has responded to a call for a common conversion standard by asserting that only Orthodox conversions are valid.
Jonathan Arkush, the Board of Deputies’ senior vice-president and a US member, publicly revived the idea of a unified approach at a Board meeting last week in order to prevent disputes over who is a Jew.
But RCUS leader Rabbi Yitzchak Schochet said this week: “Reform and Liberal and conversions are generally not accepted by Orthodox and Masorti movements. Masorti conversions cannot be accepted by Orthodox. The only one that is acceptable throughout is Orthodox conversion.”
Mordechai Ben David - Medley
Video: Vintage MBD – Medley in 1979
Mordechai Ben David – Medley
Mazal Tov! – New Engagement!
CrownHeights.info wishes Mazal Tov to Leibel Rosler (Toronto, Canada) and Gitty Lasker (Brussels, Belgium) on their engagement.
The L’Chaim will IYH be Sunday night at Empire Shtibel, 489 Empire Blvd [between Brooklyn and New York Ave].
To submit your Simcha or Mazal Tov email us at MazalTov@CrownHeights.info!
Recently Oholei Torah's facade got a good cleaning and face lift. The old doorways and rickety aging awning were removed.
Picture of the Day! – Face Lift!
Recently Oholei Torah’s facade got a good cleaning and face lift. The old doorways and rickety aging awning were removed.
Pupils of Mechina Le’Yeshiva Tested by Horav Hager Shlita
LONDON, England [CHI] — Once again Harav Yisroel Hager Shlita, son of the Viznitzer Rebbe Shlita, was impressed with the Bochurim of the Mechina, Lubavitch, London.
CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — A “Kol Koreh” recently began circulating among Anash condemning the members of the ‘new vaad’ calling them “Malshinim and Mossrim” over the actions they took against a community Gemach, local businesses, and residents by subpoenaing them and dragging them into their fight with the ‘old vaad’.
Unusually harsh words were used and the flyer was signed by many prominent Mashpim and Askonim including Rabbis Pinyeh Korf, Simcha Piekarsky, Sholom Dovber Futerfas, Avrohom Gerlitzky, Chaim Shaul Brook, Michoel Seligson Sholom Dovber Levin, Chaim Dovid Laine, Pinchos Zev Wolff among some more.
Mashpim and Members of Anash Lash out at the ‘New Vaad’
CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — A “Kol Koreh” recently began circulating among Anash condemning the members of the ‘new vaad’ calling them “Malshinim and Mossrim” over the actions they took against a community Gemach, local businesses, and residents by subpoenaing them and dragging them into their fight with the ‘old vaad’.
Unusually harsh words were used and the flyer was signed by many prominent Mashpim and Askonim including Rabbis Pinyeh Korf, Simcha Piekarsky, Sholom Dovber Futerfas, Avrohom Gerlitzky, Chaim Shaul Brook, Michoel Seligson Sholom Dovber Levin, Chaim Dovid Laine, Pinchos Zev Wolff among some more.
“What a coincidence!” remarked the minister upon encountering the Rabbi: “It was just last night that I dreamt I was in Jewish Heaven.”
“Jewish Heaven?” mused the Rabbi. “What’s it like in Jewish Heaven?”
“Oh!” replied the minister ever so snidely, "In Jewish Heaven children with dirty faces, shirts un-tucked and clothes un-pressed play in the dirt. In Jewish heaven women haggle with fruit and fish-vendors as panhandlers persistently interrupt.
The Great Paradox – A Torah of Reality, Truth and Compassion
In the early 1900’s, Manhattan’s Lower East Side tenements served as a bastion for Jewish immigrants. A Rabbi, who resided in the ghetto-type community, once attended an ecumenical function at which a notorious anti-Semitic Episcopalian Minister was in attendance.
“What a coincidence!” remarked the minister upon encountering the Rabbi: “It was just last night that I dreamt I was in Jewish Heaven.”
“Jewish Heaven?” mused the Rabbi. “What’s it like in Jewish Heaven?”
“Oh!” replied the minister ever so snidely, “In Jewish Heaven children with dirty faces, shirts un-tucked and clothes un-pressed play in the dirt. In Jewish heaven women haggle with fruit and fish-vendors as panhandlers persistently interrupt.
Mazal Tov! – 11 Sholom Zochors this Week!
Shloy and Toby Rubinstein.
IYH at 417 Sterling St [between Brooklyn and New York Ave].
Levi and Rochel Zarchi
IYH at 551 Brooklyn Ave. Apt 1A [between Maple and Midwood St].
Mendel and Gitty Meyers
IYH at 361 New York Avenue [between Carroll and President St].
Ari and Yehudis Zobak.
IYH at 440 Brooklyn Ave, Apt 3H [between Empire Blvd and Sterling St].
Yisrolik and Mushkie Raskin.
IYH at 686 Eastern Pkwy, Apt 1R [between Brooklyn and New York Ave].
Yossi and Chaya Light.
IYH at 820 Eastern Pkwy, 2nd Flr [between Kingston and Albany Ave].
Aaron and Aida Junik.
IYH at Kozy Acres Bungalow Unit Apt 37.
Levi and Chanie Stone
IYH at 13 Tarone Drive Westport, CT.
Levi and Brany Fisher.
IYH at 14 Phyllis Terrace, Monsey, NY 10952.
Eitan and Gitty (nee Lisbon) Webb (Shluchim to Princeton, NJ)
15 Edwards Pl Princeton, NJ.
Zalman and Dit Greenberg
IYH at 11461 N. Bobolink Lane Mequon, WI.
Please stay tuned as we update this list when information becomes available. However, in an unfortunate event that we do not get all the Sholom Zochors this week, we are sorry. But you can help! If you know of any Sholom Zochors or Mazal Tovs you can email it to us at MazalTov@CrownHeights.info. Thank You!!
WELLESLEY HILLS, MA — While competition is most often a driving force in a sport’s participants, the Men’s Shul Softball League embraces a different and more important element of the game: friendship.
Shul Softball Wraps Up Season; Shluggers Fall in Title Game
WELLESLEY HILLS, MA — While competition is most often a driving force in a sport’s participants, the Men’s Shul Softball League embraces a different and more important element of the game: friendship.
This video is a 5 minute clip of the ongoing events at Camp Gan Israel Detroit Boys division.
Video: Final Week in CGI Detroit!
This video is a 5 minute clip of the ongoing events at Camp Gan Israel Detroit Boys division.
Photos: A Morning in Morristown: Part 2
A morning in Morristown, NJ with Shpalters Summer Learning Program, Tiferes, and Tomchei Temimim.
Minority Among Minorities, Yosef Abrahamson Opens Minds
Thoughtful, cool, almost cerebral, Yosef Abrahamson is not your average Crown Heights Brooklyn Lubavitcher Chasidic Orthodox Jewish black teen Republican from Omaha, Nebraska. Then again, the 17-year-old two-time winner of the NYPD’s “Commissioner for a Day” essay contest is not exactly average anything, either.
Born in Omaha into an unbroken matrilineal line descended from German Jewish immigrants and raised by his devoted mom, long-time Nebraska GOP activist and national delegate Dinah Abrahamson, along with older sister Sarah, Yosef grew up in the Cornhusker State’s Republican Party. In the state’s GOP, Yosef joined his mother in hobnobbing with such heavyweights as Hal Daub, Mike Johanns, Lee Terry and later, George W. Bush, over a lifetime of political activism.
From the interview “the NYT has partial obituaries on public figures, and given my age I am sure they have one on me, and it would read David N. Dinkins Born July, 10 1927 in Trenton NJ, first black mayor of the city of New York, then immediately Crown Heights, and not about keeping libraries open 6 days a week when we did not have a lot of money, spent $47 million to do so, and this was not done in over a century, instead there would be Crown Heights.”
The former mayor goes into details about inaccuracies that were reported in the media, but admits his own mishandling of the riots, “I screwed up Crown Heights.”
Dinkins: “My Obituary will Read how I Screwed Up CH”
In an interview with WNYC public radio former mayor David N. Dinkins goes into detail about his own misdealing of crown heights, and according to most permitting the riots to go on unrestrained.
From the interview “the NYT has partial obituaries on public figures, and given my age I am sure they have one on me, and it would read David N. Dinkins Born July, 10 1927 in Trenton NJ, first black mayor of the city of New York, then immediately Crown Heights, and not about keeping libraries open 6 days a week when we did not have a lot of money, spent $47 million to do so, and this was not done in over a century, instead there would be Crown Heights.”
The former mayor goes into details about inaccuracies that were reported in the media, but admits his own mishandling of the riots, “I screwed up Crown Heights.”
