Recently Oholei Torah’s facade got a good cleaning and face lift. The old doorways and rickety aging awning were removed.
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.
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.
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.
This video is a 5 minute clip of the ongoing events at Camp Gan Israel Detroit Boys division.
A morning in Morristown, NJ with Shpalters Summer Learning Program, Tiferes, and Tomchei Temimim.
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.
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.”
CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — Late morning a 14-Year-Old Jewish girl was attacked by a group of bicycle riding black teens. The incident took place on Albany Avenue between President and Union Streets at around 11:30am.
This week’s Living Torah, Program 255, features a special Sicha for the week of Tisha B’av, in which the Rebbe discusses the concluding passage of Talmud Tractate Sukkah.
The Talmud tells the story of Miriam bas Bilga, a Jewess living in the time of the Greek siege of the Holy Temple, who abandoned her people and her faith.
CrownHeights.info wishes Mazal Tov to Aaron and Aida Junik (Crown Heights) on the birth of their son.
May the newborn be a source of Nachas to his parents, grandparents and Klal Yisroel.
MORRISTOWN, NJ — Nine weeks ago, Josh Weinstein packed up his blue Corolla for the 284-mile drive from Norfolk, Virginia to Morristown, New Jersey. The semester at Virginia Wesleyan College had just ended, and Weinstein, an English professor at the school, was gearing up for some study of his own: Yeshiva-style.
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