CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — A pedestrian was truck and injured this morning as she crossed Empire Boulevard at the Brooklyn Avenue intersection. The incident took place at around 9:00am.
CrownHeights.info wishes Mazal Tov to Moishy Natkin (Tzfat/Crown Heights) and Miri Maatuf (Nachlat Har Chabad, Israel) on their engagement.
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MELBOURNE, Australia [CHI] — At the wedding of Ari and Chana Herzog Tuesday night, a DVD was distributed featuring a preview of Faithful and Fortified, the inside story of the Rebbe’s involvement in Israel’s security, as told by its defense and government leaders.
Dr. Jacquelline Perlman, who’s helped deliver hundreds of Brooklyn babies in her 12-year OB-GYN career, is calling it quits — and citing sky-high malpractice insurance and plunging income.
“I’ve decided to retire from obstetrics,” said Perlman, 42. “It breaks my heart. Malpractice costs are a big part of it. It’s a very sad story.
The last straw, she said, came last spring when her insurer, the Combined Coordinating Council, noting the high risk of covering obstetricians, canceled her policy and those of doctors she practiced with at Brooklyn Women’s Health Care, a New York Methodist Hospital affiliate.
CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — While brushing his teeth, a man made a sudden and unexpected exit from his bathroom when the floor gave way, and he suddenly found himself in his buildings basement with the bathroom tiles and floor all scattered around him.
JERUSALEM, Israel [CHI] — A police investigation into today’s terrible accident which claimed the life of 3-year-old Shula Swerdlov turned up troubling information on the driver, and the transportation company.
WINDSOR, England [CHI] — Eton College, one of England’s most prestigious boarding schools, the Princes from the Royal family actually attended Eton College, as did 18 of British former prime ministers.
Rabbi Yossi Simon of Tzivos Hashem, along with his son Menachem went to do a Tefillin and Safrus program, which was organized by Mendy Taitelbaum and Benjamin Pearl.
There will be a global Tzivos Hashem Cheshvon rally live on the internet on Thursday at 1pm EST. Close to 2000 kids signed up to the program already with many more children from around the world expected to be watching the rally live online.
SIOUX FALLS, SD — Two kosher meat sellers who regularly bought from Agriprocessors Inc. testified today that they were unaware that the eastern Iowa slaughterhouse allegedly attached their business names to made-up debts which were then used to defraud a bank.
But one of the sellers, Aaron Tzivin, who owns the Crown Heights House of Glatt in Brooklyn, N.Y, told jurors that he still has a good relationship with the plant’s former owners, the Rubashkin family.
JERUSALEM, Israel [CHI] — Shula Swerdlov, a 3 and a half year old girl was fatally injured in a hit and run accident in the Rechavia neighborhood of Jerusalem. Volunteers in the United Hatzalah organization responded to the scene and for a long hour attempted to revive the girl then transporting her to a local hospital where she later succumbed to her injuries.
Shula is the daughter of a Rabbi Yossi and Hindel Swerdlov who work in the Tourisim outreach division of Tzerei Agudat Chabad in Israel, and grandparents Reb Leibel and Miriam Swerdlov in Crown Heights.
MONROE, NY [CHI] — Children and adults of all ages learned about the beauty and joy of the Jewish “autumn” holidays – beginning with the High Holy-Days, and culminating with the festivities of Sukkot and Simchat Torah. Chabad of Orange County, directed by Rabbi Pesach and Chana Burston, organized these events.
CrownHeights.info wishes Mazal Tov to Mendy (ben Gavriel) Gopin (Crown Heights) and Rikkel Loebenstein (Melbourne, Australia) on their engagement.
The L’Chaim will IYH be tonight, Monday at Bais Rivkah, 310 Crown St [between New York and Nostrand Ave].
CrownHeights.info wishes Mazal Tov to Yitzchok Lerman (Crown Heights) and Bina Serebryanski (Melbourne, Australia) on their engagement.
The L’Chaim will IYH be tonight, Monday at Bais Rivkah, 310 Crown St [between New York and Nostrand Ave].
CYPRUS — When Randi Luxenberg was planning her 25th wedding anniversary, she came up with a gift idea for her husband, Arthur that was anything but same old, same old:
A newly inscribed Torah scroll.
Pictures from the L’Chaim of Levi Benjaminson (Crown Heights) and Shainy Perl (Los Angeles, CA) took place Monday night in the Jewish Childrens Museum.
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — This past Chol Hamoed Sukkos, Yagdil Torah and Agudas Avreichim Lubavitch got together to arrange a most extensive array of shiurim. This was done in the spirit of the Rebbe’s words (Parshas Tzav 5731) that Chol Hamoed is a time when one can fulfill “You should study them (the words of Torah) all day and night” in the most literal sense.
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