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Chabad at the Beaches Hosted a Cultural Fair

PONTE VEDRA BEACH, FL [CHI] — Chabad at the Beaches hosted a cultural fair Sunday, it offered adults and children alike the opportunity to get into the spirit of the High Holidays in a hands-on, fun and entertaining way. Over 65 people attended. The High Holiday Family Fair, was held at Chabad at the Beaches’ Center for Jewish Life, 521 A1A North Ponte Vedra Beach.

Chai Elul Farbrengen in Sydney, Australia

Tonight, Monday 18 Elul – 7 September, took place a Chai Elul Hakhel Farbrengen in the Yeshiva Centre – Chabad Headquarters of NSW, 36 Flood Street, Bondi.

The Farbrengen was in honor of the auspicious day of Chai Elul which is the Birthday of Rabbi Yisroel Baal Shem Tov, the founder of the Chassidic movement 113 years ago and Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi founder of the Chabad Lubavitch movement and author of the Tanya and the Shulchan Aruch Harav.

Shliach’s Thoughts on Jews Defending Their Loved Ones

Shliach Rabbi Mordechai Z. Hecht left and the front page of the NY Post with Gary Moscowitz right.

Dear Friend,
and whom this may concern,

With the most recent exposure of the “Martial Arts & Gun training” training story in the media, also now known by many other names – puns and embarrassing terminologies of which I was associated with – I would like to make some things clear. I will not go into the plethora of Torah sources for self-defense and the like rather address the issue at hand.

Photos: Kol-Tuv Ends Summer with Fireworks Show

MONTICELLO, NY [CHI] — With summer drawing to a close, families packed up and enjoyed their last Motzai Shabbos in the Catskill Mountains. One bungalow colony marked it with a 45 minutes fireworks show followed by a Kumzitz Bon Fire.

Boruch Dayan Haemes – R. Shmuel Tzvi (Herschel) Fox OBM

With great sadness we inform you of the passing of R. Shmuel Tzvi (Ben R. Dovber) Fox, of Crown Heights.

The Niftar is survived by Yibadlu Lechaim Tovim his wife Mrs. Dvorah Fox and his son R. Dovber Fox (Crown Heights) and daughters, Mrs. Sara Gottlieb (Oak Park, Michigan) and Mrs. Shifra Galperin (Crown Heights).

The Levaya will take place Monday and will be leaving from the Shomrei Hadas Chaples at 8:00am and passing by 770 at around 9:00am.

Boruch Dayan Hoemes

Councilmen Unhappy With Parking Ticket Blizzard

The New York Post

NEW YORK — Ticket-happy traffic agents are slapping Big Apple drivers with “unfair” summonses, according to a lawmaker who wants to put the brakes on the orange blizzard.

“Over the last six months, complaints about traffic summonses have surpassed anything else in my office,” said City Councilman Peter Vallone Jr.

Faith-Based Forgery Bust

By John Doyle for the NY Post

Illustration Photo

BROOKLYN, NY — A Brooklyn priest has a new appreciation for interfaith dialogue — after a neighborhood patrol of religious Jews helped collar the check-forger targeting his church.

Quick-acting members of the Shomrim Patrol, a volunteer watchdog group of Orthodox Jews, tipped off cops to the location of the alleged serial forger who wrote three phony checks in the name of Our Lady of Refuge Church on Ocean Avenue in Kensington, police said.

Mazal Tov! – It’s A Boy!

CrownHeights.info wishes Mazal Tov to Yossi and Chaya (nee Jameson) Liberow (Johannesburg, South Africa) on the birth of their firstborn son.

May the newborn be a source of Nachas to his parents, grandparents and Klal Yisroel.

Mazal Tov! – It’s A Girl!

CrownHeights.info wishes Mazal Tov to Zevi and Nechama Dina (nee Menkes) Greenbaum (N Miami Beach, FL) on the birth of their firstborn daughter.

May the newborn be a source of Nachas to her parents, grandparents and Klal Yisroel.