Cracked Asphalt Lot Transformed into a Vibrant Play Space By Student Design at P.S. 221
CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — Last week students celebrated the new community playground they helped design at P.S. 221 at 791 Empire Boulevard in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. The new playground will be available to the school’s 650 pre-kindergarten-through-fifth grade students and to families from the surrounding community.
Tzvi Greenberg (Morristown, NJ) and Chaya Morosow (Crown Heights) .
IYH at the Jewish Children’s Museum, 792 Eastern Pkwy [corner Kingston Ave].
Yonatan Sanford (Seattle, WA) and Sarah Williamson (Pittsburgh, PA) .
IYH at Beis Levi Yitzchok, 556 Crown St. [entrance on Albany Ave].
Levi Hershkowitz (Crown Heights) and Avigail Fradkin (Montreal, Canada) .
IYH at 1586 Carroll St [between Troy and Schenectady Ave].
To submit your Simcha or Mazal Tov email us at MazalTov@CrownHeights.info!!
LOS ANGELES, CA [CHI] — Thursday, the 12th of Sivan, saw the entire Anash of Los Angeles, CA gather at Cheder Menachem, the Chabad Elementary boy’s school for the annual Chayolei Tzivos Hashem Grand Expo.
CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — Over the last week the Department of Transportation changed out street parking signs along the corners of Empire Boulevard restricting parking close to the intersections. So far the intersections of Troy and Empire along with Brooklyn and Empire have been changed to no parking zones.
Pictures from the wedding of Mendy Weiss (Manchester, England) and Chanale Baumgarten (East Hampton, LI) took place Sunday night in the Hamptons. Photos by Yaakov Rosenthal – Photography and Video (718) 221-0483.
Pictures from the wedding of Dovi Wachtel (Toronto, Canada) and Russie Woonteiler (Crown Heights) took place Sunday night in the Beis Rivka Ballroom. Photos by BYK.
Pictures from the L’Chaim of Yisroel (ben R Peretz) Laine (Crown Heights) and Mushka Gopin (West Hartford, CT) took place Sunday night in the Razag Ballroom. Photos by lchayimphotography.com.
JERUSALEM, Israel [CHI] — A unique, special project is nearing its realization—the central mass celebration of 107 Bar Mitzvah boys from all across Israel who joined for a preparatory course under the auspices of social-services organization Colel Chabad.
CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — At around 12:00am Sunday Night two cars collided in the intersection of Troy Avenue and Eastern Parkway, with a total of 5 passengers on board. One Yid who heard the sound from the collision called 911, Hatzalah and Shomrim.
The recently released Mayer Rivkin Music Video “It Happened Yom Kippur”, revived by Infinity Productions, will soon be sent out in HD DVD form, to over 1000 Shluchim throughout the United States. A colorful attractive jacket and packaging with original graphic art-work, was prepared for this music video. The song was composed and the lyrics written during the summer of 1974 at Camp Gan Israel, Montreal, Canada. It describes a young Israeli soldier in a conversation with his father, as he prepares to go into battle.
We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Asher Noam and Doba Webb (Crown Heights) on the birth of their daughter.
May the newborn be a source of Nachas to her parents, grandparents and Klal Yisroel.
CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — Over Shabbos Shomrim radios crackled to life on two separate occasions over Shabbos, the first a call for a burglar inside of a Jewish building on Friday night, and the second from the Police Precinct after officers found a young Jewish special needs child wandering on Nostrand Avenue alone.
While men were still in Shul on Friday night a woman called the Shomrim hotline and stated that there was a Black male who broke into her building, 575 East New York Avenue, and was trying to get into apartments. Many Shomrim members responded and upon arrival all they found to be missing was one bicycle from the garage area.
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — The new Vaad Hakhol of Crown Heights hosted a fundraiser for State Senator John Sampson this past Thursday night. The State Senator has represented District 19 in the New York State Senate, which comprises Crown Heights, as well as some surrounding neighborhoods, since being elected in 1996. The fundraiser was held at the home of Chanina Sperlin.
Yisroel Laine (Crown Heights) and Mushka Gopin (West Hartford, CT) .
IYH at Lubavitcher Yeshiva, 570 Crown St [hall entrance on Albany Ave].
Shneur Edelkopf (Kiryat Malachi, Israel) and Chaya Lipszyc (Toronto, Canada)
IYH at the Jewish Children’s Museum, 792 Eastern Pkwy [corner Kingston Ave].
To submit your Simcha or Mazal Tov email us at MazalTov@CrownHeights.info!!
We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Itche and Nechomie (nee Paris) Zalmanov (Crown Heights) on the birth of their son.
May the newborn be a source of Nachas to his parents, grandparents and Klal Yisroel.
Members of the Beis Levi Yitzchok Shul on Crown Street completed a new Sefer Torah for their Shul. The Torah was dedicated in memory of Reb Levi Yitzchok, the Rebbes Father.
BROOKLYN, NY [CHI] — Firefighters were on the scene of a building that collapsed in Brooklyn.
The four-story building on Myrtle Avenue in the Fort Greene section housed several apartments but luckily, no one was home.
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