Online School Homework Helper Celebration

CROWN HEIGHTS — A grand end of the year Homework Helper meeting took place last night at the Shluchim Lounge in The Shluchim Center.

This meeting was a great opportunity to thank the Homework Helpers, a group of 10th grade volunteers from Beis Rivka High School, for the time they dedicated to helping Online School students throughout the year with their homework.

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Scholarship Requests Soar As Chabad Camps Try To Meet Demand

By Dvora Lakein for Lubavitch.com

LOS ANGELES, CA — Bonfires at overnight camps throughout the country will have spare marshmallows and graham crackers this summer. Day camps are scrounging for campers and parents are searching for scholarships.

Welcome to the summer of the recession.

Bloomberg: Homeless in Luxury Condos Temporary

By Adam Lisberg and Elizabeth Hays for the NY Daily News

CROWN HEIGHTS — Don’t get too comfortable!

That was Mayor Bloomberg’s message to dozens of lucky homeless families who scored a posh pad at a luxury condo that has been turned into a homeless shelter in Brooklyn.

Blacks and Jews Signing Up for New NYPD Multicultural Civilian Patrol

NY Daily News

Crown Heights, NY — A new civilian watch group in Crown Heights is bringing together blacks and Jews in a neighborhood once synonymous with racial tension.

If all goes as planned, a Caribbean-American pastor could share a car with an Orthodox Jew on the NYPD Civilian Observation Patrol – or blacks might volunteer for Friday night shifts, when their Jewish neighbors can’t work.

Info to be Menachem Avel the Strauss Family

The Strauss family is sitting Shiva after the passing of hteir dear father Reb Shmuel Leib Straus OBM, at 960 St. Johns Place (between Bklyn & NY ave.)

The times of Davenning is at the following times

Shacharis at 9:30 Sharp
Mincha at 8:00
Maariv bizmana

phone 718.735.2752 fax 347.365.2681 E-mail address: sastrauss@gmail.com

Shomrim to Distribute Non-Perishable Goods

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CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — There will be a distribution of non-perishable goods, such as flour and canned goods, for the community on Sunday starting at 1:00pm in the parking lot of Beis Rivka on Montgomery Street between Nostrand and New York Avenues. As they have done Erev Pesach, Shomrim is involved once again in making this happen.

Mazal Tov! – New Engagement!

We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Ari (ben Reb Nochum) Markowitz (Crown Heights) and Rivky (bas Reb Zalman) Lokshin (Crown Heights) on their engagement.

The L’Chaim will IYH be Sunday at the Jewish Children’s Museum, 792 Eastern Pkwy [corner Kingston Ave].