CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] – Two Cars collided on Lefferts Avenue near the Beis Rivkah Girls School, after a car making a right turn from Balfour Place crashed into a car traveling westbound on Lefferts Avenue.
CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — What was easily regarded as Crown Heights’s worst alleyway, the homeowners from Montgomery Street and Crown Street [and Kingston to Brooklyn Avenues] got together to remedy the problematic shared alleyway.
Granite countertops. Terraces. Marble bathrooms. Walk-in closets.
The homeless are livin’ large in Brooklyn.
The city is paying hundreds of thousands of dollars a month to rent luxury condos in a Crown Heights building for homeless families, the Daily News has learned.
KFAR CHABAD, ISRAEL — Five miles south of Tel Aviv and near Ben Gurion airport is Israel’s modern day version of Anatevka, complete with agricultural fields, milk cows, numerous educational institutions, more than 8,000 Chasidic Jews, and the headquarters of Chabad-Lubavitch in the Holy Land.
S MONICA, CA [CHI] — In Chabad House Simcha Monica a Hakhel Dinner and Farbrengen was held commerating the second Yortzeit of the Shliach HoRav Avrohom HaLevi ע”ה Levitansky, and celebrating 40 years of his dedication to Camp Gan Yisroel.
Over 500 people attended the event, including Rabonim, Roshei Yeshiva, Mashpiyim, Shluchim, Anash and Mekurovim. The common denominator between those who attended, was that the Chabad House was filled with people whose lives have been touched by Rabbi Levitansky, and who came to pay tribute, to share memories and be inspired to continue in the ways they were taught and had seen by Rabbi Levitansky.
Five NYPD helicopters hovered low above Crown Heights this morning leaving many residents wondering what was going on. The helicopters were headed to the funeral of a police officer that was shot and killed in a friendly fire incident over the weekend. He was off duty at the time. His funeral took place in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn.
Shliach to Montreal, Rabbi Yisroel Bernath and Louiis Glazer on Global TV with Jamie Orchard discussing Chabad of NDG and Loyola Campus and the Jewish Comedy Fest.
Chabad.org has launched a new Jewish Prayer Section. Some of the features this section offers:
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — Just weeks after 77 boys of Lubavitcher Yeshiva were honored for Memorizing an entire Perek of Tanya, as reported here on CrownHeights.info, more and more boys continue to finish the Perek. Today, an additional 6 boys, 3 of Kita Gimmel and 3 of Kita Alef were honored for completeing the entire first Perek baal peh.
CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — Orange hazard cones wasn’t enough to stop a minivan traveling on Empire Boulevard from driving right into the newly dug 2 foot deep ditch, the beginning of the Department of Transportation’s ‘traffic calming’ project.
CrownHeights.info presents this weeks Living Torah excerpt, Aliyah!
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CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — The room was too small for the two minyonim of CGI Headstaff who gathered Wednesday night at the Tzivos Hashem Resource Center on Kingston and President to hear a talk on Tricks and Tips of Camp Management by R. Michoel Harari and share a few tips of their own.
We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Shaya Feldman (Montreal, Canada) and Rachel Dank (Melbourne, Australia) on their engagement.
The L’Chaim will IYH be tonight, Thursday at the Greisman Residence, 436 Crown St [between Kingston and Brooklyn Ave].
To submit your Simcha or Mazal Tov email us at MazalTov@CrownHeights.info!!
We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Shmuli and Bracha (nee Minsky) Lokshin on the birth of their daughter.
May the newborn be a source of Nachas to her parents, grandparents and Klal Yisroel.
We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Avromie and Chana Leah (nee Levin) Margolis (Los Feliz, CA) on the birth of their daughter.
May the newborn be a source of Nachas to her parents, grandparents and Klal Yisroel.
We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Shmuli and Chani (nee Ladayov) Kozlovsky (Crown Heights) on the birth of their son.
May the newborn be a source of Nachas to their parents, grandparents and Klal Yisroel!
It is with great sadness we inform you of the passing of Reb Shmuel Leib (Stu) Straus OBM, 66, a longtime resident of Crown Heights.
Reb Shmuel Leib came to Crown Heights from Seattle, Washington where he founded the Lubavitcher Shul, starting out of his garage there and later moving in to the ‘big shul’ where Rabbi Alter Levitin now serves as Rabbi. After moving to Crown Heights he founded another Shul in his basement on St. Johns Place.
He is survived by his wife, Nechama, and his children Mordechai (Mark) (Seattle, WA), Shloimy (Steven) (Seattle, WA), Shimon (Spencer) (Crown Heights).
The Levaya will be tomorrow morning, Friday and will be leaving from Shomrim Hadas Chapel and 9:00 am and will be passing by 770 at 9:30 am.
Baruch Dayan Hoemes
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