“As if a tornado struck, a real smelly and dirty tornado” was the way one passerby described what Eastern Parkway looked like, as an army platoon of city sanitation workers labored throughout the night cleaning up.
Men armed with brooms were not enough, they had leaf blowers and plows, along with street sweepers and garbage trucks, and this year the city employed a new weapon, a bulldozer with jaws to collect the garbage.
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QUEENS, NY [CHI] — Due to the suffering economy, many schools have found it difficult to pay their staff. Despite the financial squeeze, the Hanhala of Cheder Tzeirei Hashluchim at the Ohel made it their chief concern to pay teachers their dues before the new school year began.
Gallery of photos from just before the parade. Photos from the CH Pictures Blog.
Hundreds gathered yesterday, Sunday, for the Chabad community of Monsey’s first Hachnosas Sefer Torah. The Sefer Torah, written during the Hakhel year as an expression of the Achdus of the community, was written by Rabbi Shimon Sonnenfeld of Nachalas Har Chabad in Israel, and was dedicated to the Rebbe by many members of Anash in Monsey.
CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — Late Sunday afternoon one speeding car collided with a parked car on Brooklyn Avenue and President Street, injuring the driver whow as transported to a local hospital.
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.
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.
CrownHeights.info wishes Mazal Tov to Daniel Cowen (Hartford, CT) and Mushky (bas R Yossi) Goldstein (Crown Heights) on their engagement.
To submit your Simcha or Mazal Tov email us at MazalTov@CrownHeights.info!
CrownHeights.info wishes Mazal Tov to Levi and Chanala Brod (Crown Heights) on the birth of a daughter.
May the newborn be a source of Nachas to her parents, grandparents and Klal Yisroel.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
CrownHeights.info wishes Mazal Tov to Shmuli and Shaindy (nee Rockford) Backer (Crown Heights) on the birth of their son.
May the newborn be a source of Nachas to his parents, grandparents and Klal Yisroel.
CrownHeights.info wishes Mazal Tov to Mendy and Chana (nee Wolowik) Herz (Crown Heights) on the birth of their firstborn daughter.
May the newborn be a source of Nachas to her parents, grandparents and Klal Yisroel.
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