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Camera phone picture of the scene submitted to CrownHeights.info by a fan

CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — At around 6:45pm today, Tuesday a cyclist riding down Albany Ave was stuck by a car, between Crown and Montgomery St. The cyclist, a black man, went flying off his bike and sustained minor injuries. He was treated on the scene and later transported by FDNY EMS to a local hospital. The driver of the car, a Jewish man, was visibly shaken up.

Cyclist Struck on Albany Avenue

Camera phone picture of the scene submitted to CrownHeights.info by a fan

CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — At around 6:45pm today, Tuesday a cyclist riding down Albany Ave was stuck by a car, between Crown and Montgomery St. The cyclist, a black man, went flying off his bike and sustained minor injuries. He was treated on the scene and later transported by FDNY EMS to a local hospital. The driver of the car, a Jewish man, was visibly shaken up.

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New Engagement!

Pesach Chaim Newman (Crown Heights) to Bluma Raizel Lewis (Old Tappan, NJ)
New Engagement!

Eitan Hershkop (Crown Heights) to Chana Belfer (Melbourne, Australia) L’Chaim: Tonight, Thursday, 8:00pm at Bass and Bourbon
New Engagement!

Levi Meer (Morristown, NJ) to Sara Gershovitz (Crown Heights) L’Chaim: Thursday, June 12th, 8:00pm at 1349 President Street Upstairs
New Engagement!

Yosef Chaim Bercovice (Chicago, IL) to Leah Eisenbach (New York)
New Engagement!

Pesach Bercovice (Chicago, IL) to Tzipporah Yasmine Holloway (Orlando, FL)
New Engagement!

Mendel Saaks (Chicago, IL) to Leeba Grossbaum (Paramus, NJ)
New Engagement!

Yisrolik Keselman (London, UK) to Shaina Keller (Crown Heights)

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New Engagement!

Ya’akov Silverman (Tysons Corner, VA) to Chaya Raizel Michaelson (Glastonbury, CT)
New Engagement!

Yitzchak Minkowitz (Fort Myers, FL) to Shani Silver (Mequon, WI)
New Engagement!

Avremel Weingarten (Flint, MI) to Chana Potash (Noe Valley, SF, CA)
New Engagement!

Yaya Kagan (Los Angeles, CA) to Hadas Malamud (Brooklyn, NY) L’Chaim: Tonight, Thursday, 7:30pm at the Oholei Torah Ballroom
Baby Boy!

Meyer and Chaya (nee Engelberg) Shushan from Crown Heights had a baby boy!
Baby Girl!

Boruch and Adeli Zimmerman from Oro Valley, AZ had a baby girl!

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New Engagement!

Dovi Vogel (Wilmington, DE) to Chanie Rapoport (Atlantic City, NJ)
New Engagement!

Yitzy Bernstein (Freehold, NJ) to Brocha Gleyzer (Monsey, NY)
Baby Boy!

Mendy and Sarah (nee Glick) Korf from Crown Heights had a baby boy!
New Engagement!

Levi Labor (Chicago, IL) to Etti Krinsky (Crown Heights)
Rabbi Abba Brenenson from Kfar Chabad (a brother of YBLA Rabbi Reuven Brenenson AH from Crown Heights) is sitting Shiva for his father AH at his sister's home in The Greens in Melville, Long Island. If you are available to help with any of the Minyonim it would be greatly appreciated. Need until Monday Morning.

Address: 745 Verona Dr, Melville, NY 11747

Shachris: 7:00 am
Mincha Maariv: 7:00 pm

If you are able to come please call him at (631) 385-4283 to help him with his planning for his Minyan.

Hamokom Yenachem eschem Besoch Shaar Avaylay Tzion VeYerushalayim.

Info to be Menchem Avel R Abba Brenenson

Rabbi Abba Brenenson from Kfar Chabad (a brother of YBLA Rabbi Reuven Brenenson AH from Crown Heights) is sitting Shiva for his father AH at his sister’s home in The Greens in Melville, Long Island. If you are available to help with any of the Minyonim it would be greatly appreciated. Need until Monday Morning.

Address: 745 Verona Dr, Melville, NY 11747

Shachris: 7:00 am
Mincha Maariv: 7:00 pm

If you are able to come please call him at (631) 385-4283 to help him with his planning for his Minyan.

Hamokom Yenachem eschem Besoch Shaar Avaylay Tzion VeYerushalayim.

Notices

Shliach Rabbi Menachem Mendel Taichman poses in front of the cemetery after 2005 renovations.

UZHHROD, Ukraine [JTA] — Investigators discovered a mass grave for 200 Jews in a western Ukrainian city. Rabbi Mendel Teichman, the chief rabbi for the city of Uzhhorod, on the country’s border with Slovakia, and the region, in recent weeks had come across an open area with no fence and no headstones in the local Jewish cemetery in recent weeks.

Shliach Discovers Mass Grave of Jews Killed by Nazis

Shliach Rabbi Menachem Mendel Taichman poses in front of the cemetery after 2005 renovations.

UZHHROD, Ukraine [JTA] — Investigators discovered a mass grave for 200 Jews in a western Ukrainian city. Rabbi Mendel Teichman, the chief rabbi for the city of Uzhhorod, on the country’s border with Slovakia, and the region, in recent weeks had come across an open area with no fence and no headstones in the local Jewish cemetery in recent weeks.

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The Shifman family.

SAFED, Israel — Chabad emissaries mourn the death of 44 year old Mrs. Libby Feigele Malka Shifman of Safed, Israel today after she suffered a severe stroke on Monday morning.

Mrs. Shifman’s is survived by nine children and her husband, Rabbi Aharon Shifman, the director of Chabad activities in the nearby villages of Parod and Shefer. She was the sister of Rabbi Daniel Kaye of Chabad of Sydney, Australia and Rabbi Eli Kaye of Chabad’s Ascent outreach center in Safed, Israel.

Shlucha to Safed Libby Shifman, Passes Away

Lubavitch.com

The Shifman family.

SAFED, Israel — Chabad emissaries mourn the death of 44 year old Mrs. Libby Feigele Malka Shifman of Safed, Israel today after she suffered a severe stroke on Monday morning.

Mrs. Shifman’s is survived by nine children and her husband, Rabbi Aharon Shifman, the director of Chabad activities in the nearby villages of Parod and Shefer. She was the sister of Rabbi Daniel Kaye of Chabad of Sydney, Australia and Rabbi Eli Kaye of Chabad’s Ascent outreach center in Safed, Israel.

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Lev Leviev addressing Shluchim during the 2007 banquet

JERUSALEM [JTA] — Russian Jewish billionaire Lev Leviev's Africa Israel Group announced the largest loss in Israel's history. The company lost $426 million in 2008, it announced Monday.

Africa Israel, which is 75 percent owned by Leviev, had a net loss of $637 million in the fourth quarter.

Leviev Posts $426 Million in Real Estate Loss

Lev Leviev addressing Shluchim during the 2007 banquet

JERUSALEM [JTA] — Russian Jewish billionaire Lev Leviev’s Africa Israel Group announced the largest loss in Israel’s history. The company lost $426 million in 2008, it announced Monday.

Africa Israel, which is 75 percent owned by Leviev, had a net loss of $637 million in the fourth quarter.

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CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — This morning, Tuesday, police department tow trucks were seen towing cars parked in the no parking zones, designated for Mitzvah Tanks thats will participate in the parade. There are no parking signs posted on President St between Kingston and Albany Ave and Kingston between Carroll and President St.

It is likely that the sign and towing policy will remain in place until the parade, scheduled to take place on Thursday, April 2nd. More info on Parde Here.

Continued in the Extended Article

Cars Being Towed to Make Room for Mitzvah Tanks

CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — This morning, Tuesday, police department tow trucks were seen towing cars parked in the no parking zones, designated for Mitzvah Tanks thats will participate in the parade. There are no parking signs posted on President St between Kingston and Albany Ave and Kingston between Carroll and President St.

It is likely that the sign and towing policy will remain in place until the parade, scheduled to take place on Thursday, April 2nd. More info on Parde Here.

Continued in the Extended Article

Crown Heights News

Governor Paterson with MTA Chairman H. Dale Hemmerdinger.

ALBANY, NY [AP] — Gov. David Paterson and New York legislative leaders are rejecting a proposal to put tolls on bridges as part of any deal to bail out New York City's financially troubled mass transit system.

Paterson: MTA Bailout Won’t Include Bridge Tolls

Governor Paterson with MTA Chairman H. Dale Hemmerdinger.

ALBANY, NY [AP] — Gov. David Paterson and New York legislative leaders are rejecting a proposal to put tolls on bridges as part of any deal to bail out New York City’s financially troubled mass transit system.

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Rabbi Chaim Shalom and his wife Nechama Dina Segal will soon be moving with their son Menachem Mendel on Shlichus. They are going to establish the tenth Chabad House in China. It will be located on Lantau Island, home of sleepy fishing villagers and the largest island in Hong Kong, near the Pearl River.

The new Shluchim were appointed by Rabbi Mordechai Avtzon the communist countries head Shliach

CrownHeights.info wished the new Shluchim Hatzlocha Rabba on their Shlichus!

Announcing 10th Shlichus Family Team to China

Rabbi Chaim Shalom and his wife Nechama Dina Segal will soon be moving with their son Menachem Mendel on Shlichus. They are going to establish the tenth Chabad House in China. It will be located on Lantau Island, home of sleepy fishing villagers and the largest island in Hong Kong, near the Pearl River.

The new Shluchim were appointed by Rabbi Mordechai Avtzon the communist countries head Shliach

CrownHeights.info wished the new Shluchim Hatzlocha Rabba on their Shlichus!

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CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — Everyone is looking for ways to find and save time. Wouldn't it be gratifying to know that there is now even more time? Enter Uvlechtecha Baderech Program by Yagdil Torah (Beta). No tape decks to install, no Mp3 player to buy, no files to convert. Just take the CD and put it straight into your car, personal CD player, or computer and listen. Utilize your time purposefully and learn interesting and important subject matter while you drive. Do the Mitzvah of Uvelechtecha Baderech, get trip security provided by learning Torah, and avoid wasting time.

The CD's are being sold for a $1 and are available in 770 (on the center table) and at Empire Shtibel.

Take Hilchos Birchas Hachama on the Road!

CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — Everyone is looking for ways to find and save time. Wouldn’t it be gratifying to know that there is now even more time? Enter Uvlechtecha Baderech Program by Yagdil Torah (Beta). No tape decks to install, no Mp3 player to buy, no files to convert. Just take the CD and put it straight into your car, personal CD player, or computer and listen. Utilize your time purposefully and learn interesting and important subject matter while you drive. Do the Mitzvah of Uvelechtecha Baderech, get trip security provided by learning Torah, and avoid wasting time.

The CD’s are being sold for a $1 and are available in 770 (on the center table) and at Empire Shtibel.

Crown Heights News
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By Tamar Runyan for Chabad.org

After a 2004 fire nearly destroyed its historic synagogue, the Jewish community of Irkutsk, Russia, spent four years restoring it to its former glory.

Members of Irkutsk, Russia’s central Jewish community spent the first Shabbat since the reopening of their 130-year-old synagogue in a state of disbelief. According to Chabad-Lubavitch Rabbi Aharon Wagner, the Siberian city’s chief rabbi, the community has come a long way since a 2004 fire destroyed almost all of the historic shul.

“The community didn’t believe that the synagogue would be rebuilt,” said Wagner. “It was like a dream.”

Siberian City Celebrates Restoration of Central Synagogue

By Tamar Runyan for Chabad.org

After a 2004 fire nearly destroyed its historic synagogue, the Jewish community of Irkutsk, Russia, spent four years restoring it to its former glory.

Members of Irkutsk, Russia’s central Jewish community spent the first Shabbat since the reopening of their 130-year-old synagogue in a state of disbelief. According to Chabad-Lubavitch Rabbi Aharon Wagner, the Siberian city’s chief rabbi, the community has come a long way since a 2004 fire destroyed almost all of the historic shul.

“The community didn’t believe that the synagogue would be rebuilt,” said Wagner. “It was like a dream.”

Shlichus