An employee at the House of Glatt butcher shop proudly wears a Crown Heights Softball League jersey of the team it sponsors, the Kloppers, at work.
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NEW YORK, NY — The city has coughed up $540 million in payouts related to improper police actions since 1998 — and taxpayer cost for such cases hit a record high last year.
In 1998, the city paid lawsuit settlements or judgments to 571 claimants who accused the NYPD of bad behavior. That figure more than doubled to 1,265 in 2008, according to Law Department data.
We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Aryeh and Etty (nee Shapiro) Schwartz (Crown Heights) on the birth of their daughter.
May the newborn be a source of Nachas to her parents, grandparents and Klal Yisroel.
ISRAEL — Shas’ spiritual leader, Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, called on parents and teachers to act to prevent smoking among youth, a phenomenon which he referred to as “a breach which must be thwarted.”
Speaking during his weekly sermon Saturday evening, the rabbi said that “if a person sees his son smoking a cigarette, he should shout at him and defend him and stop him from doing it… A yeshiva head who has a meeting and sees his student smoking, should slap him in the face. What are you smoking for?”
NEW YORK [CBS] — The economy may be dismal, but the recession doesn’t seem to be driving New Yorkers to commit crime.
The New York Police Department says the crime rate for the first three months of the year is the lowest since comparable record keeping began in the 1960s.
Tonight, Monday, April 27, 2009, at 8:30pm, Rabbi YY Jacobson will deliver a live Parsha webcast: Maintaining Your Inner Identity during Stressful Times — What a Talmudic law on fruits teaches us about psychological serenity & historical endurance. The class will have an accompanying curriculum which you can download.
To watch, please visit www.TheYeshiva.net
To listen via telephone, please call: 1-616-347-8000. Access code: 1007852#
Pictures from the L’Chaim of Sruly Krasniansky (Brooklyn, NY) and Dina Speigalman (Montreal, Canada) at Lubavitcher Yeshiva. Photos by BYK.
QUEENS [WABC] — New York City was dealing with a growing public health threat Sunday after tests confirmed that eight students at a private Catholic high school had contracted swine flu. Some of the school’s students had visited Mexico on a spring break trip two weeks ago.
MONTREAL [CHI] — At least 2000 Montreal-Anash (Men and Women) are expected to attend an emergency meeting tonight, Sunday 8:45pm at the Yeshiva at 6405 Westbury Avenue. After Crown Heights, Montreal is the next largest Chabad shchuna in the world!
The 68-year-old Tomchei Temimim is the only Chabad elementary school in Montreal, Canada.
It isn’t often a person from West Bloomfield shares Passover Seder in Thailand with someone from Sydney, Australia, but that’s exactly what I did this year.
Australian Rebbecca Saidman was married a few days before and looked up the nearest Chabad House during her travels in the city of Chiang Mei.
We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Sholly Refson (Leeds, UK) and Malya Bergstein (Oak Park, MI) on their engagement.
Email your Simcha or Mazal Tov to MazalTov@CrownHeights.info !!
NEW DELHI [CNN] — An Indian court — trying the lone surviving suspect in last year’s Mumbai terrorist attacks — Friday ordered an inquiry into his age, prompted by his claim that he is a juvenile.
Mohammed Ajmal Kasab will undergo dental and bone tests, defense attorney Abbas Kazmi told CNN.
We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Mendel and Chanie Chaikin (Shluchim to downtown Toronto) on the birth of their daughter, Rochel.
May the newborn be a source of Nachas to her parents, grandparents and Klal Yisroel.
When Steven Cohn’s son Ari and the rest of his freshman class embarked on their collegiate studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2003, they weren’t the only newcomers to campus. Meeting them were Rabbi Dovid and Goldie Tiechtel, who had just arrived to open the Chabad-Lubavitch Center for Jewish Student Life.
We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Shmuel Sholom and Faige Rivka (nee Borenstein) Serebryanski (Crown Heights) on the birth of their firstborn son.
May the newborn be a source of Nachas to his parents, grandparents and Klal Yisroel.
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