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Alternate side parking (street cleaning) regulations will be suspended on Monday, February 16 for Presidents Day. All other regulations, including parking meters, remain in effect.

Click here for the new, 2009 Alternate Side Parking Regulations Suspension Calendar

Alternate Side Parking Rules Suspended Monday

Alternate side parking (street cleaning) regulations will be suspended on Monday, February 16 for Presidents Day. All other regulations, including parking meters, remain in effect.

Click here for the new, 2009 Alternate Side Parking Regulations Suspension Calendar

PSA
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New Engagement!

Chaim Uziel Starik (Vienna, Austria) to Batsheva Spivak (Pembroke Pines, FL)
New Engagement!

Zalman Friedman (Coral Springs, FL) to Lea Dukes (Santiago, Chile) L’Chaim: Monday, May 5th, 7:00pm at 9400 NW 4th Street, Coral Springs, FL
New Engagement!

Yossi Gutnick (Sydney, Australia) to Chaya Eisnebach (Northwest, CT) L’Chaim: Tonight, Thursday, at the Garden House 1386 S. John’s Pl
Baby Boy!

Yaakov and Shevi (nee Katzman) Behrman from Crown Heights had a baby boy!
Baby Boy!

Moishe and Frayda (nee Aber) Scheinfeld from Brooklyn, NY had a baby boy!
Baby Boy!

Yermi and Daniella Liam (nee Pohlman) Kurkus from Lake Lure, NC had a baby boy!
New Engagement!

Levi Kalmenson (Crown Heights) to Chanale Baitch (Crown Heights) L’Chaim: Monday, April 28th, 8:00pm at Anshei Lubavitch 578 Albany Ave
New Engagement!

Zevi Jacobson (De Moines, IA) to Ita Gurevitch (Crown Heights) L’Chaim: Monday, April 28th, 8:00pm at the JCM
New Engagement!

Sruli Friedman (Coral Springs, FL) to Adina Izgelov (Milwaukee, WI) L’Chaim: Monday, April 28th, 8:00pm at Albany Manor 641 Rutland Rd
New Engagement!

Shlomo Werde (Crown Heights) to Gila Bensusan (London, UK)
Baby Boy!

Chezki and Mushkie Golowinski from Crown Heights had a baby boy! Shalom Zachor: 539 Crown Street
New Engagement!

Avi Baitelman (Los Angeles, CA) to Mindy Neubort (Fair Lawn, NJ) L’Chaim: Tonight, Thursday, 8:00pm at Lubavitch Yeshiva
New Engagement!

Menachem Forer (Toronto, Canada) to Sari Gottlib (Hillside, NJ) L’Chaim: Thursday, April 24th, 8:00pm at Lubavitcher Yeshiva
Baby Boy!

Chaim and Bracha (nee Morozow) Rendler from Crown Heights had a baby boy!
Baby Girl!

Zalmy and Esther (nee Tabari) Hyams from Crown Heights had a baby girl!
Baby Boy!

Shmuly and Chaya (nee Lewin) Stone from Crown Heights had a baby boy!
New Engagement!

Yossi Krinsky (Vilnius, Lithuania) to Rochele Namdar (Gothenburg, Sweden)

Mazal Tov! – 6 Monday Night L’Chaims!

Mendy Cohen (Birmingham, England) and Abi Bharier (Edgware, England) .
IYH at Beis Levi Yitzchock, 556 Crown St, [entrance ramp on Albany Ave].

Shmaya Friedman (Crown Heights) and Aliza Grossbaum (Indianapolis, IN) .
IYH at Jewish Children’s Museum, 792 Eastern Pkwy [corner Kingston Ave].

Levi Hurwitz (Crown Heights) and Sara Piekarski (Crown Heights) .
IYH at Bais Rivkah, 310 Crown St, [between New York and Nostrand Ave].

Meir Shur (Crown Heights) and Shterna Gansburg (Toronto, Canada) .
IYH at Lubavitcher Yeshiva, 570 Crown St, [hall entrance on Albany Ave].

Zalman Schapiro (Crown Heights) and Shani Erentreu (Crown Heights) .
IYH at Lubavitcher Yeshiva, 570 Crown St, [hall entrance on Albany Ave].

Yitzi Screiber (Crown Heights) and Chomi Grossbaum (Melbourne, Australia) .
IYH at Jewish Children’s Museum, 792 Eastern Pkwy [corner Kingston Ave].

Email your Simcha or Mazal Tov to MazalTov@CrownHeights.info !!

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By Patrice O'Shaughnessy for the NY Daily News

NYPD officers conduct an anti-terror training drill.

NEW YORK, NY — Cops with helmets, heavy vests and assault rifles approached the building where hostages were being held. One barked orders as cops bounded across the street with military precision to cover each other at cross-angles.

NYPD Learns Lessons from Mumbai Terrorist Attack

By Patrice O’Shaughnessy for the NY Daily News

NYPD officers conduct an anti-terror training drill.

NEW YORK, NY — Cops with helmets, heavy vests and assault rifles approached the building where hostages were being held. One barked orders as cops bounded across the street with military precision to cover each other at cross-angles.

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Tonight, Monday, February 16, 2009, at 8:00 pm, Rabbi YY Jacobson will deliver a 50-minute live-streamed Parsha class: The Four Causes for a Dysfunctional Life — A journey through the four Talmudic categories of civil damages and their psychological application. 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#

Tonight! Global Web Class – The Four Causes for a Dysfunctional Life


Tonight, Monday, February 16, 2009, at 8:00 pm, Rabbi YY Jacobson will deliver a 50-minute live-streamed Parsha class: The Four Causes for a Dysfunctional Life — A journey through the four Talmudic categories of civil damages and their psychological application. 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#

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KRIVOY ROG, Ukraine [FJC] — This week, a seminar took place, involving women from the Jewish community of Krivoy Rog – a member of the Federation of Jewish Communities of Ukraine – and other nearby communities. The event was attended by about 40 people between the ages of 25 to 50 years.

The seminar was called “Jewish wisdom – The basis of a Jewish home”, the idea of which was put forward by the wives of Chabad Lubavitch emissaries serving in the region (namely, Mrs. Ziva Edery, Miri Strasberg, Michal Zelikson), together with Tatiana Kutz, the Director of the Krivoy Rog Ohr Avner Fund.

Jewish Women Gather in Krivoy Rog

KRIVOY ROG, Ukraine [FJC] — This week, a seminar took place, involving women from the Jewish community of Krivoy Rog – a member of the Federation of Jewish Communities of Ukraine – and other nearby communities. The event was attended by about 40 people between the ages of 25 to 50 years.

The seminar was called “Jewish wisdom – The basis of a Jewish home”, the idea of which was put forward by the wives of Chabad Lubavitch emissaries serving in the region (namely, Mrs. Ziva Edery, Miri Strasberg, Michal Zelikson), together with Tatiana Kutz, the Director of the Krivoy Rog Ohr Avner Fund.

Shlichus
By Stefanos Evripidou for the Cyprus Mail

Shliach Rabbi Arie Zeev Raskin with the Chabad house in the background.

LARNACA, Cyprus — The island's chief rabbi, Arie Zeev Raskin, has claimed that the 350 members of the Jewish community in Cyprus have become targets of “hate crimes” and “anti-Semitic offenses”, mainly by Muslims, and that the local authorities are not doing enough to protect them.

Shliach Says Jewish Community Needs Protection from ‘Hate Crimes’

By Stefanos Evripidou for the Cyprus Mail

Shliach Rabbi Arie Zeev Raskin with the Chabad house in the background.

LARNACA, Cyprus — The island’s chief rabbi, Arie Zeev Raskin, has claimed that the 350 members of the Jewish community in Cyprus have become targets of “hate crimes” and “anti-Semitic offenses”, mainly by Muslims, and that the local authorities are not doing enough to protect them.

Chabad News

CROWN HEIGHTS [NY1] — A transit worker was injured Saturday while doing repairs on the number 3 subway line in Brooklyn.

The accident happened at the Nostrand Avenue and Eastern Parkway station in Brooklyn, where switches are being renewed.

Crown Heights Subway Explosion, Worker Injured

CROWN HEIGHTS [NY1] — A transit worker was injured Saturday while doing repairs on the number 3 subway line in Brooklyn.

The accident happened at the Nostrand Avenue and Eastern Parkway station in Brooklyn, where switches are being renewed.

Crown Heights News
By Carol Balinski for the Reading Eagle

Rabbi Yosef Lipsker with the new sign for the Chabad Center, formerly Congregation Shomrei Habrith, 2310 Hampden Blvd.

READING, PA — Faced with dwindling membership and financial challenges, Congregation Shomrei Habrith, Berks County's only Orthodox Jewish synagogue, has been transformed into Chabad Lubavitch of Berks County.

Shomrei Habrith Reborn as Chabad House

By Carol Balinski for the Reading Eagle

Rabbi Yosef Lipsker with the new sign for the Chabad Center, formerly Congregation Shomrei Habrith, 2310 Hampden Blvd.

READING, PA — Faced with dwindling membership and financial challenges, Congregation Shomrei Habrith, Berks County’s only Orthodox Jewish synagogue, has been transformed into Chabad Lubavitch of Berks County.

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Video of FDNY working inside of the School.

CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — An electrical fire broke out in the ceiling of a home on Eastern Parkway. The incident took place at around 9:00pm on Motzoai Shabbos inside of 821 Eastern Parkway between Kingston and Albany on the third floor.

The father of the household first noticed the fire while he was exercising when he smelled the acrid smell of smoke and quickly evacuated the entire house and called 911. FDNY arrived as flames and thick smoke was pouring out of the ceiling of the house and the quickly went to work on dousing the fire.

More in the Extended Article.

Fire Displaces Large Jewish Family Last Night

Video of FDNY working inside of the School.

CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — An electrical fire broke out in the ceiling of a home on Eastern Parkway. The incident took place at around 9:00pm on Motzoai Shabbos inside of 821 Eastern Parkway between Kingston and Albany on the third floor.

The father of the household first noticed the fire while he was exercising when he smelled the acrid smell of smoke and quickly evacuated the entire house and called 911. FDNY arrived as flames and thick smoke was pouring out of the ceiling of the house and the quickly went to work on dousing the fire.

More in the Extended Article.

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Mazal Tov! – 5 Sunday Night L’Chaims!

Shneur Zalmen Gruzman (Vienna, Austria) and Chani Labkowski (Crown Heights) .
IYH at Chovevei Torah 885 Eastern Parkway [between Albany and Troy Ave].

Yehuda Marrus (Monsey, NY) and Raizel Rosenthal (Toronto, Ontario) .
IYH at Beis Eliezer Yitzchok, 394 Kingston Ave, [between Crown and Montgomery].

Menachem Gold (Crown Heights) and Rochel Esti Shloush (Crown Heights) .
IYH the Jewish Children’s Museum, 792 Eastern Pkwy [corner Kingston Ave].

Mendel Levin (Palo Alto, CA) and Rochie Levin (Kensington, NY) .
IYH at Lubavitcher Yeshiva, 570 Crown St, [hall entrance on Albany Ave].

Dovid Feld (Berkeley, CA) and Rivkie Ferris (Berkeley, CA) .
IYH at Rayim Ahuvim, 1614 Carroll St, [corner Schenectady Ave].

Email your Simcha or Mazal Tov to MazalTov@CrownHeights.info !!

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My dear Wife,

As I sit at home with the kids while you are away at the Kinus Hashluchos, I thought it would be a good time to put my thoughts on paper.

I would like to make a tribute to you;
To your constant work (yes I think it is real work)
To your constant smile (even when there is no reason to)
To the constant hosting (and they get excited at 15 guests for Rosh Hashanah dinner)
To your constant example to our children (I can tell by the look in their eyes)
To inspiring a whole town about the truths of life (think of all the people you have touched)
For dealing with a less than perfect husband (no comment on that)

Op-Ed: My dear Shluchah…

My dear Wife,

As I sit at home with the kids while you are away at the Kinus Hashluchos, I thought it would be a good time to put my thoughts on paper.

I would like to make a tribute to you;
To your constant work (yes I think it is real work)
To your constant smile (even when there is no reason to)
To the constant hosting (and they get excited at 15 guests for Rosh Hashanah dinner)
To your constant example to our children (I can tell by the look in their eyes)
To inspiring a whole town about the truths of life (think of all the people you have touched)
For dealing with a less than perfect husband (no comment on that)

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