CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — Several dozen Amish residents from Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, started the tour earlier Tuesday of Brooklyn’s Crown Heights neighborhood with members of the Chabad-Lubavitch community.
More pictures and video in the Extended Article!
We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Sholom Ber and Goldy (nee Laufer) Freundlich on the birth of firstborn daughter.
May the newborn be a source of Nachas to her parents, grandparents and Klal Yisroel.
Email your Simcha or Mazal Tov to MazalTov@CrownHeights.info !!
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.
We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Nosson Meir and Sarah Ita Meretsky (Shluchim to Penn State University) on the birth of their son.
May the newborn be a source of Nachas to his parents, grandparents and Klal Yisroel.
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.
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.
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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.
Dr. David Pelkowitz gives insight and practical advice for marriage and every day life.
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!
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.
Video of Rabbi Kotlarsky speech at last night, Monday’s Shloshim and memorial service in memory Levi Yitzchak Wolowik OBM.
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.”
We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Levi Avtzon (Crown Heights) and Chayale Liberow (South Africa) on their engagement.
The L’Chaim will IYH be tonight at Lubavitcher Yeshiva, 570 Crown St [hall entrance on Albany Ave].
Email your Simcha or Mazal Tov to MazalTov@CrownHeights.info !!
FRESNO, CA [AP] — A Central California company is recalling about 1 million pounds of pistachios over concerns of possible salmonella contamination.
Food safety officials are looking through Setton Farms’ plant in rural Tulare County to see if it could lead them to the source of the contamination.
SYDNEY, Australia — A prominent Sydney rabbi has blocked his congregation from making him redundant, successfully arguing he should be subject to Jewish, rather than secular employment laws.
Moshe Gutnick took the Mizrachi Synagogue, his employer, to the NSW Supreme Court yesterday for an urgent hearing ahead of a proposed meeting last night to make him redundant.
BROOKLYN, NY [CHI] — Cheskel’s Shwarma King located at 3715 13th Avenue in Boro Park, the site of an unfortunate incident involving the sale of a non-kosher frankfurter is currently very busy. No longer answering questions about what transpired–that has been answered to the satisfaction of its supervising agency–Bais Din Tartikov but extremely busy trying to fulfill orders of everything ranging from Shwarma, fries and its trademark VIP Chulent.
MONROE, NY — Fears that a liberal presidential administration will impose more restrictions on gun ownership have triggered a frenzy of gun buying at local suppliers, who are struggling to restock their shelves with firearms and ammunition.
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