CROWN HEIGHTS [NY1] — Police are looking for the man who held up a bank in Brooklyn earlier this month.
The robbery happened at a Washington Mutual branch on Eastern Parkway in Crown Heights on the morning of January 5th.
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — At around 10:30 this morning, Wednesday, a MTA commuter called Shomrim and alerted them to a number of hate graffiti on the subway platform. The graffiti consisted of a Jewish Star of David being equated to a swastika and the words “long live hamas” underneath it.
More pictures in the Extended Article.
Uriel Refoel ben Rivka
Is going into surgery and needs our tehilim, readers are also asked to say Kapitel Lamed Ches
CHILDREN OF WAR: A video presentation dedicated to Hashem’s children. A picture is worth a thousand words. “As a father has compassion on his children, so may our Father in Heaven have Mercy on us” ….How it always seems to be the darkest, right before the light, of the morning sun….
NEW YORK NY — Chabad-Lubavitch of Wall Street has disclosed plans to launch a fundraiser and dedicate the writing of a new Torah scroll in memory of the late Mrs. Charlotte Rohr, of blessed memory, matriarch of the philanthropic Rohr family.
The first letters in the Torah scroll will be inscribed at a black-tie fundraising drive for the Chabad center, March 16, at the Jewish Heritage Museum in New York City.
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — A teacher had her cell phone stolen and her purse rummaged through by an intruder inside of Bais Rivkah high school in Crown Street. The disturbing incident took place at around 12:45pm on Tuesday where a teacher spotted a black man with a light complexion and white hair and a large build who did not work for the school roaming around the hallways on the second floor.
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We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Gedalya and Bassie Shemtov (Crown Heights) on the birth of their son.
Email your Simcha or Mazal Tov to MazalTov@CrownHeights.info !!
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — Tuesday evening two cars collided in the intersection of Brooklyn Avenue and Eastern Parkway, prompting a number of bystanders who witnessed the incident scrambling for their phones and calling Hatzalah.
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GOLDEN BEACH, FL [CHI] — The Yeshiva Semicha Program of Golden Beach, FL, was tested on hilchos taaruvos this past Thursday. The testers were Rabbi Dovid Schochet, Dayan in Toronto, Canada; Rabbi Y.Y. Yaruslavski, of the Chabad Beis Din of Israel; and Rabbi Yossi Marlow, the Chabad Rav of North Miami Beach. The Rabbonim expressed great satisfaction and were very impressed by their vast knowledge of the halachos.
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Over 200 Jewish communities around the world will gather on Sunday, Jan. 25, to hear a live broadcast of a lecture by the world renowned Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz.
“This lecture is the first in a series for worldwide Jewry”, explained Rabbi Moshe Kotlarsky, “as part of the Hakhel initiative launched at the recent Kinus Hashluchim, to foster Jewish unity through Torah as the Rebbe urged during a Hakhel year”.
With sadness we inform you of the passing of Mr. David Sultan of S. Paul, Minnesota, brother of Mrs. Chana Bongart of Crown Heights.
Nichum Aveilim: Wednesday evening (1/20/09) – getting up on Sunday morning (1/23/09) at 1488 Carroll Street (Albany/Troy).
Hamokom Yenachem Eschem Besoch Shaar Avaylay Tzion VeYerushalayim.
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — A suspicious package on the lower level subway platform on the Kingston Avenue station sparked a large police and fire response. Earlier this morning a disturbing post on a Muslim extremist website regarding 770 had the area in heightened alert already.
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We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Shomie (ben R Yossi) Schechter (Crown Heights) and Hindy Chazanow (Manalapan, NJ) on their engagement.
The L’Chaim will IYH be Wednesday night at the Jewish Children’s Museum, 792 Eastern Pkwy [corner Kingston Ave].
We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Tzvi Balbin (Melbourne, Australia) and Leah Moss (Sydney, Australia) on their engagement.
Email your Simcha or Mazal Tov to MazalTov@CrownHeights.info !!
The New York City Department of Transportation (DOT) in conjunction with the Department of Sanitation (DSNY) today announced the suspension of Alternate Side Parking (ASP) regulations citywide for Wednesday, January 21 to facilitate snow removal. However, parking meters will remain in effect throughout the City.
For updated information, visit the DOT Web site at nyc.gov/dot or call 311.
Click here for the new, 2009 Alternate Side Parking Regulations Suspension Calendar
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