NEW YORK, NY — Mayor Bloomberg today praised the New York Police Department for the drop in crime this year across the city, including Staten Island.
Below is the text of Mayor Bloomberg’s radio address as prepared for delivery on 1010 WINS News Radio
We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Berel and Mushka (nee Flint) Greenfeld on the birth of their firstborn son.
May the newborn be a source of Nachas to his parents, grandparents, relatives and Klal Yisroel.
We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Sholom Kramer (Montreal) and Chaya Altein (Montreal) on their engagement.
To submit your Simcha or Mazal Tov please email us at mazaltov@crownheights.info!
VLADIVOSTOK, Russia [FJC] — In the Russian Far East, in the Pacific port city of Vladivostok, Jewish residents widely celebrated Chanukah. The main event was a concert featuring the Pacific Symphony Orchestra, which performed a whole array of music of Jewish composers, with a repertoire spanning the past three centuries.
We would like to wish Mazal Tov Yisroel and Chani (nee Stock) Selwyn (Crown Heights) on the birth of their twin boys.
May the newborns be a source of Nachas to their parents, grandparents, relatives and Klal Yisroel.
LAWRENCE, KS — A bitterly cold, dark Sunday night was a little brighter with the help of a 6-foot-tall menorah during the celebration of the first night of Hanukkah. KU’s Chabad Center for Jewish Life kicked off the holiday with latkes, gifts, balloon animals and, of course, lighting the first candle of the menorah.
“I think even though Hanukkah is a Jewish holiday, the message of Hanukkah is so universal,” said Rabbi Zalman Tiechtel, executive director at the Chabad Center.
I would like to wish a very hearty Mazal Tov! Mazal Tov! to a dear friend Meir Perelstein (Crown Heights) on his engagement to Chanie Tarlow (Morristown, NJ) !
To submit your Simcha or Mazal Tov please email us at mazaltov@crownheights.info!
LAGUNA NIGUEL, CA [CHI] — Over 300 people turned out to celebrate the start of Chanukah with Chabad of Laguna Niguel, at the Crown Valley Park Amphitheater on Sunday evening Dec. 21st. The honorable mayor, Mr. Robert Ming addressed the crowd and lit the lead flame of the 9 foot Menorah.
More pictures and a video in the Extended Article!
With sadness we inform you of the passing of Reb Chaim Meir Katzoff, longtime resident of Crown Heights and father of Yibadel Lechaim Tovim, R. Yossi Katzoff of Crown Heights.
The Levaya will take place Sunday and will be leaving from the Shomrei Hadas Chapel at 10:45am and will be passing by 770 at around 11:15am.
Boruch Dayan Hoemes
More pictures in the Extended Article!
We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Laiby Lewis (Crown Heights) and Chaya Mushka Nemtzov (Monsey, NY) on their engagement.
To submit your Simcha or Mazal Tov please email us at mazaltov@crownheights.info!
Photo Gallery in the Extended Article!
WOODMERE, NY — All of the children injured Thursday’s traffic accident at the Chanukah Wonderland in Woodmere, N.Y., returned home before Shabbat.
Rabbi Zalman Wolowik, director of Chabad-Lubavitch of the Five Towns – the Cedarhurst-based Jewish center that operated the Chanukah workshop – praised G-d that the children were released from the hospital, but noted that a journey of recovery lay ahead. Some 14 people in Thursday’s incident when a vehicle jumped the curb and plowed into the building housing the Chanukah Wonderland.
GUILFORD, CT — In a vote of 4 to 3, the Guilford Planning & Zoning Commission (PZC) approved the Chabad-Lubavitch of the Shoreline’s application to build a synagogue and day care center at 181 Goose Lane.
The decision last week came after many months of public hearings and testimony by traffic and real estate experts from both sides of the fence: the Chabad and a group in opposition to the development called Save Goose Lane. Members of the latter group consist mainly of neighbors to the site.
Yossi Kagan (Oak Park, MI) and Nechama Dina Kudan (Albany, NY) .
IYH at Beis Levi Yitzchock, 556 Crown St, [entrance ramp on Albany Ave].
Shua Lustig (Crown Heights) and Stery Naparstek (Crown Heights) .
IYH at Bais Rivkah, 310 Crown St, [between New York and Nostrand Ave].
Sholom Kramer (Montreal, Canada) and Chaya Altein (Montreal, Canada) .
IYH at FREE, 1383 President St, [between Kingston and Brooklyn Ave].
Shmuel Zalmanov (Tzfas, Israel) and Chana Prus (Crown Heights) .
IYH at the Lubavitcher Yeshiva, 570 Crown St, [hall entrance on Albany Ave].
NEW YORK, NY [CBS] — With a growing number of individual investors and organizations surfacing as victims in the Bernard Madoff ponzi scheme, one disturbing aspect is that the scandal may be fanning the flames of stereotypes about Jews.
In the heavily Jewish area of Crown Heights, if you say Bernie Madoff, you get strong reaction.
BROOKLYN, NY — When the news broke on Thursday of a freakish traffic accident that injured several people at the Chanukah Wonderland workshop run by the Lubavitch community of Woodmere, on Long Island, the story was picked up by the usual suspects: Newsday, The Daily News, The New York Post and The Associated Press. It also happened to be that day’s top North American offering of a much smaller — and somewhat more specialized — journalistic venture: Chabad.org News.
