CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — At about 4:30pm this evening, Tuesday, two cars collided at the intersection of Montgomery Street and Troy Avenue. A minivan traveling up Troy driven by a Jewish girl struck a sedan driven by a black man going down Montgomery.
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Rabbi Zvi Yaakov and Chanie Zwiebel of Crown Heights will IYH very soon be moving on Shlichus to Blacksburg, VA where they will establish a permanent Chabad Lubavitch presence at the campus of Virginia Tech University, directing the new Librescu Chabad Center. They will be serving the needs of the students as well as the local community and of the sorrounding areas.
The new Shluchim were appointed by Rabbi Yossel Kranz of Chabad of the Virginias.
To contact the new Shluchim e-mail: zvizwi@gmail.com
Special thanks to the Shluchim Office Placement Bureau.
CrownHeights.info would like to wish the new Shluchim Hatzlocha Rabba on their Shlichus!
Best known as an expert on Judaism’s complex ritual purity laws, a U.S. karate champion and Israel’s first – and for many years, only – American-born prison chaplain, Rabbi Fishel Jacobs doesn’t exactly strike the image of a children’s book author. But for the man who has written everything from in-depth treatments of Jewish law to a chronicle of transformation among Israeli prisoners, his latest book – an illustrated tale of a child’s conflicting impulses – is an accomplishment 30 years in the making.
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 28 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
This past Sunday, more than 300 communities, large and small, from around the world tuned in to a live web-cast in celebration of the year of Hakhel. The web-cast featured the noted scholar, Rabbi Adin Even-Yisroel Steinsaltz who spoke on the significance of Torah Study and how it promotes unity. His talk entitled “Unity of Heart through Unity of Purpose” was introduced by Rabbi Moshe Kotlarsky, vice chairman of Merkos L’Inyanei Chinuch. The program concluded with a special musical rendition by Baruch Tzfasman and a preview of the upcoming Unity Lecture.
We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Pesach Eliyahu (ben Shazak) Zirkind (Crown Heights) and Sarah Leah Groden (Long Beach, CA) on their engagement.
The L’Chaim will IYH be tonight, Tuesday at 842 Eastern Pkwy, [between Kingston and Albany Ave].
Email your Simcha or Mazal Tov to MazalTov@CrownHeights.info !!
Family members praise decision and advocates, say justice has been served
CEDAR RAPIDS, IA [CHI] — An Iowa judge ruled that Sholom Rubashkin will be freed on bail later this week, overturning the original, unfair decision to deny him freedom based on his religious background. Advocates for Mr. Rubashkin praised the decision as a victory for equal rights and religious freedom.
“Justice prevailed today,” said Guy Cook, Mr. Rubashkin’s attorney. “Judge Reade protected this man’s constitutional rights! She made those rights come alive!”
Mr. Rubashkin will be freed on $500,000 bail this Thursday, and he must surrender his birth certificate and family passports. He also pledged not to contact a list of people related to the case and to wear an electronic monitoring bracelet. The judge ruled that more extreme measures, such as armed guards or additional surety, were not necessary.
CROWN HEIGHTS [NEWS12] — Police say a Torah was stolen from inside a car parked on Union Street Monday evening.
We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Avremi and Nissa Bracha (nee Gilbert-Mcnabb) Yarmush (Los Angeles, CA) on the birth of their son.
May the newborn be a source of Nachas to his parents, grandparents and Klal Yisroel!
CEDAR RAPIDS, IA — Sholom Rubashkin, the former top executive at the Agriprocessors meatpacking plant in Postville, should be released from custody on $500,000 bond while he awaits trial on multiple federal counts of bank fraud and of helping illegal immigrants obtain false documents, a judge ruled this morning
Rubashkin has been in federal custody since Nov. 14. Prosecutors had contended he might flee if let out of jail.
Rubashkin is expected to be released from jail Thursday morning.
We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Yechiel Schmerling (Zurich, Switzerland) and Dina Lozenik (Miami Beach, FL) on their engagement.
The L’Chaim will IYH be Tuesday night at the Jewish Children’s Museum, 792 Eastern Pkwy [corner Kingston Ave].
CEDAR RAPIDS, IA — An Israeli food company has offered $40 million for the bankrupt Agriprocessors meatpacking plant in Postville and a smaller, subsidiary plant in Nebraska.
The Postville plant was the largest kosher-meat producer in the country before last May, when it was the site of an immigration raid that sparked a spiral into bankruptcy.
From left to right, Rabbi Chanoch Hecht, Chabad of Dutchess County, Rabbi Avrohom Boruch Itkin, Chabad of Greene County with with the newly appointed junior US Senator from New York, Kirsten Gillibrand in Albany, NY earlier today.
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A Chazara Shiur on family Halachos for Men is slated to begin next week. The Shiurim will take place on Tuesdays from Parshas Bo to Parshas Mishpatim; 2,9,16, and 23 of Shvat, the 27th of January, 3,10,17, of February. Maariv is at 9:00 with the shiur following at 9:10pm. The shiurim will be delivered by Rabbi Shmuel Bluming in English at Agudas Yisroel, 456 Crown Street between Brooklyn and Kingston Avenue.
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Bochurim from Oholei Torah Zal took the day to bake Matzos. Starting in the morning the Bochurim baked throughout the day in three shifts.
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