Has crime gotten so bad that we need the military protecting our streets and subways? Its certainly what it looked like to those passing the Brooklyn Art Museum on Eastern Parkway. The scene was a film shoot for a TV series with the background set on the Brooklyn Art Museum on Eastern Parkway and Washington Avenue.
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We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Dovid Feld (Berkeley, CA) and Rivkie Ferris (Berkeley, CA) on their engagement.
The L’Chaim will IYH be Sunday night at Rayim Ahuvim, 1614 Carroll St, [corner Schenectady Ave].
GOLETA, CA — Fire investigators interviewed occupants and examined evidence before determining there was no malicious intent in connection with the blaze at UC Santa Barbara’s Chabad House, County Fire Capt. Eli Iskow said.
WASHINGTON, DC — A charismatic religious Jewish group is in an international legal battle against the Russian Federation, literally fighting for its spiritual soul. At stake is the right to possess the precious archive and library of the orthodox Jewish group known as Chabad.
Shmuly Zaklikofsky (Oak Park, MI) and Chanie Gammal (Montreal, Canada)
IYH at 778 Montgomery Street, [between Albany and Troy Avenue]
Chaim Slavticki (Antwerp, Belgium) and Chaya Mushka Shanowitz (Crown Heights) .
IYH at Lubavitcher Yeshiva, 570 Crown St, [hall entrance on Albany Avenue].
Email your Simcha or Mazal Tov to MazalTov@CrownHeights.info !!
We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Chaim Slavticki (Antwerp, Belgium) and Chaya Mushka Shanowitz (Crown Heights) on their engagement.
The L’Chaim will IYH be Wednesday night at Lubavitcher Yeshiva, 570 Crown St, [hall entrance on Albany Ave].
We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Yisroel and Chanale (nee Brafman) Cotlar (Crown Heights) on the birth of their 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 !!
S DIEGO, CA [CHI] — On Sunday, January 25th, 29 Teves a beautiful Hachnosos Sefer Torah was held at Chabad House on Montezuma Road in S. Diego. This Chabad House was established over 30 years ago, and recently with the move of the main Chabad Center to Scripps Ranch, Chabad House has been run successfully by Campus Shluchim, Rabbi Chalom and Mairav Boudjnah.
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(By Annie Gibson, Levy Hertzel and Susan Shapiro)
Hasidic groups in New York patrol religious neighborhoods in marked cars, but they occasionally clash with outside groups and even among themselves.
NEW YORK — The disheveled man looks momentarily confused. He’s wearing a puffy red coat that looks as if it was salvaged from the city dump. “Are you guys cops?” he asks.
He’s been set upon by four Hasidic Jews in the center aisle of House and Home Hardware on Flushing Avenue, a commercial strip that runs through the Hasidic section of Williamsburg in Brooklyn – a neighborhood uncanny for its resemblance to a 19th-century shtetl.
NEW YORK, NY [ADL] — A new survey of seven countries across Europe shows millions continue to believe the classical anti-Semitic canards that have persistently pursued Jews through the centuries.
The findings released by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today revealed that nearly half of the Europeans surveyed believe Jews are not loyal to their country and more than one-third believe they have “too much power” in business and finance.
DETROIT, MI [CHI] — Close to 50 volunteers from the Girls Divisions of over 15 national and international Friendship Circle branches converged on Detroit’s Meer Family Friendship Center this past weekend for the annual International Friendship Circle Volunteer Conference.
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MELBOURNE, Australia [CHI] — Chabad is at the forefront of the Jewish community’s efforts to assist the victims of the devastating bushfires in the state of Victoria. These are the worst bushfires in Australian history, claiming more than 200 lives.
This years Grand Kinus Shluchos Farbrengen will be taking place at the Shluchim Office Thursday, Chai Shvat, February 12th @ 9:15 P.M., following the last Kinus session. It will be streaming live online for all Shluchos who were not able to make it to the Kinus.
GRAND PRIZE: Dr. Jack and Joy Fishman
Land Rover Lease: To be raffled on Purim (not enough tickets sold yet)
Split-The-Pot: Chaya B.
Jackpot: Etty Cohen
List continues in the Extended Article!
JERUSALEM, Israel — Members of the ultra-Orthodox community opening the weekend edition of haredi daily Hamodia in search of a recipe for a good Shabbat meal last week were shocked to find a recipe for stir-fried chicken noodles with none other than dairy Feta cheese – a combination that is against the rules of kashrut and is strictly forbidden.
We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Baruch Yurkowics (Melbourne, Australia) and Leah Hazdan (Johannesburg, South Africa) on their engagement.
The L’Chaim will IYH be tonight, Tuesday at the Jewish Children’s Museum, 792 Eastern Pkwy [corner Kingston Ave].
CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — A routine ride on the Community Council’s Crown Heights – Boro Park bus took a turn for the worse this afternoon. A glass bottle was hurled at the bus, going right through one of the windows and striking two of the passengers, injuring them. One passenger described the scene to CrownHeights.info; “I heard a loud bang and then women started screaming. I was petrified…”
The incident took place as the bus was driving past Empire Boulevard and Balfour Place, at around 3:50pm. A group of three black youths, described as two females and one male in their early teens, threw a glass bottle at the bus striking it and causing damage and injuring passengers.
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