One of the thousands of participants in the New York Marathon on Nov. 2, 2008, Chaim Backman of Crown Heights, shows his Jewish pride as he runs in a Brooklyn neighborhood. (photo by Mark Joffe/JTA)
Reporters and photojournalists hung about in Crown Heights on Tuesday, November 4, reporting on the local Chassidic and African-American vote. AP’s Kathy Willens, Haaretz’s Shlomo Shamir, IsraelNN’s Hana Levi Julian and Ben Piven and Gaia Pianigiani from Columbia Journalist pointed out the uniqueness “in the visibility of its voter distribution.”
NEW YORK — A second wave of voters hit the ballot box at Brooklyn’s 43rd district at around 9 a.m. yesterday. The rectangular box, which over the course of the day gradually filled up with presidential voting slips, was positioned in the cellar of an old public school at the corner of Brooklyn St. and President St., in the heart of Crown Heights, with its mixed population of blacks and ultra-Orthodox Jews, mostly of the Lubavitch-Chabad sect.
POSTVILLE, IA [AP] — A kosher slaughterhouse in Iowa has filed for bankruptcy protection, blaming a May immigration raid for financial difficulties.
Agriprocessors’ move to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Tuesday comes a day before the meatpacker was to meet in court with its biggest lender, First Bank of St. Louis.
Shmuly Kirsh (Crown Heights) and Chanie Minsky (Crown Heights) .
IYH at Chovevei Torah Ballroom, 885 Eastern Pkey [between Troy and Albany Ave].
To submit your Simcha or Mazal Tov please email us at mazaltov@crownheights.info!
Please take a moment and say a Kapitel Tehillim for a Refuah Shlaima for a baby who is in critical condition.
HaTinok HaCohen ben Chaya
Barack Obama, a 47-year-old first-term senator from Illinois, shattered more than 200 years of history Tuesday night by winning election as the first African-American president in the history of the United States, according to projections by NBC News.
Obama reached the 270 electoral votes he needed for election at 11 p.m. ET, when NBC News projected that he would win California, Washington and Oregon.
We woild like to wish Mazal Tov to Zalman and Dina (nee Lisker) Friedman (Crown Heights) on the birth of their 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 Dovie and Sabrina (nee Harari) Lozenik (Bal Harbor, FL) on the birth of their firstborn son.
May the newborn be a source of Nachas to his parents, grandparents, relatives and Klal Yisroel.
CANTERBURY, New Zealand [CHI] — This week Chabad of New Zealand has welcomed it’s largest group of Shluchim ever! Seven young Yeshivah graduates, who will be spending the year in the Country’s South Island, where they will be running the Chabad House in the regional Capital of CHCH. They will be under the directorship of Hatomim Berri Spitetzki who was recently appointed to oversee the development of Chabad’s activities in the region.
More pictures in the Extended Article!
ALLENTOWN, PA [CHI] — Court reconvened this morning in Allentown, Pennsylvania and the judge handed down his verdict. Reb Moshe was sentenced to 16 months in prison with the possibility of parole after a third of that, along with a fine of $450,000.
Once again many Crown Heightsers turned out in show of support, a bus and many private cars showed up, all leaving as early as 6:30 in the morning.
Tech-savvy Orthodox Jews can now reach out for the handset of God.
Two entrepreneurs who attended Yeshiva University have written software that turns the BlackBerry from a device to check e-mail and stocks into a pray phone.
We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Levi and Layla (nee Shpigelman) Zirkind (Los Angeles, CA) on the birth of their firstborn son.
May the newborn be a source of Nachas to his parents, grandparents, relatives and Klal Yisroel.
Dear Anash:
We want to thank everyone that came and participated in this very important case of Pidyon Shevuim to help the Rubashkin family. The sentencing phase of this trial was supposed to last for two hours, and it lasted for almost eight hours, the judge postponed the final few minutes of the proceedings to tomorrow morning at 9:30am.
We feel that overwhelming support from the community will have a positive impact on the outcome. We are begging everybody and anybody to please come tomorrow. Plus, if you can, please join Moishe Rubashkin tonight by the Ohel at: 11:00pm.
Again unlike today, we believe that tomorrow’s proceeding will be very short, because all relevant testimony was heard today.
We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Yossi and Rivky (nee Lerman) Pelman (Crown Heights) on their firstborn daughter- Chaya Mushka.
May the newborn be a source of Nachas to her parents, grandparents, relatives and Klal Yisroel.
CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — A few minutes after the drag racing accident another incident occurred at around 12:40am in the intersection of Troy and President. A silver Honda Accord driven by a Bochur collided with a white Ford Van sending it careening into 3 parked cars.
More pictures in the Extended Article.
CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — Two cars ‘drag racing’ at high speeds up Troy Avenue ended in disaster with two damaged parked cars and itself on its roof. The incident took place on Troy between Eastern Parkway and Lincoln Place at around 12:30am.
More pictures in the Extended Article.
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