Mazal Tov! – New Engagement!
We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Chezky Altein (Crown Heights) and Chanale Sossonko (Miami Beach, FL) on their engagement.
The L’Chaim will IYH be tonight Monday at Bais Rivkah 310 Crown St. [bet New York and Nostrand].
To submit a Simcha or Mazal Tov please email us mazaltov@crownheights.info
The challenge is getting them to cooperate.
Shmira and Shomrim, private crime-patrol organizations in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, have been rivals since the late '90s, when they split.
Shmira has agreed to the merger, which was proposed in June. Shomrim has refused.
The plan would create a united, NYPD-trained patrol group the department would supervise and partially fund, a source said.
COPS: JEW GUYS NEED TO TALK!
The NYPD is trying to settle a long-running dispute between two rival Orthodox Jewish patrol groups – and keep them from taking the law into their own hands – by uniting them into one police-supervised unit, The Post has learned.
The challenge is getting them to cooperate.
Shmira and Shomrim, private crime-patrol organizations in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, have been rivals since the late ’90s, when they split.
Shmira has agreed to the merger, which was proposed in June. Shomrim has refused.
The plan would create a united, NYPD-trained patrol group the department would supervise and partially fund, a source said.
Mazal Tov! – New Engagement!
We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Moshe Lazoros (Framingham, Massachusets) and Libby Weinberger (Antwerp, Belgium) on their engagement.
To submit a Simcha or Mazal Tov please email us mazaltov@crownheights.info
The following are a few photos from the archives of Chabad of California, where R. Yossi Rachik is seen doing Mivtziom in the 1960’s at the Chabad Rallies.
More pictures in the Extended Article.
Mivtzoim with R. Yossi Raichik in the 1960’s
The following are a few photos from the archives of Chabad of California, where R. Yossi Rachik is seen doing Mivtziom in the 1960’s at the Chabad Rallies.
More pictures in the Extended Article.
Mazal Tov! – Its A Girl!
We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Mendy and Frumie (nee Parshan) Weitman (Crown Heights) on the birth of their firstborn daughter.
May the newborn be a source of Nachas to her parents, grandparents, relatives and Klal Yisroel.
The Backer Family Completes a New Safer Torah!
CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — The Backer family completed a new Safer Torah in memory of their parents, R. Yitzchok Shmuel and Chana Bracha OBM Backer. Family and friends gathers in the Backers home on President Street to fill in the last letters under the watchful eye of the Sofer Rabbi Feitel Levin.
Many more pictures in the Extended Article!
Mazal Tov! – New Engagement!
We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Levi Itkin (Scranton, PA) and Mushki (bas R. Shia) Morozow (Crown Heights) on their engagement.
To submit a Simcha or Mazal Tov please email us mazaltov@crownheights.info
New Jewish Barber Shop on Kingston
CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — For the first time in years a new barber shop has opened up for business on Kingston. The Crown Heights community has grown in these past years and there simply was a demand for an additional hair cutter.
More pictures in the Extended Article!
Mazal Tov! – New Engagement!
We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Nochi Goldshmid (Crown Heights) and Miriam Friedman (Montreal, Canada) on their engagement.
The L’Chaim will IYH be Tonight, Sunday, at Beis Levi Yitzchok, 556 Crown St. [entrance on Albany Ave].
To submit a Simcha or Mazal Tov please email us mazaltov@crownheights.info
The cell phone bill says “9-1-1 Service Fee”: $1.20. You pay it every month to New York state.
But only 6 cents end up at a 911 center.
How the State Abused your Monthly Cellphone Tax
The cell phone bill says “9-1-1 Service Fee”: $1.20. You pay it every month to New York state.
But only 6 cents end up at a 911 center.
Mazal Tov! – New Engagement!
We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Shimon Emlen (Upper East Side, NY/Seattle, WA) and Meira Kaner (Baltimore, MD) on their engagement.
To submit a Simcha or Mazal Tov please email us mazaltov@crownheights.info
Photo Gallery: Slichos in 770
More pictures in the Extended Article!
Photo Gallery: Slichos and a Farbrengen in Beis Shmuel
More pictures in the Extended Article!

Police Accident Leaves Bochur Injured
CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn, [CHI] — Motzoi Shabbos, at about 1:00am, while everybody was on their way to Shul for Slichos, a couple of Bochurim driving Cadillac on Montgomery Street was struck by a Police car as they crossed the intersection with Brooklyn Avenue.
More pictures in the Extended Article!
With great sadness and pain we inform you of the untimely passing of Rabbi Yosef Yitzchok Raichik OBM of Kfar Chabad at the age of 55, after suffering a sudden short illness.
R. Yosef is the son of Rabbi Shmuel Dovid Raichik OBM who was the first Shliach to California, R. Yosef was also a member of Aguc”h and Tzac”h in Israel and gave himself over to bringing the children from Chernobol to Israel, his efforts were widely recognized in the UN.
He leaves behind his wife, children and siblings.
The Levaya will take place at 1:00pm [Israel Time] from his home in Kfar Chabad and from there will make its way to Har Hamenuchos.
Boruch Dayan Hoemes
Boruch Dayan Hoemes – R. Yosef Yitzchok Raichik OBM
With great sadness and pain we inform you of the untimely passing of Rabbi Yosef Yitzchok Raichik OBM of Kfar Chabad at the age of 55, after suffering a sudden short illness.
R. Yosef is the son of Rabbi Shmuel Dovid Raichik OBM who was the first Shliach to California, R. Yosef was also a member of Aguc”h and Tzac”h in Israel and gave himself over to bringing the children from Chernobol to Israel, his efforts were widely recognized in the UN.
He leaves behind his wife, children and siblings.
The Levaya will take place at 1:00pm [Israel Time] from his home in Kfar Chabad and from there will make its way to Har Hamenuchos.
Boruch Dayan Hoemes