Mazal Tov! – New Engagement!
We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Mendy Blau (Crown Heights) and Sarale Kravitsky (Crown Heights) on their engagement.
The L’Chaim will IYH be Wednesday at Lubavitcher Yeshiva, 570 Crown St [entrance on Albany ave].
To submit a Simcha or Mazal Tov please email us mazaltov@crownheights.info
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Lubavitcher Yeshiva Day Camp visit City Hall and One Police Plaza
NEW YORK, NY [CHI] — Fun is the norm at Camp Machne Mamosh – Lubavitcher Yeshiva Day Camp. There are trips on a daily basis, sports and other exciting activities, in camp, at the park and just anywhere your imagination can take you. How about City Hall? or One Police Plaza? and the answer is Yes, been there, done that.
More pictures in the Extended Article!
We compiled a list of camps and have added them to the left hand side of the site right in between Leasing Directs monthly deal on a car leases and Kehot’s book of the week, for your convenience. If we missed out on any camps please feel free to email us at news@crownheights.info and tell us! We will add it!
Camp Websites – A New Summer Sidebar Feature on CHI
Pictures, videos, YouTUBE, facebook and flickr, CrownHeights.info and Drudge, we live in a technology age where after taking a picture we rush to post it on Picasa and our family blogs and share it with friends and family. We expect to read our news a minute before it happened!
Comes summer and we send off our children to overnight camp and we relax in our homes and bungalow colony’s, but we must keep in touch and constantly updated about our kids that are so far away in camp! So most camps run their own websites where they post pictures, some even have live webcams.
We compiled a list of camps and have added them to the left hand side of the site right in between Leasing Directs monthly deal on a car leases and Kehot’s book of the week, for your convenience. If we missed out on any camps please feel free to email us at news@crownheights.info and tell us! We will add it!
Shomrim Apprehend Sicko for Indecent Exposure
CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] – A Jewish woman on her way to work this morning was accosted by an individual who exposed himself to her on a Crown Heights street. The incident took place at around 10:20am on Brooklyn Avenue between Union and President Streets.
The perp, a Hispanic male in his 20’s was standing a few feet inside the alleyway and as the woman walked by he called out to her and exposed himself. The woman was so stunned that she couldn’t get a proper description of the perp but was able to give a general description.
More pictures in the Extended Article!
Mazal Tov! – Its Twins! A Boy! and A Girl!
I would like to wish a hearty Mazal Tov to Melly and Eidel (nee Majerczyk) Pinson (Crown Heights) on the birth of their twins, a boy! and a girl!
May the newborns be a source of Nachas to their parents, grandparents, relatives and Klal Yisroel.
To submit a Simcha or Mazal Tov please email us mazaltov@crownheights.info
Graduation of Golden Beach Florida Smicha Program
MIAMI, FL [CHI] — The graduation took place last Thursday night at Pagoda Hall in Sunny Isles, Miami. Over 120 people attended. In attendance was Rabbi Dovid Schochet, Chief Dayan of Toronto, who represented the Rabbonim signing the smicha. They are Rabbi Schochet, Rabbi Gavriel Tzinner (author of Nitei Gavriel), Rabbi Yisroel Friedman (Rosh Yeshiva of Oholei Torah), and Rabbi Yochanan Gurary (of Cholon, Israel).
More pictures in the Extended Article!
Mazal Tov! – Its A Boy!
We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Laibel and Faigy (nee Scheiman) Lison (Montreal, Canada) on the birth of their son.
May the newborn be a source of Nachas to his parents, grandparents, relatives and Klal Yisroel.
HIGHLAND MILLS, NY — Women chatted, sipped freshly made vegetable juice from plastic cups and glanced over their schedules in the hallways of the historic Rushmore Estate.
In the Spirit: Women pampered at Chabad ‘spa day’
HIGHLAND MILLS, NY — Women chatted, sipped freshly made vegetable juice from plastic cups and glanced over their schedules in the hallways of the historic Rushmore Estate.
Mazal Tov! – Its A Boy!
We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Shimi and Dalya (nee Lisker) Backer (Crown Heights) on the birth of their son.
May the newborn be a source of Nachas to his parents, grandparents, relatives and Klal Yisroel.
Like many young and passionate rabbis, Yitzchok Moully is constantly searching for ways to make Judaism and Jewishness more accessible. The 29-year-old native of Australia, who leads the Chabad Center of Basking Ridge, hit upon an interesting way to do outreach: his own artwork.
The Art of the Pulpit
Like many young and passionate rabbis, Yitzchok Moully is constantly searching for ways to make Judaism and Jewishness more accessible. The 29-year-old native of Australia, who leads the Chabad Center of Basking Ridge, hit upon an interesting way to do outreach: his own artwork.
Mazal Tov! – Its A Boy!
We would like to wish Mazel Tov to Ari and Batya (nee Shaffer) Kievman (Crown Heights) on the birth of their first born son.
May the newborn be a source of Nachas to his parents, grandparents, relatives and Klal Yisroel.
POSTVILLE, IA [KWWL] — An immigration rally has kicked off in Postville with protesters shouting “Si se puede,” translated in English as “yes, we can.”
Hundreds of people marched through the small Iowa town of about 2,200 on Sunday. Busloads of people from Chicago, Minneapolis-St. Paul and other nearby cities came to protest a federal immigration raid of the Agriprocessors plant in May.
More pictures and a number of videos in the Extended Article!
Rally for Immigration Reform in Postville
POSTVILLE, IA [KWWL] — An immigration rally has kicked off in Postville with protesters shouting “Si se puede,” translated in English as “yes, we can.”
Hundreds of people marched through the small Iowa town of about 2,200 on Sunday. Busloads of people from Chicago, Minneapolis-St. Paul and other nearby cities came to protest a federal immigration raid of the Agriprocessors plant in May.
More pictures and a number of videos in the Extended Article!
CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — A police cruiser slammed into a 15 passenger van at around 9:30 Sunday night. The incident took place in the intersection of Albany Avenue and Carroll Street where a 15 passenger van, driven by a yungerman, heading down Carroll was broadsided by a police cruiser coming down Albany.
Multiple eye witnesses stated that they observed the police car driving with only its lights flashing and no sirens, and when approaching the intersection the police car did not slow down. From police officers on scene the police car did not appear to be responding to an emergency.
More pictures in the Extended Article.
Police Cruiser Crashes into Van, Police Refuse Hatzalah Aid
CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — A police cruiser slammed into a 15 passenger van at around 9:30 Sunday night. The incident took place in the intersection of Albany Avenue and Carroll Street where a 15 passenger van, driven by a yungerman, heading down Carroll was broadsided by a police cruiser coming down Albany.
Multiple eye witnesses stated that they observed the police car driving with only its lights flashing and no sirens, and when approaching the intersection the police car did not slow down. From police officers on scene the police car did not appear to be responding to an emergency.
More pictures in the Extended Article.
An Israeli newspaper's disclosure of the note Sen. Barack Obama left at Jerusalem's Western Wall this week is the equivalent of reading someone's diary — a gross violation of privacy — several Long Island rabbis said Friday.
Rabbis Criticize Disclosure of Obama’s Prayer
An Israeli newspaper’s disclosure of the note Sen. Barack Obama left at Jerusalem’s Western Wall this week is the equivalent of reading someone’s diary — a gross violation of privacy — several Long Island rabbis said Friday.
The tuition for girls who want to attend seminary in Israel is an extremely taxing expense for parents. The average cost of a year in seminary is around $15,000.
One parent, a Shliach in the United States, choose an original way to make that protest, wearing a baseball cap with the following: “I can’t afford a Borsalino because I sent my daughter to seminary”.
Share your opinion by using the Comment System!
Original Protest to the Cost of Seminary Tuition
The tuition for girls who want to attend seminary in Israel is an extremely taxing expense for parents. The average cost of a year in seminary is around $15,000.
One parent, a Shliach in the United States, choose an original way to make that protest, wearing a baseball cap with the following: “I can’t afford a Borsalino because I sent my daughter to seminary”.
Share your opinion by using the Comment System!
Six Cars Vandalized Friday Night
CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] -– Shabbos morning the residents of Brooklyn Avenue between East New York and Maple awoke to find their cars vandalized the paint and glass scratched with some kind of tool.
Six cars in total were vandalized, all of them belonging to Jewish residents, and all of them were high end cars including BMW’s and Cadillac’s.
More pictures in the Extended Article.
