BROOKLYN, NY [CHI] — Boys of all ages and sizes bound down the steps alongside the shul, now practice room. They hurry in to the sound of their songs playing from the speakers. With tapping toes and humming lips, these boys are ready for practice.
More pictures in the Extended Article!
The Rebbe says:
1. In this week’s Torah portion Hashem (G-d) sends the tenth and final plague upon the Egyptian people- every firstborn in the land of Egypt died.
2. When Moshe Rabbeinu (Moses our teacher) forewarned Pharaoh about the impending catastrophe that was about to befall him and his people he told him that the plague would happen “Ki’cha’tzos Ha’lie’lah – at around midnight”.
Rashi explains that the actual prophecy which Moshe Rabbeinu received from Hashem to tell over to Pharaoh was that the plague of the firstborn would happen precisely at midnight however Moshe Rabbeinu changed the wording to “at around midnight” because if he would say “precisely at midnight” and Pharaoh and his stargazers would make a mistake as to when the exact time of midnight is, they would say that Hashem was late or early (Heaven Forbid) in bringing the plague.
JERUSALEM, Israel — Flanked by his father and siblings, Dean Teremforush, 13, proudly read from the Torah in front of Jerusalem’s Western Wall. Conspicuously absent, however, from the bar mitzvah service ñ one of several arranged in the last few weeks by the Chabad Terror Victims Project ñ was the boy’s mother, who perished five years ago in a terrorist attack southeast of Tel Aviv.
We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Mendel (ben R Yosef) Altein (Crown Heights) and Esty Rudski (Montreal Canada) on their engagement.
The L’Chaim will IYH be tonight, Thursday at FREE, 1383 President St, [between Kingston and Brooklyn Ave].
WILLIAMSBURG, Brooklyn [CHI] — At 11:00pm last night the Williamsburg’s Shomrim Hotline received a call for a person that had been missing since 10:00am. The missing, 61 year old Berel Lerner, who has a mental history, didn’t show up to the Petach Tikvah Yeshiva.
Williamsburg Shomrim members began canvassing the area and later called the Crown Heights Shomrim Division for more manpower and together they searched into the night.
More in the Extended Article!
We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Moshe and Nechama Dina (nee Cohen) Wiener (Crown Heights) on the birth of their firstborn son.
May the newborn be a source of Nachas to his parents, grandparents, relatives and Klal Yisroel.
To submit a Simcha or Mazal Tov please email us at mazaltov@crownheights.info!
CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — Two cars collided earlier today in the intersection of Brooklyn Avenue and Empire Boulevard. The incident took place at around 12:00pm where a Chevy Malibu was traveling down Brooklyn and collided with a Chevy Avalanche who was driving along Empire.
More pictures in the Extended Article.
NEW YORK CITY, NY — After two decades, New York City’s birth rate finally registered some growth. According to city Deputy Health Commissioner Lorna Thorpe, 125,506 children were born in 2006, more than 3,000 babies compared to 122,725 infants born in 2005.
We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Yehuda and Estee (nee Goldberg) Lieblich on the birth of their firstborn son.
May the newborn be a source of Nachas to his parents, grandparents, relatives and Klal Yisroel.
To submit a Simcha or Mazal Tov please email us at mazaltov@crownheights.info!
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ — Four teenagers have been arrested in connection with the damage done to nearly 500 headstones at a Jewish cemetery in New Brunswick, a rabbi from one of the two synagogues that uses the cemetery said today.
Rabbi David Bassous of Congregation Etz Ahaim in Highland Park said he met with officials from Middlesex County Prosecutor Bruce Kaplan’s office today and was told the juveniles, ages 15 to 17, had been arrested for causing the damage at Poile Zedek cemetery.
POSTVILLE, IA — A conflict between supervising rabbis at an embattled kosher slaughterhouse has become public, opening a window into the usually closed world of kashrut certification.
NEW YORK, NY — They were two fathers caught up in the storm of the 1991 Crown Heights riots – one black, the other white – who bonded over the shared grief of losing their sons.
Carmel Cato and Max Rosenbaum reached out to each other in their darkest hour to heal a borough split along racial lines.
Cato, 56, reached out again to Rosenbaum’s family Tuesday, placing a long distance call to Australia to express condolences over his old friend’s death.
BOYNTON BEACH, FL — A demographic survey commissioned by the Jewish Federation recently established Boynton Beach as the fastest growing Jewish community in the country, and the most densely populated Jewish area outside of Israel. In 1987, there were 9,300 Jews in Boynton Beach. The survey taken in 2005 reported a whopping 58,000, and most recently demographer Dr. Ira Sheskin estimated the Jewish population in the Greater Boynton area at 86,000.
With sadness we inform you of the passing of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Friedman of Borough Park. He is survived by his wife Yibadlu Lechaim Tovim Leah Friedman.
The family will be sitting Shiva at 698 Empire Blvd, [between Albany and Troy Ave].
Condolences can be emailed to mrosenfeld@maimonidesmed.org or call 718-778-1947
Hamokom Yenachem eschem Besoch Shaar Avaylay Tzion VeYerushalayim.
CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — This morning a Crown Heights resident was shocked to find two tires on her car slashed in addition to an obscenity scratched into the paint on the driver’s side door, the car was parked on Kingston Avenue between East New York and Lefferts Avenue.
The incident if following a road incident near her home where another driver claimed that she had struck his vehicle and demanded she pay him, police were called to the scene and determined that there is no grounds to his claim, and that there was no collision. The driver began yelling at cops and then drove off.
More in the Extended Article.
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — The series of Maccabi games that annually span the globe aim to highlight more than just Jewish athleticism: They’re in the business of reinforcing Jewish pride. No where was that mission more apparent than in Buenos Aires, Argentina, last week, as a team of Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries and rabbinical students cooperated with the 11th Pan-American Maccabean Games to help contestants, their families, friends and fans embrace their Jewish heritage.
From the moment the more than 5,000 Jewish athletes arrived in the South American capital city, they availed themselves of a host of Jewish-enrichment activities, from putting on tefillin to posing questions to any number of the 20 rabbinical students who fanned out among the venues and mobilized a “mitzvah tank.” They even could munch on strictly kosher food supervised by Chabad-Lubavitch of Argentina.
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