CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — At around 12:00am last night a column of smoke was seen rising from the roof of 679 Montgomery Street, the large building on the corner of Kingston Avenue. People called 911 thinking that there was a fire in the building, which B”H turned out not to be the case.
More pictures in the Extended Article.
Blending education with entertainment, Mendy Pellin introduces another AskMosesTV episode on Kabbalah with guest Simon Jacobson. This episode defines the 2nd of the 10 Sephirot – Gevurah – in it’s purest form.
We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Ephraim and Musia (nee Simpson) Sorkin (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!
BROOKLYN, NY — Chana Schapiro, a lifelong Chabad-Lubavitch Chasid known for her devotion to her children’s education, passed away yesterday in Brooklyn, N.Y. She was 94.
We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Aryeh Leib (Lorne) Sztern (Montreal, Canada) and Faigy Medalie (Johannesberg, South Africa) on their engagement.
The L’Chaim will IYH be tonight, Tuesday at 881 Eastern Pkwy, 4th Floor, [corner Albany Ave].
ZAGREB, CROATIA — Chabad’s Rabbi Pinchas Zaklos met Monday with Croatian President Stjepan Mesi, Prime Minister Ivo Sanader, and Zagreb’s Mayor Milan Bandi.
Zaklos was part of delegation from the Rabbinical Centre of Europe that arrived in Zagreb to seek a change in Croatia’s law regarding the selling of cemetery land.
Levi Dubinsky (Morristown NJ) and Rivky Osdoba (Crown Heights)
IYH at Beis Levi Yitzchok, 556 Crown St, [entrance on Albany].
Chaim Baum (Sfat Israel) and Miriam Schmalberg (Crown Heights)
IYH at Lubavitcher Yeshiva, 570 Crown St [entrance on Albany Ave].
Aryeh Leib (Lorne) Sztern (Montreal, Canada) and Faigy Medalie (Johannesberg, South Africa) .
IYH at 881 Eastern Pkwy, 4th Floor, [corner Albany Ave].
To submit a Simcha or Mazal Tov please email us mazaltov@crownheights.info
DENVER, CO — Since September 2003 the Chabad Jewish Center serving the Jewish community of South Metro Denver, has been a beacon at the crossroads serving the religious, educational, social and pastoral needs of hundreds of Jews. The Jewish Center has provided hundreds of Jewish families with a vibrant, inclusive community in which they are unequivocally accepted and embraced.
CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — A boy walking to his home on Lincoln Place, from school this afternoon, Monday at around 2:15pm was attacked by a group of four Black males on Eastern Parkway close to the Troy Avenue inetsection. The group appeared to the victim to be around his own age around 12 to 15 years old.
One of the group shoved the boy to the ground and told him to empty his pockets and hand it to him, which he did, producing just some scraps of paper and nothing of value. The group then fled, apparently because someone saw them and scared them off.
More in the Extended Article.
ALBANY, NY — David A. Paterson, minutes after being sworn in as New York’s 55th governor, sought yesterday to woo lawmakers with humor, inspiring words about public service and a call for compromise in the face of a potential economic meltdown.
More pictures and videos of the speeches in the Extended Article!
SDEROT, Israel [CHI] — This past Shabbos five bochurim, Talmidai Hatmimim from Yeshivas Ohr Yehudah went to be “Mechazek and Mesameach” the people of the city of Sderot, Hatomim Avrohom Binyomin, Mendy Benshimon, Mendy Halperin, and Dovid Nochum Kaye from Sydney Australia.
More pictures in the Extended Article!
The Schapiro family is sitting Shiva after the passing of Mrs. Chana Schapiro OBM at 553 Montgomery Street between New York and Brooklyn Avenues.
Davening times are as follows:
Shacharis: 7:00am, 8:30am then two more Minyanim at 9:30am
Mincha: 3:15pm and the rest Bizmana
Maariv: Bizmana
Phone: (718) 774-1840
Fax: (718) 735-6825
Email: schapirofamily@yahoo.com
Hamokom Yenachem Eschem Besoch Shaar Avaylay Tzion VeYerushalayim.
PERM, Russia — Jews of Perm have celebrated a major happening in the life of the local community, with the welcoming of their new Torah scroll. This was presented as a gift by community members “in honor and memory of the Lubavitcher Rebbe Menachem Mendel Schneerson of righteous memory”. It has been over a century now that local Jews have not experienced such an event.
We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Levi Dubinsky (Morristown, NJ) and Rivky Osdoba (Crown Heights) on their engagement.
The L’Chaim will IYH be Tuesday night at Beis Levi Yitzchok, 556 Crown St, [entrance on Albany].
To submit a Simcha or Mazal Tov please email us mazaltov@crownheights.info!
By all accounts, this Saturday night will be a long one. That’s when the Meer Family Friendship Center in West Bloomfield, Mich., will operate overtime to accommodate a group of teenage girls who will stay up chatting, noshing, playing and singing in its animated large rooms.
We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Schneur Zalman and Faige (nee Bronstein) Rabin (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!
Full report soon to follow.
More pictures in the Extended Article!
