CEDARHURST, NY [CHI] — This evening, Monday, hundreds of local Five Towns and Far Rockaway residents; as well as many members of the surrounding Jewish communities, including many Shluchim and Anash, gathered at the Young Israel of Lawrence for Shloshim and memorial service in memory Levi Yitzchak Wolowik OBM.
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CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — A Bochur was assaulted earlier this afternoon, on St. Johns Place and Brooklyn Avenue. As the Bochur was walking he was attacked from behind, by a Black male who put him in a headlock and broke his glasses.
This bizarre attack was only made stranger, by the fact that the perpetrator didn’t try to take anything from the Bochur. He didn’t demand and anything or even say anything to him, during the entire incident.
BROOKLYN, NY — Chabad is turning to small donors to stave off a financial crisis in its Russian operations, as major donors like diamond and real estate mogul Lev Leviev are pulling back after suffering heavy losses in the global economic recession.
Rabbis told The Jerusalem Post on Monday that new donors were responding to emergency appeals, though critical programs like schools remained at risk for cuts amid a crisis stretching back to the collapse of the US-based Lehman Brothers investment bank in September.
CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — Today, Monday afternoon, two cars collided on Kingston and Union, after one took a red light. According to eye witnesses; a silver Chrysler driven by a Black man drove through the intersection, when the light was steady red. Then a black BMW driven by a Bochur slammed into him causing the Chrysler to spin around.
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The latest 770’s facade has been completed. Yesterday Rabbi Yitzchok Kogan, coordinator of the 770 project, and Anash celebrated the completion of stage one of the Ramenskaya 770, outside of Moscow.
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We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Doren and Shira (nee Brown) Goldberger (Toronto Canada) on the birth of their daughter, Devorah Leah.
May the newborn be a source of Nachas to her parents, grandparents and Klal Yisroel.
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CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — There is a little store in Crown Heights that is doing more than everyone else. Located on the upper end of Albany Avenue, neighboring a popular string of shops including the Bentzi’s Gourmet and Mimulo Flowers; Mr Greens, popular fresh produce store is preparing for the approaching Passover Holiday in numerous way.
Apart from deliveries of thousands of pounds of romaine lettuce, used during this holiday as bitter herbs, a remembrance of the Hebrews bitter times in Egypt; Mr Greens is preparing to send over a thousand boxes of fresh produce to needy families in the Crown Heights area to alleviate some of the holiday’s financial burden. Mr Shloimie Klein, a partner of Mr Greens believes his shop is doing a small part in easing the financial turmoil that Pesach can bring.
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This niggun on the Rebbe’s new Kapitel was submitted to CrownHeights.info. Composed and performed by the Talmidim of Lubavitch Mesivta, Chicago. The song is based on Kapital Kuf Ches in Tehillim. Enjoy!
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — This month, the Pre 1A classes of Lubavitcher Yeshiva Crown Heights celebrated their Grand Siddur Party. The event was emceed by Rabbi Holtzman, father of Dov Holtzman in Rabbi Katzen’s class.
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CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — For over an hour Troy Avenue was closed to traffic this morning, thanks to an aggressive and reckless driver who tried to ‘beat’ a sanitation garbage truck, passing it and colliding forcing it to swerve and strike a city bus. the incident took place at around 11:00am on Troy Avenue between Lefferts and Empire.
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CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — Yesterday, Sunday there was a Siyum and Hachnosas Sefer Torah memory of HaRav HaChossid Reb Mordechai HaKohen Rivkin AH.
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Moishe Lipsker (Crown Heights) and Faigy Weingarten (Crown Heights) .
IYH at Lubavitcher Yeshiva, 570 Crown St [hall entrance on Albany Ave].
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PRINCETON, NJ — The Jewish organization Chabad will begin holding Orthodox services at the University this Saturday, following their dedication of a new Torah last Sunday afternoon.
Though the Center for Jewish Life (CJL) offers a variety of services, the Chabad services will target a different audience, Chabad Rabbi Eitan Webb said in response to concerns of Orthodox students within the CJL that the new services will promote competition between the groups. Webb explained that the Chabad services will aim to provide students who are currently not very involved in Jewish life with an opportunity to learn more about how Orthodox services work.
NEW YORK, NY — Adolf Hitler was completely responsible for the Holocaust. But Hitler had help.When zealous Nazis were motivated to wage war against an imaginary generation-to-generation Jewish conspiracy, when Nazis created ghastly extermination plans to help ensure their master race would rule the world, when the German military was enabled to smash across Europe with lightning speed in heavy Blitz trucks, bomb mercilessly from the air in advanced JU-88s and create carnage across the seas with deadly torpedoes, when Josef Mengele saw the scientific need to undertake heinous medical experiments on twins in Auschwitz, when the Reich was enabled to identify the Jews everywhere in Europe and then systematically pauperize and destroy them, when all these terrible things were done, the shape and scope of the horror was pivotally determined by major American industrial giants.
LONDON, UK — The Rabbinical Centre of Europe tackles complicated halachic questions sent by the rabbis of the continent on a daily basis. But nothing prepared the RCE for a recent query by a London rabbi, who sought the center’s help in getting rid of a ghost he said was dwelling in his new residence.
RAMALLAH [AFP] — An Israeli and a group of Palestinians last week set aside their differences in order to carry out an armed bank robbery, Palestinian police said Sunday.
The heist at a bank in the Israeli-occupied West Bank town of Ramallah on Tuesday was carried out by six armed gunmen who made off with some 30,000 dollars, according to security officials.
From the Safer Haminhagim: [Every day from Rosh Chodesh Nissan until the twelfth of the month, usually after Shacharis,] one reads the passage [from Bamidbar 7-8:4] that describes the offering brought on that day by a particular Nasi, or tribal prince, for the dedication of the altar of the Mishkan. [In common parlance, each day’s passage itself is often referred to as “the Nasi.”] This daily reading is followed by the prayer which opens with the words yehi ratzon (and which appears in Siddur Torah Or [as well as in Siddur Tehillat HaShem, p. 371]). This prayer is recited even by a Kohen or a Levi [despite its seeming relevance only to tribes other than the Tribe of Levi]. [284]
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