Mazal Tov! – 4 Sunday L’Chaims!

Shmuel Chaim Scharf (Crown Heights) and Esther Weisberg (Toronto, Ontario) .
IYH at the Agudah Shul, 456 Crown St, [bet Kingston and Brooklyn].

Mendy Klyne (Manchester, UK) and Tzipporah Schtroks (Morristown, NJ) .
IYH at Beis Levi Yitzchock, 556 Crown St. [entrance on Albany].

Dovid Ptalis (Monsey, NY) and Micki Perlman (Los Angeles, CA) .
IYH 4 to 7 at 15 Golar Dr, Monsey, NY 10952.

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Hate Crime in Fairfax District Sparks Outrage

ABC7

LOS ANGELES, CA — L.A. Police stepped up their patrols in the Fairfax District Friday night after a pellet gun attack against two Jewish rabbinical students. City leaders are outraged over the hate crime.

Police say the shooting spree lasted through Thursday night into the early Friday morning. Two young men in a black Lexus were shooting at people randomly with a pellet gun but in the Fairfax District neighborhood they chose their targets specifically and now they stand accused of a hate crime.

The Tragic ‘Selection’ at Todays Yeshivos

The renowned Chabad writer, Rabbi Yehoshua Dubrowsky published a bitter article in the Yiddish Newspaper, Der Algemeiner Journal, condemning the tragic ‘selections’ made when enrolling students in Chabad yeshivas in the U.S.

“How can we face the philanthropists Reb Lev Leviev and Mr. George Rohr who have been granting millions to Chabad in order to bring non-observant children closer to religion, while, at the same time affluent Chabadniks do not cover the budgets of our own yeshivas so that all students may be accepted willingly.

The entire article can be read (in Yiddish) in the Extended Article!

The education topic has come up on CrownHeights.info a few times in a few different shapes and forms, ranging from tuition to this very topic. Readers are welcome to voice their opinion once again in the Comment System.

Mazal Tov! – 10 Sholom Zochors this Week!

Pinny and Fraida (nee Hoffer) Bard-Wigdor.
IYH at 762 Empire Blvd Apt 3C [corner Troy Ave].

Menachem and Yocheved (nee Hershkop) Freeman.
IYH at 523 Brooklyn Ave, Apt 1D, [bet E New York and Maple St].

Zalman and Nechami (nee Altein) Charytan.
IYH at 679 Montgomery St, Apt 4K, [corner Kingston Ave].

Mendy and Sheiny (nee Springer) Rivkin.
IYH at 1460 President St, [bet Albany and Kingston Ave].

Reuven and Yocheved Elberg.
IYH at 1523 President St, [bet Albany and Troy Ave].

Moshe and Golda Levy.
IYH at 1165 Lincoln Pl, [bet Albany and Troy Ave].

Yossi and Bassie (nee Altein) Katz
IYH at 1642 President St, [bet Schenectady and Utica Ave].

Zacharia and Pleah (nee Chaim) Nahari (Brooklyn, NY)

Chesky and Chani Tenenbaum.
IYH at 3803 Menlo Dr, Baltimore, MD 21215.

Baruch Zvi and Dini Friedman.
IYH at 2265 Edgcumbe Rd, St Paul, MN 55116.

Please stay tuned as we update this list as information becomes available. However, in an unfortunate event that we do not get all the Sholom Zochors this week, we are sorry. But you can help! If you know of any Sholom Zochors or Mazal Tovs you can email it to us at MazalTov@CrownHeights.info! Thank You.

Traveling Summer Camp Takes Teens to New England Mountaintops

Darcy Silvers – Chabad.org
Campers from Yeshiva Outdoor Adventure, which traveled across New England this month, take to the water for some canoeing fun.

Visit this camp’s Web site and you’ll see a list of items that each camper must bring, including a rain poncho, hiking boots, sleeping bag and canteen. That, and tefillin.

VIdeo of the Day – the Weekly Living Torah Clip

This weeks Living Torah, titled “Maamar – Zeh Ha’yom T’chilas Masecha” (Volume 39, Episode 155).

Living Torah is a member supported project Become a member today at LivingTorah.org

Available in Hebrew, French and Russian in the Extended Article.

Bochur Attacked with Glass Bottle and Robbed

CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] – At around 11:45pm last night the Shomrim hotline received a call for a Bochur that was assaulted with a glass bottle and mugged while on his way home.

Shomrim members responded to President Street and Schenectady Avenue, the corner where the Bochur was assaulted, and began searching for the group that attacked him, in the meantime the Bochur received treatment from Hatzalah on Crown Street between Utica and Schenectady, in front of the apartment he is staying by.

More pictures and information in the Extended Article.

Another Shipment to the Disaster Area

ICA, Peru [CHI] — On Tuesday three bochurim flew from Lima, Peru to Ica bringing food, clothes and water that was donated by the local Jewish community to the Chabad House with a lot of freshly baked goods. The baked products were baked in the Chabad House in Lima headed by Rabbi S.Z. Blumenfeld, and were sent to be distributed to the people of Ica and Pisco that were affected by the eqarthquake this past Thursday.

More pictures in the Extended Article!

Sziget Festival Counts Losses, Chabad Counts Gains

Erika Snyder – Lubavitch.com
At the Sziget Festival, a visitor speaks to Rabbi Boruch Oberlander

BUDAPEST, Hungary — Organizers of one of Europe’s largest summer events report the weeklong pop music and cultural Sziget Festival which ended last week a major flop. Not so, says Chabad of Hungary.

More pictures in the Extended Article!

Chief Rabbi of Ukraine Accuses Government of Inaction in Anti-Semitic Attacks

Chabad.org
A bruised Rabbi Nochum Tamarin
following the attack on him and his wife

KIEV, Ukraine — Chabad-Lubavitch Rabbi Azriel Chaikin, chief rabbi of Ukraine, accused government and law enforcement officials of failing to prevent a rash of anti-Semitic attacks in the city, JTA reported on its Web site Wednesday.

He made the charges in a letter just days after an unidentified man broke a window of the town’s historic synagogue during afternoon prayers. The man fled the scene and remains on the loose.

In July, Rabbi Shlomo Wilhelm, chief rabbi of Zhitomir, was attacked outside of his synagogue on the same day that a group of youth tried to break into a girls’ dormitory at a Chabad-Lubavitch Jewish school in the city.