Info to Be Menachem Avel the Levin Family

The Levin family is sitting Shiva for their father R. Yehuda Leib (Leibke) Levin OBM, who was niftar on Chol HaMoed Sukkot.

Shiva Info: Mrs. Levin and her children are sitting at 24 Creswell Rd., Worcester, Ma. Telephone: (508) 752-5791 Email: etzem@aol.com
Brothers at Family Levin 1348 Union St. in Crown Heights Mrs. Rivka Roth at Family Fogelman 424 North Martel Avenue in LA, Ca.

Rabbi Moshe Levin will be sitting in his home at 346 North Stanley Avenue, Apartment #B, LA, Ca. along with his sister Mrs. Rivka Roth on Tuesday afternoon, Oct. 9, 2007 Telephone: (323) 933-0290.

Hamokom Yenachem Eschem Besoch Shaar Avaylay Tzion VeYerushalayim.

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Info to Be Menachem Avel the Ostrov Family

Shaya Ostrov and Tziporah Clapman are sitting Shiva for their mother Chasha Rivkah Ostrov at 719 Montgomery St. until Thursday.

Shachris 7:00am, Mincha 6:30pm followed by Maariv Bizmana.

Hamokom Yenachem Eschem Besoch Shaar Avaylay Tzion VeYerushalayim.

Man Assaulted with Metal Pipe, Rock Thrown Into Sukkah

CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — A relatively calm and peaceful Sukkos and Simchas Torah was marred by two serious acts of violence against the Jewish community. A Jewish man on his way home on Friday night was assaulted by a young black male, who was riding on a bike and swung a metal pipe at his head.

The incident took place on Crown Street between Kingston and Albany Avenues at around 1:30 AM, Hatzalah received the call for an assault and upon arriving on scene they began treating the victim, who was described to be in his late 30’s, for serious trauma to the back of his head.

He was apparently assaulted by the young perpetrator with a metal pipe, described a number of eye witnesses, the victim himself could not recount the attack since he lost consciousness immediately after the assault.

Early Morning Fire on President Street

CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — A fire broke out early this morning in 1544 President Street, a four story building which is mostly occupied by Jewish residents. The fire broke out at 1:30am on the top floor of the building.

FDNY firefighters arrived on scene within minutes and had the fire under control soon thereafter. There were no reported injuries B”H but the fire appeared to have caused lots of property damage.

More pictures in the Extended Article. (Photos by: Meir Alfasi)

PSA: S’Chach Pickup Information

The Crown Heights JCC has arranged with the Forestry division of the NYC Parks Dept. to have all the S’chach picked up this week starting Wednesday October 10th until the end of the week.

The Parks Dept. vehicles will be going down every block in the community to pick up the S’chach put out in front of your house along the curbside. The vehicles will be going through the community only one time on a route that has not yet been determined. Therefore we do not know which street will be first and which street second, etc.

Please have all s’chach put out at the curb for these days. Please keep the s’chach along the building line until Wednesday.

If you miss this pickup, you may schedule your own pick up by calling 311.

Jewish Group’s Proposal To Renovate House In Historic District Results In Nit-Picking

By Elizabeth Hamilton – Hartford Courant

LITCHFIELD, CT — The town’s famous green is surrounded by picture postcard churches of all stripes – Protestant and Catholic, stone, wood and brick – with an abundance of crosses, steeples and stained-glass windows.

But when an orthodox Jewish group went before the Litchfield Historic District Commission last month to informally present its plans to transform a somewhat rundown 1870s Victorian on West Street into the town’s first synagogue, the nit-picking immediately began.

Photo Gallery: Mivtzah Lulav in Manhattan

Scores of Bochurim set out on Mivtzoim across Manhattan over the few days of Chol Hamoed and merited hundreds of Yidden with the Mitzva of blessing on the four kinds, one of the Mitzvos of the holiday of Sukkos.

Mivtzoim on this scale was made possible by the ‘Sukkah Mobiles’ which were arranged by the Mitvah Tank Office.

Many more pictures in the Extended Article! (Photos by: Meir Alfasi)

Kosher Cooking School To Open In Brooklyn

The Jewish Press

Brooklyn, NY — Brooklyn is soon to have its very own cooking school. And what’s more, it’s 100% kosher!

The Center for Kosher Culinary Arts, set to open its kitchen this October after the Sukkot holiday, will offer intimate, hands-on, recreational cooking and baking classes in a variety of subjects for children, teens and adults, taught by some of the city’s top culinary professionals.

Chabad student center expands celebration

by Sarah Neff – Kansan.com

Charles Goldberg, Chicago junior, gives directions to Devon Gilinsky, Omaha, Neb. freshman, left, and Jordan LeBoyer, North Brook, Ill. freshman, center, while constructing a Sukkah at the Chabad house in Lawrence Tuesday evening. A Sukkah is a traditional shelter built for the Jewish holiday of Sukkot. Members of Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity constructed the shelter. (Photo by Anna Faltermeier)

A mobile sukkah hut made of branches and greenery will travel around the University of Kansas and Lawrence for the next week. The traveling hut is part of the Chabad student center’s celebration of Sukkot.

The student center placed the hut atop a truck to travel around campus, to residence halls and the city of Lawrence.

Simchas Beis Hashoeva at the Sephardic Center of Laval, Canaada

More than 500 men, women, and children attended the Simchas Bais Hashoeva in front of the Sephardic center of Chomedey, Laval to enjoy dancing with lively music, a barbeque, a huge moon bounce, cotton candy and a grand raffle.

The event was organized by Levi and Avram Banon, sons of the Shliach to Laval, Rabbi David R. Banon.

More pictures in the Extended Article!

Simchas Beis Hashueva in Boro Park

BOROUGH PARK, Brooklyn [CHI] — 13th Avenue, one of Borough Parks main streets, was closed to traffic for a gala Simchas Beis Hashoeva event. Thousands of Yiddishe residents all danced and sang together, celebrating Simcahs Bais Hashueva.

This is the third year that the Chabad House in Borough Park, under the directorship of Rabbi Aaron Ginsberg, organized such an event.

More pictures in the Extended Article! (Photos by: shturem.net)

The Last Night of Simchas Beis Hashueva

For the last night of the Simchas Beis Hashueva the crowd was entertained by Yossi Cohen along R. Yaakov Young and R. Meir Rivkin who had everyone dancing up until the very end.

At 1:30am the band wraped it all up the together the crowd made their way singing and dancing up Kingston to 770.

More pictures in the Extended Article!