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The Fox 5 investigative team caught the city red-handed writing parking tickets before they are supposed to. There seems to be a snafu in the system that could be responsible for tons of improper tickets being issued and literally had one neighborhood running in fear.

Outrageous Video of the Day! – “Bloomberg Time”

The Fox 5 investigative team caught the city red-handed writing parking tickets before they are supposed to. There seems to be a snafu in the system that could be responsible for tons of improper tickets being issued and literally had one neighborhood running in fear.

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New Engagement!

Nathaniel Cohen (Neuilly, France) to Raquel Illouz (Paris, France)
Baby Boy!

Leiby and Mushka Brikman from Montreal, Canada had a baby boy!
Baby Girl!

Mendy and Chaya (nee Laber) Shepard from Albany, NY had a baby girl!
New Engagement!

Mendel Mergui (Paris, France) to Chani Galperin (Winsor, Ontario) L’Chaim: Tonight, Thursday, 8:30pm at Rubashkins 1349 President street
New Engagement!

Arik Deren (Greenwich, CT) to Elkie Havlin (Dresden, Germany) L’Chaim: Tonight, Wednesday, 8:30pm at Albany Manor 641 Rutland Rd
New Engagement!

Mendel Sternberg (New London, CT) to Devora Lea Amar (Seine Et Marne, France) L’Chaim: Thursday, Nov. 5th, 8:00pm at Anshei Lubavitch 578 Albany Ave
Baby Girl!

Uriel and Mushky (nee Dubov) Hillel from Crown Heights had a baby girl!
Baby Boy!

Dovid and Chaya (nee Gordon) Drizin from Los Angeles, CA had a baby boy!
New Engagement!

Shmuel Helman (Brazil) to Stella Washingston (Alpharetta, GA)
New Engagement!

Doniel Preston (Edgware, UK) to Chayale Russel (Edgware, UK)
New Engagement!

Dovi Borochov (Crown Heights) to Mirel Vogel (London, UK)
New Engagement!

Binyomin Beilin (Boston, MA) Rivkah Bracha Ross (Waterbury, CT)
Baby Girl!

Menachem and Sari (Nee Gottlib) Forer from Crown Heights/Hillside had a baby girl!
New Engagement!

Dovi Zaetz (Crown Heights) to Hanni Ladayov (Paris, France)
New Engagement!

Levi Smith (N. Miami Beach, FL) to Chana Singer (Manchester, UK) L’Chaim: Tonight, Sunday, 8:00pm at 1349 President Street
Baby Girl!

Shui and Sheva (nee Tennenhaus) Kastel from Hollywood, FL had a baby girl!
New Engagement!

Menahem Mendel Bredoire (Paris, France) to Haya Mouchka Sebag (Paris,France)

A member of the NYPD’s Bomb Squad ‘suiting up’ to check out a suspicious package. Illustration Photo.

CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] – Friday night at around 6:15pm, a resident on his way to Shul, noticed a small suitcase lying on the sidewalk of President Street between Albany and Troy Avenue and heard a buzzing sound coming from within it. He then approached a Police Officer posted on the corner and informed him of his suspicion.

Moments later the block filled with hundreds of Police Officers and Firefighters, all of whom staged a ‘safe area’ and evacuated the block. Mothers and young children were all forced out of their homes and into the cold due to the bomb scare.

Bomb Scare on President Street, Friday Night

A member of the NYPD’s Bomb Squad ‘suiting up’ to check out a suspicious package. Illustration Photo.

CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] – Friday night at around 6:15pm, a resident on his way to Shul, noticed a small suitcase lying on the sidewalk of President Street between Albany and Troy Avenue and heard a buzzing sound coming from within it. He then approached a Police Officer posted on the corner and informed him of his suspicion.

Moments later the block filled with hundreds of Police Officers and Firefighters, all of whom staged a ‘safe area’ and evacuated the block. Mothers and young children were all forced out of their homes and into the cold due to the bomb scare.

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Mazal Tov! – Its A Girl!

We would like to wish Mazal tov to Shauli and Penina (nee Hecht) Minkowitz (Sandton, South Africa) on the birth of their firstborn daughter.

May the newborn be a source of Nachas to her parents, grandparents, relatives and Klal Yisroel.

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Miami, FL [CHI] — 50 Jewish soldiers, Chaplains and family members, from diverse ranks of the military, flew overseas and from all parts of the US for The Aleph Institute’s Military Shabbaton and training conference at The Shul of Bal Harbour last weekend.

Brothers and Sisters In Arms – The Aleph Institute Hosts Shabbaton with Jewish Troops

Miami, FL [CHI] — 50 Jewish soldiers, Chaplains and family members, from diverse ranks of the military, flew overseas and from all parts of the US for The Aleph Institute’s Military Shabbaton and training conference at The Shul of Bal Harbour last weekend.

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Dvora Lakein - Lubavitch
Photo: Scott Morgan/Rockford Register Star

CHAMPAIGN, IL — The individual who opened fire in a Geology (104) class at Northern Illinois University Thursday, police revealed at a press conference early Friday morning, was a former student. Steven Kamierczak killed six and wounded 22 before turning the gun on himself. No immediate motive is known.

Following Shooting, Students at NIU Turn to Chabad Reps for Help

Dvora Lakein – Lubavitch
Photo: Scott Morgan/Rockford Register Star

CHAMPAIGN, IL — The individual who opened fire in a Geology (104) class at Northern Illinois University Thursday, police revealed at a press conference early Friday morning, was a former student. Steven Kamierczak killed six and wounded 22 before turning the gun on himself. No immediate motive is known.

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Mazal Tov! – Its A Boy!

We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Dovid Leib and Malka Baila (nee Blasenstein) Wilansky (Shluchim to Sydney, Australia) on the birth of their son.

May the newborn be a source of Nachas to his parents, grandparents, relatives and Klal Yisroel.

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This Sunday, February 17 a Chaim Fogelman Concert will take place at Bais Rivkah, 470 Lefferts Ave.

The Admission is $5 and Lunch will be sold from 12:00pm to 2:00pm, as well as an array of other activities including face painting and much more more! Boys 6 and under are invited too!

Full flyer in the Extended Article!

SUNDAY: Concert for Girls!

This Sunday, February 17 a Chaim Fogelman Concert will take place at Bais Rivkah, 470 Lefferts Ave.

The Admission is $5 and Lunch will be sold from 12:00pm to 2:00pm, as well as an array of other activities including face painting and much more more! Boys 6 and under are invited too!

Full flyer in the Extended Article!

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Mazal Tov! – New Engagement!

We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Levi Yitzchok Rabiski (Toronto, Ontario) and Sara (bas R Yaakov) Chazan (Crown Heights) on their engagement.

The L’Chaim will IYH Motzoei Shabbos at Lubavitcher Yeshiva, 570 Crown St, [entrance on Albany Ave].

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by Moshe Bryski
Chana Stery Bryski, left, with her friend
Miranda
Our daughter, Chana Stery, is studying in a seminary in Israel this year.

As with most parents who send their children off to college out of town, we savor and enjoy every phone call, note, e-mail and text message we receive from our daughter. An added beauty to these communications is our knowing that we're not only the ones back home who get to hear from her on a regular basis. She continues to correspond with her very best friend: a lovely little girl named Miranda.

Miranda is a child with special needs. During Chana Stery's four years of volunteering for our community's Friendship Circle, she and a friend, Mushka Sapo, would visit Miranda at her home at least once a week.

Witness to the Transformative Power of a Teenager’s Friendship

by Moshe Bryski
Chana Stery Bryski, left, with her friend
Miranda

Our daughter, Chana Stery, is studying in a seminary in Israel this year.

As with most parents who send their children off to college out of town, we savor and enjoy every phone call, note, e-mail and text message we receive from our daughter. An added beauty to these communications is our knowing that we’re not only the ones back home who get to hear from her on a regular basis. She continues to correspond with her very best friend: a lovely little girl named Miranda.

Miranda is a child with special needs. During Chana Stery’s four years of volunteering for our community’s Friendship Circle, she and a friend, Mushka Sapo, would visit Miranda at her home at least once a week.

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New “Childrens Home” for Jewish Kids in Ukraine

FJC.ru

KRIVOY Rog, Ukraine – In the Ukrainian city of Krivoy Rog, the Ohr Avner Chabad Day School hosted a celebration to mark the opening of a dormitory for children from impoverished families. The new institution, appropriately named “Planet of Childhood”, will accommodate 12 children for now and that number may rise in future.

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Rabbi Yoseph Kahanov Shliach to Jacksonville, FL
Chatzkel the tailor wanders into a small flophouse late one cold and stormy night. “Quite full,” says the innkeeper. “Let’s see . . . we’ve got a Cossack in one of the rooms up on the top floor. You can climb into the bed beside him.”

Thankfully accepting the offer, the wanderer climbs the stairs to the upper floor, but not before asking the innkeeper to wake him well before dawn. “Got a train to catch,” he says importantly.
Before he knows it, there’s a hand shaking him awake. “It’s well before dawn,” says a voice; “your train.”

He dresses hurriedly in the dark and rushes to the train station. On the way he passes a large mirror in an ornate frame. A Cossack in uniform looks back at him. “That idiot innkeeper!” he exclaims in dismay. “He woke up the Cossack instead of Chatzkel the tailor. I’ll never make it back in time to wake myself up and catch my train!”

The Weekly Sedra – Tetzaveh – Inside Out or Outside In?

Rabbi Yoseph Kahanov Shliach to Jacksonville, FL

Chatzkel the tailor wanders into a small flophouse late one cold and stormy night. “Quite full,” says the innkeeper. “Let’s see . . . we’ve got a Cossack in one of the rooms up on the top floor. You can climb into the bed beside him.”

Thankfully accepting the offer, the wanderer climbs the stairs to the upper floor, but not before asking the innkeeper to wake him well before dawn. “Got a train to catch,” he says importantly.
Before he knows it, there’s a hand shaking him awake. “It’s well before dawn,” says a voice; “your train.”

He dresses hurriedly in the dark and rushes to the train station. On the way he passes a large mirror in an ornate frame. A Cossack in uniform looks back at him. “That idiot innkeeper!” he exclaims in dismay. “He woke up the Cossack instead of Chatzkel the tailor. I’ll never make it back in time to wake myself up and catch my train!”

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Picture description: the Rebbe at a Farbrengen Yud Beis Tamuz 1974. Special Thanks Rabbi Mordechai Kirschenbaum. Click here to see previous weeks pictures.

PIcture of the Day! – The Rebbe 1974!

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Picture description: the Rebbe at a Farbrengen Yud Beis Tamuz 1974. Special Thanks Rabbi Mordechai Kirschenbaum. Click here to see previous weeks pictures.

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Adar Joy Helps Long Island – Turn Kirby’s into Pickles

MINEOLA, NY [CHI] — One of the most popular, informative and delicious workshops in Chabad history came to Chabad of Mineola Long Island.  The class was called “The Art of Kosher Pickle Making,” and it’s taking America by storm.

The workshop, led by Rabbi Mendel Margolin, AKA Rabbi Pickle, taught the history of the American kosher dill, how to make one’s own pickles, as well as what makes a “kosher” pickle. In fact, America was named after a pickle peddler — Amerigo Vespucci.

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Mazal Tov! – 7 Sholom Zochors this Week!

Eli and Batsheva (nee Perlow) Kaminetzki (Crown Heights) .
IYH at 784 Montgomery St. [bet Albany and Troy Aves.]

Yossi and Nechamie Srugo (Aventura, FL) .

Yitzchok and Naomi Berman (Blatimore, MD) .

Yosef Leib and Aydla (nee Bluming) Wechter (Toronto, Canada) .

Sholom and Mirul (nee baumgarten) Edelman.
IYH at 6 Avenue Lucien Rémy, 77340 Pontault-Combault, France.

Menachem and Rena (nee Berkowitz) Traxler (Shluchim to Tzfat) .
IYH at Rechov Harav Kaplan 26/4, Tzfat, Israel.

Avremi and Rifka (nee New) Raskin (Melbourne, Australia) .

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.

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