Crown Heights, Brooklyn – At around 10:45pm, Motzoai Shabbos a fire broke out in a Jewish apartment building. The incident took place on the second floor of 1650 President St. between Utica and Schenectady, many residents were forced to evacuate due to heavy smoke conditions in the building.
More pictures in the Extended Article.
Deputy Inspector Frank Vega, commanding officer of the 71st precinct, is taking stock.
“I’ve been in the precinct for 18 months now,” the Inspector told the Crown Heights Chronicle before Pesach, “and during that initial period I was gauging things, getting a feel for the precinct and the community. Now, I want to reach out.”
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Brooklyn, NY — At about 5 pm Erev Shabbos, two girls walking home from the Brooklyn Public Library on Eastern Pkwy were robbed of an iPod. The girl who was listening to her iPod, took it out of her pocket to switch songs when it was snatched from her hand.
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Mordechai Nemtzov (Malibu, CA) and Rochel Boden (Long Island, NY) .
IYH at FREE, 1383 President St [between Kingston and Brooklyn Aves].
Moishy Sandhaus (Buenos Aires, Argentina) and Chani Simon (Delmar, NY) .
IYH at Rayim Ahuvim, 1614 Carroll St, [corner Schenectady Ave].
Mendy Burguvoy (Chicago, IL) and Leah Shaffer (Montreal, Canada) .
IYH at 1408 Carroll St. [between Kingston and Albany].
Jacksonville, FL — First Coast News, leading Jcksonville Television station does a piece on Chabad of Southside & UNF’s prayer service held prior to Shabbat Candle Lighting on Friday April 20th.
We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Yitzchok Dov and Rivka Ora (nee Aalsters) Wainer (Baltimore, MD) on the birth of their firstborn daughter.
May the newborn be a source of Nachas to her parents, grandparents, relatives and Klal Yisroel.
To submit your Simcha or Mazal Tov please email us at mazaltov@crownheights.info
Extreme Chabad faction is circulating photographs of soldiers who took part in disengagement, looking for their details
What do the police do when they are looking for criminals? They publish pictures of the offenders and ask the public’s help in finding them.
Brooklyn, NY – Thursday afternoon at around 3:00pm detectives from the NYPD received a tip that a suspect wanted for murder in Queens this past Sunday was hiding out at his grandmother’s apartment on E. New York Ave between Troy and Albany, across from Bnos Mencham.
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We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Shmuel Edelman (Paris, France) to Rivki (bas Rabbi Avrohom) Osdobsa (Crown Heights) on their engagement.
If you know of any Mazal Tovs you can email it to us at mazaltov@crownheights.info!
Nili, an 11th grader from Jerusalem, was photographed standing alone against dozens of black-clad policemen during evacuation of Amona. Though photo earned photographer Balilty a Pulitzer, Nili says it is ‘nothing to be proud of’
We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Moishy Sandhaus (Buenos Aires, Argentina) and Chani Simon (Delmar, NY) on their engagement.
The L’Chaim will IYH be Sunday night at Rayim Ahuvim, 1614 Carroll St, [corner Schenectady Ave].
Los Angeles, CA, April 19 — This Friday night, Jewish women on college campuses across America will join together to dispel the darkness of the Virginia Tech tragedy with the shining light of Shabbat candles.
Rabbi Ari Baitelman, Director of Chabad’s FridayLight project, said that both public candle-lighting events and more private prayer vigils will be held on campuses nationwide at 18 minutes before sundown on Friday, April 20.
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The Rebbe says:
1. In this week’s Torah portion the commandment to circumcise a young infant is mentioned. The verse says “On the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised” (Chapter 12, Verse 3).
2. The Rebbe analyzes this:
The Torah tells us that we should circumcise our children and it should specifically be on the 8th day after their birth. Seemingly this means that if someone circumcises his son after the 8th day he would be missing out on the exact Mitzvah of circumcision (even if he was forced to postpone the circumcision because the child was not yet ready).
Western countries must unite in an effort to assassinate Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, former head of the Mossad Meir Amit said on Wednesday night.
“Even though in the past I have been opposed to assassinating Arab leaders, this case is different because it alone is the center of the nuclear issue,” Amit told the weekly Kfar Chabad magazine set be published on Thursday.
Amit said he did not perceive an existential danger to Israel following Iran’s nuclear development – “but that is only on condition that we do something about it.”
Chaim Hilel and Chaya (nee Klein) Matusof (Crown Heights) .
IYH at 1582 Carroll St [between Troy and Schenectady aves]
Mordechai and Pessa (nee Simons) Kirschenbaum.
IYH at 889 Montgomery St [between Troy and Schenectady aves].
Zalman and Shevy Liberow.
IYH at 665 Crown St [between Troy and Schenectady aves].
Shloimie and Shoshie (nee Lerman) Eichler.
IYH at 702 Eastern Pkwy [between Brooklyn and New York aves].
Menachem and Faygie (nee Klein) Andrusier.
IYH at 628 Montgomery St [between Kingston and Brooklyn aves].
Yosef Chaim and Hindy (nee Kreserman) Kurtz.
IYH at 1543 President St, 2nd Floor [between Albany and Troy aves].
Daniel and Tanya Dina Jacobson.
IYH at Beis Levi Yitzchock, 556 Crown St. [Entrance on Albany ave].
Hershy and Chanie (nee Levin) Hertzel.
IYH at 1165 St Johns Pl, [between Kingston and Albany].
Ephraim and Bassie Stock.
IYH at 656 Crown St, [between Troy and Schenectady aves].
Yoel and Batsheva Belinitzki.
IYH at 888 Montgomery St Apt A7 [between Troy and Schenectady aves].
Shmuel and Leah Pollen.
IYH at 27 Park Ave, Monsey, NY 10952.
Yaakov and Devorah Rozenblat.
IYH at 29 Woodmere Blvd, Apt 2H, Woodmere, NY 11598.
Mendel and Dassie (nee Bergman) Segal (Skokie, IL) .
Zalman and Bluma Gitel Whitt.
IYH at 25321 Ronald Ct, Oak Park, Michigan 48237.
Mendy and Rivky (nee Grossbaum) Kotlarsky.
IYH at the Grossbaum’s (Toronto, Canada) .
Reuven and Tzipporah Abeshouse (Johannesburg, South Africa) .
Mendel and Ester Malkah (nee Vechter) Groner (Melbourne, Australia) .
Unfortunately we could not get the locations for all the Sholom Zochors this week. If you know of any Sholom Zochors or Mazal Tovs you can email it to us at mazaltov@crownheights.info! Thank You.
The Torah section of this week, Tazria-Metzorah (Leviticus chapters 12-15), discusses the laws of tzaraas, usually translated as “leprosy.” Tzaraas was a spiritual illness whose identifying mark was a white patch or patches appearing on the skin of a person, the walls of a home or on a garment. This patch, plus several secondary symptoms, determined the person as being temporarily “impure” and required him or her to separate from the public and undergo an intense program of introspection and spiritual healing.
Once the symptoms of the illness were gone, a detailed process of purification would begin, following which the person was deemed pure once again and restored to his untarnished condition.
Crown Heights, Brooklyn — On the first anniversary of the elections for the Crown Heights Beis Din, the Vaad Hakohol of Crown Heights is proud to announce new leadership for the Vaad Hakashrus of the Crown Heights BaDaTz. Effective immediately Rav Yitzchok Zirkind, shlit”a and Rav Shlomo Segal, shlit”a, Rabbonim of the Beis Din, will be serving as co – Executive Supervisors of Kashrus under the esteemed leadership of Rav Osdoba, shlit”a.
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