The New York City Department of Transportation (DOT) announced today that Alternate Side Parking Rules are suspended on Monday, February 26 to facilitate snow removal. However, parking meters will remain in effect throughout the City.
Click here for the 2007 Alternate Side Parking Regulations Suspension Calendar.
The New York Post’s NYPD Blotter reported that “Cops are investigating the burning of a religious adornment in Crown Heights, authorities said yesterday.
A 14-year-old girl called cops to her Crown Street home at 10 p.m. Thursday after she smelled smoke and discovered that the mezuzah – a Jewish symbol of faith affixed to the doorway – was burned, police sources said.
Authorities are investigating the vandalism as an act of criminal mischief and possible bias crime.”
CrownHeights.info has learned that this incident took place inside of 621 Crown St which is a large building located between Troy and Albany, its residents a predominately Black. One of the residents of the house notice that the Mezuzahs screws had been removed Friday morning, and by the afternoon they smelled it burning.
We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Peretz Mockin (Montreal, Canada) and Chana Greenberg (Buffalo, NY) upon their engagement!
The L’Chaim will IY”H be on Monday Night at the Jewish Children’s Museum 792 Eastern Pkwy [corner Kingston Ave]
Over 1000 Men Woman and Children packed into the George Wingate Auditorium for the annual Soul II Soul concert which benefits the Chasdei Zahavi Foundation for tuition for children with special needs.
The hall was full, there wasn’t an empty seat in the house, and all were there for a performance by the Crown Heights native and Chassidishe Performer Mordechai Ben David.
A Large gallery of beautiful pictures in the Extended Article!
With profound sadness and pain we inform you of the sudden and very untimely passing of R. Avrohom Feivel Speiser OBM of Crown Heights.
He leaves behind a wife, Yaacova Rochel and two children.
The Levaya will be today, and will be leaveing from Shomrei Hadaas at 12:00pm and passing by 770 at around 12:30pm
Hamokom Yenachem eschem Besoch Shaar Avaylay Tzion VeYerushalayim.
We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Aron Hersh (Richie) Richter (Williamsburg) and Chanie (bas Sholom Ber) Levitin (Crown Heights) upon their Engagement!
The L’Chaim will IY”H be Monday night at Lubavitcher Yeshiva [Crown St Corner Albany Ave].
This past Sunday evening, the Seymour J Abrams Cheder Lubavitch Hebrew Day School of Chicago honored Rabbi and Mrs. Yitzchok Wolf, for their 25 years of dedicated service to the Chicago Jewish Community and Cheder Lubavitch.
More picture in the Extended Article.
We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Mazal Tov to Motte and Sarale (nee Sperlin) Fradkin (Shluchim to S. Diego, CA) on the birth of their firstborn son
May the newborn be a source of Nachas to his parents, grandparents, relatives and Klal Yisroel.
About an hour before Shabbos a Bochur making a left turn from President St onto Brooklyn Ave didn’t complete the turn and slammed into a parked car and pushed it up onto the sidewalk.
Hatzalah responded and treated the driver and transported him to Kings County Hospital for observation.
Reno, NV — Three young women from New York want to make Jews in Northern Nevada aware of Judaism.
Mira Lapine, Rochel Litzman and Shaina Gershovitz are part of the effort in the Jewish Orthodox movement of Chabad to send emissaries, called shlichus, around the world.
Mendel (ben Reb Sholom) Levin (Crown Heights) and Devorah Esther Vorst (Amsterdam, Netherlands) .
IY“H at Bais Rivka, 310 Crown St. [between Brooklyn and New York Aves]
Sholom Bukiet (Chicago, IL) to Devorah Sebbag (Montreal, Canada) .
IY”H at the Lubavitcher Yeshiva [on corner of Crown St and Albany Ave].
Yaakov Shaul (S. Barbara, CA) and Golda Katzoff (Crown Heights) .
IY”H at Maple St Shul “Congregation Ahavas Moshe”, 612 Maple St [between Kingston and Albany].
Philadelphia, PA — Perhaps nobody knows better the intricacies of U.S./Israeli relations and the need for Israel advocacy among American college students than Ron Dermer.
A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business and a founding member of Jewish Heritage Programs, Dermer was until recently Israel’s Minister for Economic Affairs, the state’s third-highest-ranking diplomat to Washington. Last month, he offered his own insights on relations between D.C. and Jerusalem before a delegation of students from the Lubavitch House at Penn.
Yankel and Baily (nee Posner) Wilschansky.
1468 President St, [between Kingston and Albany Aves].
Eliezer and Devorah (nee Udelson) Drew.
1468 President St, [between Kingston and Albany Aves].
Avaraham Kalman and Malkie (nee Slater) Bialestock.
IY“H at 585 Lefferts Ave [between Kingston and Albany Aves]
Asher and Doba (nee Jacobson) Webb.
IY”H at 678 Lefferts, [between Albany and Troy Aves]
Shimon and Esther Chyrek
IY“H at 361 Troy Ave, above the bagel store store, [between Carroll and Crown St]
Moshe and Michal Gottlib
IY”H at Empire Shteibel, 489 Empire blvd, [between Brooklyn and New York aves]
Motty and Mashie (nee Hurwitz) Donat
3620 Avenue L, Flatbush, Brooklyn [between E 36 and E 37 St]
Zalmen Moshe and Frumie Drizin
IY“H at 1000 E 17th St, Flatbush, Brooklyn, [between Ave I and J]
Danny and Tzippy Finkelman (Manhattan Beach) .
Levi and Goldie (nee Duchman) Azimov (Shluchim to South Brunswick, NJ) .
1 Riva Ave, South Brunswick Township, NJ 08902
Yerachmiel and Devorah Leah Gorelik (Shluchim to Fort Collins, CO) .
Yossi and Shoshana Stock
IY”H at 77 Mt Pleasant Dr, Trumbull, CT 06611
Yanky and Raizel Feder
IY“H at 66 Margaret Ave, Lawrence, NY 11559
Chaim and Etel Seper
IY”H at 3 Cedarhurst Ave Cedarhurst, NY 11516
Yehuda and Dina (nee Turk) Pink
7 Granby Close, Solihull, West Midlands B92, UK
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.
Rabbi Herschel Schacter, a prominent student of the Rav, Rabbi Yosef Ber Soloveitchik, as he retells his moving experience of visiting the Rebbe at a Farbrengen, together with the Rav, on the 10th of Shevat, 1980. From the My Encounter with the Rebbe oral history project, this excerpt is from the renowned JEM film, The Early Years, Volume One; the first in a series of documentary films exploring the youth and childhood of the Lubavitcher Rebbe.
We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Yerachmiel and Devorah Leah Gorelik (Shluchim to Fort Collins, CO) on the birth of a baby boy.
May the newborn be a source of Nachas to his parents, grandparents, relatives and Klal Yisroel.
Students at Arizona State University and the University of Maryland woke to tragic news Monday morning: Two of their own had been gunned down in what Tempe, Ariz. police are calling a murder-suicide.
According to reports, ASU sophomore Carol Kestenbaum, 20, and her good friend Nicole Schiffman, a 20-year-old sophomore at Maryland, were killed by Tempe resident Joshua Mendel, 22, after returning from a birthday party for Kestenbaum early yesterday morning. Schiffman, who grew up with Kestenbaum in Bellmore, N.Y., had flown in for the occasion.
Sometimes the words are for personal growth, other times just for information, or maybe inspiration. But every time, The Best of You radio show infuses talk radio with a Torah twist.
Rabbi Chay Amar, spiritual leader of Chabad of Golden Beach in Miami-Dade, hosts the radio program Monday through Friday from 4 to 5 p.m. on WLVJ (1040-AM). It features Israeli music and lots of talk.
The theme of the program, which began in November, is to “discover your inner spiritual potential.”
“We go into the depths of the secrets of the Torah or reveal our inner potential,” the Orthodox rabbi says. “The Best of You is to discover the best of themselves, which is basically the infinite power of the soul inside every one of us.”
