Gutnicks dig in again

“This must be the most exciting gold province in Australia today. We could find the big one here,” former mining magnate Joseph Gutnick said a decade ago.

He was talking about Western Australia’s eastern goldfields, and in Melbourne this month, Gutnick’s eldest son, Mordechai, repeated the prophecy.

“We’ve got every chance in the world of making a discovery,” Gutnick says, referring to the same ground that excited his father 10 years ago.

City to Limit Car Traffic in Central Park and Prospect Park

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Moving to further reduce traffic in city parks, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg announced yesterday that stretches of Central Park in Manhattan and Prospect Park in Brooklyn would close to cars under a six-month pilot program to begin June 5.

Under the plan, vehicles will no longer be able to use the East Drive of Central Park north of 72nd Street during weekday mornings or the West Drive in the afternoons. In Prospect Park, drivers will lose morning access to the West Drive, which runs roughly parallel to Prospect Park West.

“For many years people coming to Prospect Park or Central Park for recreation during weekdays have had to share road space on the park drives with automobiles,” Mr. Bloomberg said in Prospect Park as he announced the changes.

Burglary In Chovevei Torah

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On Friday, at 5:00 am, the above pictured individual slipped into Chovevei Torah behind the cleaning crew. As they were busy sweeping and mopping, he entered the new hall that is soon to be completed and stole a tile cutter / grinder which is valued at a few hundred dollars.

The 77th precinct responded within minutes of the 911 call, and filed a police report and this incident is being investigating as a larceny due to the fact that there were other workers present in the building as well as the fact that there was no forced entry.

The crime was captured on tape by the Yeshiva’s closed circuit camera security system where the suspect was seen walking all around the bulding looking for anything of value. If you spot this person, please call 911 and tell them that you have spotted the person that committed the crime at 885 Eastern Pkwy on Friday May 5th.

Oholei Torah’s Ground Breaking Ceremony And Annual Dinner

The invitations are in the mail, and the dinner office at Oholei Torah has never been busier preparing for this years Annual Dinner.

The gala event will be taking place in Oholei Torah’s magnificent Ballrooms on June 4th, Isru Chag Shavuos. Shaya and Sarah Boymelgreen will be this years Dinner Chairpersons

Plans are underway for a grand Ground Breaking Ceremony for the Mikvah Tahara which will be built in memory of Shaya Boymelgreen’s grandfathers (as reported earlier).

Four murders in 4 weeks

As we CrownHeights.info have been keeping you all informed of what has really been going on in Crown Heights in the last year, Murders, Muggings and Car Break-ins, we now finally have a very small part of it picked up by the NY Daily News. Note: This article is only covering President St.

During a deadly four-week stretch, four men were slain on President St. in Crown Heights – spreading fear in a neighborhood already plagued by a substantial rise in homicides.

“This block is hot,” said Clarence Jones, who lives a short walk from where Randy Long, 24, was shot dead April 26. “They’re dropping like flies on President St.”

Long – a felon from Poughkeepsie who was shot twice in the back at 10:20 a.m. inside 1020 President St. – was the latest to die.

Peace For Lubavitch!

Over shabbos I heard talk about splitting the community once and for all. Each side has become too much of a burden for the other, and the differences are clearly irreconcilable.

This logic is actually supported by the torah. In Sotah we recently learnt that the reason Beis Hilel holds one may divorce his wife if she burnt his food is Ahavas Yisroel. The reasoning goes something like this: Why let the negativity and resentment brew within, leading to much larger grievances, when we can separate them while they are still on good terms? Strange indeed, but a svara nonetheless.

This svara works when applied: As a colony, America hated England. But as an independent state, it built a great relationship with England, which is now America’s number one ally.

Violent Night in Brooklyn

Two men were killed — one by a pair of bicycle-riding gunmen — and four others were wounded during several shootings in Brooklyn, police said Saturday.

On a balmy Friday evening, youths in Brooklyn’s Crown Heights neighborhood were out in the streets when a 19-year-old was shot at about 10 p.m., police said. The fatal gunfire came from one of two men riding by on bicycles at Sterling Place and Nostrand Avenue.

The 19-year-old victim, whose name police did not immediately release, was taken to Kings County Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. No arrests were made.

Hundreds attend Shloshim of R’ Mendel Shemtov

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Thurdsday evening a crowd of over 500 family members, friends and acquaintances, including many mashpi’im and shluchim gathered in the second tent outside the Rebbe’s Ohel, in Queens New York. The shloshim of R. Mendel Shemtov started off with R. Levi Azimov, a shlich in South Brunswick NJ, asking the people gathered to “have a seat, and in English to make themselves comfortable”. He then went on to explain that although it’s not 30 days since the passing, the geziaras shloshim ends today.

“In general these types of events don’t follow a specific program”, he continued “so first-of-all we have to realize where and in front of whom we are standing. In Lubavitch we generally don’t make eulogies and the sort, we gathered here though and the reason why the family wanted to host this event here specifically is; as everyone knows, R. Mendel connected himself very strongly with this place. He bought a house, and even before he owned the house he would; come for shabbos and yom tov, make his car available for bochurim to come for shabbos, and his wife would make food for the bochurim coming for shabbos, understanding that this is now the Rebbe’s daled amos.”

More pictures in the Extended Article.

The Ballots Closed – The Results Are – 3 New Rabonim

Thursday night the Polls closed with a total of 926 Votes (out of which 19 were blank) that had been casted over this past week. All of the candidates had accumulated more then the 50% required to be elected in.

The total of the votes Candidates achieved was:

Rabbi Yitzchok Zirkind – 811 votes
Rabbi Shlomo Segal – 707 votes
Rabbi Yitzchok Raitport – 644 votes