The Ticket Blitz – My Rant

After speaking to some people about the recent ticket blitz in Crown Heights, someone told me that there was a quota of 100 tickets that the police had to meet and the 770 intersection. While someone else with influential connections to the police dept. claims he has had the officers camping out in front of 770 dismissed from that location.

But this cant be right, people were being pulled over all over the neighborhood not just in front of 770. And for some strange reason most of the “violators” were Frum Jew’s.

And I have heard that the reason there was a quota on that intersection is that there is a lot of accidents there. Now I ask can someone please tell me if they remember a serious accident there in recent history?! Well I can tell you this much if you look at this Sunday’s news you will see a MAJOR accident with INJURIES down at the Troy Ave. and Empire Blvd. intersection, then go 2 more weeks back and you will see another serious accident that took the police THIRTY MINUTES to respond to and FDNY took 15 minutes while there was an injured motorist lying on the street waiting for help.

I can go on and on about “preferential treatment” that the black’s are claiming we are getting over them. Is this one of them? Or is it the reverse?

Dear friends, readers of Crownheights.info – A Letter From A Reader

What are your plans for Sukkos?

I remember as child, we just made havdala in the Sukkah after the first days of Sukkos and we were preparing to go to Simchas Beis Hasho’eva. Around the corner from my home there was banging and zetzing, don’t ask what. There was a group of bochurim on the back of a Barn Pick-up truck, with hammers and nails in hand, all at once trying to bang together a Sukkah.

Board, I definitely was at the time, otherwise would never have paid any attention to them. So I went out to go see what was going on. The sight, the way I described it earlier, just cracked me up. Although I’m no maven at building, a bit of common sense I think I can brag about and so I offered them a hand and together we put together a Sukkah.

Burglar on a Fire Escape

Earlier this week Shomrim responded to a call from a hysterical woman who was home alone in her apartment with her baby when she heard noise coming from the fire escape, there was a man that had opened the window and was trying to get into the house.

Shomrim’s response was amazingly swift, they had reached the scene faster then the woman had managed to go to her relative downstairs. When they arrived the perp had already ran, and Shomrim started canvassing the area for this burglar and when the Police showed up on scene they joined in the search which yielded no results.

Shomrim urges everyone to make sure that the windows around the house are secured tightly, an in case of an emergency please call the Shomrim Hotline at (718) 774-3333 24/7

Holy Ground At The Pentagon

For the man who sponsored the first Torah for the Pentagon, it was a way to say thanks to this country.

“There is no better way for Jews to express their gratitude to America than to place a Torah in the Pentagon, which has preserved our freedom,” said Hank Sopher, a prominent New York real estate magnate and owner of Quik Park garages.

Sopher sponsored the writing of the Pentagon Torah, a first for the home of the U.S. military establishment.

Sholom Lipskar, a Lubavitch rabbi from Bal Harbour, Fla., and founding chairman of the Aleph Institute, presided over Monday’s Torah dedication in the Pentagon chapel. The scroll was placed in an ornate Israeli-built ark whose steel door is secured by a safe lock.

Antidote to Rita: Umbrella of Kindness

After Hurricane Rita’s winds killed the electricity at Rabbi Lazer and Rochel Lazaroff’s Houston home on Friday night, the only other drama came when a few paper napkins drifted into the Shabbat candle flames. It could have been worse, much, much worse.

With winds projected to hit at well over 100 miles per hour, the eyes of the nation were upon Hurricane Rita to see–in the aftermath of Katrina–the scale of human tragedy that would follow. Wary of suffering a horrific blow, Houstonites jammed highways looking for a way out, but not Chabad of Houston.

‘Oy Vey’ Traffic Sign Goes Up in Brooklyn

“Leaving Brooklyn? ‘Oy vey!'” That’s what motorists now see as they cross the Williamburg Bridge into Manhattan. The huge sign, affixed to a cross beam of the bridge high above the bustling traffic, is a sweet victory for Marty Markowitz, president of the borough, home to a large Jewish population.

When Markowitz first approached the Department of Transportation about the sign in January 2004, he was rebuffed because the agency felt it would be distracting to motorists.

After “revisiting” the issue, the DOT allowed the sign to go up two weeks ago, Markowitz said Wednesday. “I’m thrilled.”

More Tires Slashed In Crown Heights

On the corner of Crown St. and Kingston Ave. Shomrim received a call that there were tires slashed on cars parked close to the intersection.

There were a total of 4 tires slashed on 4 cars 3 of which belonged to Jewish residents, all of which didn’t care to file police reports regarding this incident. The responding Shomrim member encouraged the victims to file the reports becoase a crime that is not reported is not a crime.

Should you be a victim of any type of crime please call Shomrim at (718) 744-3333 and the police and file the reports.

Smart Jews

A reported link between Ashkenazi intelligence genes and susceptibility to genetic disorders is clearly mixed news for the descendants of Eastern European Jews. It may come as little surprise, then, that reactions to a new study linking the two are a mixed bag as well. After all, if what the University of Utah researchers say is true, some Jewish mothers may just have had their dreams for brilliant children turned to nightmares.

Beyond that, it may also mean that Ashkenazim have, albeit unwillingly, “been part of an accidental experiment in eugenics,” as The Economist magazine put it in a recent article.: “It has brought them some advantages. But, like the deliberate eugenics experiments of the 20th century, it also has exacted a terrible price.”

The mere mention of eugenics – which refers to a movement to improve humankind by controlling genetic factors through mating – is enough to ring bells that many Jews would rather not hear 60 years after the Allied defeat of the Nazis.

Counter-campaign against ‘J for J’ starts

Despite an advertising blitz in Canadian community weeklies, including The CJN, only several dozen people attended the “Stand up for Judaism” weekend ahead of Jews for Jesus’ Montreal launch of its “Behold Your God” conversion campaign.

Still, Jews for Judaism has begun speaking to as many as 60 different Jewish groups and thousands of local Jews during the missionary drive, which began Sept. 18 and runs to Oct. 8, in an intensive effort to get its counter-missionary message across to as many Jews as possible.

“We have been extremely busy,” said Jews for Judaism education director Rabbi Michael Skobac.

Brooklyn Democratic leader convicted of financial wrongdoing

The longtime leader of the influential but weakening Brooklyn Democratic Party was convicted Tuesday of mishandling campaign contributions in the first of four cases stemming from a wide-ranging probe of judicial corruption.

After a nearly two-week trial, jurors convicted Assemblyman Clarence Norman Jr. of two felony counts of violating election law by taking excessive campaign donations, and two counts of falsifying business records.

The felony convictions force Norman out of his assembly seat and party position.

Kugel Unraveled

For many American Jews, kugel is the taste of childhood. They want exactly the kind of kugel their mother made, whether it is a weekly Sabbath treat or served only on holidays like Rosh Hashana, which starts on Monday night.

Shmelka Friedman, an owner of Hungarian Kosher Catering in Borough Park, Brooklyn, with oven-fresh kugel.

I didn’t know until recently, though, that this homey casserole of noodles or potatoes was credited with mystical powers.

Jewish memorial service honors 9/11 victims

With prayers, speeches and music, a group of Jewish men and women led a remembrance of the victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on Tuesday, the day in the Hebrew calendar corresponding to the attacks’ fourth anniversary.

The 30 mostly Orthodox Jews from Baruch College and Chabad of Downtown NYC used the memorial service to offer a hopeful message: Goodness could result, and has resulted, from the evil witnessed that day, from people giving blood to a renewal of charity work.

Such memorials “serve as inspiration to us, that we should never forget,” said Michael Gutmann, a 20-year-old Baruch student.

B’KLYN MAN IN ARIEL ‘SLAY PLOT’

Now they have taken it to a whole new level… Murder… LOL

An ultra-Orthodox Jew from Brooklyn has been busted in Israel on suspicion of plotting to assassinate Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.

Officials said yesterday that Shneor Zalman Hatzkolevitch would be the first Jew tossed out of Israel for security reasons.

Israeli police have been flooded with reports of threats by nationalists against Sharon because of his decision to have Israel withdraw from the Gaza Strip.

Mayor Lords It Over Freddy For G-D Claim

Mayor Bloomberg yesterday mocked Democratic opponent Fernando Ferrer for telling churchgoers that he will win because “God is on his side.”

“I don’t know that God makes political endorsements. I’ve never heard God do that,” Bloomberg joked during a ribbon-cutting ceremony in Brooklyn with Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Bloomberg even revealed a bit of his campaign strategy, jesting that he plans to concentrate on getting his message out to “the people here on Earth.”

“I’m going to focus on that and stay away from the spiritual stuff…

A Brooklyn Breslever Terrorist – Blown Out Of Proportion

The Israeli police and GSS arrested an apparent orthodox Jewish man in the “Breslever” garb, for breach of national security concerns.

This man Answers to the name Shneur Zalman Chatzkelevitch [28] and is a Crown Heights Resident. He was arrested in Jerusalem wearing the Chasidishe garb and a search on his person revealed a Koran. He is scheduled to be deported back to the United States.

What Israel can learn from the Statue of Liberty…

The United States of America has always been known as a country that has welcomed immigrants from all over the world (In this post, I’m not going to discuss the times when the US seemingly closed her doors on those who needed her most).

In the harbor of New York, the gateway of immigrants to the United States, stands proudly the Statue of Liberty, upon which one finds the following words etched in stone (written by the Jewish Poetess Emma Lazarus):

Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free…

The time has come for the State of Israel to take these words to heart.