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Canadian Artist Pierre Grünberg Visited 770
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This week Canadian artist Pierre Grünberg visted 770 and show’d off some of his work.
Pierre can be contacted @ grunberg_p@hotmail.com and visit his website @ grunbergarts.com
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Java justice finally served
It took almost 14 years, but Brooklyn Rabbi Israel Steinberg can finally drink his coffee from a paper cup in a Manhattan eatery in peace.
Steinberg made what seemed to be a simple request when he ordered coffee at the Nations Cafe in 1992: He asked the waiter to pour the beverage into a takeout cup because Jewish dietary laws forbid the use of nonkosher porcelain.
But Steinberg said the waiter told him he had to drink from the porcelain cups, just like other customers – or get out.
“He embarrassed and ridiculed me because I’m Jewish – in front of all the customers,” Steinberg said.
The confrontation escalated when Steinberg, who lives in Borough Park and is head of an Orthodox Jewish congregation in Queens, told the waiter that refusing such a request violated state law.
“He said, ‘Get out, you ******** Jew,’ ” Steinberg recalled.
The Campaign to End PLO Funding
It is very intresting to see the names on the list and which of them refused.
Please visit this link: Click Here
Our proclamation, calling on all Jews to participate in the campaign against PLO funding, is being sent to a variety of rabbis for their signatures.
Some rabbis are stepping forward to fulfill their responsibility to save lives and are endorsing our campaign.
Unfortunately, others apparently fear being “controversial,” perhaps thinking that even merely supporting our campaign might endanger fundraising, social acceptance, or something else.
Chabad tour of Brooklyn offers spirituality, nostalgia
by Marilyn Silverstein
NJJN Middlesex Correspondent
Standing beside the monument memorializing Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the late Lubavitcher rebbe, Bill Levy of Monroe reread the letter of prayer he had just written. Then he folded the paper, tore it once, twice, and scattered the pieces atop the thousands of other pieces of prayer that formed a kind of solemn confetti on the rebbe’s grave.
“I can’t say I was overwhelmed. I don’t know if I’d even say it was moving,” Levy said a few moments later as he sat beneath a tent at the Ohel (Tent) Chabad Lubavitch near the gravesite at Montefiore Cemetery in Springfield Gardens, NY. “But I think it was interesting and enlightening. I think it’s certainly worthwhile.
“I just wanted to open my mind and enlighten myself about what’s out there,” he said. “I’m close to 80 years old, and I’m still searching. This was a way of exploring part of my Judaism. I’m still trying to find what it’s all about.”
Of chicken soup And Medication
From The New York Times
Who Needs the Doctor? And Other Inherited Traits
By PERRI KLASS, M.D., and SHEILA SOLOMON KLASS
Among the many things a mother influences in a daughter’s life is her attitude toward health and doctors. Sheila Solomon Klass and her daughter, Dr. Perri Klass, were recently asked to trade thoughts on the topic.
PERRI Several years ago, I had a bad cold that wouldn’t go away. My voice sounded terrible and my mother was worried. It is my policy never to tell my mother very much about my health. I can’t stand solicitous inquiries, and I find that the loving concern of others often gets in the way of my own precious denial. But in this case, my mother could hear that I sounded lousy. And she wanted me to see a doctor.
I pointed out that I am, in fact, a doctor, and would know if something major was wrong. I pointed out that I hate going to doctors, and that I get that directly from her.
Shooting In Crown Heights
A 12-year-old boy is recovering after being shot in the arm Saturday in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn.
Horrified onlookers dropped to the ground when the shooter began spraying bullets on Nostrand Ave. in Crown Heights about 4 p.m.
One shot hit the man, who was apparently the intended target, and another struck a 12-year-old boy, cops said. Both victims suffered arm wounds.
Witnesses say a man with long dreadlocks fired at least nine bullets at the 48-year-old, and then fled in a gold color car.
The 12-year-old was struck as be was leaving a nearby store.
Police are asking anyone with information about the shootings to call the Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS.
FDNY Shuts [Torah] Tots Center
A Staten Island day-care center was shut down yesterday when firefighters — after reading about its grand-opening celebrations in a local paper — paid a surprise inspection and found it was unlicensed.
The Torah Tots Academy, which was run by the Jewish sect Chabad Lubavitch, had about 80 kids from 2 to 5 years old enrolled, authorities said.
The site of the day-care center — which was run out of two neighboring houses, at 289 Harold St. and 389 Bradley Ave., and a trailer — was also home to Yeshiva Mesivta Menachem and a synagogue.
FDNY brass had initially inspected the site weeks ago.
Boy battles for life after bucket plunge
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A 10-month-old Brooklyn boy was near death yesterday after he tumbled into a mop bucket filled with water and cleaning chemicals, his worried family said.
“Nobody wants to think the worst, but only God knows now,” said the boy’s aunt.
Jaccob Baker fell head-first into a bucket Thursday night as his brother, 14, mopped the kitchen floor of his family’s Crown Heights apartment.
Jaccob went into cardiac arrest while being rushed to Interfaith Medical Center, but was revived. The chemicals in the bucket destroyed one of his lungs and kidneys, and his heart was severely damaged.
Shomrim Assist Williamsburg Wtih A Missing Person
At 3:16am Shomrim in Williamsburg called Crown Heights Shomrim to assist them on a call for a missing person, at 3:35am the Shomrim search and rescue dog was brought to the scene and started picking up the scent of the 84 year old gentelman with altzeimers and started searching while on the walk with the dog in the right direction the gentelman was returned to his house by FDNY and boruch hashem he was without any injury when we returned to the scene FDNY asked us which way we went and after hearing the directions they told us we were a block away from where they picked him up, at this time we would like to thank the members of Shomrim, FDNY and the Shomrim Dog Unit for the successfull return which finished at 3:45am.
Attention All Drivers and Passengers.
A zero tolerance campaign on buckling up will get underway this Memorial Day weekend.
New York state troopers, sheriff’s deputies and local police statewide will set up checkpoints and dedicating more patrols to enforcement of the seat-belt law. State Police Commander Peter Person says the Buckle Up New York Campaign will last through June 5.
Building Falls in Brooklyn
Firefighters surveying the site of a building collapse that injured 11 people, one critically, at 103 Meserole Street in Brooklyn. The injured were doing renovation work.
A row house undergoing renovations in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, collapsed yesterday in a cascade of bricks, cinder blocks, mortar and scaffolding. At least two construction workers buried beneath the rubble were among the 11 people who were injured, one critically, the authorities said.
The collapse occurred about 1:15 p.m. at 103 Meserole Street on a residential block just east of Williamsburg’s enclave of Hasidic Jews.
Firefighters, who were on the scene in less than five minutes, encountered a score of shaken, dust-covered workers who had escaped the wreckage, and who feared that others, buried under debris on the building’s second floor, had been killed.
“I started calling their names, and no one answered,” said Benitas Joseph, 36, one of the workers who escaped serious harm and immediately scrambled through the piles of debris in search of those who were trapped. “I was frightened,” he said. “I thought everybody was dead.”
Attention – Crown Heights Drivers!
From COL:
COL would like to inform Crown Heights drivers that New York police has set up cameras aimed at recording every traffic misdemeanor. The cameras are located on the corner of Eastern Parkway and Utica and capture car licenses and make them available to the police.
Although this is no new news, the camera at the Utica Ave. & Eastern Pkwy. intersection has been there for the longest time, and there is a dummy camera at the Nostrand Ave. & Eastern Pkwy. Intersection, though I have heard rumors that it’s now a real one.
So just take care and need not know about these installments, just don’t violate traffic laws. They are in place to protect YOU. (only on the Palisades Pkwy. is the speed limit at 50 Mph just to make money)
Chabad (of S.I.) to celebrate opening of new building
Chabad Lubavitch of Staten Island on Thursday will celebrate the grand opening of its new Willowbrook building that houses both a synagogue and yeshiva.
The building, a single family home that has been extensively renovated to accommodate Chabad’s needs, was purchased for $667,500 in December 2004.
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A gala event to honor 50 years to the establishment of Tsach was attended by over 100 shluchim of Tsach in the Greater New York area. Among the many issues discussed at this kinus were: the establishment of fifty new institutes, reminiscing the outstanding character of Rabbi Yehoshua Zelig Katzman, ob'm - from the directorship of Tsach, a list of 'mofsim' of the Rebbe including two heavenly matters concerning this kinus and more. The kinus concluded with the proclamation, 'And you shall call freedom to the land' - with the oncoming advent of Moshiach, omain.Fifty Years to Tsach
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A gala event to honor 50 years to the establishment of Tsach was attended by over 100 shluchim of Tsach in the Greater New York area. Among the many issues discussed at this kinus were: the establishment of fifty new institutes, reminiscing the outstanding character of Rabbi Yehoshua Zelig Katzman, ob’m – from the directorship of Tsach, a list of ‘mofsim’ of the Rebbe including two heavenly matters concerning this kinus and more. The kinus concluded with the proclamation, ‘And you shall call freedom to the land’ – with the oncoming advent of Moshiach, omain.
this from Col
Rabbi Levi Bialo, a teacher in Cheder Chabad of Toronto and director of youth activities in Beis Chabad of Markham, was killed this morning in a dreadful train accident in the middle of the city. Bialo, in his early twenties, had just completed Shacharis and was on his way to escort his wife to the Chabad School, which he never reached. The time of the livaya will be announced shortly.
It is noteworthy that this has been the fourth tragedy, which has hit Toronto's frum community recently. A similar incident occurred on Erev Pesach, in which the 22 year old son of Rabbi Mordechai Levine, head of the Kashrus System in Toronto was killed in an accident.
Boruch Dayan Hoemes.
This from the local news paper
By OLIVER MOORE
Tuesday, May 17, 2005
A 25-year-old Thornhill man was killed yesterday morning after driving his car under the barrier at a level crossing north of the city and stopping in the path of an onrushing GO train.
Police are investigating whether Levi Bialo was blinded by sun as he drove onto the tracks in Richmond Hill, a spot that was marked by drop-down barriers, flashing lights and a bell.
Rabbi Levi Bialo, a teacher in Cheder Chabad of Toronto and director of youth activities in Beis Chabad of Markham, was killed this morning in a dreadful train accident in the middle of the city. Bialo, in his early twenties, had just completed Shacharis and was on his way to escort his wife to the Chabad School, which he never reached. The time of the livaya will be announced shortly.
It is noteworthy that this has been the fourth tragedy, which has hit Toronto's frum community recently. A similar incident occurred on Erev Pesach, in which the 22 year old son of Rabbi Mordechai Levine, head of the Kashrus System in Toronto was killed in an accident.
Boruch Dayan Hoemes.
This from the local news paper
By OLIVER MOORE
Tuesday, May 17, 2005
A 25-year-old Thornhill man was killed yesterday morning after driving his car under the barrier at a level crossing north of the city and stopping in the path of an onrushing GO train.
Police are investigating whether Levi Bialo was blinded by sun as he drove onto the tracks in Richmond Hill, a spot that was marked by drop-down barriers, flashing lights and a bell.
Rabbi Levi Bialo, ob’m
this from Col
Rabbi Levi Bialo, a teacher in Cheder Chabad of Toronto and director of youth activities in Beis Chabad of Markham, was killed this morning in a dreadful train accident in the middle of the city. Bialo, in his early twenties, had just completed Shacharis and was on his way to escort his wife to the Chabad School, which he never reached. The time of the livaya will be announced shortly.
It is noteworthy that this has been the fourth tragedy, which has hit Toronto’s frum community recently. A similar incident occurred on Erev Pesach, in which the 22 year old son of Rabbi Mordechai Levine, head of the Kashrus System in Toronto was killed in an accident.
Boruch Dayan Hoemes.
This from the local news paper
By OLIVER MOORE
Tuesday, May 17, 2005
A 25-year-old Thornhill man was killed yesterday morning after driving his car under the barrier at a level crossing north of the city and stopping in the path of an onrushing GO train.
Police are investigating whether Levi Bialo was blinded by sun as he drove onto the tracks in Richmond Hill, a spot that was marked by drop-down barriers, flashing lights and a bell.
Crown Heights Public Figures Receive Awards
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Representatives from Crown Heights were among the selected individuals throughout the city, who attended City Hall for an special ceremony in City hall where they were granted awards by membres of the City Council for their exceptional contributions to New York and to their neighborhoods. At this occasion, Municipality officials praised the members of the Crown Heights Community Council who were present at the event: Rabbi Moshe Rubashkin – chairman of the council, Rabbi Chanina Sperlin and Dr. Zvi Lang. Also present were Rabbi Yehoshua Hecht from the Shaloh Organization, Rabbi Moshe Winner and Mrs. Abelsky from Flatbush.
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