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SOURCE: Crown Heights Chronicle
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Crown Heights Shomrim get Another Shoplifter Arrested
At approx 2:15pm on Thursday Ta’anis Esther a SHOMRIM call came in with a report of a shoplifter stealing from Sunshine Pharmacy on Kingston Avenue Between Empire and Montgomery by the time Sunshine had put down the phone from the SHOMRIM dispatcher 2 members were already on the chase and within a 2 minute chase the suspect was on the floor where his pants and jacket were emptied of his 16 Head & Shoulders Toiletries freshly stolen from the Pharmacy the police responded within 5 minutes and cuffed the guy straight away we would like to take this opportunity to thank the members who assisted in the arrest and wish them good luck and a quiet purim.
If you need SHOMRIM call 718 774 3333 and we urge the community to save the number in your cellphones for quick response no matter what time or day they are always on the ready to help the members of our community.
Freilichen Purim!!
The staff here at CrownHeights.info would like to wish everyone an easy fast and a safe and Freilichen Purim!!
Jewish community celebrates its salvation with Purim feast
This is an interesting article that appeared in a newspaper in Pocono Pennsylvania.
SOURCE: Pocono Record
By CAROL O’NEILL
Pocono Life Writer
Chabad Lubavitch of the Poconos invites everyone to experience one of the most joyous events in Jewish history. Purim marks the time when Queen Esther intervened to foil a plot to wipe out every Jewish man, woman and child living in Persia.
Ever since that miraculous time in 365 B.C., Jews have observed Purim, the 14th day of Adar on the Hebrew calendar, by reading the biblical Book of Esther, having a festive meal, giving gifts to the poor and food to friends.
“It’s a festive day, a happy day,” said Rabbi Mendel Bendet, who heads the local Chabad Lubavitch.
Motzoai Shabbos Shushan Purim Carnival @ OT
This Motzoai Shabbos “Shushan Purim” there will be an extension to Reb Moshe Rubashkins annual Purim feast.
There will be a host of performances by many different and talented singers (including Chaim Fogelman and Yossi Fraenkel), shows and acts.
This will take place in the Oholei Torah ball room on Motzoai Shabbos Shushan Purim.
Four Children Die In Overnight NJ Fire
Please say Tehillim for the mother – Aliza bas Yehudit
And the daughters – Zahava bas Aliza and Aviva bas Aliza
And the daughters – Zahava bas Aliza and Aviva bas Aliza
TEANECK, NJ (CBS) Tragedy in Teaneck, New Jersey, as four children die in an overnight fire.
Hours after firefighters responding to a report of smoke could find nothing wrong, a house erupted in flames early Tuesday morning, killing four children and critically injuring their mother.
Two other children, girls ages 14 and 7, were rescued by a neighbor who propped a ladder against the burning home. The children were being checked at a hospital.
The dead children, whose names were not immediately released, were boys ages 15, 6 and 4, and a 5-year-old girl, police Lt. Norman Levine said.
Fire Chief John Bauer said the fire department got a call from the house at 8:30 p.m. Monday reporting smoke in the basement of three-story brick Tudor.
“On our arrival, there was no smoke. We spent over a half-hour checking the house. We couldn’t find anything wrong with the house. We checked all the electrical devices,” Bauer said.
Crown Heights Riot Fiend Lemrick Goes Free
SOURCE: NYPost
By: Kati Cornell Smith
March 21, 2005 — Less than 14 years after the death of a Hasidic scholar stabbed at the peak of the Crown Heights riots, the man who wielded the knife is walking free.
Lemrick Nelson, 29, has been released from a halfway house where he lived for nine months while finishing a 10-year federal prison sentence for violating the civil rights of Yankel Rosenbaum.
Nelson’s lawyers told The Post he is working full-time in the bakery industry and intends to continue his education. “He’s looking to put all this behind him. But there’s not a day that goes by when he doesn’t think of Yankel Rosenbaum,” attorney Peter Quijano said.
Nelson, who was released earlier this month, was spared a possible life sentence in 2003 when a federal jury found that, although he stabbed Rosenbaum, he didn’t cause his death.
He is now living with his mother in New Jersey while he serves a 27-month term of probation, sources said.
Rosenbaum’s relatives believe it’s only a matter of time before Nelson engages in new violence.
“Lemrick Nelson is a bad person. Until I see something tangible to the contrary, he’s a threat to society,” the victim’s brother, Norman Rosenbaum, said in a phone interview.
Nelson was 16 years old when he attacked Rosenbaum, 29 on Aug. 19, 1991, during race riots sparked by the death of a black child who’d been struck by a car in the grand rebbe’s motorcade.
He beat a state murder rap the following year, but was convicted of federal civil-rights violations in 1997. A judge sentenced him to nearly 20 years, but an appeals court later tossed that verdict based on jury-selection problems.
Nelson’s 2003 retrial finally resulted in a standing conviction for violating Rosenbaum’s civil rights.
Hightend Missionary Activities In Our Neighborhood!
People, Parents, please be aware and keep an eye out for such activity, these people disguise well and they know how to talk “nicely” KEEP AWAY FROM THEM.
Last night I noticed on my doorstep 2 inconspicuous books and at first glance I thought that they were ArtScroll Seforim that someone had left so I bent down to pick it up and how shocked I was to discover in both Hebrew and English written “הברית החדשה” and “New Testament”. Here is a picture.
Please make sure that no one has accidentally brought these books into your home unknowingly, they are what the Rebbe once referred to certain books as “Bomb’s in you House” so get rid of them in a way that none can come to harm by them.
I want to warn you all to please be careful whom your kids talk to and talk to you kids and warn them, and if you see such activity don’t hesitate to call Shomrim @ 718-774-3333
SubWay Service Issues
service resumed with residual delays.
Please plan your trip accordingly.
UPDATE: As of now it seems that service has been restored. What actually happened was there was a big fire in the Atlantic Ave. station, 30 people were injured.
Chabad mitzva tank memorializes mistaken identity tragedy victims
SOURCE: jpost
“God willing, a proud Jewish settlement will be built in this place,” said Baruch Ben-Yosef, who stood on a barren hilltop just south of Ma’aleh Hever near Hebron on Sunday.
About 100 people gathered on the wind-swept hill called Mitzpor Ziv, the scene of the accidental killings of Ben-Yosef’s son, Yehuda, and Yoav Doron.
Two years ago this Sunday, the two young men, just out of the army, were killed by soldiers who mistook them for terrorists. Ben-Yosef and Doron were guarding an outpost built on the hilltop.
Bochurim Who Are Intrested In Russia For Pesach
For all those Bochurim who are interested in going to Russia to conduct a Sader, I have been informed that the people in charge of the operation have SLASHED the amount of Bochurim that will be accepted.
Usually its 80-90 Bochurim but due to the way Pesach falls out on Shabbos and the problems that would stem from this (not being able to conduct Sedorim) the amount of Bochurim will be within the 40 range!
Kneset Member Uzi Landau Visits Crown Heights
MK Uzi Landau and a group of the heads of Yesh”a spent the Shabbos in Crown Heights.
On Motzoai Shabbos there was a party in honor of the heads of Yesh”a with MK Landau in Meir Gutnick’s house. Preasent at the party were R’ Schwei R’ Groner R’ Butman and R’ Rapp.
Oholei Torah Students Learn 25,979 Lines Of Tanya
SOURCE: Shmais by Aliza Karp
25,979 LINES OF TANYA MEMORIZED IN THE TANYA BAAL PEH HEVRON LEARN-A-THON
Students who thought they could only memorize a few lines, memorized a few pages. Those who expected to learn a few pages, learned a few Perakim. During recess the hallways became filled with Talmidim practicing their lines while older Bochurim Farhered those ready to add more lines to their total. All this took place from Chuf Daled Teves until Rosh Chodesh Adar, for the Tanya Baal Peh Hevron Learn-a-thon of third through fifth grades in Oholei Menachem, in which sponsors specified a set amount for each line memorized. The money will be given to the Rebbe’s Shliach in Hevron, Rabbi Danny Cohen, for projects for children in the Holy City of Hevron, the first Chabad capital city in Eretz Yisroel. The website chevronlearnathon.com was set up to facilitate the sponsoring of lines. The site will remain active until the final testing is done.
5 Bocurim were on the way to spend a Shabbos in the Yeshiva in Montreal and had an accident, their car flipped over, but Baruch Hashem they were unharmed.
When arriving in Montreal for Shabbos they had a Seudas Hodaa with R' Gerlitzky from Montreal.
When arriving in Montreal for Shabbos they had a Seudas Hodaa with R' Gerlitzky from Montreal.
bocurim in an accident going to montreal
5 Bocurim were on the way to spend a Shabbos in the Yeshiva in Montreal and had an accident, their car flipped over, but Baruch Hashem they were unharmed.
When arriving in Montreal for Shabbos they had a Seudas Hodaa with R’ Gerlitzky from Montreal.
SOURCE: L'Chaim
Although he was centered in Otvoczk, Rebbe Shaul Yedidya Elazar of Modzitz had Chasidim throughout the major towns and cities of Poland. One of these was Reb Azriel David Fastag, who became noted for his exceptional voice throughout Warsaw. Many came to the shul where Reb Azriel David would pray on the High Holy Days.Reb Azriel David's happiness came from the world of negina - song. His moving tunes made their way to Otvoczk, where Rebbe Shaul Yedidya Elazar appreciated them immensely. The day a new niggun (tune) of Reb Azriel David's came to Rebbe Shaul Yedidya Elazar was like a "Yom Tov" for him.
The clouds of Nazism began to cover the skies of Europe. Most Jews could not fathom what was about to befall them. Only a few "read the map" correctly and managed to escape to safe havens. One of them was the Modzitzer Rebbe, whose Chasidim made a tremendous effort to save him. As the Nazis entered Poland, the Chasidim smuggled him out of Poland to Vilna (Lithuania), and from there he made his way across Russia to Shanghai, China, eventually arriving in America in 1941.
Ani Maamin – I Believe
SOURCE: L’Chaim
Although he was centered in Otvoczk, Rebbe Shaul Yedidya Elazar of Modzitz had Chasidim throughout the major towns and cities of Poland. One of these was Reb Azriel David Fastag, who became noted for his exceptional voice throughout Warsaw. Many came to the shul where Reb Azriel David would pray on the High Holy Days.
Reb Azriel David’s happiness came from the world of negina – song. His moving tunes made their way to Otvoczk, where Rebbe Shaul Yedidya Elazar appreciated them immensely. The day a new niggun (tune) of Reb Azriel David’s came to Rebbe Shaul Yedidya Elazar was like a “Yom Tov” for him.
The clouds of Nazism began to cover the skies of Europe. Most Jews could not fathom what was about to befall them. Only a few “read the map” correctly and managed to escape to safe havens. One of them was the Modzitzer Rebbe, whose Chasidim made a tremendous effort to save him. As the Nazis entered Poland, the Chasidim smuggled him out of Poland to Vilna (Lithuania), and from there he made his way across Russia to Shanghai, China, eventually arriving in America in 1941.
A massive turnout today came to walk R' Michoel Teitelbaum OBM to his final resting place.
Here are a few pictures of the Levayah.
More pictures in the extended article
Oholei Torah Honor’s R’ Michoel Teitelbaum
A massive turnout today came to walk R’ Michoel Teitelbaum OBM to his final resting place.
Here are a few pictures of the Levayah.
More pictures in the extended article
With great sadness we inform you of the passing of R. Michoel Teitelbaum at the age of 93, Baruch Dayan Haames.
R. Michoel established Oholei Torah and directed it for about 50 years. Rabbi Teitelbaum was born in 5672 (תרב"ע) and started out his vital chinuch work by establishing chadorim for children with mesirus nefesh in the Soviet Russia.
The Levaya will be held today - Thursday, leaving from Shomrei Hadas @ about 1:00pm and passing 667 Eastern Pkwy. (Oholei Torah) @ about 1:30pm and passing by 770 @ about 2:00pm.
R. Michoel established Oholei Torah and directed it for about 50 years. Rabbi Teitelbaum was born in 5672 (תרב"ע) and started out his vital chinuch work by establishing chadorim for children with mesirus nefesh in the Soviet Russia.
The Levaya will be held today - Thursday, leaving from Shomrei Hadas @ about 1:00pm and passing 667 Eastern Pkwy. (Oholei Torah) @ about 1:30pm and passing by 770 @ about 2:00pm.
BD”H – RABBI MICHOEL TEITELBAUM OBM
With great sadness we inform you of the passing of R. Michoel Teitelbaum at the age of 93, Baruch Dayan Haames.
R. Michoel established Oholei Torah and directed it for about 50 years. Rabbi Teitelbaum was born in 5672 (תרב”ע) and started out his vital chinuch work by establishing chadorim for children with mesirus nefesh in the Soviet Russia.
The Levaya will be held today – Thursday, leaving from Shomrei Hadas @ about 1:00pm and passing 667 Eastern Pkwy. (Oholei Torah) @ about 1:30pm and passing by 770 @ about 2:00pm.
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