In connection with the fire that broke out today in the Oholei Torah Kindergarten East Flatbush division we are presenting you with a selection of Pictures taken of the Shul and its members from sometime in the 1970’s.
Yet another snowstorm hit the Northeast from Wednesday through early Thursday.
The storm came in two rounds, an initial burst on Wednesday morning and then a heavier round late Wednesday through early Thursday. Unlike previous storms this season, heavy snow also fell in Washington, D.C., and Baltimore in addition to Philadelphia, New York City and southern New England.
The worst accident in the history of the New York subway system—the Malbone Street wreck of 1918, which killed at least 93 people—happened because an inexperienced strikebreaker drove a train too fast.
Two weeks after registration opened up for the upcoming annual Pesach “Merkos Shlichus”, the Merkos Shlichus office in Crown Heights closed registration this week, due to the overwhelming number of applications received from around the world. To date more than 600 applicants have applied.
CROWN HEIGHTS — President of the Dominican Republic, Mr. Leonel Fernandez visited the international headquarters of Chabad-Lubavitch in Brooklyn, Tuesday evening, where he met with the leadership of the movement.
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — The Crown Heights Debate Club hosted their kickoff event Thursday at Mimulo Flower Shop, addressing the agunah crisis in a new and innovative fashion. With a shared message of calling the community to action, the panel consisted of Mrs. Bronya Shaffer, resident scholar on AskMoses.com and Ask-the-Rabbi respondent for Chabad.org, and Jeremy Stern, director of case management at the Organization for the Resolution of Agunot (ORA).
Police arrested a 21-year-old Brooklyn man last night after three Crown Heights women identified him as the serial slapper terrorizing the tight-knit neighborhood, cops said.
Frankie Hatton of Saratoga Ave., who sources said has confessed to five incidents and has a history of mental illness, was charged with forcible touching and […] abuse.
A dozen women in the area have been slapped on the buttocks since June 19, police said. The slapper last attacked Tuesday.
CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — Sunday night we reported the election tally, but that was hardly a reflection of the real outcome of the elections. Monday afternoon and Today, Tuesday the new Vaad began their tenure by taking control of the Community Council and Vaad Hakohol Offices by force, in a massive display of Chilul Hashem, and the opposite of which these bodies are to represent.
Both parties clashed in a spar of verbal assaults and the removal of people from the offices by force. Property was damaged and windows were broken, as members of the opposing factions tried to change locks while others attempted to hold possession of the premises.
MONTREAL [CHI] — At least 2000 Montreal-Anash (Men and Women) are expected to attend an emergency meeting tonight, Sunday 8:45pm at the Yeshiva at 6405 Westbury Avenue. After Crown Heights, Montreal is the next largest Chabad shchuna in the world!
The 68-year-old Tomchei Temimim is the only Chabad elementary school in Montreal, Canada.
At this years dinner benefitting Chabad-Lubavitch of The Main Line, which is under the directorship of Rabbi Shraga Sherman, a unique and funny video was played depicting the “General Wayne Inn” which Chabad acquired back in 2005.
NEW YORK, NY — More New York City residents voted for Barack Obama on Tuesday than for John Kerry in 2004 and for Al Gore in 2000. But an analysis suggests that overall turnout increased only slightly from four years ago.
Next weekend, Shabbos Parsha Lech Lecha, over 800 students and 100 Shluchim and Shluchos will be coming bez”h to Crown Heights for the largest Pegisha of its kind in history.
As Shluchim on campus, many of my colleagues deal with great mesiras nefesh with a constant uphill battle, inspiring and serving hundreds of Jewish students each and every week. Around this time each year, though, we are reminded that we’re not alone.
Seeing the unbelievable Hachnosas Orchim with which the residents of Crown Heights open their doors, take care of our students, and put up with all of the tumult that goes along with such an endeavor – especially knowing that this comes so closely on the heels of an already very taxing month of Tishrei – is the greatest reminder that Chassidim Ein Mishpocha, that we are part of a family of Chassidim who are true partners in our work.
The political and media outrage following the alleged attack by Jewish boys in Crown Heights on Mr. Andrew Charles leaves the Jewish community shocked and anxious. We will not let a one-sided story be told. We will not curl-up in fear while our families are terrorized.
Friday, April 25, 2008
20 Nissan 5768, Sixth day of Passover – The Festival of Freedom
The Honorable Charles J. Hynes,
Kings County District Attorney
350 Jay St. Brooklyn, New York, 11201
Over the last months, members of the JLC have repeatedly met in your office, concerned that the armed muggings and bigoted harassment against the Orthodox Jewish community continue unchecked. This is in sharp contrast to the attention to justice you’ve shown to the recent allegations against an Orthodox Jew by an African American.
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The Brooklyn district attorney will seat an investigative grand jury to probe the beating of an unarmed black man by two Jewish men in Crown Heights, the Daily News has learned.
The victim – a 20-year-old college student and the son of a cop – has met with prosecutor Charles Hynes about the April14 attack in a neighborhood with a long history of racial tension.
“He’s an excellent young man, and I met with him personally to assure him that I would do everything in my power to bring to justice those who humiliated him,” Hynes said Wednesday.
The 16-year-old yeshiva student who told cops he was beaten by five black teens during an anti-Semitic rampage in Brooklyn has been involved in three other violent incidents in the past year.
Samuel Balkany reported being robbed at knifepoint, randomly pushed as he exited a car and having his nose broken in separate attacks since moving in with an aunt in Crown Heights last year, police sources said.
CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — This November, the Rohr Jewish Learning Institute will unveil an intriguing new course at over 250 affiliates across the globe. Unlike other courses that are concerned primarily with the modern State of Israel or its ancient history, The Land and The Spirit focuses on the mystery of the deep bond so many people feel for the land of Israel.
BROOKLYN, NY — On August 22, 1978, Brooklyn’s Eastern Parkway was designated a scenic landmark. Stretching from Grand Army Plaza through Crown Heights to Ralph Avenue, this parkway introduced some of the advanced urban planning concepts of Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux, the designers of Central and Prospect Parks.
It was planned in 1866 as one of a complex of boulevards emanating from Prospect Park, with a central artery for through traffic and side roads for local use, separated by landscaped malls.
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