The central business district of Sydney was put on lockdown, Tuesday afternoon Sydney time, after a man allegedly stabbed pedestrians there. The alleged stabber was reported to have stabbed two people before being stopped and arrested. The motive behind the stabbing is still unknown.
A car was stolen in Crown Heights Monday afternoon, and the Police have put out a search for the car, reported to have a 1 year old on board. The public has been asked to look for a White Mitsubishi, with plate number HYB6531.
A flare up occurred Wednesday night at the border crossing of Khan Yunis on the Gaza border. Unconfirmed reports say that three IDF soldiers were injured by sniper fire, and were airlifted to the hospital.
An early morning Kingston Ave car jacking in Crown Heights left a car totaled and another damaged. The car jacker fled the scene on foot, after dragging the owner nearly a block. The owner of the vehicle was taken to the Hospital for his injuries.
A person was shot outside the Young Israel of North Miami Beach, Sunday afternoon. Hatzolah of Miami Dade was on the scene and treated the victim, reportedly in his 60’s, who suffered multiple gunshot wounds to his leg.
A major outage has begun affecting some big online and internet based entities. Some of those effected are some Google applications, Youtube, Uber, and SnapChat. Updates on the outage will be posted as they become available.
Following the drastic reduction in payments from United Healthcare Community Plan, Doctor Gottesman has released the following letter to his patients informing them that he will soon not be accepting the health insurance plan, and asking them to to switch to another.
One person was critically injured Sunday evening after nearly three dozen rockets were fired at southern Israel from the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip. He later died in the hospital from his wounds.
Online rental marketplace Airbnb announced that its decision to boycott Jewish homes in Judea and Samaria ‘will not be enforced in practice.’
A car plowed into a crowd of people on Canal Street in Manhattan Monday evening, leaving 1 Dead and six others injured. It appears that the incident was not terror related, and was unintentional. UPDATED.
A Jewish 30-year-old man was lightly injured in a stabbing incident on Tuesday afternoon at the entrance to Beit Jala, near Mount Gilo near Jerusalem. The police and the IDF are investigating whether the attack was a terrorist incident or criminal in nature.
Two Israeli Bochurim were mugged late last night at knife point outside the Bank of America on Eastern Parkway and Kingston Ave. NYPD has people in custody in regards to the incident.
The “Greater Crown Heights Eruv” has been down for nearly two weeks, says a CrownHeights.info reader who sent us photos of the break in the Eruv. Update: Eruv custodians reached out following the publication of this article, and clarified that the Eruv was never actually “down,”
A bunkhouse at Camp Emunah, suffering from years of wear and tear, was completely gut renovated just in time for summer 2018 by a group of philanthropists, led by Crown Heights businessman Shaya Gordon. Renovations included entirely new interiors, furniture […]
Perhaps one of the most difficult mitzvahs to fulfill properly is the counting of the Omer, which requires that each sequential day be counted (after nightfall) without missing a day—from the second night of Passover all the way until the eve of Shavuot. In addition to remembering to count on each of 49 consecutive nights, the counter needs to verbalize that night’s count and the corresponding Kabbalistic formula—all that before daybreak, or at least, before sunset the following evening.
A 73-year-old woman who was reported missing by her family has been located thanks to a coordinated search effort between multiple agencies.
Still reeling from the sudden and unprovoked stabbing attack four weeks ago in Crown Heights, many residents are still uneasy and concerned that the perpetrator has yet to have been arrested. Seeking to try and calm the community, the NYPD will be hosting a meeting to update the community on the case progress.
