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Mazal Tov Steinmetz! - Its A Girl!

Tue, 9 Mar 2010 19:18:42 -0500

Baby Girl to Avrumi and Rochel (nee Sirota) Steinmetz (Crown Heights)

Decennial Friendship Circle Dinner Lauds Teen Volunteers

Tue, 9 Mar 2010 13:28:43 -0500

by Chanie Kaminker - Chabad.org

An estimated 900 people, including politicians, prominent business leaders and one professional football player, descended on the New Jersey Performing Arts Center in downtown Newark to celebrate the decennial anniversary of the state�s branch of the Friendship Circle, a Chabad-Lubavitch program that pairs teenage volunteers with children with special needs.

Today: Yohrtzeit of Ari Halberstam HYD

Tue, 9 Mar 2010 11:15:00 -0500

Ari Halberstam HYD

On March 1, 1994, a gunman in a car opened fire on a van carrying more than a dozen Hasidic students as it began to cross the Brooklyn Bridge from Manhattan, critically wounding two young men and injuring two others.

The lone gunman, driving a blue Chevrolet Caprice equipped with a submachine gun, two 9mm guns, and a �street sweeper� shotgun, pursued the van full of terrified students across the bridge.

He fired in three separate bursts, spraying both sides of the van. He then disappeared into traffic as the van came to a stop at the Brooklyn end of the bridge.

The injured Yeshiva students were among dozens who were returning from a Manhattan hospital where the spiritual leader of the Lubavitch movement, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, had undergone minor surgery.

Business Quotes Hitler on Sign Sparks Outrage

Tue, 9 Mar 2010 10:58:00 -0500

HARLINGEN, Texas — The marquee outside Ja Mar printing in Harlingen on Monday read: �It is not truth that matters but victory,� with A Hitler written underneath.

Picture of the Day � Rabbi Wenger Learning with Students

Tue, 9 Mar 2010 10:19:43 -0500

In preparation of the Chidon Sefer Hamitzvos, which Rabbi Eliezer Wenger, who passed away yesterday, prepared the material on which the contestants were tested, is pictured here helping out Levi Yitzchok Gerber, a young Shliach who competed in the 2005 Chidon.

Photos: Rabbi Benjamin�s Class has Siddur Party!

Tue, 9 Mar 2010 07:49:47 -0500

Rabbi Benjamin's Pre-1a class in Oholei Torah celebrated their Siddur party this Sunday. The party began with the children reciting the 12 Pesukim. Following that Mr. Shloy Rubinstein addressed the class on behalf of the parents with a story to the children then thanking the teachers and principals in their partnership of educating the children.

Reb Pinyeh Korf Farbrenges with Toronto Bochurim

Tue, 9 Mar 2010 07:42:31 -0500

Reb Pinyeh Korf
Last night, Monday, the Bochurim in YLT were treated to a amazing surprise when Oholei Torah Mashpiah Reb Pinyeh Korf came to Farbreng with them.

Another NYPD Cop Steps Forward, Claims Ticket Pressure

Tue, 9 Mar 2010 07:00:00 -0500

NY Daily News

Officer Anthony Minoia

A Bronx cop with an Ivy League degree is preparing to sue the city, claiming his failure to write tickets for 18 months led to a violent confrontation with his boss.

Officer Anthony Minoia says he was assigned to a one-block beat known in the 42nd Precinct as the “punishment post” after a bad evaluation.

The Columbia grad says the fact that he didn't write any tickets after that was not a protest against his boss, Deputy Inspector Timothy Bugge.

“I'm not going to pull out my summons book and write a summons because my boss is telling me he's going to make it difficult for me if I don't,” said Minoia, 46, an Air Force vet. “I don't use my powers to make a deputy inspector get promoted.”

Our Cleaning Lady who Stole from Us

Tue, 9 Mar 2010 06:35:03 -0500

by Bentzion Elisha

Random items appeared to be missing from our apartment.

Could it be our sweet hardworking cleaning lady who came highly recommended by neighbors who had her for the last 7 years?

After discussing the matter with our parents , my wife and I concluded it just couldn't be her....

Bagel Lovers Tell Rabbis: Don't pick on our Lox

Mon, 8 Mar 2010 19:24:00 -0500

By Reuven Fenton for the New York Post

A group of ultra-Orthodox rabbis is waging a schmear campaign against a staple of the Jewish diet: lox.

Smoked salmon should no longer be considered kosher, they say, because the fish often contain parasitic worms.

A Jewish Ritual Collides With Mother Nature

Mon, 8 Mar 2010 19:18:26 -0500

By Samuel G. Freedman for the New York Times

Rabbi Adam Mintz, a historian of eruvim in the United States, displayed maps of the boundaries of eruvim in New York City.

Last Saturday morning, as a blizzard sputtered out its last squalls over Passaic, N.J., Chaya Leah Smolen sent her husband and several children off to synagogue. She issued the children a message that might seem to contradict the essence of winter motherhood: do not carry any tissues.

Mazal Tov! - New Engagement!

Mon, 8 Mar 2010 17:56:38 -0500

CrownHeights.info wishes Mazal Tov to David Yahm Yom Tov (ben R Oded) Light (Israel) and Chava Levin (New Haven, CT) on their engagement.

Have a Mazal Tov you want to share? Email us at MazalTov@CrownHeights.info!

Mazal Tov! - It's A Girl!

Mon, 8 Mar 2010 14:18:04 -0500

CrownHeights.info wishes Mazal Tov to Shloime and Tzivia Lehrer (Crown Heights) on the birth of their daughter.

May the newborn be a source of Nachas to her parents, grandparents and Klal Yisroel.

Photos: Spring has Sprung Early!

Mon, 8 Mar 2010 11:37:34 -0500

Even though spring doesn�t officially start for another 12 days, the weather seemed to disagree! In stark contrast to our snow laden winter, yesterday temperatures reached the low 60s, bringing out parents and their children to the park on Lefferts.

Mazal Tov! - It's A Boy!

Mon, 8 Mar 2010 10:00:00 -0500

CrownHeights.info wishes Mazal Tov to Shneur Zalman and Rivky (nee Hurwitz) Osdoba on the birth of their son.

May the newborn be a source of Nachas to his parents, grandparents and Klal Yisroel.

Boruch Dayan Hoemes � Rabbi Eliezer Wenger OBM

Mon, 8 Mar 2010 09:10:38 -0500

With great sadness we inform you of the untimely passing of Rabbi Eliezer Wenger.

Rabbi Wenger, a longtime Montreal resident, has been teaching Halacha and other subjects for over ten years at Beth Rivkah High School in Montreal, Canada. He was the Rabbi at Congregation Oneg Shabbos in Montreal and the author of over a dozen seforim on Halacha.

He is survived by his wife Raitzel, and children Mordechai (Montreal, Canada), Yossi (Montreal, Canada), Shmuli (Montreal, Canada), Rashi Bortunk (Miami, Florida), Tova Nelkin (Montreal, Canada), Chanie Tzfasman (Crown Heights), Simmy (Montreal, Canada), Rikky, Mendy, and Hudy.

Chabad of West Hampstead Celebrates their Annual Dinner

Mon, 8 Mar 2010 08:39:00 -0500

CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — Despite a major snow storm, friends and supporters of Chabad of West Hampstead turned out and filled the halls for its annual dinner, recognizing the nights guests of honor Iris & Perry Finkelman, Rena & David Maryles and Councilman Edward Ambrosino.

Bloomberg Says a Soda Tax �Makes Sense�

Mon, 8 Mar 2010 07:30:00 -0500

The New York Times

As the battle over the state budget and the looming multibillion-dollar gap becomes more intense, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg has stepped up his call for the Legislature to pass a penny-per-ounce tax on soda to stave off major service cuts to education and health care.

Turkish Police Accost Sabbath Worshipers in Synagogue

Mon, 8 Mar 2010 07:00:00 -0500

The main sanctuary of the Hemdat Israel synagogue.

ISTANBUL, Turkey [INN] — A Turkish newspaper reports that police burst into an Istanbul synagogue during recent Sabbath services and demanded worshipers� ID�s.

Photos: ULY's Pre 1a Gets their First Siddurim!

Sun, 7 Mar 2010 17:58:01 -0500

Over 50 students in Lubavitcher Yeshivas Pre 1a celebrated receiving their first Siddur, with their parents proudly in attendance.