“Geo Friend-Lee”, who calls himself “the hardest working environmentalist on the planet”, hit Brooklyn Heights recently and posted a YouTube video documenting it. His Cleaner Curbs promises to “eliminate the litter on our streets, restore the beauty of our city and help protect the planet from human destruction.” Sounds like the Guardian Angels of Cleanin’ […]
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Brooklyn’s Chanukah Menorah Beams At Borough Hall
Monday evening, December 10, in celebration of Chanukah, Brooklyn Borough Prez Marty Markowitz joined Rabbi Aaron L. Raskin of Congregation B’nai Avraham and Rabbi Simcha Weinstein, along with Paul Amit, a parent from Kiddie Korner, and other officials to light Brooklyn’s 29-foot menorah in front of the Supreme Court building in Columbus Park/Borough Hall Plaza. […]
Brooklyn Heights Rabbi Talks Creation
Congregation B’nai Avraham’s Rabbi Simcha Weinstein writes this week in his Broken Halo column about Darwin’s theory of Evolution, “controversy” about Brooklyn Heights’ native Jennifer Connelly’s new movie Creation and how scientists aren’t bad people at all.
Fish ‘n’ Chip Paper: 7/20/09
Here are some of last week’s headlines in case you missed ’em: Only on BHB: Park Progress, with a Bonus Shot from the Karaoke Cruise (Twentieth Report) Mr. Junkersfeld’s Neighborhood and Beyond No parking at Riverside Garage? 84th Precinct: Mid-Year Recap Heights History: The Opinionated Bernard Atkins Will Tim Hortons Make Doughnuts on Premises? The […]
Dock Street passes Council, Round 1
The Dock Street DUMBO project sailed through two key votes at the City Council today — passing 6-2 in the zoning and franchises subcommittee and 17-4 in the general land use committee. The full Council will vote on June 10, where it is also expected to pass following support by Speaker Christine Quinn, according the […]
Dock Street Drama
The City Council zoning and franchises committee hearing about Dock Street lasted five hours today, with three hours of public testimony and two of the council members grilling the School Construction Authority and developers about the plan. The hearing marked the beginning of the end for the project, a proposed 17-story residential tower and 43,000-square-foot […]
Trike-a-Thon Tuesday
This message about a trike-a-thon fundraiser just in from Rabbi Simcha Weinstein of Congregation B’nai Avraham: Who: Children, Parents & Grandparents What: Lag B’Omer Bike-a-Thon Where: Outside Kiddie Korner/B’nai Avraham, 117 Remsen Street (between Clinton & Henry: The Road will be Closed) When: Lag B’Omer, Tuesday, May 12th from 5-7 pm Why: To help raise […]
Brooklyn Heights Torah Swiped
The folks at Congregation B’nai Avraham thought they were doing a mitzvah when they lent one of their unique handwritten Torahs to a couple who wanted to have a “kosher vacation” in Turks and Caicos. Unfortunately, the borrowers thought it would be safe to leave the holy scroll overnight last Sunday in the back seat of their […]
Brownstone Brooklyn Memorial Service for Mumbai Attack Victims
From Rabbi Simcha Weinstein comes this dispatch: Rabbi Gavriel and Rivka Holtzberg, Directors of Chabad of Mumbai Sponsored by Congregation B’nai Avraham, Brooklyn Heights and Congregation B’nai Jacob, Park Slope Join us for a community wide gathering in response to the senseless terrorist murder of innocent people in Mumbai. Thursday, Dec. 4, 2008 – 7:30 […]
Rabbi Raskin Has Advice for Leaders
Congregation B’nai Avraham is bursting with literary talent. First, Rabbi Simcha Weinstein unleashed his Up Up and Oy Vey in 2006 and his upcoming Schtick Shift and now Rabbi Aaron Raskin has teamed up with management consultant Dr. Thomas D. Zweifel in writing The Rabbi and the CEO: The Ten Commandments of 21st Century Leaders.
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