Sarah Attias (l.) and Zev Attias (r.) serve kosher jerk chicken, a blend of the couple's two cultures that brought smiles to more than one face on Monday at the West Indian Day Parade.

CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — After 8 innings the Advantage Wholesale Skullcaps emerged as the Crown Heights Softball Leagues world champions, besting the Landmark Fundings Red Heifers 6-5.

CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — Significant changes are afoot for Bochurim traveling to Crown Heights for the upcoming month of the high holidays. A number of Yeshivos in Israel got together and are putting together a proper program for Hachnosas Orchim along with studies together with the Vaad Talmidai Hatmimim.

Summer?s over and here comes the rush. Soon we?ll be seeing excited children in shiny new shoes and highschoolers in perfect uniform (for once!). Maybe it?s only because I know to look for them, but I also see the girls — the ones who are just as I was ? dragging themselves around, dreading the start of another school year. There is only frustration and fear.

Tomorrow the Red Heifers will step up and face the the Skullcaps in game 3 of the Crown Heights Softball League, which is sponsored by Spotlight Design, and the outcome of this game will determine who is the leagues champions, and the first 150 fans that show up will get a free hotdog, sponsored by House of Glatt!

In yeshivas, they are sometimes taunted as ?monkeys? or with the Yiddish epithet for blacks. At synagogues and kosher restaurants, they engender blank stares. And dating can be awkward: their numbers are so small, friends will often share at least some romantic history with the same man or woman, and matchmakers always pair them with people with whom they have little in common beyond skin color.

Fighting to stay alive, the Landmark Funding Red Heifers won game two of the Crown Heights Softball Leagues championship, beating the AWS Skullcaps 6-3.

For its third year, the Besht Center held its annual summer barbecue social last night.

The morning pastries are homemade, the coffee is from Italian roaster Danesi, but the most remarkable thing about Basil, a café and wine bar in Crown Heights, may be who?s working the front and back of the house.

Bochurim studying in the optional Yeshivas Bein Hazmanim enjoyed a special Shiur with Rabbi Yehuda Clapman, a Crown Heights Sofer, who taught about Safrus and shared intriguing stories.