Mar 09 2010
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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.
Ari Halberstam HYD
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
NY Daily News
Officer Anthony Minoia
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.”
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....
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.
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.
Mar 08 2010
Mar 08 2010
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.
Mar 08 2010
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.
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.
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.
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.
Over 50 students in Lubavitcher Yeshivas Pre 1a celebrated receiving their first Siddur, with their parents proudly in attendance.
CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — A van and a car collided as they were turning on to Eastern Parkway, the van then slammed into a light pole and trapping the driver inside. The force of the impact threw open one of the van doors, and a stockpile of watermelons spilled onto the street.