Alternate side parking regulations will be suspended on Thursday, November 1 for holiday observance. All other regulations, including parking meters, remain in effect.
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Philadelphia, PA — The spiritual influence of Penn’s Lubavitch leaders will soon translate into something tangible: a new home for over 100 students.
The Perelman Center for Jewish Life will house the Lubavitch House at Penn, as well as the Steinhardt/Cayne Jewish Heritage Programs.
TORONTO, Canada — Geovanny Hidalgo never expected an award. But at a ceremony last week at the Wilson Station bus depot, the 40-year-old Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) bus driver was presented with the Canadian Jewish Congress’ (CJC) Louis Lenkinski Memorial Award, which is named for the late labour and Jewish community official and given to individuals who demonstrate “excellence and dedication in the area of human rights, community service and social justice.”
In last Winter’s column, (here) I reflected on Chabad’s admirable hospitality. Indeed, throughout the world, in virtually every city where a Jewish community of even modest size is to be found, Chabad shelichim (emissaries) conduct religious services, visit hospitals, teach children, organize Jewish holiday celebrations, and offer Shabbat meals to lonely Jewish students and travelers. No other Jewish movement—Orthodox, Conservative, or Reform—has been able to produce a corps of similarly devoted young men and women who are prepared to serve the Jewish people with such personal sacrifice.
Unfortunately, other Chabad practices are less admirable. Here are two examples.
TWIN CITIES, MN — One month after a handwritten Torah was stolen from Yeshiva High School of the Twin Cities in Cottage Grove, a scribe is working on writing a new one.
Under a trained and experienced scribe’s watchful eye, on Sunday, the school’s students, rabbis and other members of the Jewish community had a chance to write the first few words of the Jewish holy book, which will contain more than 350,000 handwritten letters when it’s complete.
More pictures in the Extended Article!
OMSK, Russia –- The West Siberian city of Omsk this week celberated the recently renovated Synagogue and completion and opening of the Ohr Avner Chabad Day School.
Following morning prayers in the Synagogue, which involved more than 100 congregants – an especially large number for a weekday – Visiting Chief Rabbi of Russia, Rabbi Berel Lazar affixed a mezuzah to the entrance of the building. The visiting Jewish leaders were joined by Chief Rabbi of Omsk Osher Krichevsky for a discussion with Governor Leonid Polezhaev, who personally assisted the community at every stage of construction.
The Port Authority plans to seek a toll hike of at least $2 on its Hudson River crossings and an increase in PATH rail fares after next week’s state legislative elections, The Star-Ledger has learned.
