A 31 Year Old Story with a Stone

CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn — 31 Years ago today, a Mitzvah Tank full with 13 Bochurim were on their way home from doing Mivtzoim in Manhattan, they crossed the Williamsburg Bridge and headed back to Crown Heights through Lee Avenue, when they reached Rodney Street. They were attacked my a large mob of Chassidishe Jews, their tires were slashed, and they were barred from making their way home, all the while getting yelled at and cursed, in the middle of which a massive stone came through the windshield of the Mitzvah Tank and landed very close to one of the Bochurim.

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Video of the Day! – The myLight Contest Winner!


Mendy Pellin surprises the winner of the myLight Chanukah Contest.

The winner submitted a video clip entry to mylightcontest.org – The clip (along with 5 other clips) was shown on national television (Chanukah 07) with Governor Schwarzenegger.

More in the Extended Article!

Chof Daled Teves – The Passing of the Alter Rebbe

Chabad.org

The founder of Chabad Chassidism, Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi (1745-1812), passed away on the eve of the 24th of Tevet, at approximately 10:30 pm, shortly after reciting the Havdalah prayer marking the end of the Shabbat. The Rebbe was in the village of Peyena, fleeing Napoleon’s armies, which had swept through the Rebbe’s hometown of Liadi three months earlier in their advance towards Moscow. He was in his 68th year at the time of his passing, and was succeeded by his son, Rabbi DovBer of Lubavitch.

A brief biography in the Extended Article.

Four Slain in City Hours into 2008

NEW YORK, NY — The city recorded its lowest murder count in four decades last year – but violence erupted Tuesday just hours into 2008.

Three people were shot dead and another was fatally stabbed.

Cops were targeted, but not hit, by gunfire at three separate scenes, and at least five people were shot and wounded, all before sunrise, police said.

A First For Cyprus: A Traditional Jewish Wedding

by Tamar Runyan – Chabad.org

Chaim Harrari is lifted in a chair as Rabbi Arie Zeev Raskin, third from left, and others celebrate his Cypriot wedding.

LARNACA, Cyprus — A series of providential occurrences culminated last month in a traditional Jewish wedding on the Mediterranean island nation of Cyprus.

Every year, many Israelis make the short trip by air to Cyprus in order to elope and circumvent their country’s legal sanctions on weddings that stipulate that all marital unions occur according to the dictates of Jewish law.

EVE’S TRASH LITTER-ALLY MASSIVE

NY Post

Revelers take photos atop a pile of garbage in Times Square. Photo Credit.

NEW YORK, NY — A million New Year’s revelers trashed Times Square with at least 42 tons of party hats, noisemakers and confetti, which an army of city sanitation workers beautifully swept up yesterday.

Armed with brooms, 16 mechanical sweepers, 13 collection trucks and 14 leaf blowers, 109 of New York’s Strongest took to the streets to do the heavy lifting.