New Chabad House Brings Passover to Northern Cyprus

By Tamar Runyan

Jewish residents and tourists in Northern Cyprus enjoy a community meal organized by Rabbi Chaim Hillel and Devorah Leah Azimov.

KYRENIA, North Cyprus — Passover celebrations in Northern Cyprus coordinated by the republic’s new Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries went off without a hitch as some 45 people congregated in a local hotel Saturday night for a grand Seder supplied with kosher food cooked on the premises. The hotel’s kitchen was specially koshered for the occasion.

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Wasserman Schultz Asks FBI Chief to Investigate Fires at Chabad House as Hate Crimes

Sun Sentinel

WASHINGTON, DC — U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Weston, asked FBI director Robert Mueller today to investigate as hate crimes fires that damaged two South Florida synagogues. (As Reported Here).

NY Daily News Op-Ed: ‘Tribal’ tension in Crown Heights keeps neighborhood from moving beyond hate

Errol Lewis – Email

Nearly 17 years after riots tore Crown Heights apart, the recent beating of a black college student by Jewish assailants has exposed rising tensions between blacks and Jews in my neighborhood.

Cops and city officials have quietly gone on high alert, worried that another riot could be in the works.

The troubles began on April 14, when Andrew Charles, a 20-year-old sophomore at Kingsborough Community College, says he and a friend encountered a pair of young Jewish men while walking down Albany Ave. about 6 p.m.

“One was on bike, one was on foot. They were staring at us, staring us down,” Charles told me. “We stared back. They approached us and asked if we had a problem.”

CH Hatzalah Gets a New Ambulance!

CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — Members of Hatzalah were busy outside the garage on Schenectady Avenue last night switching over the equipment from the old CH-3 to the new CH-3.

A Hatzalah Coordinator told CrownHeights.info that the typical amount of time an ambulance is kept in service is five years, and CH-3’s five years just came up.

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Retail Gas Hits Record $3.50 A Gallon

NEW YORK (AP) β€” Rising gasoline prices tightened the squeeze on drivers Monday, jumping for the first time to an average $3.50 a gallon at filling stations across the country with no sign of relief.

Crude oil set a record for the sixth day in a row β€” this time closing above $117 a barrel β€” after an attack on a Japanese oil tanker in the Middle East rattled investors.

Koch, Resolved to Spend Eternity in Manhattan, Buys a Cemetery Plot

The New York Times

Former Mayor Edward I. Koch said on Monday that he planned to stay in Manhattan β€” for good.

Mr. Koch, who turned 83 in December, said that he had purchased a burial plot in Trinity Church Cemetery.

β€œThe idea of leaving Manhattan permanently irritates me,” said Mr. Koch, who represented the East Side in the City Council and in Congress before being elected to the first of three terms as mayor in 1977.