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Final Preps Underway for Highly Anticipated Teen Shabbaton

Chabad House Compass Express

Excitement is building for the National Teen Shabbaton to begin this Friday in Brooklyn, NY. CTeen’s headquarters in Merkos Suite 302 high atop 770 is a hub of activity as staffers rush to finish the final preparations for the big event.

Slipping, Sliding and Watching for Falling Ice

NY Times

Icicles formed on a crosswalk signal in New York’s Columbus Circle.

Just when New Yorkers thought they had seen it all this winter, along came a new cause for alarm on Wednesday: ice, a danger on the ground and from above.

Video: Rabbi Immanuel Schochet on Tzedaka

Why is tzedaka such a central mitzvah in Judaism? It seems somewhat un-spiritual that a person should need to affirm their faith in G-d through money. This week, we read about the donation of the Jews to the building of a Sanctuary for G-d in the form of gold, silver, copper and other valuable materials.

Children Gather to say Tehillim for 7-Month-Old

Photos by : Levi Teitlebaum – Ell-Tee Photography

Noa Batya bat Daniella Rut is a 7-month-old girl who was recently diagnosed with leukemia, the trgic news devastating her family. Over 150 children in the South African Jewish community gathered in her merit for an hour long rally to say Tehillim for her recovery.

Clear Ice From Your Sidewalk or Get Fined

by Simone Weichselbaum and Adam Lisberg – New York Daily News
Clearing the sidewalk in front of Weinstein on Kingston Ave – Illustration Photo

Okay New Yorkers, it’s time to get serious about shoveling the snow off your sidewalk – before it costs you. The Sanitation Department says it has issued more than 2,500 tickets in the last month to owners who left their sidewalks slick and dangerous with ice and snow.

Shomrim Nab Shul Vandals

by Thomas Tracy – New York Post
Illustration Photo

BROOKLYN — Four graffiti taggers nabbed near Marine Park Junior High School by the Shomrim patrol on Jan. 29 have been connected to an act of vandalism on a nearby synagogue that took place more than two months ago, police said.

Sunday: Lapine Siyum Sefer Torah

This Sunday, Febuary 6, 2011 there will be a Siyum Sefer Torah in memory of Pesya Leah Lapine HYD, who was brutally murdered in Crown Heights. The Torah is being writen by her children, she had four. Mrs Lapine was 39 when she was killed on 2 Adar 1 5752, 1992.