Sanitation workers have been told to save every voice mail, text or email about last week’s blizzard – even on personal phones and computers.
Confident that he’d have a chance to win, Rudy Giuliani is rounding up his top political advisers for a possible 2012 presidential run, sources tell the post’s Page Six.
Over 700 children tuned in to CrownHeights.info’s revival of the Jewish Kids Radio, making its first Motzai Shabbos comeback an amazing success. Listeners got to hear a story of the Alter Rebbe, an exciting episode of the Shpy, as well as interesting facts on Parasha and Halacha.
A fan sent in this cellphone picture in wishing CrownHeights.info and its readers a Good Shabbos!
As the planks flexed under his weight, while crossing the old rickety bridge, the frightened pedestrian prayed for mercy: “Dear G-d, if only I will make it across the span, I shall give 50% of my worth to charity, for what good is my wealth if I’m to lose my life?”
Rabbi Eli and Esther Wilansky are moving on Shlichus to Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, where they will be serving as program and youth directors for Chabad @ the Beaches.
LAS VEGAS — Walking around the CES showroom floor, there is one specific cultural group that stood out to me. (No, it was not the booth models.) A surprising number of Hassidic Jews seemed to be exhibiting and walking around the show.
CrownHeights.info and the Avner Institute would like to present a collection of photos that were taken one winter morning around Chanukah 5736 (1975) of the Rebbe awaiting, then entering, his secretary’s car. With special thanks to the Korolitzky family for the photos.
Most of us have by now come to know who Ted Williams is. Just in case there are those reading this that have not chanced upon his internet video that has garnered over five million views and his subsequent life story, here it is in a nutshell. Ted Williams, born and raised in Brooklyn, was a former radio personality who ran into hard times with drugs, alcohol and the law which sadly spiraled out of control leaving him homeless and perhaps even worse – hopeless. Despite his negligence and the consequences that he suffered as a result he held onto that rather dormant sense of hope that one day he would be given another chance to succeed.
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — An incident with a man passing counterfeit $50 bills to Kingston Avenue stores, had the tables turned on Shomrim when an apathetic police force, led by an officer and a sergeant, turned the story upside down and accused them of playing cops and robbers, while letting the suspect go. Disturbing video footage tells this bizarre story.
A Brooklyn man was arrested after running over a Holocaust survivor and killing him, police said Thursday.
As the 27-year-old man, was cruising westbound on Avenue J in Midwood about 7:45 p.m. Wednesday he hit 82-year-old Moshe Adler, a rabbi, who stepped into the crosswalk at E. Ninth St., police said.
NEW YORK CITY [AP] — Another storm is taking aim at New York City, where Mayor Michael Bloomberg is still under fire for slow cleanup of a stubborn winter blast that kept streets clogged for days and delayed trash pickups, causing uncollected garbage to pile up for more than a week.The National Weather Service has issued a winter storm watch for the New York City, plus parts of New Jersey, Connecticut and suburban Long Island, beginning Friday morning. Two to 5 inches of light snow could come overnight Thursday with heavier snow possible Friday into Saturday.
David G. Trager, a federal judge in Brooklyn whose rulings were pivotal in a racially charged case in Crown Heights and in the first civil suit to challenge the Bush administration’s practice of sending terrorism suspects to countries that employ torture, died on Wednesday at his home in Brooklyn. He was 73.
The cause was pancreatic cancer, his wife, Roberta E. Weisbrod, said.
After three decades as a lawyer, state investigation commissioner, federal prosecutor and law school professor and dean, Mr. Trager was named to the United States District Court for the Eastern District by President Bill Clinton in 1993. After assuming senior status in 2006, Judge Trager worked full time until recently. The district encompasses Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island and Nassau and Suffolk Counties.
The Rebbe says:
1. In this week’s Torah portion Hashem (G-d) sends the tenth and final plague upon the Egyptian people and every firstborn in the land of Egypt died.
2. When Moshe Rabbeinu (Moses our teacher) forewarned Pharaoh about the impending catastrophe that was about to befall him and his people, he told him that the plague would happen “Ki’cha’tzos Ha’lie’lah – at around midnight”.
Rashi explains that the actual prophecy which Moshe Rabbeinu received from Hashem to tell over to Pharaoh was that the plague of the firstborn would happen precisely at midnight, however Moshe Rabbeinu changed the wording to “at around midnight” because if he would say “precisely at midnight” and Pharaoh and his stargazers would make a mistake as to when the exact time of midnight is, they would say that Hashem was late or early (Heaven Forbid) in bringing the plague.
Jewish students at the State University of New York at New Paltz prepare challah bread in advance of the local Chabad House’s Shabbat 118 event.
Back in 1991, Rabbi Pesach Lerner, 56, was approached by Aryeh Markovich on the LIRR. He wanted to know if the Orthodox rabbi would be willing to teach the Talmud on the 7:51 a.m. train from Far Rockaway to Manhattan. (The Talmud is one of Judaism’s main texts, and it takes about 7½ years to complete one’s studies of it, Lerner says.) “I used to see a lot of people playing cards on the train,” says Markovich, 51, president of EyeMark Media. “And it really bothered me. I said, ‘Why don’t we do something for people to utilize their time productively and learn something, too?’ ”
No one in the Big Apple hit the big Mega Millions jackpot, but New York is home to 11 newly minted quarter-millionaires.
