At 1:45 this morning a car headed down Empire Blvd. tried to make a turn up onto Troy Ave. but didn’t seem to notice an oncoming car and was to late for the other car to stop. They collided totaling both vehicles and both drivers were taken to nearby hospitals with minor injuries, just as a precautionary measure. Both drivers and passengers were not Jewish.
More Pictures in the extended article.
Lurching toward the final weekend before their primary, the four major Democratic candidates for mayor filled their schedules with an eye toward a very possible runoff between Tuesday’s top two finishers.
Rep. Anthony Weiner, after voting in Congress on emergency flood funds, headed back from Washington by mid-afternoon for another televised debate among the Democratic candidates, his campaign reported.
Manhattan Borough President C. Virginia Fields sought to solidify her base among black voters.
I was traveling in China when pictures of the looters in New Orleans began to appear on CNN. They were black of course. Looting and raping and burning are what blacks do when the lid loosens. Yes, I could phrase this more cautiously: These things are what some blacks, etc. or, more cutely, not all blacks are looters, but all looters….blah blah.
Yet it happens time and again. There was Los Angeles, burned in 1992. There have been Cincinnati, Miami, Seattle, Washington DC, Chicago, Detroit, Crown Heights, Watts, Newark, on and on and on. When the law loses its grip, the looting begins.
We have come to expect it. Members of my tour group in China to whom I spoke assumed that the looters were black before watching. They had seen it before. I knew it before I saw the pictures. The looters are always black except when, occasionally, they are Latino. If they were looting for food it would be understandable. But that isn’t what is happening. Few of us eat television sets. Nike’s running shoes are not particularly digestible.
Chabad is sponsoring a free carnival for the Hurricane Katrina evacuees now sheltered in S. Antonio, Texas, announced Rabbi Boruch Shlomo Cunin, Director of West Coast Chabad-Lubavitch.
“In response to this disaster, Chabad launched an extensive relief program to aid victims of all faiths,” said Rabbi Cunin. “In this case, we just want to bring a little happiness to all of the displaced families and children who find themselves living in airplane hangars in S. Antonio. When Chabad suggested this event to other relief organizations working in the area, they offered their enthusiastic support.”
The carnival — which is being organized by Chabad of South Texas and West Coast Chabad-Lubavitch — has received significant cooperation from many humanitarian and charitable groups, including the Red Cross, Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster (VOAD), the S. Antonio Jewish community, and local religious organizations.
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