Wrapping Up, Mayor and Ferrer Ask Voters to Ignore Polls

NY Times
Michael R. Bloomberg at a campaign stop in Brooklyn [Crown Heights] Sunday.

On the final Sunday before the election, the New York City mayoral candidates made competing last-minute appeals to voters on the need for change versus the need to stay the course, and both sides made urgent appeals to their supporters to turn out tomorrow despite polls predicting a lopsided victory for the incumbent.

With just three days left in the contest, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and his Democratic challenger, Fernando Ferrer, concentrated on rallying voters in areas containing their most faithful supporters as their organizations began a final blizzard of phone calls and door-to-door canvassing aimed at getting supporters to vote tomorrow.

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“Reaching for the Infinite:” Scholars At NYU On the Lubavitcher Rebbe

Miriam Davids – Lubavitch.com

“Menachem Mendel Schneerson is larger than life,” said Elliot Wolfson, a professor at NYU and scholar of Chasidism. “To speak of him is fraught with danger.”

And yet that’s precisely what a cadre of academics and scholars of Chasidic thought are attempting to do this week as they tackle a variety of themes related to the Rebbe and his legacy. Coming to NYU’s Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies, from as far as Australia, Israel and the U.K., the academics are presenting at a conference billed “Reaching for the Infinite, the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Life, Teachings and Impact.”

Binghamton University Chabad House given Torah

Press & Sun Bulletin
Rabbi Joseph J. Sternberg carries the newly completed scroll through the Binghamton University campus to the Chabad House on Murray Hill Road in Vestal. Sternberg is joined in a procession with his family

Completed scroll represents ‘marriage’

There was a wedding on Sunday with cries of mazel tov as members of the Jewish community were married to God during the completion of the Torah at Binghamton University.

BU’s Chabad House took part in writing the last letters of a new scroll, known as Siyum Sefer Torah. The Torah contains the first five books of Hebrew scripture.

Yet another visit by the mayor to Crown Heights

With less then 2 days left to the election on Nov. 8th, mayor Mike Bloomberg came once more to Crown Heights to the local campaign Headquarters that’s situated next door to the Kvutzeh Dorm [749 Eastern Pkwy.].

The campaign office is manned by both the CH JCC PAC and many other volunteers from the neighborhood. The mayor came by and complimented and encouraged the campaign office, even with the poll screaming “landslide” for the mayor, he is still running the campaign like it’s a neck in neck race.

More pictures in the Extended Article.

Lundberg Survey: Retail Gas Falls 23 Cents

FOX News

Well in case you havent noticed the gas prices did ease up a bit.

Retail gas prices plunged an average of 23 cents nationwide in the past two weeks, marking a return to pre-Hurricane Katrina levels, according to a survey.

The weighted average price for all three grades declined to $2.45 a gallon on Friday, said Trilby Lundberg, who publishes the semimonthly Lundberg Survey of 7,000 gas stations around the country.