Just in time for Chanukah the Tzivos Hashem’s Jewish Children’s Museum’s first exhibit, the large Draidel out in front of the building has finally got its final touch, the four letters.
Alternate side parking regulations will be suspended on Friday, December 9, because of weather conditions.
At around 10:00 o’clock this morning [Thursday] a local resident was leaving his house and his neighbor stopped him and asked him if he has someone working on his car? The answer was no so he immediately went out to his backyard to see what was going on, and he saw a black man crouching under his car, so he called him to leave and the man pulled out a knife and said “no, you leave”. So he ran back into his house and called 911.
The police’s response was very fast but still they didn’t managed to catch the guy, when the police arrived they went to check what this man was doing they found a purse and its contents minus anything of value, the Police had found an ID in the stuff and identified the puse as belonging to a Russian Jewish woman that had been mugged at knife point just down that block! All this had taken place on President Street between Utica Ave. and Schenectady Ave. in the backyard and driveway of one of the houses.
This week’s section tells the story of how Lavan; the arch-evil charlatan, duped the holy founder of Judaism, Yaakov into working non-stop for twenty years.
Interestingly the Torah tells us that instead being punished for this crime, Lavan is left in peace while Yaakov after wasting twenty years of his life has to settle for a mere fraction of his due.
This does not seem fair, and certainly not very Biblical. Where is the divine retribution? Where is the justice? How could Yaakov get such a raw deal and why does the Torah tell us about it? What is the point? Why didn’t G-d just do a few miracles?
Alternate side parking regulations are suspended today Thursday, December 8th, for holiday observance. All other regulations, including parking meters, remain in effect.
On Tuesday evening, President George Bush met with a group of Jewish educators representing various Jewish groups in the U.S. One of these was Rabbi Zelig Rivkin, Shliach to New Orleans and director of the Torah Academy School in the city. In the White House meeting, Bush had R. Rivkin seated on his right and spoke about the importance of freedom of religious and democracy as it is illustrated in the struggle of the Maccabees on Chanukah. “Just as the Maccabees restored the Beis Hamikdash, these educators ensure that the Jewish heritage is sustained from generation to generation”, said the president. Recently, as you may recall, President Bush had praised the activities of Rabbi Rivkin during hurricane Katrina in New Orleans.
Following the meeting, the president hosted a pre-Chanukah party in the White House, held early due to the president’s vacation that falls out on Chanukah. The event opened with candle lighting and continued with a reception and a festive kosher meal supervised by Chabad. A selection of 200 public Jewish figures was present at this meal. The Chabad delegation was headed by Rabbi Avrohom Shemtov, chairman of the International Aguch, Rabbi Avrohom Korf, chief Shliach to Florida, Shluchim to Louisiana, Rabbi Rivkin and Rabbi Yossi Nemes, Shluchim to Virginia, Rabbi Shuki Deitch and Rabbi Yosef Kranz, Rabbi Yossi Posner of Alabama and, Rabbi Levi Shemtov, Shliach to Washington D.C.
First Lady Laura Bush had resolved to personally supervise the preparations of the planned Chanukah party in the White House kitchen on Tuesday night. The White House kitchen underwent a kashering process to please the first lady who requested this so that ‘the Jewish guests feel comfortable’. For this purpose she recruited the assistance of Rabbi Levi Shemtov and all of these measures were taken despite the fact that pre-heated meals could have been used for the party as in previous years.
Rabbi Shemtov appointed Rabbi Hillel Baron from Howard County, Maryland to supervise the kitchen-koshering process and he was assisted by HaTomim Menachem Mendel Minkowitz, from Montreal who had been ordained with Smicha and currently studies in 770. Minkowitz did the koshering job with the help of Rabbi Binyomin Taub of the Kashrus Committee of Bergen County in New Jersey and Rabbi Hillel Baron, Shliach in Columbia, MD. The Kosher Lemehadrin cuisine was prepared by the chef and staff of the Petak catering. The festive meal was held after a candle lighting ceremony with President George Bush, which was held early this year due to Chanukah falling out on vacation time.
This champ sees God in the speed bag, halacha in the heavy bag, and when he does his roadwork on the streets of Midwood, he feels the presence of the divine. This champ sees God in the speed bag, halacha in the heavy bag, and when he does his roadwork on the streets of Midwood, he feels the presence of the divine.
And like the more famous Champ that came before him, one Muhammad Ali, this smaller, very Jewish champ can turn a phrase and deliver some lip.
“Anyone who wants a good whuppin’ from me is just going to have to wait until sundown [on Saturday],” says Dmitriy Salita, the “Star of David,” as he’s called in the boxing business.
Salita, a 23-year-old Odessa-born émigré who took up boxing in elementary school to better handle himself against the taunts of kids in his Brooklyn public school, will make the first defense of his North American Boxing Association light-welterweight title next week against Spanish Harlem’s Edgar “El Chamaco” Santa at the Manhattan Center’s Grand Ballroom.
Remember the armed robbery at the Post Office?
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