Tonight at 2:00am we change our clocks 1 hour back to 1:00am, and gain an hour of sleep.
So make sure to change your clocks before you get to bed as to avoid any confusion (and being an hour early to everything).
A Gut Voch.
Note: To learn more about “Standard Time” and “Daylight Savings time” Click on them.
This Thursday 4 Cheshvan – October 26, the Rishon Letzion, the Sephardic Chief Rabbi, Rabbi Shlomo Amar, visited the Chabad boys school “Cheder Menachem” in Los Angeles. At the Cheder, he was met by Rabbi Menachem Mendel Greenbaum principal of the school and met with the staff & students. Rabbi Greenbaum escorted the Rabbi and translated as Rabbi Amar tested the eighth grade students of Cheder Menachem in Gemara and discussed words of Torah with them. Rabbi Amar also met with the students of 5th thru -8th grade in the synagogue.
Rabbi Amar encouraged the students of the Cheder to continue their study of the Torah with enthusiasm and diligence. He told the children that since they are privileged to study in an institution which is named for the Rebbe, they must follow the Rebbe’s directive to learn Torah with added effort and to spread the wellsprings of Chassidus outward.
More in the Extended Article!
A hospital is one of the loneliest places to be on a Jewish holiday, Shabbat, or a simcha.
It’s not just the patient who feels isolated and frustrated, as Devora Hosseinof of Teaneck discovered when her 15-month-old daughter, who had salmonella poisoning, was admitted to Englewood Hospital erev Pesach last year.
The holiday began on Friday night, forcing a worst-case scenario for the Orthodox mother — who spent three days and nights sleeping on a chair in her daughter’s room. Her husband, Josh, had stayed home with the other children, and people at the local synagogue couldn’t know she was right across the street because there was no way to let them know — she had no appropriate food for Pesach and limited access to a kosher pantry.
Murder in New York City is not as prevalent as it once was, especially when compared to the height of high crime 15 years ago, but recently, it seems that certain neighborhoods have reported more killings.
In 1990, there were more than 2,200 murders in New York. In 2006, the city is on pace for 540 murders, NewsChannel 4 reported. This year is the fifth straight year below 600, a rate so low that one would have to go back to the 1960s to match it. But some wonder if crime has gone as low as it can go in a city so large.
A man was charged with fatally stabbing a woman and beating two men to death on Monday in the Bronx. The crime brought the total for the 41st Precinct to 13 murders in 2006, up from six murders in 2005.
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