With gratitude to Hashem for His incredible kindnesses, Chabad of Stamford announces that at 3:40 PM Friday afternoon the 8th of Teves (December 29) the City of Stamford granted a Certificate of Occupancy for our new Center at 770 High Ridge Road.
5th Annual concert fundraiser to benefit Crown Heights children with special needs will be held on February 24, 2007.
Crown Heights, NY, December 31, 2006: Mordechai Ben David, the legendary Chassidic singer, will be the star performer at the annual concert fundraiser to take place on February 24, 2007, at the George Wingate Auditorium, 600 Kingston Avenue, Brooklyn, NY at 8:30 P.M.
MBD will be in concert for the first time in Crown Heights. The Neshoma orchestra, under the musical direction of the incomparable Yaron Gershovsky, will provide the perfect accompaniment for this wonderful event.
An NYPD sergeant charged with pummeling a suspected car thief in Brooklyn while off-duty defended himself yesterday, telling the Daily News the assault charges against him are baseless.
“The truth will come out,” Sgt. Greg Abrahams said after being held for 15 hours in the alleged beating of an ex-con who police say was trying to steal the sergeant’s Ford Mustang. “This is so bogus. It’s really just being blown out of proportion.”
Abrahams was agitated outside his Nassau County home yesterday as he removed parts of the dashboard, allegedly damaged by Gaspar Alcalde, 48.
The fast begins at 5:51am and ends at 5:16pm (Crown Heights specific)
On the 10th of Tevet of the year 3336 from Creation (425 BCE), the armies of the Babylonian emperor Nebuchadnezzar laid siege to Jerusalem. Thirty months later — on Tammuz 9, 3338 — the city walls were breached, and on Av 9th of that year, the Holy Temple was destroyed. The Jewish people were exiled to Babylonia for 70 years.
Tevet 10 is observed as a day of fasting, mourning and repentance, in remembrance of the siege of Jerusalem (see “Today in Jewish History”). We refrain from food and drink from daybreak to nightfall, and add the Selichot and other special supplements to our prayers. (More recently, Tevet 10 was chosen to also serve as a “general kaddish day” for the victims of the Holocaust, many of whose day of martyrdom is unknown.)
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As in previous years, the Vaad-Talmidei-Hatmimim announced that they will organize conventions for Talmidim-Hashluchim. The central Kinus will take place in Miami, Florida. Additional Kinusim will follow across the globe in Israel, Russia etc.
The decision was announced last week by the Vaad, on a conference-call with participants from twenty Yeshivos around North America.
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