Crown Heights, Brooklyn — A member of Anash walking home Erev Shabbos at around 7:00pm was accosted by a large group of minors on Brooklyn Avenue and Union Street, the group surrounded him and attempted to take his wallet off his belt, the victim yelled and the group began fleeing.
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Ewing, NJ — Beginning this week, Rabbi Kivi Greenbaum and his wife Zeesy will open their home to Jewish students at The College of New Jersey as they head the newest branch of the Chabad of Greater Mercer County on the campus here.
Oxnard, CA — The Chabad Jewish Women’s Circle of Ventura County will host its annual “Spa for the Soul” event Sunday at the Courtyard by Marriott in Oxnard.
The event runs from 9:45 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.; the Marriott is at 600 E. Esplanade Drive.
Question: Workers in some European countries average as many as five or six weeks of vacation a year. In the U.S., it’s two weeks. Are Americans vacation-deprived?
Yes. Americans receive too little vacation time. The longer you work, the more vacation you should accumulate. I think we need four weeks paid vacation like other countries because people come back to work more relaxed, refreshed and eager to work. Productivity would go up if we’d increase our vacation time.
— Ziva Endzweig, makeup artist
West Bloomfield, MI — Levi and Bassie Shemtov’s names will be on the prestigious Manhattan Institute’s Social Entrepreneurship Award.
But it’s an honor that thousands can take credit for.
Rostov-On-Don, Russia –- A memorial ceremony took place near Rostov-on-Don to commemorate nearly 30,000 Jews and thousands of other victims murdered here 65 years ago in the biggest single atrocity of the Holocaust in Russia. The event occurred at the ‘Zmievskaya Balka’ Memorial near the village of Zmievka. Busloads of people made their way here via the same route taken by those who met their death here – the crowd holding the same constituency as those who perished here – young and old, Jews and non-Jews, from all walks of life.
Greenwich, CT, Aug 8th ’07 — Stamford’s Ephraim Zucker stepped into the batter’s box yesterday against New York Mets lefty pitcher Scott Schoeneweis.
With a mighty swing of a plastic bat, the 8-year-old smacked a single. After a teammate’s hit, Ephraim raced past third base to try to score, but he couldn’t elude the tag by Schoeneweis.
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