CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — Today, Wednesday at around 2:00pm there was a bizarre accident on Empire Blvd, between Schenectady and Utica Ave, causing an SUV to rollover on its side.
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LONDON, UK — They may not have had any kosher food to eat, but Rabbi Aryeh and Devorah Sufrin were nevertheless able to make a blessing when they attended last week’s Garden Party at Buckingham Palace. Upon seeing Queen Elizabeth II’s, whose office extended the invitation to the co-directors of Chabad-Lubavitch of Ilford, England, the pair made a special blessing thanking G-d for ìgiving His glory to human beings.
The Code of Jewish Law provides for making a blessing on a host of events, from hearing thunder to seeing a scholar.
Some 8,000 people attended the July 15 Garden Party held for members of the public who work in the non-profit field. Devorah Sufrin said that she suspects their presence was in recognition of their work at Drugsline, a leading drug treatment and counseling center that Aryeh Sufrin founded in 1991.
SDEROT, Israel [CHI] — Democratic presidential candidate Barack Hussein Obama II visited the Sderot today, Wednesday. He was escorted thorough the rocket battered city by the city’s mayor, Eli Moyal, Defense Minister Ehud Barak, along with some other Israeli government officials.
Rabbi Moshe Zev Pizem, the Shliach to Sderot was also on hand to greet the presidential candidate.
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RIO DI JANEIRO, Brazil — This month’s Portuguese edition of National Geographic treats its Brazilian readers to an eye-opening, enthusiastic essay on Chabad, with a close examination of the Chabad yeshiva in Brazil.
Titled “A School of Tradition,” the photographic feature opens on a personal note: “My son became sociable and compassionate to those around him.”
NEW YORK, NY — A proposal by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority to increase transit fares and tolls in 2009 drew sharp criticism from an array of powerful officials on Tuesday, as the mayor, City Council speaker and Assembly speaker said they would oppose it, and the governor pledged “to do everything I can to prevent it.”
SOUTH PADRE ISLAND, TX — Cars stacked up in a slow-moving procession across the Queen Isabella Bridge as a strengthening Hurricane Dolly inched ever closer to South Padre Island, Texas. Among the exodus of residents and tourists heading inland were the 40 campers and staff of Lubavitch Camp Gan Israel.
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