Daily Archives: August 10, 2008
Verizon Reaches Deal With Labor Unions, Averts Possible Strike
Verizon workers picketing Friday outside the Verizon switching station on Carroll Street.
NEW YORK, NY [DJ] — Verizon Communications Inc. (VZ) reached an agreement on a new contract covering 65,000 workers Sunday, averting a potentially crippling strike.
The New York telecommunications provider and the Communications Workers of America union, which represents 50,000 workers, struck an agreement after negotiating intensely over the last few weeks, according to a statement from the union. The new contract extends coverage to MCI workers at Verizon Business and converts temporary jobs to permanent ones.
More in the Extended Article.
Erev Shabbos Accident on Crown and Albany
CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — Less then an hour before Shabbos two cars collided at the intersection of Crown Street and Albany Avenue. Many bystanders witnessed the accident which sent the cars dangerously close to the sidewalk.
More pictures in the Extended Article.
Why We Mourn on Tisha B’Av
Naftali Silberberg – Chabad.org
The fast of Tisha b’Av, the saddest date on the Jewish calendar, is the day which saw the destruction of both Holy Temples, as well as many other tragic events throughout our nation’s tear-soaked galut (exile). A mournful mood is carefully created. We read Jeremiah’s Book of Lamentations and a lengthy collection of elegies which vividly describe all these tragedies, and throughout the day we follow many mourning practices.
Live feed from the Kotel in the Extended Article!
Photo Gallery: Eicha around Crown Heights
At Raiim Ahuvim on Carroll and Schenectady Chazzan R. Moshe Teleshevsky recited Eicha, while a group of friends gathered in an apartment on Crown and Albany and recited Eicha there.
More pictures in the Extended Article!
The Forcaster
Rabbi Moshe Wilansky outside his home at 101 Craigie St., where the city wants him to stop conducting Sabbath worship services.
PORTLAND, ME -– An ultra-Orthodox Jewish leader has been ordered by the city to stop conducting religious services in his Craigie Street home, prompting the Maine Civil Liberties Union to question whether officials are trying to quash religious freedom.
The issue is set to go before the city’s Zoning Board of Appeals on Aug. 21.
Home, not House of Worship
The Forcaster
Rabbi Moshe Wilansky outside his home at 101 Craigie St., where the city wants him to stop conducting Sabbath worship services.
PORTLAND, ME -– An ultra-Orthodox Jewish leader has been ordered by the city to stop conducting religious services in his Craigie Street home, prompting the Maine Civil Liberties Union to question whether officials are trying to quash religious freedom.
The issue is set to go before the city’s Zoning Board of Appeals on Aug. 21.
Photo Gallery: Eicha in 770
As Shabbos ended hundreds flocked to 770 partaking in custom of reading Megilas Eicha on Tishah B’Av. The Laining was done by Rabbi Michel Slavin following that a Siyum was held.
More pictures in the Extended Article! (photos by: Meir Elfasi – Shturem.net)
Photo Gallery: Eicha in the Rebbes Room
Two of the Rebbes Mazkirim Rabbi Yehuda Leib Groner and Rabbi Binyomin Klein alongside Anash and Bochurim packed in to the Rebbes Room in upstairs 770 to recite Megillas Eicha.
More pictures in the Extended Article! (photos by: Meir Elfasi – Shturem.net)
Photo Gallery: Eicha in CGI NY
PARKSVILLE, NY [CHI] — Campers alongside counselors and staff members in Camp Gan Israel New York filled the main Shul after Shabbos, sitting on overturned bunches and chairs they all recited Megilas Eicha.
More pictures in the Extended Article!
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