CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — A ten-year-old girl was struck and seriously injured earlier today, Wednesday, when she darted out from in between two cars. The incident took place at around 3:30pm on East New York Avenue between Brooklyn and Kingston Avenue.
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CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — Last week, the Friendship Circle of Brooklyn, announced its first ever Walk-a-thon in the high schools of Crown Heights. The girls responded with palpable excitement and ecstatic cheering. Not only are the girls excited about joining the walk to support children with special needs; they are excited about the school-wide fundraising competition that was introduced.
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QUEENS, NY [FOX5] — You may have seen the official looking placards on some car dashboards. Many of them seem to scare ticket writers away. But wait until you see what Fox 5’s John Deutzman found out went he checked out just one of those suspicious signs.
The Jewish High Holidays begin next Monday (Sept. 29) at sundown. Rosh Hashanah is one of the most sacred — and ancient — seasons in Judaism.
But just because it’s old doesn’t mean there aren’t new ways to talk about it. Case in point is Chabad Southside in Jacksonville, which is turning to the online social networking site Facebook to generate interest in the holiday.
CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — With the onset of the coming high holy days New York State Senator Eric Adams’s office arranged a High Holy Days Security Debriefing in the Jewish Childrens Museum with the participation of community leaders and activists from Crown Heights and Williamsburg.
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STAVROPOL, Russia [CHI] — In the center of the city of Stavropol, Russia, at the edge of Lenin Square, just opposite to Lenin’s statue and the provincial government building, proudly stands the Museum of Stavropol. In its basement, hidden in a closet back behind a display of “significant” older books, lies an ancient Torah scroll, confiscated from the local Jewish synagogue close to 80 years ago and now wound up and tightly stored inside a cardboard tube. Ever since the communist regime relegated Judaism to an atavism, the Torah has been conceived as a museum piece, curious to look at, but nothing you could take home.
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COLUMBIA, SC — The blowing of the shofar, or ram’s horn, is one of the most potent reminders that Rosh Hashana, the Jewish new year, is at hand.
A number of public officials and the founders of Google assembled at Grand Central Terminal on Tuesday to announce the start of New York’s version of Google Transit, an online feature that they said would transform the experience of navigating New York City’s transit system, the nation’s busiest.
“It is a very complicated transit system, and it just got less complicated today with the advent of Google Maps for transit,” Gov. David A. Paterson said, noting that the subway system opened with 9.1 miles of lines in 1904, and that the Metropolitan Transportation Authority now serves a territory of 5,000 square miles.
The array of public officials present reflected Google’s economic might, particularly at a time when Wall Street’s convulsions have left the city and state economy reeling. Not only did the governor and leaders of the transportation authority attend the Grand Central news conference, but so, too, did Deputy Mayor Edward Skyler, representing the Bloomberg administration, and officials of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and of New Jersey Transit.
BOCA RATON, FL — A self-styled investment guru accused of recruiting clients from a synagogue where he worshiped was charged with using ”abusive sales practices” to cheat them of hundreds of thousands of dollars, according to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
The 17-page enforcement action accuses Gary J. Gross, 56, of churning clients’ accounts with unauthorized and unsuitable trades, reaping $700,000 in the scheme, including buying risky penny stocks and other investments, the SEC said.
To cover up what he was doing, Gross doctored account records to make clients think they had more than they actually did, the agency said.
Colleges and universities around the country aren’t the only institutions welcoming students. Campus-based Chabad-Lubavitch centers, whether they’re in large cities or small college towns, are joyfully rolling out the red carpet to embrace Jewish college students as they begin the new school year.
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