With the telethon just hours away, the performers, actors, singers and producers rehersed for the annual Chabad telethon benefitting Chabad of California. To watch the telethon LIVE visit tolife.com (show begins at 8:00pm NY time).
WILLIAMSBURG — A car struck and killed a 9-year-old boy in Williamsburg Saturday morning, police say. According to authorities, the 54-year-old driver of a Honda Accord was making a turn onto Wallabout Street at around 8 a.m. when she plowed into the child. Police say it appears the 9-year-old may have run into traffic. He was taken to Brooklyn Hospital, where he later died.
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NEW YORK — He’s a religious Jew from Brooklyn and the only thing unorthodox about him is a mean left jab.
Now boxer Dmitriy “Star of David” Salita, 27, hopes to punch his way to the world junior-welterweight title against reigning champ Amir Khan — a Muslim.
The symbolism will not be lost on fight fans when Salita steps into the ring to face Khan, 22, a Brit of Pakistani descent, in a bout likely to take place in December in London, according to World Boxing Association sources who say the combatants are in advanced negotiations.
It’s the first time a Jew and a Muslim have fought for a title, said Brooklyn boxing-gym owner Tommy Gallagher.
ISRAEL — Tragedy struck the family of late Israeli astronaut Ilan Ramon again Sunday, when his son Capt. Asaf Ramon was killed in a crash while flying an Israel Air Force F16-A.
Ilan Ramon, Israel’s first astronaut was one of seven crew members killed when the U.S. space shuttle Columbia disintegrated upon re-entry on February 1, 2003.
Scrawny 13-year-old Leon Leyson had to stand on a box just to reach the buttons of Oskar Schindler’s metal machines while forced to work for the Nazis.
The emaciated boy made friends with Schindler – a household name after Steven Spielberg’s 1993 film “Schindler’s List.”
Early morning Slichos in Chabad of California.
