Shliach to Tallahasee, FL, Rabbi Schneur Z. Oirechman gives the opening prayer at the Senate Session meeting held on April 21, 2010.
Following the Rebbes Horoah the Shul in Montreal Canada held a Kinus Torah on Friday, Isru Chag of Shavuot, in which Rabbi Dov Ber Bell, Rabbi Nosson Fisher and Rabbi Caim Eliezer Ashkenazi spoke.
The Landmark Funding Red Heifers squared off against the Print House Hammers for a late night game at St. Johns Rec, with the game ultimately ending in a 7-7 score along with one injury.
Taking a mid-afternoon break from running his busy Williamsburg restaurant, David Lowey hustled over to a new Bushwick gym and hopped on an elliptical machine, pedaling vigorously in his full Satmar regalia.
Tzitzit dangling from his black pants and payes swinging over his ears, the 290-pound 26-year-old breathed heavily, as he scrolled through the day’s Daf Yomi Talmud page online, from a touch-screen computer panel in front of him.
When he began working out three months ago, Lowey was the lone Satmar member of Green Fitness Studio, an eco-friendly gym that opened in December and serves a primarily hipster clientele.
But with Lowey, who has already lost 60 pounds, leading the way, more than 100 members of his community now work out at Green Fitness, some in their three-piece formal wear, others sampling the gym’s complimentary sweats.
With quiet restored to the streets of Bangkok, Rabbi Yosef C. Kantor, the Chabad-Lubavitch emissary who had urged Jewish residents in the city to pray for the peace of Thailand, reported just before the dawn of the Jewish Sabbath that communal institutions had largely been spared the effects of a mid-week crackdown on anti-government protesters.
CEDAR RAPIDS — Federal sentencing for former Agriprocessors executive Sholom Rubashkin has been delayed.
STAMFORD, CT — Over 1000 people turned out to salute 300 Friendship Circle of Stamford’s volunteers and the work they do, last week in the Stamford Plaza Hotel in Stamford.
All of Anash are encouraged to attend a Kinus b’zchus Sholom Mordechai haLevi ben Rivka this Tuesday, 12 Sivan, May 25, at Oholei Torah. Sholom Mordechai faces sentencing this Thursday, May 27.
After challenging the candidacy of a number of potential candidates, Rabbi Avrohom B. Rosenberg released his ruling late last night.
Free, luxury hotel accommodations, a Porsche car rental, an exquisite pearl necklace, tickets to Disneyland, a Hot Air Balloon ride . . . these are just a few of the fantastic prizes that will be given away on Sunday, June 1, 2010, at the Los Angeles Cheder Menachem Auction.
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