NYC Seeing Spike in Suspicious Packages

NBC

File Photo: A member of the New York Police Department bomb squad inspects a suspicious package at the corner of 34th St. and 6th Av.

Within minutes of a news conference at ground zero where authorities preached calm and vigilance after the killing of Osama bin Laden, the alarming 911 call came in.

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Comptroller Dines with Community Leaders

City comptroller John C. Liu dined this afternoon in Basil with Elected Vaad Hakohol members Zaki Tamir and Yossi Hackner, who were joined by Chanina Sperlin and Eli Cohen. Mr. Liu reiterated the city’s commitment to Crown Heights, and said that if they ever needed anything to just pick up the phone and call.

Study: Low Salt Diet Ups Risk of Heart Attack

CNN

Doctors and public health officials have been telling us for years that eating too much sodium can increase the risk of heart attack or stroke by raising blood pressure to unsafe levels. So how to explain a new study that suggests low salt intake actually increases the risk of dying from those causes?

Hundreds at March of the Living Don Tefillin with Chabad

Thousands of participants in the March of the Living marched Monday from the gate of Auschwitz to Birkenau, where a memorial ceremony was held at a monument to the camp’s victims.

A Kotel That’s Being Built in Kawkawlin

The Bay City Times

Artist Martin Roznowski stands in front of a scale replica of the Western Wall which he and his team created at Holsinger Manufacturing in Kawkawlin. The replica of the Western Wall will be installed at the Jewish Children’s Museum in Brooklyn NY.

KAWKAWLIN, MI — In a shop just off M-13, in a small township called Kawkawlin Township, Michigan, a team of six artists has worked for the past month to recreate an ancient and significant piece of history now on its way to Crown Heights.

Shin Bet Head: “The Rebbe Foretold Al Qaeda and the Twin Towers”

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A year ago, as part of the Faithful and Fortified Series, the My Encounter with the Rebbe team interviewed Yaakov Peri, Shin Bet Head from 1988 until 1994.

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The Lubavitch-Bramson Connection

A member of the Chabad-Lubavitch sect and a resident of Brooklyn’s heavily chasidic Crown Heights neighborhood, Dov Ber Cohen had no diploma and no career goal when he finished his yeshiva high school two years ago.