Here’s another reason to steer clear of New Jersey. Out-of-state E-ZPass users will be stripped of an off-peak discount in the Garden State starting July 1—which essentially amounts to a 34 percent toll hike.
From the Daily News Washington Bureau, by Alison Gendar, titled “Kosher king Sholom Rubashkin asking influential politicians to help lower 27-year jail sentence:”
After a two-year post as president of the National Council for Private School Accreditation, Rabbi Nochem Kaplan is stepping down to make room for the new incoming president, current vice president Dr. Larry Blackmer. The transition will take place on June 21.
Players: Dutch Parliament’s Party for Animals leader Marianne Thieme; Dutch Chief Rabbi and Chabad-Lubavitch emissary Binyomin Jacobs.
A Suspect who allegedly beat 2 African Americans in Brooklyn in 2008 and then escaped to Israel was arrested and now faces Extradition to the U.S.
After doing their tree cutting service the NYPD’s Emergency Service Unit changed into their animal control uniforms to capture yet another raccoon on President Street.
Emergency Service officers were hard at work this morning cutting up a massive tree limb which collapsed on the corner of Crown Street and Brooklyn Avenue. Thankfully no one was hurt, and there was no damage to property when it fell.
7th grade of Lubavitcher Yeshiva marched at the Great Parade with a Tefilla-Shel-Rosh almost big enough to fit Og Melech Habashan – Here, just days later the students bunched together for a class picture with their oversized Tefilla-Shel-Rosh.
The court schedule of a federal judge who faces allegations of bias in the financial fraud trial of Sholom Rubashkin has raised fresh questions about judicial impartiality.
“Hero Intern” Daniel Hernandez and “Chocolate Thunder Darryl Dawkins” joined Rabbi Perl at Mineola Chabad’s 18th Annual Good Deeds Awards for LI Teenagers
In this week’s “Opening the week with the Rebbe”: Every year before Shavuos the Rebbe would give a special sicha to women.
This may be tough to swallow, but a study by economists at Columbia University shows that groceries in New York City are actually cheaper than in other parts of the country.
There was a great buzz of excitement when it was announced that Netanyahu had been invited to deliver an address before the entire congress. It was to be his second congressional address since he was first invited 15 years ago. On the evening following his address, I was told by a friend that it was one of the greatest speeches he’d heard in his life, featuring 29 standing ovations. I eagerly went to watch the speech, anticipating a great rebuttal to Obama’s pressure on Israel to give away our G-d given land to the Arabs. To my sorrow, it was anything but.
Highland Mills, NY Chabad Hebrew School recently hosted a program in honor of Mother’s Day.
A rabbi’s home has been targeted in a series of suspected anti-Semitic attacks. Rocks have been thrown through the windows of Rabbi Shmuli Pink’s house in Leicester, where he lives with his wife Rivkie and their seven children.
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