After being without a chief rabbi for three years, the city state of Hamburg formally elected Chabad’s Rabbi Shlomo Bistritzky to the position Monday evening.
As Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries in Athens for the past 10 years, Rabbi Mendel and Nechama Hendel have seen it all in their service of the local Jewish community and the many tourists who annually visit the Greek capital. But the couple got a new experience this past August when they became restaurateurs, opening up Gostijo, Greece’s only kosher restaurant.
Two Brooklyn teens bound for a Connecticut yeshiva were killed early Monday when an old van they were riding in suddenly swerved off a highway, flipped and skidded down an embankment.
This Sunday, ten Crown Heightsers woke up bright and early and went for a run… that ended 26.2 grueling miles later at Central Park. They were part of Team FCBC, running in support of Friendship Circle of Crown Heights and Rebbetzin Chaya Mushka Bikur Cholim of Crown Heights in the 2011 ING NYC Marathon.
Every parent only wants the best for their child, and every (good) Shadchan only wants the best for their client. But when you guys call me and ask these strange questions about my friend – who put my name on his reference list even though I hardly know him (and perhaps for that reason) – please keep in mind that what I’m saying and what I am thinking might not be on the same page.
Bochrim of OTEG (Oholei Torah Eighth Grade) went on a much anticipated trip to Central Park, where they went boating as a reward for finishing the ‘Tishrei Challenge’ over the last month.
Readers of this column will know that last week my wife and I, thank God, married off our eldest child. What they will not know are the conditions we endured for the days prior to the wedding when a freak snow storm caused a power outage in our home town of Englewood, New Jersey, and much of the Northeast. We were preparing for a wedding with a house filled with relatives from around the world who, freezing with no heat, light, or phones, thought America was a third world country.
Alternate side parking (street cleaning) regulations will be suspended on Monday, November 7th and Tuesday, November 8th for holiday observances. All other regulations, including parking meters, remain in effect.
My best friend Shevi called me the other day, distressed over the shul her husband started attending. “Malka, you can’t imagine what the women are wearing there,” she said. “Yes I can,” I sadly replied. “He loves the davening, but I feel nervous with him going there,” she continued. “I tried to discuss it with him, but he likes the shul and doesn’t want to stop going. I totally understand, but why should he have to see women dressed that way?”
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