Parents Enjoy Get Together at “The Space”
Parents of children with special needs had the opportunity to get together for a relaxing evening at Friendship Circle of Brooklyn’s Social and Sensory Space.
Daily Archives: March 22, 2018
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Local Mechanic Surprises Neighborhood by Plowing Sidewalks
Over a foot of thick and heavy snow greeting New Yorkers on the first day of spring, and after a steady snowfall throughout the day many residents and neighborhood merchants awoke to find that many of the avenues’ sidewalks were already plowed.
Police Seize Two Firearms and a Large Quantity of Drugs
When police pulled over a car on Winthrop Street they discovered that the driver had a suspended license and when he was taken into custody they found a loaded firearm. One week earlier police seized a large quantity of drugs after executing a search warrant near Franklin Avenue.
Alternate Side Parking Regulations Suspended Friday
Alternate Side Parking (street cleaning) regulations will be suspended Friday, March 23 for snow operations. All other regulations, including parking meters, remain in effect.
Rabbi Dovid Edelman handed out shmurah matzah in a good chunk of Massachusetts for six decades, a tradition now being carried on by his children, grandchildren and other Springfield-area rabbis. From left: granddaughter Bracha Kosofsky, son-in-law Rabbi Noach Kosofsky, grandson Rabbi Lavy Kosofsky and daughter Esther Kosofsky at their home in Longmeadow, Mass. (Photo: Pearl Gabel)
Following a Rabbi’s Legendary Matzah Trail Through Western Massachusetts
The modest Colonial’s garage doors roll up to reveal hundreds of pounds of handmade shmurah matzah stacked up in cardboard boxes. Rabbi Noach Kosofsky and his son, Rabbi Lavy Kosofsky, haul down a few of the bigger ones and transfer their contents into the trunk of their silver Hyundei Sonata.
Did You Say the ‘Nasi’ Today? (Vav Nissan)
From the Safer Haminhagim: Every day from Rosh Chodesh Nissan until the twelfth of the month, one reads the passage that describes the offering brought on that day by a particular Nasi, or tribal prince, for the dedication of the altar of the Mishkan. Yehi Ratzon in the Extended Article.
Here’s My Story: “Your Son Will Live”
Rabbi Bentzion Yaacov Shmuel Orimland presently serves as the rabbi of Young Israel in Margate, New Jersey. He was interviewed in September of 2012 in Brooklyn. This story originally appeared in the film “A Glimpse through the Veil,” produced by JEM.
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