New York Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today announced that high-speed open road, cashless tolling will be completed on all MTA-operated bridges and tunnels in the New York metropolitan region by the end of 2017, with automatic tolling beginning at the Hugh L. Carey and Queens Midtown Tunnels next month.
Dalia Elyakim, an Israeli woman declared missing since a terror attack struck Berlin, Germany, earlier in the week was identified as one of those killed.
Rebbetzin Shulamis Pape, a beloved educator and Mashpia in Crown Heights, has suffered a stroke and is currently being treated in the ICU. Please say Tehillim for Solika Shulamis bas Izza Aliza for a speedy and complete recovery.
From 5767 to 5777 – Tzivos Hashem UK, under the direction of Rabbi Yossi Simon, has been running the Chayolei Tzivos Hashem program for 10 years.
Chabad of the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) hosted their third annual (pre) Chanukah Menorah lighting and cocktail dinner celebration during the last sitting week for 2016 of the ACT Parliament’s calendar on December 14th.
The Largest Chanukah Menorah in Brooklyn will proudly stand at the monumental Grand Army Plaza entrance to Prospect Park. The first candle will be lighted on Saturday evening December 24, at 7:00 pm.
Levi Yurkowicz (Melbourne, Australia) and Bracha Weiss (Charlotte, NC)
Menachem Mendel and Shterna (nee Grossbaum) Kaminker (Cherry Hill, NJ)
Shmuly and Mushky (nee Nagar) Borenstein (Crown Heights)
Mr. Charles Samuel Ramat is presently co-chairman of Neurotrop BioScience, a biotech firm trying to develop drugs to save the lives of terminally ill children and Alzheimer’s patients. He was interviewed by JEM’s My Encounter with the Rebbe project at Chabad of the Upper West Side in April of 2016.
Florida Governor Rick Scott paid a pre-Chanukah visit to the Chabad Brumer Preschool of the Arts-Brickell Jewish Montessori in downtown Miami, where he high-fived students and danced with Rabbis.
Chezky Pinson, a young Shliach from Pasadena, California, covers Matisyahu‘s Chanukah hit – ‘Miracle.’
Parking is one of the biggest headaches in New York City, but a new app may be about to make things easier. Drivers will soon be able to pay for street parking via their cell phones, with the city having partnered with Parkmobile to create an app for payments at all of the city’s street meters.
Sholem and Mirul (nee Baumgarten) Edelman (Pontault Combault, France)
Nearly three years after the horrifying murder of Menachem Stark, a fourth man has been charged in the case: 35-year-old Irvine Henry of Montgomery Street in Crown Heights.
A group of Ukrainian ultra-nationalists stormed into the gravesite of Rabbi Nachman of Uman before dawn on Wednesday, tear gassed the Jews who were praying there, splashed fake blood on the walls and dumped a pig’s head on the floor.
In anticipation of Chanukah, the Chabad Hebrew School students of Saint-Maur-des-Fossés, a suburb of Paris, joined together to do a Chanukah Mannequin Challenge along with their parents and local Shliach Rabbi Hershy Drukman.
