Harsh Winter Brings Potholes to New York City
The barrage of snowstorms this winter has peppered potholes all over the region, derailing drivers, challenging road crews and spurring a boom in business for auto-repair shops.
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Wall Street Journal
From Days Gone By: 1946 Wedding
Several Chasidim sit around the table of a wedding in New York, c. 1946. Can you identify anyone in the photo?
Graco Recalling Nearly 3.8 Million Car Seats
Graco is recalling nearly 3.8 million car safety seats because children can get trapped by buckles that may not unlatch.
AP
1 Dead, 4 Injured in NYC Bus-Truck Crash
A city bus and a box truck believed to have been stolen collided at Manhattan intersection early Wednesday, sending both vehicles onto the sidewalk and into scaffolding, killing the bus driver and injuring at least four other people, authorities said.
AP
Baby Boy!
Dovid and Chana Keila (nee Krasnjanski) Cohen (Crown Heights)
Sholom Zochor will be at 1532 President St. [between Albany and Troy Aves.]
Thursday: Rally at the Ohel
This Thursday, the 13th of Adar I (February 13), there will be a rally at the Ohel for all children ages 5 to 12. Buses will leave 770 at 5:00pm and return at 7:30pm. Transportation will cost $3.
Paula Abdul Helps Celebrate Mitzvah of Mikvah
For popular entertainer Paula Abdul, there could be no more fitting celebration of her personal “sense of rebirth” that comes from her connection to Jewish tradition than to be together with more than 750 women on the evening of Feb. 6, honoring the mitzvah of mikvah, and the laws and practice of Jewish family purity.
Montreal Yeshiva Students Welcome Adar with Dancing
On Thursday night, the students of Yeshivas Tomchei Temimim in Montreal gathered for an evening of joyous dancing and live music to celebrate the onset of the month of Adar, during which which it is customary to increase in happiness.
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City Braces for Yet Another Winter Storm
As much as a foot of snow could hit New York City and the surrounding area tonight, as the storm that has gridlocked the Southeast is coming north.
NY Daily News
Ami Editor Inspired at Kinus Hashluchos
The editor-in-chief of the Ami Magazine, Rechy Frankfurter, published the following editorial in this week’s edition of the publication describing her experience attending the Kinus Hashluchos in New York last month.
Jewish Women’s Circle Gala Rooted in Laughter
Laughter was the reaction at The Jewish Women’s Circle gala at The Chesterfield banquet hall in Palm Beach, Florida. And it was only fitting.
Palm Beach Daily News
Video: Avraham Fried Sings for the Unwell
Chasidic singing superstar Avraham Fried sings his hit song “A Tateh Bistu” for a bedridden patient at a local hospital. he is accompanied by Yossi Eidlisz on the keyboard.
Dryer Fire Sets Kitchen Ablaze
A fire broke out in a Montgomery Street apartment Tuesday evening, forcing the evacuation of a portion of the building. Quick response by the fire department prevented the fire from damaging additional apartments.
New Document Shows the Rebbe’s Coded Message
As reported earlier by Crownheights.info, Mrs. Shulammis Saxon, who gave the Rebbe a bracha for children ‘in code,’ before her Bas-Mitzvah in 1981, was recently interviewed by JEM’s My Encounter with the Rebbe project. She explained how the Rebbe responded in kind, writing in the same code, “Thank you for the bracha.” Now, a new development has unfolded in the 32-year-old story.
Due to an unusually harsh winter, alternate-side parking rules have been suspended a record number of times so far this year. But that hasn't slowed the ticket writing: cops are writing tickets at nearly the same pace as in 2013 — and have even increased it in Brooklyn and two other boroughs.
Despite Fewer Alternate Side Days, Ticket Writing Is Up
Due to an unusually harsh winter, alternate-side parking rules have been suspended a record number of times so far this year. But that hasn’t slowed the ticket writing: cops are writing tickets at nearly the same pace as in 2013 — and have even increased it in Brooklyn and two other boroughs.
WNYC Caller Blames Gentrification on ‘Criminal Jews’
Last Thursday, The Brian Lehrer Show on WNYC Radio did a segment on the phenomenon of gentrification in New York City, and its effects on the city’s residents.
File photo: Rabbi Manis Friedman addresses a captivated audience.
Marriage – Behind the Closed Doors: Tele-Seminar to Tackle Sensitive Topics
Rabbi Manis Friedman is on a roll, and not much is getting in his way! With more than 40 years of marriage counseling experience, Rabbi Friedman has developed a 4-part tele-seminar course that addresses the most sensitive marriage and relationship topics: The proper conduct between a husband and wife behind closed doors.
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