New Website Tracks 911 Response Times
New York City residents have a new tool to track 911 response times: a website that shows weekly averages for how long it took to get to fires, medical emergencies and other types of calls.
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Photo: Shturem.net
Picture of the Day: Rishon Letzion at the Ohel
In anticipation of Yud Shvat, Rabbi Shlomo Amar, former Sephardic chief rabbi of Israel, made his annual pilgrimage to the Rebbe’s Ohel in Queens.
Jewish Kids Volunteer at Nursing Home so Staff Can Spend Holiday with Family
“Honorable Menschen” is the term used by WWLP 22 News to describe the students of Lubavitcher Yeshiva Academy in Springfield, Massachusetts, who spent December 25th volunteering at a local nursing home so the regular non-Jewish staff can spend the day with their families.
Photo Gallery: Tze’irei Hashluchim Winter Camp
After an exhilarating week of fun, learning, sports and trips, 80 young Shluchim returned home from the Tze’irei Hashluchim Winter Camp in South Florida with their batteries charged and their spirits lifted, ready to continue with their studies and outreach activities
Chabad of Venice, FL.
Florida Chabad House Prepares to Receive Torah
The limitations of having only one Torah scroll struck Rabbi Sholom Schmerling during Yom Kippur services last year at Chabad of Venice and North Port, Florida.
Sarasota Herald-Tribune
Alternate Side Parking Rules Suspended Wednesday
Alternate side parking (street cleaning) regulations and parking meter regulations will be suspended on New Year’s Day, Wednesday, January 1.
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Israel to Recognize Chabad Shlichus as National Service
This morning, an Israeli government committee charged with increasing national service by Hareidi-religious Jews accepted a proposal by Knesset Member Elazar Stern (Hatenua) to recognize emissaries of the Chabad Lubavitch Hasidic movement as doing national service.
Arutz 7
Students Take Protest Against Teacher’s Firing Public
This morning, all over the Crown Heights neighborhood, residents approached their cars to find a flyer on the windshield protesting the recent firing of a Mashpia in Oholei Torah.
Baby Girl!
Yaisef and Henny (nee Gelernter) Wolowik (Los Angeles, CA)
New App Connects Jews with Local Shluchim
Have you ever been on an airplane, discovered that the person sitting next to you is Jewish, and wondered how you could make his encounter with Judaism continue after the plane ride ends? Do you know people who are traveling or moving abroad and want to connect them to their local Shluchim?
The Story Behind the Photo of the Satmar Rebbe
Yesterday, CrownHeights.info published a photo of the Satmar Rebbe, Rabbi Yoel Teitelbaum, OBM, at the wedding of Chabad Chassidim R’ Avrohom and Chaya Landa in 1948.
Photo: Bill 613.
Montreal Jews Mobilize to Help Accident Victims
Hatzoloh of Montreal, Chaverim Shomrim of Montreal-Tosh, and Refuah V’Chesed joined forces to rescue eight Jews injured in a five vehicle accident on the 87 near Plattsburgh on Sunday night.
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Mendy and Stephanie (nee Saka) Levy (Bay Harbour, FL)
Oholei Torah Asks Two Staff Members to Step Down
After the recent fallout over the participation of several students and faculty members in the Call of the Shofar program, the executive board of Oholei Torah had a meeting yesterday, the conclusion of which was written up in a letter to be sent out shortly to all the school’s staff and parents of its students.
Photos: Descendants of the Alter Rebbe Gather
Hundreds of descendants of the Alter Rebbe, Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi, gathered this past Motzei Shabbos to mark his 201st Yahrtzeit at the Lubavitcher Yeshiva Simcha hall in Crown Heights.
New Engagement!
Levi Bennish (Oak Park, MI) and Minna Wolfe (Chicago, IL)
L’Chaim tonight, Monday at FREE
1383 President St [between Kingston and Brooklyn Ave]
New Engagement!
Yossi (ben Moishe) Denburg (Boca Raton, FL) and Shayna (bas Zalman) Karp (Crown Heights)
L’chaim will be tonight, Monday at Lubavitcher Yeshiva
570 Crown St. [hall entrance on Albany Ave.]
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