Ahavas Chesed will be conducting a blood drive this Sunday, November 17 (14 Kislev), from 10:00am to 5:00pm, at a mobile unit in front of 1414 President St. [corner Kingston Ave.]. All donors will receive a meal voucher. Please bring identification. One must wait 56 days between blood donations.
Mendy and Chana Mishulovin (Melbourne, Australia)
Consolidated Edison’s 2012 residential electricity prices were the highest of any major U.S. utility, newly released federal data show.
Having become increasingly committed to Torah Judaism, a woman once lamented in bemusement: “Rabbi, will my moral conflicts ever end? I had hoped, in embracing Judaism, to no longer struggle with issues of moral substance.” After all, is that not what Judaism is about? Yet, it had not turned out that way in the least,” she proceeded in exasperation, “To the contrary; my struggles have become considerably amplified.”
Berel and Devorie Gansburg (Crown Heights)
Rabbi Avraham Shemtov, director of Chabad of Philadelphia, inaugurates the first ever public menorah in an early morning lighting ceremony in 1974, in front of Independence Hall.
Chasidic comedian Shlomo Gombo works long and difficult hours as an operator for Healthcare.gov – AKA ‘Obamacare.’
The war against Bris Milah in Europe continues. Norway will advance a law to “regulate ritual circumcision,” the Scandinavian country’s Health Minister Bent Hoie said following a call by Norway Children’s Ombudswoman Anne Lindboe to ban non-medical circumcision of minors, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA) reports.
The commanding officer of the 71st Precinct, Deputy Inspector George Fitzgibbon, visited Darchei Menachem this afternoon, where he met with the school’s administrator, principal and other members of the faculty to discuss yesterday’s rock throwing incident against several students, which left a 9-year-old boy with an eye injury.
Keren Simchas Chosson V’kallah is seeking 130 people who will donate 100 dollars each in the zechus of finding a Shidduch for themselves or for one of their children.
Hate crimes in New York grew 30 percent between 2011 and 2012, to a total of 702 incidents last year, state records show.
Last week, the Israeli Deputy Minister of Education, Mr. Avi Worzman, paid a visit to the Or Avner Chabad Educational Institute in Elmhurst, Queens, run by local Shluchim Rabbi Zalman Zalmanov and Rabbi Yitzchok Wolowik.
Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz, director of Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida, delivers his insights on this week’s Parsha – Vayishlach.
Aside from soft drinks, there isn’t much at your typical college basketball arena that qualifies as kosher. Not the nachos, and certainly not the hot dogs.
Sruly and Kiki (nee Deitsch) Baitelman (New Haven, CT)
