NYC Councilman Visits Rebbe’s Ohel
On August 13, 2013, NYC Council Member and Candidate for Queens Borough President Peter F. Vallone Jr. visited the Ohel of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, OBM, in Cambria Heights.
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Young Rabbis Reach out to South Dakota Jews
An in-home visit with two young rabbis from Brooklyn left Sioux Falls resident Aloma Graham with a sense of connection to her Jewish roots.
Argus Leader
Picture of the Day: Retreat Comes to a Close
After spending over a week learning and relaxing in the Alps, dozens of Anash from all over France pose for a photo as they prepare to leave the summer retreat.
Boruch Dayan Hoemes: Lorne Rozovsky, 70, OBM
Lorne Rozovsky, lawyer, author, educator and human-rights advocate, passed away Aug. 5 at his home in Bloomfield, Conn., after a 15-month battle with pancreatic cancer. He was 70 years old.
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Dov Ber and Tzippy (nee Jaffe) Dukes (Crown Heights)
Deceptive Letter Threatens Kingston Ave. Shops with $10,000 Fine
Crown Heights food establishments carrying the CHK Hechsher received a startling letter last week, threatening that if they did not switch to the ‘Braun Hechsher’ they may face a $10,000 fine for illegally using the CHK logo.
Shoppers wait in line at Raskin's Fruit and Vegetable store in Crown Heights. Photo: CNN.
10 Years Ago Today: Where Were You During the Blackout of 2003?
About 50 million people lost power Aug. 14, 2003, when a tree branch in Ohio started an outage that cascaded across a broad swath from Michigan to New England and Canada.
Illustration photo: Lapel camera worn by Oakland police officers.
Judge Orders NYPD Cops to Wear Cameras
Police officers around the country have been able to drastically reduce complaints against them by wearing tiny body cameras, but a federal judge’s plan to force some New York officers to start wearing the devices has angered the city’s mayor and police unions.
Alternate Side Parking Suspended Thursday
Alternate side parking (street cleaning) regulations will be suspended Thursday, August 15 for a Christian holiday. All other regulations, including parking meters, remain in effect.
Photos: Day Camp Tours New York City
Excited children attending Gan Menachem Day Camp were spotted traveling up Kingston Ave. on double decker tour buses, on their way to a sightseeing trip of New York City.
Video: A Tour of Crown Heights on Google Glass
Crown Heights resident Mendy Seldowitz captured a 2-minute tour of the vicinity of 770 with his pair of futuristic ‘Google Glass’ spectacles.
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David and Tovah Steinberg (Montreal, Canada)
A Machzor They Won’t Just Pretend to Read
As the average person’s attention continues to thin together with our ever-slimmer smart phones, engaging teens and adults in today’s fast forward world is becoming increasingly more difficult. And once great crowd pleasers like the songs ‘Oseh Shalom’ and ‘David Melech Yisroel’ – have become somewhat outdated, leaving many Shluchim baffled with the task of producing interactive High Holiday minyanim for their largest crowds of the year.
After Attack, Russian Rabbis to Train for Self-Defense
Russian and Israeli police plan to offer self-defense training courses to Russian rabbis after one was attacked late last month in Dagestan, a spokesman for the Russian Jewish Congress said Tuesday.
RIA Novosti
Kenneth P. Thompson
Hynes Opponent Gains Momentum
Former federal prosecutor Ken Thompson snagged two key endorsements in his quest for the Democratic nomination for Brooklyn district attorney. Thomson is seeking to unseat embattled incumbent Charles Hynes, who is facing his fist serious challenge since he was elected to office 24 years ago.
Photos: Mivtzoim in a Modern-Day Gulag
The New Republic ran a feature story about the lives of inmates in one of Russia’s harshest prisons, founded in the late 1930s as part of the infamous Gulag system. In a couple of photos, Lubavitcher bochurim can be seen putting on tefilin and sharing a few words with several Jewish prisoners.
A Dream Comes True in Arizona
It started off as a dream for Rabbi Mendy Deitsch 15 years ago, inched closer to reality five years later after a property transaction in Chandler, with a goal of opening shortly thereafter.
East Valley Tribune
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