Amid a flurry of last minute activity, New York City lawmakers paved the way Thursday for an eventual ban on plastic foam containers and added electronic cigarettes to the city’s already stringent smoking bans.
Choni and Chaya Mushka (nee Pevzner) Wineberg (Crown Heights)
Yitzi Feigenson (Crown Heights) and Kraindy Marelus (Antwerp/Israel)
Many Jewish families in Canberra, the Australian Capital Territory, celebrated the successful conclusion of the first term of Canberra’s new Jewish after-school Educational program and the achievements of the first 25 students who attended.
With sadness we inform you of the untimely passing of Chaya Mushka Yarmush, the 10-month-old daughter of Mendel and Esthi Yarmush of Crown Heights.
The students of Lubavitcher Yeshiva on Ocean Parkway enjoyed a frosty morning mountain hike at the Delaware Water Gap national recreation area. A full day and night of Davening, learning and skiing was spent at Montage Mountain Resort.
A bomb was detonated at the back of a bus in Bat Yam, Israel Sunday afternoon, in what police suspect was a terrorist attack.
“More often than not Shluchim need to step back, be reinvigorated and get re-inspired.” These words from Rabbi Michel Gurkov perfectly sum up the motivation behind the full-day Shluchim seminar with Rabbi Manis Friedman, held Monday at the spacious Chabad of Monmouth County headquarters in Manalpan, NJ.
A county in Sweden is planning to ban non-medical circumcision of boys, its commissioner said.
Rabbi Shea Hecht, – author of “Confessions of a Jewish Cult Buster“- recently called the “Call Of The Shofar”, a LGAT (Large Group Awareness Training), a cult.
Yehoshua and Menucha Lavner (Toronto, Canada)
At a public Menorah lighting in Coconut Creek, Florida, a couple of Yeshiva students happened upon a familiar holiday character and were surprised to find out that he is Jewish! He was more than delighted to put on Tefilin with them.
At about 5:00pm Thursday evening, a Jewish teenage girl was walking on Carroll St. between Schenectady and Utica Ave. when she was lewdly groped by an African-American male on a bike.
With sadness we inform you of the passing of Reb Yaakov Elberg, OBM, of Crown Heights, at the age of 76.
Meyron Perets (Crown Heights) and Miriam Glick (Melbourne, Australia)
L’chaim will be Monday night at Chovevei Torah
885 Eastern Pkwy. [between Albany and Troy Aves.]
Due to the increasing frequency of these incidents, we have “upgraded” this news feature from Wheel Theft of the Week to Wheel Theft of the Day.
Moshe Reed was an American businessman who traveled frequently on business to Puerto Rico. On his last trip earlier this month, while in his hotel room, Mr. Reed felt ill and called 911. Despite their efforts, paramedics were unable to save him.
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