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Record Number of NYers Arrested Under Bloomberg

11/3/12 Police Officers from the 71st Precinct arrest a woman on President Street for shoplifting.

According to a column published today on NYC news website DNAinfo, under Mayor Michael Bloomberg and police commissioner Raymond Kelly New York City has seen the largest number of people arrested in the city’s history – jumping nearly 23 percent compered to the year before Bloomberg took office.

Community Marks First Mikvah in Vietnam

Chabad.org

The Jewish community of Vietnam recently marked the opening of the nation’s first mikvah (ritual bath). More than one hundred community members and oversees businessmen gathered to salute the new mikvah and Chabad-Lubavitch of Vietnam, headed by Rabbi Menachem and Rachel Hartman.

New Engagement!

Chaim Yeshaya (ben Mendel) Zalmanov (Crown Heights) and Chaya Mushka (Bas Nochum) Pinson (Brunoy, France)

L’Chaim today, Thursday at Lubavitcher Yeshiva
570 Crown St [hall entrance on Albany Ave]

Triguboff Saves Sydney Yeshiva from Foreclosure

Australia Jewish News
[L-R] Rabbi Pinchus Feldman, Harry Triguboff and Rabbi Dovid Slavin with Yeshiva student.

Property developer Harry Triguboff has stepped in to save Yeshiva (Sydney) from collapse by purchasing its two properties on Flood Street, Bondi, for $6 million. Triguboff will then lease the properties back to Yeshiva, Yeshiva College and other Chabad institutions for a peppercorn rent.