Chef Learns to Keep Kosher at Basil
Chef José Edgardo Soto has been cooking for more than 20 years in some of New York City’s finest restaurants.
Chef José Edgardo Soto has been cooking for more than 20 years in some of New York City’s finest restaurants.
All nine people wounded during a dramatic confrontation between police and a gunman outside the Empire State Building were struck by bullets fired by the two police officers, police said Saturday, citing ballistics evidence. The gun-wielding perpetrator is not known to have discharged his weapon at the policemen.
Zalman and Chani (nee Raskin) Wilhelm (Burlington, VT)
Excuse me, but was that you talking? Do you wake up in the morning overwhelmed? Can’t fall asleep from worry? Do you finally get rid of one bill just to have it replaced by three? Do you dread the ringing phone? Have you at least on occasion not even bothered opening the mail because it is just too painful – and hopeless? Do you have so much month at the end of the money that home ownership sounds like a sick joke? Or did you (finally!) buy a home only to realize that you’re stuck with a bottomless-pit mortgage that feels like a deadly curse with a vague promise of sometime in the foggy future home-ownership?
The summer has flown by quickly, and most summer camps have ended their programs a full week ago. There was one camp, however, that gave its campers a few extra days to enjoy the camp experience. Camp F.R.E.E. – Gan Israel of Brooklyn continued until Friday, August 24th, concluding with a grand banquet and awards presentation.
Zalmy and Miri Fischer (Crown Heights)
Top NYPD brass announced Thursday morning (August 23) they are disciplining 17 cops who made offensive and racist comments on Facebook following last year’s West-Indian / Labor Day Parade in Crown Heights.
The following speech was given by The Honorable David Clarke, Secretary of the New South Wales Parliament in Sydney, Australia, today (Friday, August 24) at 4:00pm on the chamber’s floor:
Being involved in Jewish life has always been a part of Leah Levin’s life. Growing up in Charlotte, her parents have been respected members of the Jewish community, who created the Charlotte Jewish Day School.
Mendel and Rochel (nee Bergstein) Loschak (Goleta, CA)
Zalmy and Miri Fischer
770 Montgomery St. [between Albany and Troy Ave.]
Meir and Fraidel (nee Patterson) Levin
658 Maple St. [between Albany and Troy Ave.]
Dovid and Elisheva Gaerman
1512 President St. [between Albany and Troy Ave.]
Leizer and Shternie (nee Majesky) Posner
814 Eastern Parkway [between Kingston and Albany Ave.]
US Senator Alfonse D’Amato visited the Rebbe shortly after the Crown Heights riots.
This Shabbos at the Besht Rabbi Michoel Seligson will lead a discussion on the topic: the Rebbe’s opinion about the moon landing.
CrownHeights.info and the Avner Institute present this unique photo of Rabbi Boruch Shlomo Cunin, Director of Chabad of the West Coast, presenting the Rebbe with the key to a newly founded Chabad House in California, along with a group of supporters.
For their third annual Gala Event, Chabad of South Africa’s West Coast in Cape Town took things to a whole new level on the 16th of August, as they hosted Cape Town’s largest ever crowd for a visiting Jewish performer.
Two people are dead, including the gunman, and at least one other person was shot by a disgruntled employee who opened fire on a rush-hour street crowded with tourists and pedestrians outside the Empire State Building Friday morning, police said.