DELAWARE, PA [CHI] — Students of Darchai Menachem who excelled in school and accumulated the right amount of ‘points’ over the last 12 weeks, were all rewarded with a full day trip up to the Shawnee Mountain, a ski resort that’s a two hour drive from Brooklyn, where the students took skiing lessons and spent a day on the ski slopes.
Little ‘Mordechais’ from Lubavitcher Yeshiva on Crown Street got to feel what he felt when Haman led him around on the king’s horse and dress, when they all got to ride on a pony in front of their school this morning.
Boruch and Chanie (nee Lison) Weingarten (Crown Heights)
Take part in the Mitzvah of Machtzis Hashekel, while accomplishing the beautiful Mitzvah of helping Chassanim and Kallos.
Police brass pushing arrest and ticket quotas could find themselves in jail for up to a year under a bill that state Sen. Michael Gianaris plans to introduce tomorrow.
Dovid and Hindy (nee Gray) Harrison (Red Bank, NJ)
New York Jews getting ready for Purim skipped the costume parties Sunday to focus on giving back. Doing extra charity is a must during the two-day celebration that begins Wednesday night and honors Queen Esther for saving the ancient Persian Jews from slaughter.
The 5th graders of the Lubavitch Boys’ school in London enjoyed a wonderful shabbaton last week, which the class earned with their ‘davening points.’
Physicist Cyril Domb, whose advancement of theoretical physics led to new understandings of everyday phenomena, passed away last week at the age of 91. A mathematical prodigy, he also was an accomplished Talmudic scholar and authored dozens of articles on the interplay between the Torah and science, in addition to several Jewish scholarly works.
Congressman Bob Turner (R-Brooklyn), who replaced disgraced Congressman Anthony Wiener in a special election last year, introduced yesterday the Tax and Education Assistance for Children (TEACH) Act of 2012. If passed, the bill will provide a tax credit of up to 5,000 dollars for families who send their children to private schools and eliminate “double taxation” on parents who send their children to non-public schools.
Hundreds participated in the international Siyum Harambam, which took place in Crown Heights on Thursday evening, the 7th of Adar.
Tonight, March 4 at 8:00pm, there will be a webcast to unite Jews all over the world in the celebration of the 30th siyum for three-chapters-a-day and the 10th siyum for one-chapter-a-day.
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — A Lubavitcher yungerman is lucky to be alive after nearly getting mowed down by a car which was attempting to flee the scene of an accident – missing him by just inches.
With exclamations of “Shabbat Shalom” circling, more than 500 Jewish students gathered to celebrate a traditional dinner together at the University of Georgia.
A two-week old boy died at a Brooklyn hospital after contracting herpes through a religious circumcision ritual that ignited controversy in 2005 after another infant died, the Daily News has learned.
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