Friendship Circle Café Helps Special Needs Children

Florida Sun-Sentinel

Volunteer Kate Jacobsen, 18, helps Dina Sheva Waldman, 17, fill a drink order during the Friendship Circle Café event at the Mozart Café in Deerfield Beach.

It is dinner hour on a Wednesday evening and the Mozart Café in Deerfield Beach is filled. Servers scurry around the Israeli-owned kosher dairy restaurant. But on this night the servers are special needs children and teen volunteers from the Chabad of Parkland’s Friendship Circle of North Broward and South Palm Beach.

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Meir and Shiffy Shimshoni
431 Brooklyn Ave. [bet Montgomery St. and Empire Blvd.]

Levi and Tzippy (nee Marosov) Israel
810 Montgomery St. [between Albany and Troy Ave.]

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694 Montgomery St. [between Kingston and Albany Ave.]

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645 Lefferts Ave. [corner Albany Ave.] Apt. 3B

Senator Praised for Support of Israel

Worcester Telegram

File photo: Senator Scott Brown meets with Chabad Shluchim at the Massachusetts State House.

The Israeli consul general to New England called U.S. Senator Scott Brown “a true friend of Israel” at an event in the Lubavitch school in Worcester, Massachusetts.

Think Double Parking During Street Cleaning is Legal?

Think again, says one Crown Heights bus driver. Although everyone seems to think you can’t get a ticket for double parking during alternate side parking hours, many discover the truth to their unpleasant surprise: Although they usually choose to ignore the practice, cops issue tickets for it all the time.

Cambria Heights Residents Angry with Ohel, Visitors

Years of littering and swarms of rude visitors has a group of Cambria Heights residents fighting an Orthodox Jewish synagogue’s plan to expand. The Ohel Chabad Lubavitch, adjacent to the graves of two of the sect’s former leaders, is seeking a zoning variance to expand its facility to better accommodate overnight visitors.

Hundreds Attend Funeral of Beloved Photographer

The funeral of Yossi Melamed took place in Borough Park today with the participation of hundreds of admirers, friends and family, led by the Liska Rov Shlita. Mr. Melamed was known for his photography and ability to capture the moment, like he did on so many occasions at the headquarters of the Lubavitcher Rebbe in Crown Heights. He is survived by a daughter and grandchildren.

Orthodox Jews Demand Release of Jacob Ostreicher

A protest was held today, May 3, 2012, in front of the Bolivian consulate in Manhattan for Jacob Ostreicher, an Orthodox Jewish man jailed in Bolivia for almost a year without charge. Assemblyman Dov Hikind was rallying the crowd.