Maybe you’ll want to start salting away money for 2012 fuel costs now. Get ready to see $4-a-gallon gasoline in various parts of the U.S. sometime this spring, according to one prediction. Another prediction says that some of the nation’s biggest cities — such as Chicago, Los Angeles and New York — will see record Memorial Day averages of $4.55 to $4.95 for a gallon of regular gasoline.
Alternate side parking (street cleaning) regulations will be suspended on Monday, January 16, for Martin Luther King Jr. Day. All other regulations, including parking meters, remain in effect.
For a year, scribes armed with only quill pens and a specially mixed ink have been busy re-creating the more than 300,000 handwritten letters that make up the Torah scroll for Chabad of Brandon, Florida.
New Yorkers can expect bitterly cold temperatures Sunday, as an arctic blast envelops the city with some of the coldest temperatures of the year.
Tzvi Hirsh Sputz (Crown Heights) and Liba Sheva Polter (Monsey, NY)
Rabbi Yitzchok Springer is sitting Shiva after the passing of his brother, Reb Yankel OBM of Kfar Chabad, at 802 Eastern Parkway [between Kingston and Albany Ave.], until Friday morning. Hours are from 12:00 to 9:00 PM.
Hamakom Yenachem Eschem Besoch She’ar Aveilei Tzion VeYerushalayim
Jewish life in Taipei is undergoing a transformation, as Jewish life often does when Chabad envoys become part of the fabric of a community.
Shmuly Galperin (Montreal, Canada) and Mushky Nachlas (Detroit, MI)
A new Chabad House has opened in Queenstown on the South Island of New Zealand…and has had a successful debut Shabbos.
About 40 Beis Shmuel congregants gathered after davening this morning to learn a Sicha in honor of the Rambam’s Yahrtzeit.
Reuven and Rochel Konik (Crown Heights)
After shopping, running errands or even a long day of work, the only thing worse for a driver than finding their car about to be towed is not finding the vehicle at all.
Lubavticher Yeshiva on Crown Street hosted a program for men, which included food, entertainment and a Farbrengen with Rabbi Leibel Groner, that was broadcast online, all benefiting United Lubavitcher Yeshiva on Crown Street.
Israeli officials issued a travel warning for Thailand after a suspected terrorist was arrested in Bangkok and threats were made against Israelis and synagogues there. The warning is severe and immediate, and it is feared that terrorists will attack popular tourist spots.
Seven Israelis were on board the Italian cruise ship, Costa Concordia, that ran aground Friday night and sank into the sea like a scene from the Titanic.
From the Archives of Oholei Torah Educational Institute, an album of photos from its early years in the ’70s and ’80s. Can you identify any of the children in the photos?
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