Picture of the Day: Can You Spot the Anomaly?
A reader sent us this photo of a familiar scene on a busy shopping street in Boro Park; except something is wrong with the picture. Can you spot the anomaly?
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Debkafile: Hizbullah Planned Mumbai-Style Attack on Chabad of Bangkok
Debkafile
Thai forensic experts carry packs of explosive chemicals believed to belong to a Lebanese suspect at a commercial building in Samut Sakhon province, a suburb of Bangkok.
The Thai police’s capture of a Lebanese-Swedish Hizballah suspect, who was charged Monday, Jan. 16, thwarted a terrorist attack on the Beit Chabad in Bangkok, involving the taking of hostages and blowing up the building. It was to have followed the same lines as al Qaeda’s 2008 assault on the Mumbai Chabad center which killed 8 Israelis and Jews – only more ambitious. The Bangkok Chabad is much larger: its hostel has rooms for dozens of lodgers. [Update: Chabad Taking threat seriously.]
Completed Sefer Torah Paraded Through Flatbush
A new Sefer Torah in memory of Avraham Dovid Liberow and Pesha Leah Azoulay, OBM, was completed Sunday in Rabbi Zalman LIberow‘s home, and paraded through the streets to Chabad of Flatbush on Ocean Ave.
Video: R’ Moshe Bryski Shares Story About Father
Torah Cafè
Rabbi Moshe Bryski shares a story about the Divine Providence that saved his father, Mordechai Meir Brsyki of blessed memory, during the Holocaust.
Close to 250 men and women packed the JCM banquet hall this past Motzoei Shabbos to pay tribute to three great Tzadikim whose Yahrzeits fall out in close proximity this week: Rabbi Yaakov Abuhatzeira (19 Tevet), the Rambam (20 Tevet) and the Alter Rebbe (24 Tevet).
‘Hilula’ of Three Tzadikim Celebrated in Crown Heights
Close to 250 men and women packed the JCM banquet hall this past Motzoei Shabbos to pay tribute to three great Tzadikim whose Yahrzeits fall out in close proximity this week: Rabbi Yaakov Abuhatzeira (19 Tevet), the Rambam (20 Tevet) and the Alter Rebbe (24 Tevet).
Gas May Go Up to $5 Per Gallon This Summer
LA Times
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 Rules Suspended Monday
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.
New Torah for Nosson Deitsch Completed
Bloomingdale Patch
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.
Bitter Cold Temperatures Freeze Big Apple
DNA Info
New Yorkers can expect bitterly cold temperatures Sunday, as an arctic blast envelops the city with some of the coldest temperatures of the year.
New Engagement!
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
Hamakom Yenachem Eschem Besoch She'ar Aveilei Tzion VeYerushalayim
Info to Be Menachem Avel Reb Itche Springer
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
Energetic Chabad Rabbi Nourishes Jewish Taipei
Jerusalem Post
Jewish life in Taipei is undergoing a transformation, as Jewish life often does when Chabad envoys become part of the fabric of a community.
New Engagement!
Shmuly Galperin (Montreal, Canada) and Mushky Nachlas (Detroit, MI)
Chabad Opens in Queenstown
A new Chabad House has opened in Queenstown on the South Island of New Zealand…and has had a successful debut Shabbos.
Picture of Day: Beis Shmuel Learns for Chof Teves
About 40 Beis Shmuel congregants gathered after davening this morning to learn a Sicha in honor of the Rambam’s Yahrtzeit.
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