Alaska: That Great Big Jewish Land
The 49th state was built by Jewish people, Jewish money and Jewish know-how. And although their numbers are small, Jews are still disproportionately prominent in commercial and public life.
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After a not-so-typical Super Bowl weekend last year filled with spirited Shabbos meals, meeting friends from around the country, touring the Big Apple, and traditional Jewish attractions, Wisconsinite Julius Zimmerman spoke at last year’s CTeen Shabbaton banquet about how glad he and his peers were for choosing to come to the CTeen Shabbaton instead of watching the anticipated Super Bowl game featuring the Packers, their home team.
Jewish Super Bowl Player to Kick Off Teen Shabbaton
After a not-so-typical Super Bowl weekend last year filled with spirited Shabbos meals, meeting friends from around the country, touring the Big Apple, and traditional Jewish attractions, Wisconsinite Julius Zimmerman spoke at last year’s CTeen Shabbaton banquet about how glad he and his peers were for choosing to come to the CTeen Shabbaton instead of watching the anticipated Super Bowl game featuring the Packers, their home team.
BR Girls Harassed on Their Way Home from School
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] –- Four Beis Rivka high school students were accosted on their way home from school Tuesday evening right outside their school building on Crown Street.
Boruch Dayan Ha’emes: Yehoshua Kleinberg, OBM
With sadness we inform you of the passing of Yehoshua Kleinberg, 90, of Crown Heights. The levaya will be Thursday at 11:15 AM, begining at the shomrei hadas chapels, and will pass in front of 770 at 12:00 PM. He is survived by his wife and three children.
Family and Friends Recall Life of America’s Tenor
Praying at Jan Peerce’s grave site.
A gathering of family, friends and acquaintances of “America’s Tenor” joined a Jewish archivist to mark the anniversary of legendary performer Jan Peerce’s passing with prayers, Torah study and the sharing of stories. A product of the Lower East Side, Peerce, whose parents were Belorussian immigrants, rose to prominence with performances at the Metropolitan Opera and in 1971, made his Broadway debut as Tevye in “Fiddler on the Roof.”
PSA: ULY Chinese Auction Motzei Shabbos & Sunday
Attention Ladies: This Sunday at 3:00 PM starts the United Lubavitcher Yeshiva’s 13th annual Chinese Auction. Enjoy an uplifting evening that will brighten your days and warm your stomachs.
NYPD Sued for Hiding Crime Statistics
Reuters
The New York Civil Liberties Union has sued the New York Police Department for refusing to release internal audits of a Brooklyn precinct, saying the reports are essential to show whether the department has manipulated its crime statistics to make them appear more favorable.
Fortune 500 Company Uses Chabad Singer for Ad
Fortune 500 company Pitney Bowes, a hardware and software company with over 36,000 employees worldwide has chosen to profile young Independent Chasidic Folk-Rock Singer Moshe Hecht to help promote their latest innovative product.
Synagogues Should Be More Welcoming
by Francine Klagsbrun – Jewish Week
One New Year evokes another. We Jews like to pride ourselves on the differences between the secular New Year celebrations that have just ended and our religious New Year in the fall. The meaningless blare of tinseled horns versus the shofar blasts calling us to prayer; the excessive drinking versus the sanctification of holiday wine; the crowds in Times Square versus the crowds on their way to the synagogue.
France: Beis Rivka Graduates, Remembers Principal
Photos Chlomo Masliah – Hassidout.org
The Girls in Beis Rivka in Yerres, France graduated only a few months after losing their beloved principle Rabbi Uri Shonthal, OBM. The name of the departed principle appeared on the diplomas, and many heartwarming speeches were made about how much great influence he had on the students and how much he is missed.
NY Daily News
Police have told community leaders that car firebombings that rattled a Jewish neighborhood in Brooklyn were probably an insurance scam, and not a hate crime, the Daily News has learned.
Flatbush Car Burning May Have Been Insurance Scam
NY Daily News
Police have told community leaders that car firebombings that rattled a Jewish neighborhood in Brooklyn were probably an insurance scam, and not a hate crime, the Daily News has learned.
Building on the success of last year, Mr. Eli Wallen returned to Mesivta Menachem to teach the bochurim about personal finances in a eight week series.
Mesivta Menachem Learns About Personal Finance
Building on the success of last year, Mr. Eli Wallen returned to Mesivta Menachem to teach the bochurim about personal finances in a eight week series.
Twins! Boy and Girl!
Yudi and Bluma (nee Raskin) Blotner (Monsey, NY)
Innovative New Chumash to Be Used by US Military
A special soft covered, pocket sized edition of the Lifestyle Chumash was printed with a camouflage cover to meet army regulations.
A new full color Chumash laced with commentary geared to offering Torah insights that are relevant to day to day life has been purchased by the military and will be distributed to thousands of Jewish soldiers stationed in over twenty different countries.
Bloomberg Plans to Limit Alcohol Sales
NY Post
First, Mayor Bloomberg went after smoking in public places. Then trans-fats, salt and sugary drinks. Now Bloomberg — known for sipping fine wine and downing a cold beer from time to time — wants to crack down on alcohol sales to curb excessive drinking, according to a provocative planning document obtained by The Post.
Op-Ed: Bloody Winter
by Bentzion Elisha
Bentzion Elisha
Like clockwork, every year around winter time, the skin over my knuckles cracks and bleeds.
New Engagement!
Shlomo Yager (Coral Springs, FL) and Miriam Glick (Crown Heights)
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