United Lubavitcher Yeshiva PTA has released the names of all the lucky winners in its Chinese auction this past Motzei Shabbos and Sunday. The prizes range from $15,000 cash to a ‘Charm bracelet.’ The biggest winners, of course, are the students of ULY, who will benefit greatly physically and spiritually from the proceeds of this event. Is your name on the list?
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?
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.]
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.
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).
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.
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