Picture of Day: Yud Shvat Farbrengen on a Cruise
Reb Leibel Zisman farbrenged with bochurim and mashgichim on a KosherCruise in honor of Yud Shvat. Reb Leibel was sharing his memories of 770 and of the Frierdiker Rebbe.
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Eber’s Tishrei Liquor and Wine Sale
NY Times
Peter Barbagallo, a carpenter working in a Sephora store, being issued a ticket on Thursday for driving in the bus lane.
With great élan, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg announced on Thursday that the city did not need to raise taxes later this year. No one jumped up to argue that point.
City Budget Relies Heavily on Fines Through Traps
NY Times
Peter Barbagallo, a carpenter working in a Sephora store, being issued a ticket on Thursday for driving in the bus lane.
With great élan, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg announced on Thursday that the city did not need to raise taxes later this year. No one jumped up to argue that point.
Nobel Laureates Mark Chabad’s 15 Years at Columbia
Columbia Spectator
L’chaim! Eric Kandel, a professor of brain science, raises his glass in honor of the 15th anniversary of Chabad, which honors “pride in being Jewish” on campus.
Nearly 200 rabbis, students, alumni, and faculty nibbled on kosher sushi as they listened to Nobel Laureates Eric Kandel and Richard Axel speak at a fundraiser for campus Jewish organization Chabad in Low Library on Thursday night.
Indiana Rabbi Has Kosher Super Bowl Fans Covered
Indianapolis has rolled out the welcome mat for Super Bowl XLVI.
After his son’s Bar Mitzvah this Saturday, Avi Esses will get ready for Super Bowl XLVI. The New York resident and ardent Giants fan is headed to Indianapolis Sunday morning with his sons, Nafti, 16, Leo, 15, and Eli, 13, for the big game.
Celebrate Yud Shvat with Chanale
Sunday night, 12th of Shvat, 5th of February sing with Chanale, a women and girls night out to Celebrate Yud Shvat.
Baby Boy!
Yehuda Leib and Batsheva (nee Bronchtain) Borenstein (Crown Heights)
Sholom Zochor will be at 37 Balfour Pl.
Yud Shevat Farbrengen for Lone Soldiers
Mendel Levi, a shliach in RAP (Rabbi Avtzon’s Program), showed up at Mordechai Botnick‘s apartment in the Nachlot neighborhood of Jerusalem with 15 Lubavitcher soldiers to farbreng in honor of Yud Shevat.
Baby Girl!
Moshe and Mussie (nee Denebeim) Witkes (Tzfas, Israel)
New Engagement!
Elchonon Korenblit (Crown Heights) and Batsheva Zilberstrom (Kfar Chabad, Israel)
Chicago Group Marks 6th Rebbe’s Historic 1942 Visit
Students and rabbis from Chicago’s close-knit Lubavitch community arrive at Union Station for a ceremony marking 70 years since the Sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn, of righteous memory, visited the city.
Danny Altschul went down to Union Station in Chicago yesterday to commemorate an historic event that took place 70 years ago. When the Sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn, of righteous memory, stepped onto the platform on Jan. 25, 1942 to begin a week-long trip focused on inspiring and strengthening the local Jewish community and its commitment to Jewish education, thousands greeted him.
Chabad of Hungary to Receive Restitution Funds
In a decision by the Hungarian government, EMIH—the Jewish community represented by Chabad in Hungary—will begin to receive funds as part of Hungary’s annual restitution payments.
New Engagement!
Yehoshua Betesh (Crown Heights) and Bracha Stern (Crown Heights)
L’chaim will be Sunday at 1486 Union St.
[between Kingston and Albany Ave.]
Celebrating a Ritual as It Comes Under Fire
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Left: Rabbi Mendy Zwiebel holds his infant son while a family friend reads a prayer and the mohel prepares for the bris ritual. Right: Anti-circumcision activists march.
A few dozen friends and family huddled around Rabbi Mendy Zwiebel and his family last week as he held his 8-day-old son on a pillow and invited loved ones to say prayers while a fellow rabbi organized his tools on a nearby table. The youngest Zwiebel—he was yet to be named—was about to go through one of Judaism’s most sacred rituals, the bris milah, more commonly known as circumcision.
Monsey Cheder Boys Hold Parsha Fair
In honor of Monsey Cheder Chabad’s 5th grade finishing Parshas Bo, the entire school was treated to a project fair where the students of 5th grade presented the story-line and the Mitzvos in the Parsha through 3-D projects, posters, tri-folds and dioramas.
During the Republican presidential primary debate in Florida last week, a man identifying himself as a Palestinian Republican asked the candidates what they would do to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich were both given the opportunity to responed; who do you think did a better job?
Video: Romney and Gingrich Respond to Palestinian
During the Republican presidential primary debate in Florida last week, a man identifying himself as a Palestinian Republican asked the candidates what they would do to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich were both given the opportunity to responed; who do you think did a better job?
Sterling Electronics, a Kingston Ave. landmark, has been sold by Yossi and Mendy Brickman to the store's manager for the past couple of years, Simcha S.
Sterling Electronics Has New Owner
Sterling Electronics, a Kingston Ave. landmark, has been sold by Yossi and Mendy Brickman to the store’s manager for the past couple of years, Simcha S.
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