Bloomberg’s Approval Rating Buoyed by Irene
AP
New Yorkers overwhelmingly approve of Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s decision to prepare for Hurricane Irene by ordering the evacuation of low-lying areas, according to a poll released Monday.
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New Engagement!
Gershon Akerman (Crown Heights) and Malka Perelman (Pittsburgh)
Chabad of Five Towns Wins Baseball Championship
South Shore Standard
Chabad of The Five Towns won the Synagogue League Finals after defeating Beth Sholom 3-0.
Yes We Can: Sydney Chabad House’s Food Drive
J-Wire
Afroz Ali, Rabbi Mendel Kastel and Coles’ Fernando. Photo: Henry Benjamin
Sydney’s The Jewish House has launched its annual drive to collect food for the needy with a record 25 Coles Supermarkets participating across Sydney…and has introduced a new parter, the al-Ghazzali Centre.
JTA
Price tag attacks on Palestinian sites continue in the West Bank.
Settlers Fight Back with ‘Price Tag’ Attacks
JTA
Price tag attacks on Palestinian sites continue in the West Bank.
Readers of the New York Times magazine were surprised today to find a photo soon-to-be married Chabad couple, Tomer Weingarten and Rochel Wiener, gracing its pages. In a section called 'What They Were Thinking,' the magazine posted a Black and white photo of Tomer and Rochel in the Ohel as they were about to be engaged under the title: 'Seeking a Marital Blessing,' along with a quote from each.
NY Times Mag Features Lubavitch Couple in the Ohel
Readers of the New York Times magazine were surprised today to find a photo soon-to-be married Chabad couple, Tomer Weingarten and Rochel Wiener, gracing its pages. In a section called ‘What They Were Thinking,’ the magazine posted a Black and white photo of Tomer and Rochel in the Ohel as they were about to be engaged under the title: ‘Seeking a Marital Blessing,’ along with a quote from each.
New Engagement!
Mendel (ben Yosef) Spalter (Crown Heights) and Mushky Minsky (Crown Heights)
Baby Girl!
Yehoshua and Menucha Lavner (Toronto, Canada)
The Wesleyan Argus
This year, the addition of Chabad representatives, Rabbi Levi Schectman and his wife Chanie, will bring a new aspect of student Jewish life to campus. Chabad, formally called Chabad-Lubavitch, is a Hasidic movement with active representatives on various college campuses and throughout the world.
Chabad Representatives Arrive on Campus
The Wesleyan Argus
This year, the addition of Chabad representatives, Rabbi Levi Schectman and his wife Chanie, will bring a new aspect of student Jewish life to campus. Chabad, formally called Chabad-Lubavitch, is a Hasidic movement with active representatives on various college campuses and throughout the world.
82 Year Old Holocaust Survivor Celebrates Bar Mitzvah
Sarasota Herald-Tribune
Illustration Photo: Rabbi Chaim Steinmetz lights menorah with a senior in Sarasota, FL.
An 82-year-old Sarasota man will hold his bar mitzvah – the coming-of-age ritual traditionally extended to Jewish boys upon turning 13 – nearly 70 years later.
BEWARE: Crown Heights Rapist at Large
NY1
Police are searching for a man police say raped a teenage girl at knifepoint in Crown Heights earlier this week.
Continuing season two of Torah in Ten, we are pleased to present the tenth class by Rabbi Chaim Miller, Editor-in-Chief of Kol Menachem on this week's topic, “The Rebbe on the Causes of the Holocaust - Part 2”.
Torah in 10: The Rebbe on the Causes of the Holocaust – Pt. 2
Continuing season two of Torah in Ten, we are pleased to present the tenth class by Rabbi Chaim Miller, Editor-in-Chief of Kol Menachem on this week’s topic, “The Rebbe on the Causes of the Holocaust – Part 2”.
Baby Girl!
Yitzchok and Shifra Crawford (Jerusalem, Israel)
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