As Tropical Storm Rina churns off the coast of Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula, residents of the resort town of Playa del Carmen have boarded up their homes and are staying indoors, patiently waiting for the erratic low pressure system to pass.
Today, 30 Tishrei, marks the 10th anniversary of the brutal murder of Israeli MK Rechavam Ze’evi HY”D by a Palestinian terrorist. In his honor, we present to you a unique photograph of him farbrenging with Chasidim in Kfar Chabad, during the 1970s.
Sender and Rochel Tema (nee Weiser) Lustig (Crown Heights)
Shalom Zochor will be at 379 Crown st. [Between Brooklyn and New York Ave.]
The Dow Jones industrial average surged nearly 339 points Thursday after European leaders agreed on a deal to slash Greece’s debt load and prevent the debt crisis there from engulfing larger countries like Italy. The Standard & Poor’s 500 index is close to having its best month since 1974.
Lawyers for a New York man who pleaded guilty Thursday in the first ever federal conviction for illegal organ trafficking say their client performed life-saving services for severely ill people.
Yanky and Chanie (nee Bastomski) Barber (Crown Heights)
Levi (ben Reb Yehoshua) Laine (Crown Heights) and Chaya Mushka (bas Reb Yehoshua) Hecht (Orange, CT)
Reuven Frosburg (Lomita/Agoura Hills, CA) and Rachel Weltman (Houston)
The writings and transcribed lectures of Rabbi Meir Chaim Chaikin, a Talmudic scholar who endured Soviet labor camps for three years as punishment for his clandestine efforts to strengthen Jewish life, have for the first time been published, released under the title Tiferes Ezriel in keeping with the author’s directive shortly before his 1966 passing.
Barry Honig is running as the Republican candidate for mayor of Tenefly, NJ. Members of the local Chabad house run by Rabbi Mordechai Shain know Barry as the man who runs the Tenafly Chabad Free Loan Association, a well known community program that help those in need without making them resort to charity.
Yossi and Hindel Swerdlov penned the following open letter to family and friends in honor of the upcoming 2nd Yahrzeit of their beloved daughter Alta Shula A”H:
Whether you’re on a plane to Israel, in Brooklyn, or spending time in Central Park in New York City, you can’t miss Rabbi Chayim Boruch Alevsky — he’s the one in the “Did you wrap the straps today?” T-shirt. A fun play on words, no doubt, the shirt inspires questions, the occasional thumbs-up, laughs, and, most importantly, the mitzvah of tefillin.
Levi and Devora Leah Fuss (Cincinnati, OH)
Levy Goldberg (Yerres, France) and Chaya Mushka Alfandari (Yerres, France)
L’Chaim tonight, Thursday at 823 Montgomery St. [between Albany and Troy Ave.]
Chaim Meir and Rivki (nee Solomon) Steigman (Crown Heights)
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