Eighth Graders Go Boating in the Heart of Manhattan
Bochrim of OTEG (Oholei Torah Eighth Grade) went on a much anticipated trip to Central Park, where they went boating as a reward for finishing the ‘Tishrei Challenge’ over the last month.
Bochrim of OTEG (Oholei Torah Eighth Grade) went on a much anticipated trip to Central Park, where they went boating as a reward for finishing the ‘Tishrei Challenge’ over the last month.
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Readers of this column will know that last week my wife and I, thank God, married off our eldest child. What they will not know are the conditions we endured for the days prior to the wedding when a freak snow storm caused a power outage in our home town of Englewood, New Jersey, and much of the Northeast. We were preparing for a wedding with a house filled with relatives from around the world who, freezing with no heat, light, or phones, thought America was a third world country.
Avi and Chaya (nee Rudd) Bardugo (Miami, FL)
Alternate side parking (street cleaning) regulations will be suspended on Monday, November 7th and Tuesday, November 8th for holiday observances. All other regulations, including parking meters, remain in effect.
My best friend Shevi called me the other day, distressed over the shul her husband started attending. “Malka, you can’t imagine what the women are wearing there,” she said. “Yes I can,” I sadly replied. “He loves the davening, but I feel nervous with him going there,” she continued. “I tried to discuss it with him, but he likes the shul and doesn’t want to stop going. I totally understand, but why should he have to see women dressed that way?”
New Yorkers will get to pave the way for future bicycle lanes. The City Council yesterday unanimously passed a bill requiring community-board input whenever the Department of Transportation constructs or removes a bike lane.
While the Supreme Court of the United States prepares to hear arguments for and against President Obama’s health care plan this coming year, an Israeli woman has acted to vastly improve health care in Equatorial Guinea.
Mendy and Shterna Chein (Crown Heights)
This past Thursday night students of Lubavitcher Yeshiva have been paired up with zal bochrim for the third consecutive year of Mishmor. The pairs learn a sicha together each Thursday night, followed by an exciting ‘camp style’ night activity.
Mrs. Sonya Wilenkin is sitting Shiva after the passing of her sister, Freyda Zemtsovskaya OBM (Kiriyat Malachi, Israel), at 387 Kingston Ave. [between Crown and Montgomery St.]
Hamakom Yenachem Eschem Besoch She’ar Aveilei Tzion VeYerushalayim
Jewish community members in Mariupol, Ukraine, gathered at the site near the village of Agrobazza where upwards of 20,000 Jews were murdered by Nazi forces 70 years ago for an annual ceremony to memorialize and honor the victims.
Every hour, car crashes kill an average of four people on America’s roads.
Efforts to unite Jewish children throughout the world through the writing of a Torah scroll are taking on a uniquely local flavor in the State of Kansas, with day camps, preschools, Hebrew schools and day schools signing up students to sponsor letters in the fifth Children’s Torah Scroll to be commissioned since the Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, of righteous memory, launched the worldwide project in 1981.
Yanky Scheinfeld (Crown Heights) and Malkie Kaler (Baltimore, MD)
Lubavitcher Yeshiva, 570 Crown St [hall entrance on Albany Ave]
At Island Smokes in New York City’s Lower East Side neighborhood, customers sick of the highest tax on cigarettes in America are fighting back by rolling their own cigarettes out of pipe tobacco.