Ezra Rosen, 23, went to Miami last winter to study at a brand-new yeshiva for 10 days. With his boss’ and parents’ blessing, he left New Jersey at the end of December with a round trip ticket.
This past week, eight Bochurim were flown down to Las Vegas, Nevada as part of the Merkos Shlichus program to run Peulos by the different Shluchim in the area. They were split up between the different Chabad Centers in the area including the central area of Las Vegas, Summerlin, Green Valley and Chabad @ UNLV.
New York City was not the only part of New York that was hit by Hurricane Irene, the Catskill Mountains took quite a beating as well. In Rozentzwiegs bungalow colony in Swan Lake they have lost power and water, forcing Rabbi Zalman Duchman to resort to some ancient ways of retrieving water!
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‘That wasn’t so bad’ was the feeling that most related after getting up this morning to find just a few trees uprooted and some fallen branches. Most Kingston merchants even opened for business!
It was Friday, on a balmy spring morning, and I was standing in line at the checkout counter in Rockland Kosher Supermarket. My cart was overflowing with groceries which would add up to a pretty penny. I was, however, the grateful recipient of food stamp benefits, and one swipe of my precious plastic card would cover the cost of my bimonthly food shopping trip. Nonetheless, I had chosen carefully, scanning the sale aisle for bargains, wanting to make the most of the government’s assistance. I loaded my items onto the counter and waited patiently for the cashier to add them up.
Before the real storm settled in, damage was already cropping up around Crown Heights.
Strolling through Elmira and St. Jacobs, rabbis-in-training Dovid Lepkivker and Levi Weingarten got a few stares.
3:00am: Heavy rain and winds just starting to pick up prompted our photographer to take a walk through the deserted streets of Crown Heights, delivering a short five minute clip depicting what its looking like.
More than 1,000 Muslims marched Saturday in Berlin and chanted anti-Israel slogans to mark al-Quds Day, set by Iran following the Islamist revolution in the country.
New York, NY [CHI] – Hurricane Irene has arrived in the New York City area. In addition to the hurricane warning, a tornado warning has been issued for the city until 5am on Sunday. The time for evacuation has ended—remain indoors for the remainder of the storm.
Continuing season two of Torah in Ten, we are pleased to present the eighth class by Rabbi Chaim Miller, Editor-in-Chief of Kol Menachem on this week’s topic, “The Rebbe on Racism”.
The number of narcotic-related emergency room visits has risen significantly due to an increased abuse of prescription painkillers, according to a New York City Health Department survey.
For the better part of July, my wife and I and our two youngest children were at a Hasidic camp for boys. My wife was employed there for the month as a camp nurse, and our oldest boy, aged nine, was there attending camp for the first time at a sleep-away camp. (I did some writing, working on my novel.) It was a good trial to see if he would like it. Actually, we weren’t far from him, but he was still in a bunk with other boys his own age. We were curious and slightly nervous how well he would fit in with the other boys, who were outwardly more religiously observant than our family was.
New York City officials say they’re preparing for the total shutdown of the nation’s largest mass transit system.
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