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Bike4Friendship Cross Country Tour Comes Full Circle
Ventura County Star
Three rabbinical school graduates ride though the desert of Arizona as part of their cross-country trip to raise awareness for children with special needs and the Friendship Circle. Photo: Leibel Krinsky
A little over a year ago Zalmi Perlman was having pizza with a friend in Jerusalem when they came up with the idea to bicycle across the United States to benefit special needs children.
In this week’s “Opening the week with the Rebbe“: In a Sicha on 3 Elul, 5748 (August 16, 1988) The Rebbe explains why children are clearly part of ”G-d's Legions".
Video: The Rebbe’s Address to Returning Campers
In this week’s “Opening the week with the Rebbe“: In a Sicha on 3 Elul, 5748 (August 16, 1988) The Rebbe explains why children are clearly part of ”G-d’s Legions”.
Bruised by Blizzard, Bloomberg Hailed Hero of Irene
ABC
A few drops of rain fell early Saturday morning as Mayor Michael Bloomberg was about to talk to reporters about the encroaching Hurricane Irene. A staffer said the news conference was being moved under a nearby overhang, but somehow that never happened.
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: Time for the Jewish Community to End the Sharpton Wars
Huffington Post
Twenty years ago, race riots erupted in Crown Heights and an innocent Jewish student was murdered in response to the accidental killing of an African-American child. After the murder, the Rev. Al Sharpton came to Crown Heights and further whipped up an already incensed crowd, leaving some in the Jewish community to demand twenty years later that Sharpton be forever shunned by Jewry and criticizing my friend Rabbi Marc Schneier for inviting him to the Hampton Synagogue.
Baby Girl!
Levi and Brocha (nee Segelman) Weinman (Crown Heights)
New Engagement!
Yossi Dery (Crown Heights) and Sara Benezra (Kiryat Ata, Israel)
Baby Boy!
Eli and Faigie (nee Riven) Dinerman (Crown Heights)
Baby Boy!
Velvel and Rochel (nee Cozocaru) Gurkow (Montreal, Canada)
New Engagement!
Zalmy (ben Gavriel) Schapiro (Crown Heights) and Lana Bordy (Great Neck, NY)
New Engagement!
Levi Coleman (London, England) and Mimi Fradkin (Montreal, Canada)
Israeli Bochur Found Innocent in Japan
The notorious Japanese Chiba prison, where Yoel Zev Goldstein is being held.
It is with shevach vehodaah to the Ribono Shel Olam that we report that the final verdict of Yoel Goldstein, Yoel Zev ben Mirel Risa Chava, was rendered just moments ago at the Chiba District Court in Japan and he has been found innocent.
7 Israelis Wounded in Palestinian Terror Attack
AP
Israeli policemen gather at a site where a Palestinian man crashed a car into a crowed of people and stabbed few others near a nightclub in Tel Aviv, early Monday, Aug. 29, 2011.
A Palestinian attacker wounded seven Israelis near a Tel Aviv nightclub early Monday, hitting a police checkpoint with a stolen taxi and then stabbing others, police said.
PSA: Alternate Side Parking Rules Suspended Monday
The New York City Department of Transportation will be suspending Alternate Side Parking Regulations Citywide on Monday, 8/29/11, due to inclement weather. Parking meters will also be suspended citywide on this date.
Yeshiva Gives College Grads Taste of Something New
Rabbi Sholom B. Lipskar of The Shul of Bal Harbour gives a lecture for students from the Miami Torah Experience and Yeshiva Torah Ohr.
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.
Bochurim Spend a Week in Las Vegas
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!
Picture of the Day: Modern Day Water Carrier
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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