Dear Jewish woman who dented the side of my brand new minivan,
My non-Jewish neighbors tell me that they urged you to leave a note with your number on it, but when I found it on my windshield it was just a bunch of illegible scribbles.
The Segal family is sitting Shiva after the passing of their father and grandfather, Yitzchak OBM, at 910 Eastern Parkway [between Albany and Troy Ave.] Friday after 4:00pm. Please come and help with the minyan.
Please send memories and condolences to: shaptaisegal@gmail.com
Hamakom Yenachem Eschem Besoch She’ar Aveilei Tzion VeYerushalayim
Ed Koch has a bridge named after him, so why not David Dinkins? That’s the question City Councilman Fernando Cabrera will ask Thursday when he introduces a bill to rename the Willis Avenue Bridge after New York’s first and only African-American mayor.
Like many uninformed, non-observant Jews, I made the mistake of generalizing that all ultra-Orthodox Jews were singularly insulated, inaccessible and elitist. For the better part of my life, any time I saw a man on the street wearing a black fedora, suit and tzitzit, I registered an almost Pavlovian reflex of discomfort, assuming the person in question would view me as an inferior Jew.
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A Chicago Chabad House avoided foreclosure by filing for bankruptcy. The brownstone housing the Lubavitch Chabad of the Loop, Gold Coast and Lincoln Park was to have gone on the auction block Wednesday, but the bankruptcy filing this week gave Chabad additional time to repay a bank loan, the Chicago Tribune reported.
In the aftermath of the tragic passing of 21 year old Nosson Deitsch two years ago, his classmates established a shul in Crown Heights that bears his name. “Nosson’s Shul” quickly grew into a vibrant hub for learning and davening, with minyonim, shuirim, farbrengens and one-on-one learning taking place on Shabbos and throughout the week.
Akiva Hall (New Orleans, LA) and Chanah Black (North Hollywood, CA)
L’chaim will be tonight, Thursday at Beis Levi Yitzchok
556 Crown St. [entrance on Albany Ave.]
A collision involving two vehicles, one driven by an elderly Jewish man, occurred at around 2:15pm today on the corner of Nostrand Ave. and Pacific St. in the north side of Crown Heights.
Meir Simon (Delmar, NY) and Sarah Lowenstein (Morristown, NJ)
Lipa and Alexsandra (Nee Diament) Lieberman (Crown Heights)
In the above video posted to YouTube, Dawid Rosh M. Mahilum, a 10-Year-Old boy living in the Philippines, sings Avraham Fried’s English hit song ‘Don’t hide from me’ while playing the keyboard in his school’s auditorium.
Dovid Leib and Baily (nee Geisinsky) Silberstein (Montreal, Canada)
Hundreds of mourners paid their last respects to the beloved Chossid and educator Rabbi Yosef Wineberg, OBM, as his funeral procession passed by 770 this morning.
A major announcement by JLI Chairman Rabbi Moshe Kotlarsky at the annual JLI conference at Queens College earlier this week was a grant of 1.2 Million dollars to expand JLI’s educational reach, gifted jointly the George Rohr and David Magerman.
Music played loudly while the men danced. On the women’s side of the mechitzah, we tried to speak over the sounds. I leaned over the table to hear what my co-worker’s wife was saying. “Well, because we are both Belz, it just made sense,” Zeldy said with a smile, then continued picking at the chicken on her plate.
Rabbi Yosef Wineberg, once called Chabad-Lubavitch’s “globetrotting ambassador” and the first in the United States to have a regular class on Chabad philosophy broadcast over the radio waves, passed away Wednesday at the age of 94. A faculty member of the United Lubavitch Yeshiva school system, he was known not only for his scholarly knowledge, but also for his calculated and patient words, and characteristic Chasidic warmth towards his fellow man.
The Supreme Court upheld President Obama‘s health care law today in a splintered, complex opinion that gives Obama a major election-year victory.
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