Man is regarded as one who is constantly moving. He must perpetually move from one level to another. If he will not go steadily upwards he will, indeed, decline steadily. For it is impossible to remain on one level. (The Ga’on of Vilna)
Mendel and Gitty (nee Pape) Meyers (Buffalo, NY)
This Shabbos at the Besht Rabbi Zalman Abraham will lead a talk on the protective power of the Mezuzah.
That might be one of the chants heard at the upcoming San Francisco Marathon, when Rabbi Peretz Mochkin swaps his black coat — but not his tallit and tzitzit — for running gear and attempts to conquer the 13.1-mile half-marathon course.
I admit I am intolerant. At times I am bigoted towards others. I judge people by the way they look, the way they walk, the way they talk, and an immeasurable amount of other calculated imagery I build up in my mind about them.
An awestruck chatter echoed throughout Aventura City Hall auditorium when the crowd recently saw the image of a two-story building made out of white stucco and Jerusalem stone with stained-glass windows.
Five days after disappearing beneath the waves off the coast of western Indonesia, a fisherman found the body of missing American surfer Daniel Bobis.
Rav Elazar Abuchatzeira of Be’er Sheva was just Niftar after being stabbed multiple times. United Hatzalah was first on the scene and tell YWN that they found him to be in traumatic arrest, he was pronounced dead a few minutes later.
They say that in America, community rabbis are willing to go to NBA matches with their congregation members “so as not to lose the public”. In Israel, on the other hand, you won’t see a rabbi watching Maccabi Tel Aviv with the guys from the synagogue.
Mendy and Fanny (nee Mendelson) Benshimon (Montreal, Canada)
Running transforms Laykie Donin, clearing the Houston resident’s head and reducing the stress of raising four children and holding a full-time job.
Shmuli chazanow (Los Angeles,CA ) and Chaya Paltiel (Melbourne)
L’Chaim Tonight Thursday at Chovevei Torah
885 Eastern Pkwy [between Albany and Troy Ave]
Call it All-You-Can-Jet: Business Edition. JetBlue introduced several new three-month, unlimited flight plans Thursday in an attempt to snare more higher-paying business travelers.
Dozens of college students took advantage of their summer break to visit Israel with Chabad on Campus’ IsraeLinks, completing the second trip this month. Led by scholar in-residence Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Jacobson, along with Rabbi Yosef and Devora Wilhelm of Chabad of the Upper East Side, IsraeLinks took the enthusiastic students on a thrilling journey filled with fun and meaning.
A few Sydney Shluchim banded together, worked hard, and managed to produce an exciting six day winter camp/Yeshivas Kayitz for the Lubavitch teens in Sydney, something that hasn’t been done in ten years!
Eli and Raizy (nee Junik) Simpson (Crown Heights)
If you want Kosher pork—pork spare ribs, pork cutlets, center-cut pork chops, all labeled in Hebrew “Sh’Chita Beit Yosef” (i.e., kosher slaughtered)—you get that only in New York, only at the Associated Supermarket at 4407 Greenpoint Avenue, in Sunnyside, Queens, and only for a few hours today, between the time the Israeli artist Oded Hirsch snapped the above photo on his cell phone and it got forwarded to me, and the time I phoned Aris Duran, the supermarket manager, for an explanation.
