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.
Dear Doe Namay AKA John Doe,
Your op-ed last week gave me a bigger jolt than my morning coffee. You stated your opinion against ‘Chabad Lite’ because they may, G-d forbid, call themselves Chabad. Do you consider yourself Chabad? Where exactly can I pick up some “Chabad” measuring tape? Is anyone who disagrees with your opinion really a hater? And how exactly can you say, after penning such an article, that you have Ahavas Yisroel?
Mendy and Rochel Traxler (Houston, TX)
Elimelech and Goldi (nee Zilbershtrom) Perman (Lod, Israel)
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