A video that was produced for the Orthodox Jewish community about “stranger danger” — BEFORE the kidnapping and murder of 8-year-old Leiby Kletzky — is getting fresh buzz on YouTube.
The city issued a call for “secret shoppers” who’d be willing to report overcharges and other violations at supermarkets via Twitter.
Elizabeth Ben Abraham saw soldiers everywhere in Israel, toting machine guns in buses, malls, restaurants. Only at a barbecue on an army base did the California State University of Northridge student notice how young they are.
The manufacturer of Tylenol announced new, lower dosing instructions for the painkiller on Thursday in an effort to reduce accidental overdose from acetaminophen, the product’s active ingredient.
It’s the end of the month, which means it’s time for the NYPD to get cracking on filling those ticket quotas which have been lying around all month.
Ariel and Zoey Sasson.
1609 President St [between Troy and Schenectady Ave]
Shmuli and Chani Judkin
454 Montgomery St, 2nd Floor [between New York and Nostrand Ave]
Didy and Devorah (nee Cohen) Waks
1206 Carroll St [between New York and Nostrand Ave]
A rabbi and rabbinical student walk into a Walmart.
No, this isn’t a joke.
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)
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