Here is a sneak peek at what we hope to capture as we travel across America in a effort to win Sholom Rubashkin the justice he deserves.
Rabbi Yisroel Bernath is quick to point out that irrespective of his own level of religious observance, the vast majority of the 783-and-counting young Jewish singles who have registered so far on a new website he launched are secular.
The New York legislature says it will take up the issue of New York City’s rent control law as the current three-year law is set to expire.
Goldman Sachs was proclaiming that oil was soon set soar to $135 a barrel and likely have US service stations jacking up fuel prices to $5 a gallon, just like the summer of 2008 that preceded the recession, the New York Post reported Sunday.
Hershy Pershin (Detroit, Michigan) and Miriam Hurwitz (Brooklyn,NY)
Chabad of Hawaii maintained a number of booths providing kosher food and Tefillin at the Israel Day Festival.
He tried to catch the train, but the train caught him — and nearly took him on his last ride ever.
Shalom Horowitz (Crown Heights) and Sara Hirsch (Coral Springs, FL)
L’Chaim Tonight Monday at Lubavitcher Yeshiva
570 Crown St [hall entrance on Albany Ave]
Yochonon (Yogi) Goldman (Crown Heights) and Rozi Varon (Atlanta, GA)
L’Chaim Tonight, Monday at the Jewish Children’s Museum
792 Eastern Pkwy [corner Kingston Ave]
Yossi and Estee Majerczyk (Crown Heights)
Yisroel and Sarah Swimmer (Five Towns)
The director of Kehot Publications in Israel, Rabbi Menachem “Meni” Wolff, transferred his legendary archive of photos to Lubavitch Archives in Brooklyn, New York. The collection which includes pictures of the Rebbe, Chassidim in 770, Chabad institutions across the globe and Shluchims peulos, has now joined hundreds of thousands of pictures in the largest Chabad-Lubavitch digital photo collection, established more than eleven years ago.
Workers in the New York metropolitan region get paid $1.14 for every $1 the average American worker earns, according to data released by the U.S. Labor Department. That’s makes Greater New York the second-best paid part of the country, trailing only the Bay Area in California (where workers get $1.20).
Former NFL player Shlomo Veingrad visited Yeshiva Torah Ohr in North Miami Beach, FL for a farbrengen last Thursday. Veingrad told of his journey from life swallowed in the superficiality of the world.
The trial of Tahawwur Rana being played out in Chicago court is remarkable not for the defendant’s indictment for aiding and abetting terrorism, but for illuminating to the world, via David Coleman Headley, the star witness, the shadowy underworld where terrorism, military and spy agencies converge.
Dovid Spencer (Corning, NY) and Ilana Rauch (Austin, TX)
Here’s another reason to steer clear of New Jersey. Out-of-state E-ZPass users will be stripped of an off-peak discount in the Garden State starting July 1—which essentially amounts to a 34 percent toll hike.
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