Baby Girl!
Eli and Raizy (nee Junik) Simpson (Crown Heights)
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Pork with ‘Shechitas Bais Yosef’ Sold in NYC Store
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.
Midwest Shluchim Gather in Detroit
Shluchim from the states of Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio and Michigan gathered in Detroit this past Shabbos and Sunday for the annual Midwest Regional Kinus.
Tel Hai College student union organizer Aviad Rosenfeld pitched his tent alongside dozens of others in this Kiryat Shmona protest against soaring housing prices. Slogans plastered on placards around him decried the rising rent and the injustice of failing to provide citizens who put their lives on the line in the army with the means to obtain a mortgage. On average housing prices throughout Israel have risen 60% since 2007.
As Israel’s Protest Tents Grow, Chabad Counsels Calm
Tel Hai College student union organizer Aviad Rosenfeld pitched his tent alongside dozens of others in this Kiryat Shmona protest against soaring housing prices. Slogans plastered on placards around him decried the rising rent and the injustice of failing to provide citizens who put their lives on the line in the army with the means to obtain a mortgage. On average housing prices throughout Israel have risen 60% since 2007.
Judge Dismisses Circumcision Ban from SF Ballot
A San Francisco judge said Wednesday she intends to strike a ban on male circumcision from the city’s November ballot.
Art Exhibit Commemorates 20th Anniversary of CH Riots
“When everyone else was leaving the neighborhood, we stayed,” said Rabbi Eli Cohen, executive director of the Crown Heights Jewish Community Council. “We said, ‘we have nothing to be afraid of; this is our community too, we can work together.’”
Jewish Children Enjoy Gan Israel Camp in Perm, Russia
Throughout most of the month of June, the Ohr Avner Chabad Day School and Kindergarten hosted the Gan Israel Chabad day camp, attended by 30 children. The campers enjoyed a variety of activities including sports, arts and crafts, and exercising. They were served breakfast, lunch and snacks each day, as well.
Chabad Rabbi Sues Israeli Café Chain for 1M Shekel
Rabbi Kaplun Elyashiv, a member of Hasidic movement Chabad, discovered one day that he is the star of a Landwer advertisement. He says it happened in 2010 while he was talking with friends and suddenly saw his picture on the café chain’s website.
The weather in Seattle was reminiscent of Manchester. Summer seemed to have been too busy with the east coast to get around to those north-west coast folks. The weather had no effect on the city spirit however. We visited the oldest “farmers only” market in america which opened August 17, 1907, and the people there were in full summer swing. We stayed again by the Morozov household (if you may recall they were the same ones who left their doors open for us after the tire blowout episode on our way to Vancouver). We met some bochurim from Morristown running the local Gan Yisroel.
Road Trippin Rabbis – Seattle and Portland
The weather in Seattle was reminiscent of Manchester. Summer seemed to have been too busy with the east coast to get around to those north-west coast folks. The weather had no effect on the city spirit however. We visited the oldest “farmers only” market in america which opened August 17, 1907, and the people there were in full summer swing. We stayed again by the Morozov household (if you may recall they were the same ones who left their doors open for us after the tire blowout episode on our way to Vancouver). We met some bochurim from Morristown running the local Gan Yisroel.
A 25-year-old Queens man was stabbed to death in a stairwell of Albany Houses in Crown Heights last night, police said.
Man Stabbed to Death on Albany Ave.
A 25-year-old Queens man was stabbed to death in a stairwell of Albany Houses in Crown Heights last night, police said.
New Engagement!
Avrumy Cagen (Houston, Texas) and Yehudis Cohen (Toronto, Ont)
New Engagement!
Ari Mochkin (Melbourne, Australia) and Mushkie Weiss (Los Angeles, CA)
L’Chaim Tonight Wednesday at the Jewish Children’s Museum
792 Eastern Pkwy [corner Kingston Ave]
Hundreds Pray for Missing American Surfer’s Return
Two days after American surfer Daniel Bobis vanished beneath the waves off western Indonesia, his family is urging people to pray for the 32-year-old’s safe return.
Crown Heights Man Arrested on Allegations of Abuse
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — Yesterday, a Crown Heights man surrendered himself to authorities after a number of victims came forward and accused him abuse spanning a number of years.
The United States Postal Service announced Tuesday it is mulling the closure of thousands of post offices nationwide, including dozens here in the city.
USPS Considers 34 Post Office Closures in City
The United States Postal Service announced Tuesday it is mulling the closure of thousands of post offices nationwide, including dozens here in the city.
Norwegian Jews Respond to Terror Attack
“An event like this is so beyond the scope of life – so, so foreign, that it will probably take some time to recover.” Rabbi Shaul Wilhelm, Director of the Chabad-Lubavitch Center in Oslo, Norway told the Algemeiner on Tuesday afternoon.
