Children’s Torah and Jewish Unity Campaign Turns 30

Thousands celebrate the completion of the first Children’s Torah Scroll at the Western Wall in Jerusalem.

Three decades ago on his birthday, the Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, of righteous memory, spoke of the special power children have to make the world a better place. All over the globe, their “very breath free of sin,” they could fuel a dramatic demonstration of unity that could change the planet.

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Op-Ed: Why I Wont Be Watching the Royal Wedding

by Rabbi Simcha Weinstein

In case you have spent your Passover vacation on another planet, you have not heard that the wedding of Prince William of Wales and Catherine (Kate) Middleton is scheduled to take place at Westminster Abbey on Friday.

7 Sholom Zochors this Week!

Yitzi and Perry (nee Lefkowitz) Klein
1582 Carroll St [Between Troy and Schenectady Ave]

Yisroel and Rivky (nee Raitport) Coen
1739 49th Street Brooklyn, NY

Sruli and Adina Lazerson (Crown Heights)

Menachem and Adina (nee Green) Landa
770 Empire Blvd, Apt 3L [Between Troy and Schenectady Ave]

Shlomo and Sara Esther (nee Hyman) Bongart
17 Tikvah Way, Morristown, NJ

Avrumi and Gitty Neuwirth
Anshei Lubavitch Montreal, Canada

Mendel and Esti Medalie (Johannesburg, South Africa)

NYC To Target Illegal Subdivision

AP

The scene of a house fire that killed three people is seen in the Bronx borough of New York on Monday, April 25, 2011. Photo: AP

City fire and buildings officials will search for new ways to target landlords who unlawfully subdivide their properties, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Tuesday in the wake of a fire that killed a family living in illegal housing.