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Shumi and Chani (nee Goldstein) Barami (Israel)
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Huda and Rivky (nee Torenheim) Shor (Las Vegas, NV)
Turkish Company Wants to Build Future NYC Taxis in Brooklyn
The Taxi Of Tomorrow might be built in Brooklyn! Karsan, the Turkish manufacturer in the running to build New York’s next generation of taxicabs, is now upping the ante (and changed its tune) by pledging to manufacture the wheelchair-accessible vehicles in the South Brooklyn Marine Terminal. The new pledge makes the Karsan cab the only one of the three finalists which would be built in America (it had previously said it would build them in Turkey).
Video: Tanks on the Times Homepage!
Earlier this morning a video interview with with Yishai Eliefja, a Yungerman who mans the weekly Mitzvah Tank, was featured on the homepage of the New York Times.
Photos: The First After Pesach Pizzas!
Just as hundreds of Crown Heights homes finished ‘turning over’ their kitchens back to normal, the lines in the neighborhoods Kretchmeh pizza shop kept getting longer and longer.
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Sholom Ber and Rochelle (nee Oliver) Odze (Sydney, Australia)
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Menachem and Adina (nee Green) Landa (Crown Heights)
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Mordechai and Rikal (nee Holtzberg) Kaler (Baltimore, MD)
Chabad of San Clemente’s Passover Celebration
The Chabad Center of San Clemente celebrated the first two nights of Passover last Monday and Tuesday evening with a traditional holiday Seder and dinner program.
Photos: Buying Back the Chometz
After having sold the Chometz before Pesach, Rabbi Moshe Bogomilsky and Rabbi Shimon Hecht got together with Gregg, the gentile who purchased the Chometz, and bought back the Chometz.
Photos: Seudas Moshiach in 770!
CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — The last day of Passover (“Acharon Shel Pesach”) is particularly associated with Moshiach and the future redemption. The Baal Shem Tov instituted the custom of partaking in a “Seudas Moshiach” (Moshiachs Meal) on the afternoon of the last day of Passover. In addition to the Matzah eaten at “Seudas Moshiach,” the Rebbes of Chabad added the custom of drinking four cups of wine, as in the Seder held on Passover’s first days.
Al-Qaida Had Sights Set on Brooklyn Bridge
Al-Qaida had the Brooklyn Bridge in its sights after the September 11th attacks, according to classified military files published by several newspapers including the New York Times.
Chabad’s Children of Chernobyl Program “As Vital As Ever”
It’s been 25 years since the explosion at Ukraine’s Chernobyl nuclear power station but the health implications facing the next generation are still as serious as ever, according to the main Jewish charity working with communities living in the region affected by what is considered the world’s worst man-made ecological disaster.
Eli Federman’s Op-Ed in the Forward: Ending the Culture of Silence
At the Passover Seder, we are supposed to ask questions about why things are done the way they are. Recently I asked some questions about the government-funded social service agency that serves my Jewish community in Brooklyn, the Crown Heights Jewish Community Council. Specifically, I questioned the policy that only allows men to vote for the council’s leaders. In public letters I argued that the policy might violate the Constitution (or at least civil rights statutes), and I cited various sources in support of my contention that there is no halachic reason for excluding women from voting in elections for a secular organization.
Photos: Pesach in New England
Over 300 Jews spent Pesach in New England, in the picturesque village Stowe Vermont in a program led by a group of Lubavitchers.
Chabad House Bomber Back in LA to Face Charges
A man suspected of causing an explosion at a Santa Monica synagogue has been ordered held without bond in a Riverside court.
Greater Than Great: Lag Ba’Omer 5771 in Full Swing
The 135,000 participants and viewers of last year’s Great Parade will always remember it as an unparalleled celebration of Jewish unity, pride and Ahavas Yisroel. Does it get any greater?
