New Engagement!
Moshe Shimon Hertzel (Crown Heights) and Nechama Dina Sitrin (Baltimore, MD)
New Engagement!
Aryeh Hoffman (Los Angeles, CA) and Rochel Novoseletsky (Denver, CO)
Baby Girl!
Yossi and Dina (nee Eliezrie) Spigler (Melbourne, Australia)
Baby Girl!
Levi and Rivkie (nee Gorman) Gottlieb (Chicago, IL)

City Offers Discount Card for Prescription Drugs
The city began offering a new card on Wednesday that lets people buy prescription drugs at big discounts, a step that could potentially increase drug sales and ease strains on the city’s public hospitals.
Friends and family of Nosson Deitsch OBM gathered this evening to officially dedicate a new parade office, dubbed the Central Operations Suite, which will provide a place for all the volunteers to sit and work on the Lag Baomer Parade.
New ‘Parade Office’ Dedicated in Memory of Nosson Deitsch
Friends and family of Nosson Deitsch OBM gathered this evening to officially dedicate a new parade office, dubbed the Central Operations Suite, which will provide a place for all the volunteers to sit and work on the Lag Baomer Parade.
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — After more than a year of relentless persecution by officers of the 71st Precinct against members of the Crown Heights Shomrim, they have apparently decided that this is still not enough, and have since escalated their efforts, launching a coordinated assault on the volunteer security organization.
NYPD’s Relentless Persecution of Shomrim Escalates
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — After more than a year of relentless persecution by officers of the 71st Precinct against members of the Crown Heights Shomrim, they have apparently decided that this is still not enough, and have since escalated their efforts, launching a coordinated assault on the volunteer security organization.
We have been privileged recently in our Program, Ohel Chana in Melbourne, to have two senior Shluchim visit our shores and spend an evening farbrenging with us Seminary students. Baruch Hashem we have been greatly inspired by them and look forward to putting all this in practice as we finish our most inspiring and unbelievable year in Ohel Chana!
Ohel Chana in Melbourne Visited by Special Guests
We have been privileged recently in our Program, Ohel Chana in Melbourne, to have two senior Shluchim visit our shores and spend an evening farbrenging with us Seminary students. Baruch Hashem we have been greatly inspired by them and look forward to putting all this in practice as we finish our most inspiring and unbelievable year in Ohel Chana!

MTA Holds Tryouts for Subway Performers
A total of 65 performers got onboard Tuesday, auditioning to be part of the MTA’s official Music Under New York program.
Ahavas Chesed Appreciates KCH Nurses
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — In a show of appreciation to the nurses working in Kings County Hospital, Rabbi Avrohom Leider, the director of Ahavas Chesed, hosted the nurses for a lavish lunch.
It shouldn’t be hard to spot the man leading the Jewish Unity Parade in Skokie on Sunday.
New Chicago Bear to Kick off Lag Ba’omer Parade
It shouldn’t be hard to spot the man leading the Jewish Unity Parade in Skokie on Sunday.
New Engagement!
Shua Hecht (Nice, France) and Esti Shemtov (Washington, DC)

Gala Event Honors Yeshivas Tzeirei HaShluchim, Yisrael Aryeh Leib
Tzeirei HaShluchim’s 13 years of success and the marking of 60 years of the passing of the Rebbe’s brother, Yisrael Aryeh Leib, were honored Tuesday night at a dinner and farbrengen event attended by many Anash members and Rabbonim from around Israel, and special guests Rabbi Shmuel Lew and Rabbi Hillel Dovid Krinsky.

Op-Ed: Conventional or Just Narrow Minded?
No, I am not one of those brazen young women who walk down the streets of Brooklyn in steep necklines that beg for cover out of sheer embarrassment, or bare feet tipped brightly in red nail polish, peering out cheerfully from between flip flop separators.
Baby Girl!
Yossi and Dina (nee Eliezrie) Spigler (Melbourne,Australia)
Wendy Weiner-Runge, a religious Jewish mother of four from Minnesota, was charged for deceiving the state of Iowa on tax forms while trying to film movies there - a first time, non-violent offense. She was sentenced to ten years in jail in a Polk County courtroom by Iowa Judge Douglas Staska.
Frum Mother of 4 Sentenced to 10 Years for ‘Defiance’
Wendy Weiner-Runge, a religious Jewish mother of four from Minnesota, was charged for deceiving the state of Iowa on tax forms while trying to film movies there – a first time, non-violent offense. She was sentenced to ten years in jail in a Polk County courtroom by Iowa Judge Douglas Staska.

Chabad Honors Israel’s Soldiers
“Nakba is not a protest against settlements. It is not about 67 borders. It is about 1948. It is the expression of agony for the very existence of Israel,” Israeli Consul General Ido Aharonisaid at a breakfast Tuesday morning honoring a group of Israel’s wounded soldiers on a tour of New York City.