I had a business relationship with the owner of a local mattress retailer. On one of my sales visits to him, in addition to our discussing his regular display ad in the paper he began inquiring into placing a classified ad, seeking a new salesman/manager. I detected a smirk on his face, so naturally I asked him what that was all about.
The city’s push to plant a million trees by 2017 is giving some New Yorkers a headache – or at least a stuffy nose and itchy eyes.
Early Thursday, a plane carrying 25 children from the Chernobyl area will touch down in Israel, where the children will begin their new lives. The airlift comes the same week as the 25th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster, the worst nuclear disaster in modern history.
Yoni and Chanie (nee Bialestock) Rappaport (Crown Heights)
Chezky and Chanie Lifshitz (Kathmandu, Nepal)
CANCUN, Mexico [CHI] — Four public Pesach Seders in Cancun, in the Mexican Caribbean, attracted over 700 people from all over the world.
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — A man was shot multiple times earlier in the afternoon as he was exiting an apartment building where he lived. Witnesses heard 8 or more shots ring out, which left a man lying on the street bleeding.
France is actively considering recognizing a Palestinian state, along with other European neighbors.
An unprecedented 79 soldiers were promoted this month in the MyShliach division of Chayolei Tzivos Hashem. The spiking numbers are a strong testament to the improved efficiency of the program, as well as the devotion of parents and kids alike.
With sadness we inform you of the passing of Reb Moshe Cadaner OBM, 76, a long time Crown Heights resident, who in recent years moved to Israel and lived in Nachliel. He passed away in Montreal while spending Pesach with family.
He is survived by his wife Lori, and children Sholom Ber (USA), Zev (Crown Heights), Nechama Lichtinstein (Rochestor, NY), Suri Fox (Crown Heights), Malki Shteinberg (Zfat, Israel), Levi (Israel), Chani Spindler (Montreal, Canada),and Schnuer (Davenport, IA).
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Based on Niggun Hisva’adus, Aaron Niasoff sings the CGI Florida song “Rebbe Mein Tatte” about a boy wanting to see the Rebbe.
Halacha and the Parasha: Parashas Kedoshim
Shumi and Chani (nee Goldstein) Barami (Israel)
Huda and Rivky (nee Torenheim) Shor (Las Vegas, NV)
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).
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.
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