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A poll out Wednesday from Quinnipiac University shows that most city voters still give Bloomberg failing grades. Just 40% of voters approve of the way he runs the city and only 25% say he’s doing a good job of running the schools.
The U.S. Postal Service continues to hemorrhage money, with a loss of $2.2 billion in the most recent quarter.
Children and parents from New Zealand to New York, stunned by the March 11 massacre of five members of Itamar, Israel’s Fogel family by Palestinian terrorists, have penned countless letters of support to its orphans, extending words of comfort, love and support.
With sadness we inform you of the passing, after a lengthy illness, of HaRav HaChossid, HaRav Hatomim Rabbi Dovid Raskin OBM, Menahel of Tomchei Tmimim 770, Menahel of Tzach and a member of Aguch. He was 84 years old.
While the debate about bill banning kosher slaughter continues in the Dutch parliament, the Jewish community of Amsterdam enjoyed a historic experience when the old Gerard Dou street Synagogue, located in downtown Amsterdam, hosted Friday night services for the first time since the Holocaust.
De Voce, a weekly Brooklyn Hasidic magazine, has dropped Hillary Clinton and Audrey Tomason from its pages, much as the Der Tzitung newspaper did. The magazine does leave somewhat blurry lines to suggest the photo was altered, as if a ghost Clinton still lingers, but the females are nevertheless scrubbed from the room.
Israel’s kosher cellular phone market has a new model, a device with a Yiddish interface to help devout Jews combine tradition with modern technology.
Public Advocate Bill de Blasio has jumped into the NYPD ticket-fixing controversy, demanding the city’s top cop come clean over allegations that some officers covered up busts for crimes a lot more serious than minor motor-vehicle infractions.
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — A wild shootout in a Crown Heights apartment building left one man fighting for his life, and police searching for three assailants – one of them possibly shot.
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — Terrance Nelson, Crown Heightses most infamous car burglar, was arrested last night after an encounter with a group of Bochurim. Nelson was attacked and beaten after they accused him of breaking into a car, police later arrested him based on his history and the allegations.
Muslim leaders in a Buffalo, N.Y., suburb are upset over a homeowner’s sign insinuating that bombs are being made next door at a newly opened mosque.
On Monday, about 60 men and women gathered at Chevra Ahavas Yisroel for an evening of growth and inspiration through a workshop titled “Stillness, Awareness and Growth” led by renowned Kabbalist and lecturer Rabbi Laibl Wolf.
Over 260 people gathered for a ceremony marking the completion and dedication of a brand new Sefer Torah at the regional headquarters of Chabad of Arizona. The new Torah was written in honor of Nazine Sarraf to have a complete recovery, and was donated by her husband Bob Sarraf. Rabbi Moshe Klein completed the writing.
The uncut footage from the 1984 Lag BaOmer parade in Crown Heights is now available on DVD. It features military salutes to the Rebbe, bagpipes playing “Moshiach Now,” and tens of thousands of kinderlach reciting the 12 pesukim together. Topping it all – two beautiful Sichos that the Rebbe tailored specifically for his young audience.
Reservations for this year’s parade are coming in fast, Boruch Hashem many more schools and Chabad houses will be joining the parade than ever before, so therefore unfortunately space is limited. Reservations will close on Sunday May 15th or earlier if we fill up. This is for schools reservations and the general public.
While Israel celebrates Independence Day today, Jewish students at the University of California at Irvine will have a hard time ignoring the hatred and hostility towards the Jewish state and its Jewish citizens that poisons the air on their campus. UC Irvine’s annual Israel Apartheid Week, organized by the Muslim Students Union (MSU) is now in progress, making this an especially difficult time for the school’s estimated 1,000 Jewish students.
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