In an age of constant contact and an almost umbilical attachment to an array of communications devices where what is important is often displaced by what seems to be urgent, the Rohr Jewish Learning Institute (JLI) is launching a course on Shabbos: the block of time where nothing intrudes on the peace and sanctity of being fully present with ourselves, our family, our Maker.
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Zev Henig (Monsey, NY) and Yehudis Elkayam (Monsey, NY)
Aryeh and Sashie Kay (Crown Heights)
Tzvi and Sarah (nee Dworcan) Schectman (West Bloomfield, MI)
Shmuel and Henna Kopel
Mayor Bloomberg signaled support Friday for a City Council plan to reduce alternate-side parking restrictions – but worries too many loopholes could make it difficult to enforce.
Government’s role in promoting intercultural relations is to ensure that “no religious denomination will bring ideas of violence or extremism to the people,” said Chief Rabbi of Russia Berel Lazar at an international human rights council that met recently.
To Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, it seemed like a sensible way to attack a major public health problem. To the soft drink industry, giant food companies, makers of snacks and candy, supermarkets, and antihunger groups, it seemed like an attack at the grocery checkout counter.
With sadness we inform you of the passing of Rebetzin Miriam Swued from Mexico City this Shabbos Parshas Kedoshim.
She was the wife of Rabbi Chaim Swued A”H, and is survived by her children Rajel Levy (Buenos Aires, Argentina), Rosa Cohen (Montreal), Eliyahu Swued (Mexico City), Naomi Heber (Crown Heights), Shevi Piekarsky (Bogota, Colombia).
Apparently, the black pinched Borssalino, a familiar sight on the heads of Lubavitcher Chassidim in Crown Heights and worldwide, is the latest fashion craze in town.
Thanks to the late Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, Chabad Lubavitch is a well-known and powerful Hasidic movement, with 4,000 emissaries now stationed around the world. But few people know that the rebbe’s predecessor, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneerson, owes his life to a half-Jewish Nazi officer acting under the direct order of the head of the Third Reich’s military intelligence agency.
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.
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.
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)
A cellphone company has announced it is selling suitcase-sized mobile towers, which will allow customers to generate their own wireless coverage from remote locations.
