Bowing to pressure from the City Council, the Bloomberg administration released Wednesday a draft list of the 20 fire companies facing closure this year.
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Motzai Shabbos, the 17 of Iyar 10:00 pm, a special Kinus marking the first yartzeit of Hatomim Nosson Deitsch OBM, at the Oholei Torah Zal on Eastern Parkway.
A video detailing the unique niche Yeshivas Tzeirei Hashluchim fills among the children of Shluchim was shown at their 13th anniversary gala dinner.
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — A Jewish man sitting in his car waiting for someone had his world suddenly rocked when his minivan was struck from behind. Eyewitnesses said that the driver that caused all the wreckage got out of his car and fled the scene.
Bay Area medical professionals and clerics have mobilized against attempts by a local anti-circumcision group to enact a citywide ban against the practice. If activists have their way in municipal elections this November, when voters will be asked to vote on the measure, circumcision of a boy under the age of 18 years of age for religious reasons would be classified as a misdemeanor and punishable by up to a year in jail and a $1,000 fine.
Meir and Hadassah Geisinsky (Cedarhurst, NY)
Moshe Shimon Hertzel (Crown Heights) and Nechama Dina Sitrin (Baltimore, MD)
Aryeh Hoffman (Los Angeles, CA) and Rochel Novoseletsky (Denver, CO)
Yossi and Dina (nee Eliezrie) Spigler (Melbourne, Australia)
Levi and Rivkie (nee Gorman) Gottlieb (Chicago, IL)
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.
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!
A total of 65 performers got onboard Tuesday, auditioning to be part of the MTA’s official Music Under New York program.
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.
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