Councilman: Banks Should Maintain Foreclosed Homes
by Adam Lisberg – New York Daily News
BROOKLYN — A Brooklyn city councilman wants to put banks on the hook for maintaining the homes they foreclose on in New York.
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A Single Father, A Tireless Fellow Shliach, An Unimaginable Struggle
by Robyn Flans - Ventura County Star
VENTURA, CA — Imagine 25 people excited to see garbage. So it was for the CHEVRE, Conejo Hikers Enjoying Ventura's Rural Environs, members from Oak Park Chabad, as they walked and cleaned the Medea Creek Trail on Jan. 23 in honor of Jewish Arbor Day (Tu B'Shevat).
Chabad Club Teaches Respect for Environment
by Robyn Flans – Ventura County Star
VENTURA, CA — Imagine 25 people excited to see garbage. So it was for the CHEVRE, Conejo Hikers Enjoying Ventura’s Rural Environs, members from Oak Park Chabad, as they walked and cleaned the Medea Creek Trail on Jan. 23 in honor of Jewish Arbor Day (Tu B’Shevat).
New Engagement!
Mendy (ben R’ Chaim) Majesky (Crown Heights) and Sheina (bas R’ Boruch) Hecht (Brentwood, CA)
L’Chaim Wednesday night at Bnos Menachem
739 East New York Ave [between Albany and Troy Ave]
Governments Consider Controversial Building Deals
Newsday
NEW YORK — New York City and New Jersey need a new bridge, but money is tight. So officials are doing something they’ve never done before: They’re getting a private company to build one, then buying it a little at a time.
Chabad of Central Africa To Open New Centers in Nairobi and Lagos
Lubavitch.com
Rabbi Shlomo Bentolila visits with Congo’s President Kabila.
CONGO — Chabad of Central Africa will be sending full-time, permanent representatives to Nairobi, Kenya, and Lagos, Nigeria under the auspices of Rabbi Shlomo Bentolila, Chabad’s representative to the region.
Who do you know in Miami?
After a hugely successful whirlwind trip in Montreal, the My Encounter with the Rebbe team is back on its feet and has already conducted some crucial interviews in NY. In addition, My Encounter also has a team in Israel conducting interviews, averaging four interviews every week.
New Engagement!
Leibel Bronstein (Crown Heights) and Esty Wineberg (Detroit MI)
L’Chaim Wednesday Night at Lubavitcher Yeshiva
570 Crown St [hall entrance on Albany Ave]
Pre-Packaged Sabbath Meals Provide Taste of Home
Chabad-Lubavitch of Northwest Metro Denver director Leah Brackman hands out a fully-prepared Sabbath meal to a local Jewish community member.
Uri Shinsky spends his weekends counseling at-risk youth at a rural campsite in Colorado, but that doesn’t mean he’s deprived of a home-cooked Shabbat meal each week.
3-Alarm-Fire Rips Through Laundromat
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — A fire which burned for over 2 hours completely decimated a Laundromat, sending plumes of smoke covering Crown Heights with the acrid smell.
New Engagement!
Shmuel Chitrik (Tzfat, Israel) and Batya Margolin (Kfar Chabad, Israel)
I.G.M. Competition in London
For the past month Lubavitch Boys school in London have been involved in a special project in connection with Inyanei Geulah Moshiach.
We are pleased to present our thirty - ninth online class in the “Torah in Ten” series, presented by the editor-in-chief of Kol Menachem, Rabbi Chaim Miller.
Torah in 10: Fascinating Insights on The Parsha!
We are pleased to present our thirty – ninth online class in the “Torah in Ten” series, presented by the editor-in-chief of Kol Menachem, Rabbi Chaim Miller.
Laber Invests in Federman
Signing the new deal at the Ohel.
Uri Laber of Optima Ventures and Ben Federman of 1SaleADay, both donors to Chabad causes, announced its new partnership after praying at the Rebbe’s Ohel in Queens.
NY Times
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, shown touring a new city data center, is adding opinion journalism to his media company.
Over the last year, representatives of Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg quietly reached out to a handful of the country’s top journalists with an intriguing job offer: Divine and distill his unique brand of political philosophy and disseminate it around the globe for an annual salary of close to $500,000.
After Business and Politics, Mayor Tests Opinion
NY Times
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, shown touring a new city data center, is adding opinion journalism to his media company.
Over the last year, representatives of Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg quietly reached out to a handful of the country’s top journalists with an intriguing job offer: Divine and distill his unique brand of political philosophy and disseminate it around the globe for an annual salary of close to $500,000.
Baby Girl!
Yisroel and Ashirah (nee Welton) King (Crown Heights)
Busing Deadline Prompts Cheder at the Ohel to Open Registration Early
New York State law declares that private school students who live outside the city limits are entitled to busing to their private school. Transportation is paid for by the school district within a 15 mile radius from a student’s home. The deadline for registering for busing for the 2011-12 school year is April 1, 2011. Those who do not register by this time forfeit their right to busing.
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