The city cannot be held financially responsible for a traffic cop who waved a bus through a red light and into a pedestrian, an appeals court ruled yesterday.
ISRAEL [CHI] — It is no coincidence that Mrs. Rivkah Denberg, from Coral Springs Fl, Mrs. Devorah Kornfeld of Seattle WA, Mrs. Chanie Nemes from Metrairie LA, and Mrs. Sora Strauss, from Brooklyn NY, all mechanchos in Chabad schools, find themselves in an ELAL flight to Israel, along with 20 other Chabad teachers. They are all participants in the Holocaust seminar sponsored cooperatively by the Merkos Chinuch Office and Yad Vashem.
Halacha and the Parasha – Parashas Pekudei
S. CALIFORNIA [CHI] — Over 200 members of Young Lubavitch Chevra of S. California gathered at The Mark Auditorium this past Motzei Shabbos for a Melava Malka Cocktail evening to benefit Keren Avraham Eliezer – the Young Chevra Gemach.
The King of Jewish Music Mordechai Ben David (MBD) Sings the English Medley at HASC #2 in 1988
Schneur and Tzippy (nee Gourarie) Schneerson (Newbury Park, CA)
KIRYAS JOEL — Kiryas Joel School District has been ordered to repay $276,443 in federal funds that were spent improperly on rent for the district’s only school building, according to a recently completed audit.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange accused British journalists of a “Jewish conspiracy” against him, saying in an interview that negative press is “an obvious attempt to deprive him of Jewish support and donations.”
OAK PARK, CA — Just how much an Oak Park synagogue in a residential neighborhood can grow its occupancy will be the subject of mediation meetings between temple leaders, neighbors and the county.
In Tuesday’s WSJ, I wrote about how small technology firms—from providers of audio/visual expertise to website-development services—are finding that houses of worship can be a lucrative market. But small businesses in industries besides technology can also benefit by focusing their promotional efforts on religious congregations.
Leibel Bronstein (Crown Heights) and Esty Wineberg (Detroit)
Lubavitcher Yeshiva, 570 Crown St [hall entrance on Albany Ave]
Mendy Majesky (Crown Heights) and Sheina Hecht (Brentwood)
Bnos Menachem, 739 East New York Ave [between Albany and Troy]
Shua and Henna (nee Glick) Laufer (Crown Heights)
Yisroel and Sara (nee Dorfman) Bernath (Montreal, Canada)
Menachem (ben Yanky) Korf (Crown Heights) and Chaya Mushka (bas Yosef Yitzchok) Gutnick (Melbourne, Australia)
This year, the annual Kinus Hamechanchim will take place on Sunday Rosh Chodesh Tammuz, July 3rd and Monday Tammuz, July 4th. The Kinus Hamechanchos will take place on Monday 23 Tammuz, July 25th and Tuesday 24 Tammuz, July 26th.
BROOKLYN — A Brooklyn city councilman wants to put banks on the hook for maintaining the homes they foreclose on in New York.
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).
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