A few drops of rain fell early Saturday morning as Mayor Michael Bloomberg was about to talk to reporters about the encroaching Hurricane Irene. A staffer said the news conference was being moved under a nearby overhang, but somehow that never happened.
Twenty years ago, race riots erupted in Crown Heights and an innocent Jewish student was murdered in response to the accidental killing of an African-American child. After the murder, the Rev. Al Sharpton came to Crown Heights and further whipped up an already incensed crowd, leaving some in the Jewish community to demand twenty years later that Sharpton be forever shunned by Jewry and criticizing my friend Rabbi Marc Schneier for inviting him to the Hampton Synagogue.
Levi and Brocha (nee Segelman) Weinman (Crown Heights)
Yossi Dery (Crown Heights) and Sara Benezra (Kiryat Ata, Israel)
Eli and Faigie (nee Riven) Dinerman (Crown Heights)
Velvel and Rochel (nee Cozocaru) Gurkow (Montreal, Canada)
Zalmy (ben Gavriel) Schapiro (Crown Heights) and Lana Bordy (Great Neck, NY)
Levi Coleman (London, England) and Mimi Fradkin (Montreal, Canada)
It is with shevach vehodaah to the Ribono Shel Olam that we report that the final verdict of Yoel Goldstein, Yoel Zev ben Mirel Risa Chava, was rendered just moments ago at the Chiba District Court in Japan and he has been found innocent.
A Palestinian attacker wounded seven Israelis near a Tel Aviv nightclub early Monday, hitting a police checkpoint with a stolen taxi and then stabbing others, police said.
The New York City Department of Transportation will be suspending Alternate Side Parking Regulations Citywide on Monday, 8/29/11, due to inclement weather. Parking meters will also be suspended citywide on this date.
Ezra Rosen, 23, went to Miami last winter to study at a brand-new yeshiva for 10 days. With his boss’ and parents’ blessing, he left New Jersey at the end of December with a round trip ticket.
This past week, eight Bochurim were flown down to Las Vegas, Nevada as part of the Merkos Shlichus program to run Peulos by the different Shluchim in the area. They were split up between the different Chabad Centers in the area including the central area of Las Vegas, Summerlin, Green Valley and Chabad @ UNLV.
New York City was not the only part of New York that was hit by Hurricane Irene, the Catskill Mountains took quite a beating as well. In Rozentzwiegs bungalow colony in Swan Lake they have lost power and water, forcing Rabbi Zalman Duchman to resort to some ancient ways of retrieving water!
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‘That wasn’t so bad’ was the feeling that most related after getting up this morning to find just a few trees uprooted and some fallen branches. Most Kingston merchants even opened for business!
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