Two Los Angeles Yeshivah Bochurim dance on a snow covered Brooklyn-Queens Expressway while waiting for traffic to clear up.
More than 200 flights have been canceled at O’Hare Airport in Chicago after a massive snowstorm barreled into the Mideast Sunday, leaving 1,700 travelers stranded in the airport.
A federal judge has rejected the city’s proposal that grisly anti-smoking ads be posted wherever tobacco is sold.
These garbage men really stink.
Selfish Sanitation Department bosses from the snow-slammed outer boroughs ordered their drivers to snarl the blizzard cleanup to protest budget cuts — a disastrous move that turned streets into a minefield for emergency-services vehicles, The Post has learned.
MORRISTOWN, NJ [CHI] — Mivtza Hachona for Yud Shevat has been a smashing success in Morristown. A multi faceted mivtza prepared as a joint project of the Vaad Marois Kodesh and the Talmidim Hashluchim, took off a week ago, and ever since Bochurim have been seen using every spare moment to involve themselves in the Mivtza.
At 3:58 a.m. on xmas Day, the National Weather Service upgraded its alert about the snow headed to New York City, issuing a winter storm watch. By 3:55 p.m., it had declared a formal blizzard warning, a rare degree of alarm. But city officials opted not to declare a snow emergency — a significant mobilization that would have, among other things, aided initial snow plowing efforts.
The Jewish community in Montreal, Canada all thurned out to attend the Levaya of Rabbi Menachem Zev Greenglass, who passed away last night.
Until just last week, going off to school has had a dual meaning for Rabbi Meir Muller. He’s been the principal of the Columbia Jewish Day School for the past 18 years. But in the midst of his day-to-day responsibilities, he also pursued an education of his own, turning to the nearby University of South Carolina to take advanced courses in early childhood education. He received his doctorate in the subject on Dec. 13.
Shuey from Mitzvah Boulevard went out for a walk in the streets of Crown Heights, and spoke with some children and neighbors about the storm!
Mendel and Shaina (nee Katzen) Fine (Montreal, Canada)
Koppel and Rivkah (nee Spalter) Cohen (Crown Heights)
Menachem Education Foundation is proud to share that our first Principal Leadership Program for women educators was launched two weeks ago, mid-December of 2010.
CrownHeights.info took a walk down to our local sanitation depot which services our neighborhood, and we were [not] surprised to see over 10 plow trucks just sitting around, and just a few workers milling about. We struck up a conversation with one worker who told us he walked from Millbasin to work today!
Mayor Bloomberg finally issued a mea culpa today for the snow fiasco that has crippled the city – but vowed not to sack the sanitation chief for the screw up.
Thirteen Chabad on Campus Rabbis and their wives, representing almost every major campus in the UK where there are a sizable number of Jewish students, met this week to discuss the vital issues facing Jewish students today on campus.
In an interview to Yeshiva World News Councilman David Greenfeld stood on the corner of Ocean Parkway and Parkville Avenue, showing an oil truck not being able to deliver heating oil, and FDNY ambulances stuck in parking lot traffic.
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