Haight-Ashbury in San Francisco was ground zero of the counterculture movement in the 1960’s when the neighborhood threw its arms wide open, embracing the hippies and flower children of the Summer of Love.
After learning for a full day on Sunday, despite the rising snow, students of Lubavitcher Yeshiva finally turned to the outdoors; but no, not exactly what you may be thinking. All these students wanted to know was what good can good come from this snow? and how can we use the snow for our Avodas Hashem?
Toward a Meaningful Life: A Soul-Searching Journey for Every Jew. Life can be a treadmill – as we go through the motions day after day without ever asking why or seeking what really matters to us.
Yossi and Rivky (nee Holtzberg) Shain (Crown Heights)
Avi and Chana Zelda (nee Isenberg) Weiss (Crown Heights)
Yisroel Cywiak (Flatbush) and Bracha Goldberg (Crown Heights)
Avremi Adler (Beitar Illit, Israel) and Ita Vogel (Kiryat Malachi, Israel)
NEW YORK [AP] — It took hours for Christopher Mullen to get off a plane from sunny Cancun and on to a half-empty subway car, his only way home. It would be another eight hours and more — a night spent huddled under a thin blanket on the frigid, grungy car — before he could get off the A train.
Yeshiva World News is reporting that New York City’s 311 system has collapsed, and all calls are getting a busy signal or ringing away.
Hours after the snow stopped, countless streets around the city were unplowed – causing a dangerous backlog in emergency responses and drawing outrage.
Please take a moment and say a Kapitel Tehillim for a Refuah Shlaima.
Yehosefa Nechama Basia bas Leah Fraidah
Yossel ben Mindle, he in a coma after having brain surgery yesterday.
One of New Yorks biggest blizzards did not hinder the boys from Cheder at the Ohel from learning! Students together with their teachers and classmates held conference calls through which they learned together.
NEW YORK [AP] — Planes have begun landing again at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport after a blizzard clobbered the Northeast and led authorities to suspend all flight operations.
Several cars driving through the blizzard last night, Sunday burst into flames. The cars got stuck in the snow and tried to accelerate their way out of the snow.
It’s the free day we’ve all been waiting for. Although its meant to be a bother to most, there is no denying the guilty pleasure associated with being “snowed in,” unable to attend to our weekly work. Finally a moment to catch up on all those loose ends life never really finds time for. But if you’re interested in what the Rebbe Rashab had to say on conveniently cozy days such as this allow us to indulge you:
NEW YORK CITY [NY1] — New Yorkers are digging out this morning after more than a foot of snow fell yesterday.
Don’t Drive If You Don’t Have To! Snow combined with freezing temperatures are causing very hazardous road conditions. It’s 25 degrees fahrenheit outside but it feels like 8° F, with winds for the Northwest at 29mph gusting to 43mph (forecast as of 12:00pm).
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