A plan by the New York Fire Department to allay severe budget cuts by charging motorists up to $490 to respond to accidents and car fires has touched off blistering criticism and calls for the City Council to outlaw the policy.
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CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — Oihel Nosson welcomed two new Sifrei Torah today in a joyous Siyum and Hachnosa of two new Torahs. One of the Torahs was dedicated in memory of the Shuls namesake, R. Nosson ben Nachman Yehuda Leib Nagel, and the second in memory of his wife Raizel bas Ita Zundel.
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — A Lubavitcher was arrested earlier this afternoon after he was pulled over for running a red light, in what should have been a routine traffic stop.
Students in Lubavitcher Yeshiva had the opportunity to fill one of the Rebbes Horaos of the day, Hey Teves, to buy Seforim at discounted prices!
In honor of Hey Teves, the Oholei Torah PTA gave a full program to the talmidim from Grades pre 1a-8, including a Seforim Sale, a overview of the Rebbeim’s Seforim, a hands on exhibition on how ink is made, a Chinese auction and a presentation of antique seforim.
Last year Bochurim in Oholei Torahs Eight Grade put together a video explaining the story behind Hey Teves, Didan Notzach.
King of Jewish music Mordechai Ben David sings a medley of his English classics at a concert in Brooklyn College in 1986, with music by Moshe Laufer.
Mendy (ben Yosef Yitzchok Yehoshua) Hecht (Beit Shemesh – Melbourne) and Chaya Mushka (ben Aharon Yosef) Vogel (Crown Heights)
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — Over 500 men and women packed in to the Jewish Childrens Museum this past Motzai Shabbos, to enjoy a glass of wine along with a hot buffet, as well as hearing lectures from renowned experts in the cardiovascular field.
In a series of statements issued over the weekend, the Catholic League distanced itself from the edict issued by the Beth Din of Crown Heights, warning residents against bringing “to any media outlet, information about any resident that could, if publicized, lead to an investigation or intensified prosecution by any law-enforcement agency”.
In this week’s “Opening the week with the Rebbe”: In honor of “Didan Notzach” We are presenting a short video clip from 5 Tevet 5752, the Fifth anniversary of the US District Court’s verdict ordering the return of books from the Previous Rebbe’s library in 770.
Levi and Nechama Dina (nee Cohen) Pevzner (Beitar Illit, Israel)
Moti and Shainy (nee Altein) Rosenfeld (Bogota, Colombia)
Moshe and Sheva (nee Lipsker) Sputz (Crown Heights)
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — A Bochur was stopped, this Motzai Shabbos, by a van with 7 cops for riding his bicycle on a sidewalk, and when police asked for his identification he explained that Shabbos had just ended and he did not have it. Instead of understanding, the officers threatened to arrest him.
“Gelt” was alive and well this Chanukah down under, with Lipa Schmeltzer at Melbourne’s Friendship Circle’s exclusive concert for Friendship Circle’s participants, volunteers and Families.
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