New regulations allowing the cars of red-light scofflaws to be towed have resulted in more than 1,100 vehicles being hooked on the first day — more than double the daily average, The Post has learned.
NEW YORK [AP] — Chase’s online banking service was restored just after 1 a.m. EST on Wednesday after being down all day Tuesday.
NEW YORK [NY1] — After considering the issue for months, Mayor Michael Bloomberg today is expected to announce the expansion of the city’s Smoke Free Air Act.
The Vaad Talmidei Hatmimim has released three beautiful Kovtzim for the crowd of Bochurim that are spending Tishrei in Crown Heights and by the Ohel.
NEW SQUARE — Volunteer firefighters were battling a raging house fire tonight on Truman Avenue off Washington Avenue, the village’s main access road. No injuries were reported.
Shmulik and Chana Zalmanov (Crown Heights)
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — A Lubavitcher man was struck by a reversing car on Kingston Avenue this evening. Eyewitnesses said that the man was standing in the middle of the street, and was struck by a car that was backing up.
Rabbi misses Rosh Hashana in Palm City for a very small reason
Students at the first Jewish preschool to open in Serbia in more than 50 years learn how to make challah bread.
A group of Brazilian Jews met with their Shliach, Rabino Yossi Schildkraut, all of whom happened to be in New York today, and did Kapores in front of the Shlichum Office on Eastern Parkway.
In a pioneering effort to bring together the Buddhist and Jewish communities, the Jewish Children’s Museum in Brooklyn, N.Y., hosted yesterday the Sri Lankan ambassador to the United Nations along with his convoy of Buddhist monks.
Traffic deaths have plummeted across the United States to levels not seen in more than a half-century, spurred by technology, safety-conscious drivers and tougher enforcement of drunken driving laws.
Moshe and Faigie (nee Weingarten) Lipskier (Crown Heights)
This morning the first grade students in Sderot recieved a wonderful surprise. Rabbi Menachem Kutner from Chabad’s Terror Victims Project along with Rabbi Zeev Pizom visited the children and brought them lots of gifts and supplies from the Chabad community in Mequon, Wisconsin, USA. The children were thrilled to receive their gifts.
It would probably take a brick wall in order to prevent some from crossing in the middle of Eastern Parkway. Despite leaving the safety barriers from the Labor Day parade, many Bochurim just climb over them.
Spanning three continents, the untold story of Russian Jewry’s heroic triumph over communism is now being meticulously saved.
A community in the Amazon Rain forest flourishes with the help of Chabad of Manaus, Brazil.
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