CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — It has been three days since any Apple Bank customer has been able to log in to their online banking, make deposits, or pay their bills, leaving hundreds of Crown Heights customers at a loss.
After living in our two-bedroom Brooklyn apartment for almost eight months, my husband and I finally decided to hire a cleaning lady. I love to clean and have been efficiently up-keeping our pad, but with our usually vibrant trio ravaged by a cold virus and the baby starting to move all over the hardwood, we decided it was high time to do some floor-to-ceiling scrubbing. You know, the kind of cleaning that I just refuse to do. My prince-of-a-husband made the suggestion and I tried to convince him our apartment was fine. But when he mentioned a few hard-hit areas of our home, I knew I had to succumb. We made the call. The cleaning lady would come tomorrow. I got excited.
But that night, I tossed and turned. My nerves were pulsating like the night before a math exam. It hadn’t occurred to me that my house was completely unprepared for someone to tackle its mess. If Clara was going to come work her magic on my house, I had to be ready! If my apartment wasn’t anywhere near clean – how could I hire a cleaning lady?
Dovid Oberlander (Monsey, NY) and Leah Gittel Steinmetz (Southfield, MI)
L’Chaim Tonight Tuesday at Lubavitcher Yeshiva
570 Crown St [hall entrance on Albany Ave]
JERUSALEM, Israel [CHI] — On Sunday night, the Gala Banquet of JLI’s visit to the Holy Land took place in the main ballroom of the David Citadel Hotel in Jerusalem.
On Thursday (Mar 4), listeners to 101.9 ChaiFM, a popular Jewish radio station in Johannesburg, South Africa, were treated to a fascinating interview with the author of the Gutnick Chumash and editor-in-chief of Kol Menachem, Rabbi Chaim Miller.
From the Safer Haminhagim: [Every day from Rosh Chodesh Nissan until the twelfth of the month, usually after Shacharis,] one reads the passage [from Bamidbar 7-8:4] that describes the offering brought on that day by a particular Nasi, or tribal prince, for the dedication of the altar of the Mishkan. [In common parlance, each day’s passage itself is often referred to as “the Nasi.”] This daily reading is followed by the prayer which opens with the words yehi ratzon (and which appears in Siddur Torah Or [as well as in Siddur Tehillat HaShem, p. 371]). This prayer is recited even by a Kohen or a Levi [despite its seeming relevance only to tribes other than the Tribe of Levi]. [284]
The NYPD is regularly towing unmarked police cars – leaving detectives stranded on the street with no way to transport suspects in handcuffs, the Daily News has learned.
A first for England, exodus hits the UK. For three weeks Exodus is being seen in London. The Exodus sets came from Rabbi Shmuli Gutnick of Chabad Youth Network and was brought to England by Rabbi Yossi Simon of Tzivos Hashem UK, and his dedicated staff.
Yosef Dovid and Shterny (nee Horowitz) Chanowitz
(Crown Heights)
Eli Ekman (Melbourne, Australia) and Naomi Goldbaum (Melbourne, Australia)
The NYPD brought in additional 911 operators Saturday to handle the surge in emergency calls, YWN has learned.
City officials reported 65,000 911 calls over the weekend, which was the second largest volume ever, more than September 11th, and only second to the blackout in 2003.
ROCHESTER, NY [YNN] — It is two weeks until the Jewish holiday Passover begins. Already, dozens of kids and families got a jump-start on the Passover tradition by learning how to bake Matzah.
But this baking tradition goes beyond the bread. Rabbi Nechemia Vogel has been passing over the Matzah baking tradition for the past 28 years at the Model Matzah Bakery.
Shmuel Edwards (Miami Beach, FL) and Malki Kitchner (Miami Beach, FL)
Shlomo Press (Florida) and Nechoma Dina Sufrin (London, UK)
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