Oholei Torah 8th Grade Bochrim enjoyed a fun filled afternoon, arranged by Yossi Bryski, Starting with a trip to the park, a baseball game, followed by an awesome BBQ with hot-dogs, chicken wings before biking around the park together and then heading home.
Reunited Thursday night with the hero in pinstripes who saved her from choking on food at Yankee Stadium, a Bronx rabbi’s wife exclaimed, “I would be dead without you.”
“Thank you! Thank you! Thank you,” Toby Weiss told John Stone, the Army medic and Iraq veteran who rushed to her rescue during the first inning of Wednesday’s game. “Without you, I don’t know where I would be.”
Shneur and Liba (nee Frankel) Nejar
581 Crown St [between Albany and Troy Ave]
Zalman and Altie Heller
619 Empire Blvd [between Kingston and Albany Ave]
Nissan Moshe and Chani Vaisfiche
531 Crown St [between Kingston and Albany Ave]
Yossi and Miriam Wolfson
21 New County Rd, Monsey, NY
“THEY CAME FIRST for the Communists, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Communist.
THEN THEY CAME for the Jews, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Jew.
THEN THEY CAME for the trade unionists, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a trade unionist.
THEN THEY CAME for the Catholics, and I didn’t speak up because I was a Protestant.
THEN THEY CAME for me and by that time no one was left to speak up.” (Pastor Martin Niemöller (1892–1984))
CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — Over last few days, laborers have been hard at work preparing one of Oholei Torahs new properties to be converted into a playground.
Please take a moment and say a Kapitel Tehillim for a Refuah Shlaima for
Refoel Alexpander Alter ben Chaya Sheina
Simcha Chaya bas Luna
Max Kelly is running the gauntlet that every observant Jewish male must face at age 13—a months-long preparation for his bar mitzvah, a big day that involves being called to lead the Torah reading during a service to symbolize one’s adult membership of the Jewish community.
A PETA activists recorded a video in a slaughterhouse in Uruguay, depicting cows being treated inhumanely. The cows are lifted by a chain attached to one leg and then restrained by workers for the slaughter. The OU, which gives the Hechsher on the slaughterhouse, said two years ago they wanted to stop this practice. However since the raid on Agriprocessors, the OU has not been willing to endanger the country’s supply of kosher beef.
BISHKEK — The 2,000-member Jewish community of Kyrgyzstan suddenly lives in fear following an attack on its only synagogue after rebels last week apparently overthrew the government in a bloody uprising in which more than 80 people were killed.
In the few short years since its inception, the Online School has defied one limitation after another: distance, time zones and technology. Recently, they defied another slew of would-be obstacles – altitude, for one – when a teacher gave a class while flying!
Following a recent excursion to the Tower of London, pupils from Lubavitch Junior Boys’ School were awarded a prize for their outstanding behaviour.
As part of their Geography and History curriculum, year 3 pupils visited the Tower of London. After taking special note of their exemplary behaviour,the Yeoman Warders voted the class the best behaved visitors for the month of March, awarding them Her Majesty’s Tower of London Certificate of Merit.
Zalman and Mushky (nee Wolosow) Loewenthal (Crown Heights)
NEW YORK [CBS] — President Barack Obama met with House and Senate leaders to push bills to regulate the finance industry. But with Wall Street paying $8 billion a year in New York City taxes officials fear this rage against Wall Street will be another blow to new our already crippled economy.
Apple’s iPad is proving to be popular everywhere — except Israel. The country’s Communication Ministry is refusing to let people bring the multimedia tablet into the country because it hasn’t tested and approved the Wi-Fi technology used in the device, according to Haaretz.
MONTREAL, Canada — An e-mail campaign has been taking place in recent weeks to bring awareness about incidents of crime against the religious Jewish Lubavitch community in the Côte des Neiges area, to prompt more police involvement.
An e-mail from the organization Anshei Lubavitch, which has received numerous responses over several days, charges that police have been “passive” in reacting to several incidents, most recently the robbery of a 12-year-old boy.
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