This Monday a Ta’anis Shaos, a fast day will be held for Sholom Mordechai Rubashkin. His family and friends are requesting Yidden storm the heavens with prayer for the immediate release of Reb Sholom Mordechai HaLevi Ben Rivka.
OSLO, NORWAY — Jews in Norwegian capital shocked by Anne Sander’s remark that Israelis benefit from settlements like Palestinians benefit from suicide bombings, her criticism against Chabad and Foreign Minister Lieberman.
Shneur Zalman Friedman (S. Paul, MN) and Brochie Marazov (Montreal, Canada)
L’Chaim Monday night at 1422 President St
[between Kingston and Albany Ave]
Yossi and Malkie (nee Hecht) Korik (Shluchim to Roseville, CA)
Torrential rains and strong wind gusts have been battering the tri-state area. Trees have been uprooted all around Crown Heights, and a massive crane on Montgomery and Nostrand is on the verge of collapsing after one of the support cables snapped.
Zalman Shimon Wolf (Crown Heights) and Mushky (bas R. Shimon) Hecht (Park Slope)
L’Chaim Sunday night at Congregation B’Nai Jacob
401 9th St, Park Slope, Brooklyn, NY
Berel and Dina (nee Kaplinsky) Bronstein (Crown Heights)
Weekend Reminder: Spring Forward! Daylight Saving Time is here, so don’t forget to turn your clocks forward an hour.
This Sunday, March 14, some three weeks earlier than usual, Daylight Saving Time kicks in at 2 a.m. and will last until the first Sunday in November. Based on the passage of the 2005 Energy Policy Act that takes affect this year, DST has been extended by four weeks. Typically, DST begins the first Sunday in April and runs through the last Sunday in October.
The theory behind DST is that people make better use of the extended daylight hours. With longer “synthetic sunshine” consumers have less need for lights, and other appliances. Studies show that energy demand is directly connected to bedtime. During DST, the sun is already up by the time most people wake. Less energy is needed to light the home, so less energy is consumed overall.
Congregation Ahavas Moische in Crown Heights, commonly known as The Maple Street Shul, will be holding their annual Melave Malka on Motzai Shabbos.
Legend has it that the late Albert Einstein, having just completed a paper and in need of a clasp, spent a considerable amount of time trying to straighten-out a clip that was twisted and unusable. While struggling with the dysfunctional object, his assistant discovered a new box of perfect clips. Einstein took one of the new paper clips reshaped it and used it as an instrument to repair the old bent one.
In response to his assistant’s bewilderment, the renowned physicist declared: “I had just established a new objective; once set upon a goal I’m not easily deflected.
Legend has it that the late Albert Einstein, having just completed a paper and in need of a clasp, spent a considerable amount of time trying to straighten-out a clip that was twisted and unusable. While struggling with the dysfunctional object, his assistant discovered a new box of perfect clips. Einstein took one of the new paper clips reshaped it and used it as an instrument to repair the old bent one.
In response to his assistant’s bewilderment, the renowned physicist declared: “I had just established a new objective; once set upon a goal I’m not easily deflected.
Yisroel Kohn (Toronto, Canada) and Rivkie Raitport (Boro Park)
I would like to wish a very hearty Mazal Tov! Mazal Tov! to my dear friend Avi (ben Reb Tzali) Lesches (Crown Heights) and Chaya (bas Reb Menachem) Bryski (N. Hollywood, CA) on their engagement!
L’Chaim Motzai Shabbos at Chovevei Torah
885 Eastern Parkway [between Troy and Albany Ave]
On the road to eternal peace, a body left inside a funeral home minivan wound up at hell on earth: the city tow pound.
The unscheduled stop came after a police tow truck hooked the illegally parked vehicle outside Redden’s Funeral Home on W. 14th St.
Shmuel and Nechama (nee Schapiro) Samuels (Crown Heights)
Yehoshua and Menucha (nee Glogauer) Lavner (Toronto, Canada)
State banking regulators on Thursday evening shut down the troubled LibertyPointe Bank, whose chairman, Shaya Boymelgreen, built more than 2,400 apartments in New York City in the last decade. The failure was the 27th in the nation this year but the first in the city in more than a decade, regulators said.
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