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Alternate Side Parking Rules Suspended Friday

Alternate side parking (street cleaning) regulations are suspended on Friday, December 25. Because it is is a major legal holiday, parking meter regulations are also suspended.

On major legal holidays, stopping, standing, and parking are permitted, except in areas where stopping, standing, and parking rules are in effect 7 days a week (for example, “No Standing Anytime”).

The 2010 alternate side parking (street cleaning) rules suspension calendar is available now, click below.

The 2010 Alternate Side Parking Suspension Calendar

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New Engagement!

Hushi Kot (Tallinn, Estonia) to Chani Wilhelm (Morristown, NJ) L’Chaim: Today, Monday, 8:30pm at F.R.E.E.
New Engagement!

Velvel Reikhtman (Montreal, Canada) to Channah Kagan (Crown Heights) L’Chaim: Tuesday, June 10th, 8:30pm at Ulam Chana 556 Crown Street
Baby Boy!

Shimon and Chanie Alon from Coral Springs, FL had a baby boy!
Baby Boy!

Yitzy and Leeby Smith from Coral Springs, FL had a baby boy!
New Engagement!

Pesach Chaim Newman (Crown Heights) to Bluma Raizel Lewis (Old Tappan, NJ)
New Engagement!

Eitan Hershkop (Crown Heights) to Chana Belfer (Melbourne, Australia) L’Chaim: Tonight, Thursday, 8:00pm at Bass and Bourbon
New Engagement!

Levi Meer (Morristown, NJ) to Sara Gershovitz (Crown Heights) L’Chaim: Thursday, June 12th, 8:00pm at 1349 President Street Upstairs
New Engagement!

Yosef Chaim Bercovice (Chicago, IL) to Leah Eisenbach (New York)
New Engagement!

Pesach Bercovice (Chicago, IL) to Tzipporah Yasmine Holloway (Orlando, FL)
New Engagement!

Mendel Saaks (Chicago, IL) to Leeba Grossbaum (Paramus, NJ)
New Engagement!

Yisrolik Keselman (London, UK) to Shaina Keller (Crown Heights)

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New Engagement!

Ya’akov Silverman (Tysons Corner, VA) to Chaya Raizel Michaelson (Glastonbury, CT)
New Engagement!

Yitzchak Minkowitz (Fort Myers, FL) to Shani Silver (Mequon, WI)
New Engagement!

Avremel Weingarten (Flint, MI) to Chana Potash (Noe Valley, SF, CA)
New Engagement!

Yaya Kagan (Los Angeles, CA) to Hadas Malamud (Brooklyn, NY) L’Chaim: Tonight, Thursday, 7:30pm at the Oholei Torah Ballroom
Baby Boy!

Meyer and Chaya (nee Engelberg) Shushan from Crown Heights had a baby boy!
Baby Girl!

Boruch and Adeli Zimmerman from Oro Valley, AZ had a baby girl!

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At McGill University, Students Host Inaugural Shabbat Dinner

By David Lipson for Lubavitch.com

On a recent Friday night, Rabbi Shmuly Weiss and his wife Rashi were guests in their own Montreal home. Roles were reversed as university students at Chabad of McGill became the masters of ceremony during the Inaugural Host Shabbat Dinner.

It was up to the students to create a menu, choose the night’s theme, and make Kiddush to “try to inspire the crowd,” Weiss says. “I’m on the backburner; I’m one of the guests.”

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With sadness we inform you of the passing of Refael Peretz Rivkin, 6 year old son of Shimon and Sternie Rivkin (Rivkin Yerakot) of Kfar Chabad Israel.

Three weeks ago Peretz contacted with a virus that spread to his brain.

His levaya was held today at 6:00 in Kfar Chabad.

His family is sitting shiva in their home in Kfar Chabad.

Baruch Dayan Emes.

Boruch Dayan Hoemes – Refael Peretz HaKohen Rivkin OBM

With sadness we inform you of the passing of Refael Peretz Rivkin, 6 year old son of Shimon and Sternie Rivkin (Rivkin Yerakot) of Kfar Chabad Israel.

Three weeks ago Peretz contacted with a virus that spread to his brain.

His levaya was held today at 6:00 in Kfar Chabad.

His family is sitting shiva in their home in Kfar Chabad.

Baruch Dayan Emes.

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Over the last few days a text message has been spreading around the Jewish communities in Crown Heights, Boro Park, and Flatbush about “a 3-year-old boy being abducted by a man driving a Mitsubishi Eclipse”, is confirmed to be a hoax and has appeared via text messages along with Twitter and other social networking sites as much as 4 months ago.

Fake ‘Child Abduction’ Text Message Circulating

Over the last few days a text message has been spreading around the Jewish communities in Crown Heights, Boro Park, and Flatbush about “a 3-year-old boy being abducted by a man driving a Mitsubishi Eclipse”, is confirmed to be a hoax and has appeared via text messages along with Twitter and other social networking sites as much as 4 months ago.

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Religious Jews have long experimented with ways to maintain their observance despite the advent of technology. Chabad Lubavitch's AskMoses.com allows visitors to chat with a Jewish scholar every day except on the Sabbath and holidays. Rabbi Simcha Backman says the Web site is a form of outreach.

Audio: AskMoses on NPR

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Religious Jews have long experimented with ways to maintain their observance despite the advent of technology. Chabad Lubavitch’s AskMoses.com allows visitors to chat with a Jewish scholar every day except on the Sabbath and holidays. Rabbi Simcha Backman says the Web site is a form of outreach.

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Yeshivas Tiferes Bachurim Honor Roll on Hey Teves

MORRISTOWN, NJ — On the 5th of Teves there was an Honor Roll Book Presentation made. Some 39 students who volunteered to do extra study in connection with the 19th of Kislev (the Chassidic New Year) were rewarded a memento to encourage their accomplishments. Then at the end, a grand Raffle was made by Rabbi Brafman (the Rosh Kolel) to award two students with various sets of books.

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ULYOP 5th Annual Chanukah Winter Ski Camp

It’s 7:00 am, students of ULYOP & Hamasifta gather in Crown Heights to meet at their home away from home, United Lubavitch Yeshiva on Ocean Parkway. At the same time the school’s talmidim from Flatbush, Queens, and Brooklyn heights are trekking towards the same goal. After the day’s Tanya and a hardy breakfast the vans are loaded, at 9:12am their over 200 mile journey to snow covered Saratoga Springs began. For yet another unforgettable Shabbos & Chanukah by Rabbi Avraham Abba Rubin, the Rebbes shliach to Saratoga Springs.

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Preparing crepes at the Jewish Discovery Center Chanukah brunch are Bluma Pinson, Chayie Caplan. - Abington Journal/C.R. Woronchuk

On Sunday, Dec.13, the Jewish Discovery Center in Clarks Summit, PA, hosted a special Chanukah brunch. The event was complete with crepes, latkes, smoked fish and lox, crafts, games and fun for all ages, including the Wheel of Fortune Chanukah game show hosted by Rabbi Benny Rapoport.

Chanukah at Chabad is about Tradition of Learning, Fun

Preparing crepes at the Jewish Discovery Center Chanukah brunch are Bluma Pinson, Chayie Caplan. – Abington Journal/C.R. Woronchuk

On Sunday, Dec.13, the Jewish Discovery Center in Clarks Summit, PA, hosted a special Chanukah brunch. The event was complete with crepes, latkes, smoked fish and lox, crafts, games and fun for all ages, including the Wheel of Fortune Chanukah game show hosted by Rabbi Benny Rapoport.

Shlichus
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“The Rebbe Owes The Chassid Total Loyalty”

On the fifth of Tevet, 5747 (1987), U.S. Federal Court issued a decision in favor of Agudas Chassidei Chabad (“Union of Chabad Chassidim”) regarding the ownership of the priceless library of the 6th Rebbe of Chabad-Lubavitch, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn. The ruling was based on the idea that a Rebbe is not a private individual but a communal figure synonymous with the body of Chassidim.

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