NEW YORK, NY [WCBSTV] — There’s another bailout plan being floated to try to solve the Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s cash crunch.
You may be paying a dollar more per cab ride.
“They survived and gave us a future. We are here because of them,” explains Rabbi Tzvi Tauby. “Their sacrifices affect our lives every day.”
Communities in Israel and around the world are commemorating the deaths of six million Jews on Yom Hashoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day. But for the steadily dwindling generation who survived those horrific years, Holocaust Remembrance is a daily experience.
We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Shlomo Yosef Minkowitz (Milan, Italy) and Nechama Dina Chein (Queens, NY) on their engagement.
The L’Chaim will IYH be Thursday night, 7pm at the Troyka Restaurant 102-55 Queens Blvd, Queens, NY 11375. DIRECTIONS.
SS guard Franz Suchamel attested to the Nazi murder machine which attempted genocide to annihilate the Jewish people.
He described the brutal transportation process which killed most of those brought into Treblinka. During the interview, which Suchomel did not know was being filmed, the SS soldier revealed in great detail the means necessary for killing thousands and the huge efforts that went into disposing of the bodies.
We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Meyer and Miriam (nee Rahmani) Litzman (Phoenix, AZ) on the birth of their daughter.
May the newborn be a source of Nachas to her parents, grandparents and Klal Yisroel.
British scientists say they use up more fuel to transport them around and the amount of food they eat requires more energy to produce than that consumed by those on smaller diets.
According to a team at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine this adds to food shortages and higher energy prices.
We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Yitzy Kleinman (Monsey, NY) and Esther Malka Vcherashansky (Los Angeles, CA) on their engagement.
The L’Chaim will IYH be tonight, Tuesday at Lubavitcher Yeshiva, 570 Crown St [hall entrance on Albany Ave].
GENEVA, Switzerland [CNN] — Dozens of international envoys walked out during a speech by Iran’s president Monday as he accused Israel of having a “racist government” and committing genocide.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad accused the West of making “an entire nation homeless under the pretext of Jewish suffering … in order to establish a totally racist government in occupied Palestine.”
GENEVA, Switzerland [CHI] — As the UN’s controversial Durban Conference got underway, less the participation of a number of countries, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Pevzner the head Shliach in Geneva came up with the Chabad response.
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HOUSTON, TX — Championship cyclist Michelle Bono remembers being uncomfortable the first time she came to Friday night Shabbat services at Houston, Texas’ Aishel House.
“I was wearing pants, so I felt like I should just stand in the back,” says Bono, somewhat incredulous at her discomfort.
JERUSALEM [JTA] — A new survey shows that anti-Semitism rose sharply in early 2009 after a decrease in 2008.
The survey, conducted by the Stephen Roth Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism and Racism at Tel Aviv University in cooperation with the European Jewish Congress, was released Monday on the eve of Holocaust Memorial Day and at the start of the Durban II anti-racism conference.
We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Alex and Raizel Heppenheimer (Crown Heights) on the birth of their son.
May the newborn be a source of Nachas to his parents, grandparents and Klal Yisroel.
BROOKLYN, NY — Construction is set to begin on a 2,000 square foot storefront which will serve the 5,000 Jewish students enrolled at five downtown Brooklyn colleges. The largest of those schools, the prestigious Pratt Institute, with 1,000 Jewish students, has the third highest percentage of Jewish students in the nation.
We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Simcha and Hinda (nee Abraham) Frenkel (Johannesburg, South Africa) on the birth of their firstborn daughter.
May the newborn be a source of Nachas to her parents, grandparents and Klal Yisroel.
ISRAEL — National Union chairman Ya’acov “Ketzele” Katz sent a letter to White House chief-of-staff Rahm Emanuel last week admonishing him not to forget his Jewish and Israeli origins.
Katz’s missive came in response to a reported verbal exchange between Emanuel and an unidentified American Jewish leader.
