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New York Driving Course Goes Online

By Stephen Williams for the NY Times Blogs

NEW YORK — New York drivers now have the option of taking defensive-driving courses over the Internet to qualify for auto insurance discounts and point reductions on their driving records.

A Tank That Brings Judaism to Moscow Streets

By Elizabeth Shockman Special to The Moscow Times

The Mitzvah Tank crew on Tverskaya Ulitsa. The project eventually hopes to have tanks in other Russian cities too.

MOSCOW — As an unusual combination of symbols — a camping trailer painted in synagogue-stone browns with a giant menorah on its side — the Mitzvah Tank was not created to blend into Moscow’s urban environment. In fact, with a back seat full of rabbis, this synagogue on wheels is strategically designed to change the way Muscovites think about Judaism and spur on its revival in Russia.

Shliach Delivers Invocation at CMU Graduation Ceremony

Over 10,000 people including graduates, family, and friends gathered in the Geisling Stadium for Carnegie Mellon Universitys (CMU) 2009 Commencement. At the conclusion of his first year of Shlichus as director of Chabad of CMU, Rabbi Shlomo Silverman received the honor of giving the Invocation at the beginning of the ceremony.

Shliach’s Home Vandalized – Police Consider Hate Crime

MIAMI BEACH, FL [WSVN] — What was smeared on the walls at the home of a South Florida rabbi has left a community outraged, and police are calling this a possible hate crime.

“We saw, on the window right here, it was smeared all across here,” Rabbi Aaron Rabin said making a sweeping gesture in front of his large picture window at the front of his home. “Dog feces smeared all over this window and on the floor here.”

Mazal Tov! – It’s A Boy!

We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Shmuli and Aidy (nee Katzman) Bendet (Crown Heights) on the birth of their firstborn son.

May the newborn be a source of Nachas to his parents, grandparents and Klal Yisroel.