CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — In an event themed “New Horizons…” hundreds attended a Chinese Auction benefiting United Lubavitcher Yeshiva of Ocean Parkway. From 1:30 in the afternoon at the Campus Chomesh, Bais Rivkah ballroom was a showcase of all the items being offered up for auction.
The Iraqi government has rejected recent claims made by an organization demanding that the country’s Jews be compensated for property lost when they immigrated to Israel, the London-based Arabic-language al-Sharq al-Awsat newspaper reported recently.
We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Tov to Yossi and Esti Lowenbein (Crown Heights) on the birth of a daughter.
May the newborn be a source of Nachas to her parents, grandparents and Klal Yisroel.
WASHINGTON — In a unanimous decision issued today, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that many of the convictions and sentences given to immigrant detainees from the Agriprocessors meatpacking plant in Postville were in error.
Believed to be the first of its kind anywhere in that part of the American West, a newly-built Jewish ritual bath in Montana is serving Jewish residents from Wyoming, Idaho, North and South Dakota, and the Canadian provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan.
Pictures from the L’Chaim of Sholly Nadler (Crown Heights) and Nechama Dina Levin (S. Monica, CA) Monday night at Bais Levi Yitzchak. Photos by BYK.
Pictures from the L’Chaim of Shmulik Zalmanov (Crown Heights) and Bunia Bastomski (Los Angeles, CA) Thursday night at the Zalmanov Home. Photos by BYK.
BROOKLYN, NY [CHI] — A Jewish man from Queens was stabbed this afternoon as he was leaving a building he manages on Church Avenue near Crown Heights. The incident took place on Church Avenue between Bedford and Rogers Avenue at around 1:10pm Monday Afternoon.
We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Shmuel Druk (Oak Park, MI) and Dini Marosow (Crown Heights) on their engagement.
The L’Chaim will IYH be Monday, tonight at Bais Rivkah, 310 Crown St. [between New York and Nostrand Ave].
To submit your Simcha or Mazal Tov email us at MazalTov@CrownHeights.info !!
NEW YORK [CBS] — U.S health officials say there are now 226 confirmed cases of swine flu in the United States.
The tally released Sunday by the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention also shows 30 states now have cases of H1N1 (swine) flu. That’s up from the CDC’s count of 160 confirmed cases in 21 states.
At 92 years of age, Baruch Mordechai Lifshitz walked slowly to the podium at Chabad-Lubavitch of Midtown Manhattan. His back was slightly stooped and his beard was fully white.
But when he began talking, people in the audience were taken aback by the vibrancy and strength of this one-time Soviet prisoner’s voice. Speaking last month, years since being sent to Siberia for giving encouragement and assistance to Moscow’s Jewish community at the height of Communist oppressions, he sounded like a man on a mission.
BROOKLYN, NY — A rare, deadly disease that has left an infant brain damaged and a teenager blind in one eye, has been detected in Brooklyn, the Daily News has learned.
The city’s Department of Health is on alert for Raccoon Ringworm, a disease contracted through contact with raccoon feces. It can cause permanent nerve damage and death.
RENO, NV — Three mornings a week, Tracy Kutler straps five-year old Griffin into the family car for the 45-minute drive from Truckee, California to Reno, Nevada.
That will change this September.
ODESSA, Ukraine [FJC] — In April 2007, the Hebrew Economics and Finance University was founded at the initiative of the Chief Rabbi of Odessa, Avraham Wolf. Initially, classes were held at the Odessa Association for Jewish Culture which later became the Southern Jewish “Chabad-Odessa” University.
We would like to wish Mazal Tocv to Shmuel Benhamou (Paris, France) and Rochel Uzan (Paris, France) on their engagement.
The L’Chaim will IYH be tonight, Sunday at 730 Montgomery St [between KIngston and Albany Ave].
ALBANY, NY [NY1] — Governor David Paterson wants the state Legislature to vote Monday on his plan to bail out the Metropolitan Transportation Authority.
The plan still calls for a payroll tax to raise more than a billion dollars for the agency and stave off huge fare hikes and deep service cuts.
Unless your head is buried in the sand, you’ve probably been told to beware of the coming “pandemic”, “health crisis”, or “epidemic”. You are most likely being as careful as possible to wash your hands often, stay away from crowded areas or, perhaps, to go as far as keeping your children home from school.
To add intrigue to the virus, the media has now given this “deadly plague” a mysterious and sci-fi sounding name, the “2009 H1N1 Influenza Virus”. Of course, any virus whose name contains a combination of names and numbers must be dangerous and deadly – and I must be next!
However, one must keep things in perspective, especially when it comes to things like fear and danger. Failure to keep accurate facts and statistics in perspective can result in even more unnecessary injury and death. In most cases, the very same evasive measures taken to help prevent one from contracting the disease can place a person in substantially more danger than the disease itself.
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