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By Reuven Blau for the New York Post

NEW YORK, NY — It's back to driving school for the NYPD, which has just laid out $225,000 for its first squad-car simulator in an effort to reduce the rising rate of cop-car crashes.

The Post first reported in August that patrol-car accidents among its 8,839-car fleet have surged by 11 percent over the past three years.

TO SWERVE & PROTECT – NYPD ‘CRASH’ COURSE AFTER ACCIDENT SURGE

By Reuven Blau for the New York Post

NEW YORK, NY — It’s back to driving school for the NYPD, which has just laid out $225,000 for its first squad-car simulator in an effort to reduce the rising rate of cop-car crashes.

The Post first reported in August that patrol-car accidents among its 8,839-car fleet have surged by 11 percent over the past three years.

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Chaim Uziel Starik (Vienna, Austria) to Batsheva Spivak (Pembroke Pines, FL)
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Zalman Friedman (Coral Springs, FL) to Lea Dukes (Santiago, Chile) L’Chaim: Monday, May 5th, 7:00pm at 9400 NW 4th Street, Coral Springs, FL
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Yossi Gutnick (Sydney, Australia) to Chaya Eisnebach (Northwest, CT) L’Chaim: Tonight, Thursday, at the Garden House 1386 S. John’s Pl
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Yaakov and Shevi (nee Katzman) Behrman from Crown Heights had a baby boy!
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Moishe and Frayda (nee Aber) Scheinfeld from Brooklyn, NY had a baby boy!
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Yermi and Daniella Liam (nee Pohlman) Kurkus from Lake Lure, NC had a baby boy!
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Levi Kalmenson (Crown Heights) to Chanale Baitch (Crown Heights) L’Chaim: Monday, April 28th, 8:00pm at Anshei Lubavitch 578 Albany Ave
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Zevi Jacobson (De Moines, IA) to Ita Gurevitch (Crown Heights) L’Chaim: Monday, April 28th, 8:00pm at the JCM
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Sruli Friedman (Coral Springs, FL) to Adina Izgelov (Milwaukee, WI) L’Chaim: Monday, April 28th, 8:00pm at Albany Manor 641 Rutland Rd
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Shlomo Werde (Crown Heights) to Gila Bensusan (London, UK)
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Chezki and Mushkie Golowinski from Crown Heights had a baby boy! Shalom Zachor: 539 Crown Street
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Avi Baitelman (Los Angeles, CA) to Mindy Neubort (Fair Lawn, NJ) L’Chaim: Tonight, Thursday, 8:00pm at Lubavitch Yeshiva
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Menachem Forer (Toronto, Canada) to Sari Gottlib (Hillside, NJ) L’Chaim: Thursday, April 24th, 8:00pm at Lubavitcher Yeshiva
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Chaim and Bracha (nee Morozow) Rendler from Crown Heights had a baby boy!
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Zalmy and Esther (nee Tabari) Hyams from Crown Heights had a baby girl!
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Shmuly and Chaya (nee Lewin) Stone from Crown Heights had a baby boy!
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Yossi Krinsky (Vilnius, Lithuania) to Rochele Namdar (Gothenburg, Sweden)
NY Daily News

David Weiss went to synagogue every day,
including Saturday, the day he died, relatives said.
A Brooklyn man who survived both world wars, the Auschwitz gas chambers and the deaths of four wives perished at age 100 when he was trapped in a fire in his Williamsburg home.

David Weiss had seen the worst of the world but remained deeply faithful. He went to synagogue every day, including the morning he died, when relatives said he returned home for a forgotten prayer shawl and was caught in the flames.

“He lived for God,” said his granddaughter, Faigy Stroh. “A very humble man.”

Neighbors called Weiss a lively man who seemed younger than his years.

“A 100-year-old man and he still walked without a cane - he still walked on his two feet. To be killed in a fire? It is a tragedy,” said Moses Bineth, 31, who works at the minimart where Weiss bought chocolate for his great-grandkids.

Auschwitz Survivor Dies at 100 in fire at Home in Brooklyn

NY Daily News

David Weiss went to synagogue every day,
including Saturday, the day he died, relatives said.

A Brooklyn man who survived both world wars, the Auschwitz gas chambers and the deaths of four wives perished at age 100 when he was trapped in a fire in his Williamsburg home.

David Weiss had seen the worst of the world but remained deeply faithful. He went to synagogue every day, including the morning he died, when relatives said he returned home for a forgotten prayer shawl and was caught in the flames.

“He lived for God,” said his granddaughter, Faigy Stroh. “A very humble man.”

Neighbors called Weiss a lively man who seemed younger than his years.

“A 100-year-old man and he still walked without a cane – he still walked on his two feet. To be killed in a fire? It is a tragedy,” said Moses Bineth, 31, who works at the minimart where Weiss bought chocolate for his great-grandkids.

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by Dini Freundlich, a Lubavitcher Woman, Beijing China

Although living in Beijing, China, which would seem far from the US and its TV programs, being the Chabad Lubavitch Shlucha here makes me the one that people turn to when they have a Jewish, Chassidic or “Torah perspective Women’s” question. Last week was no different and the big buzz was about the comments made on “The View” by Susie Essman, who plays the role of a Lubavitcher woman in a movie titled “Loving Leah”.

The comments and questions were the talk of my Friday kitchen as I prepared for Shabbat with some University students and the young Shluchot who help us in the Chabad House. I silently listed to them discuss this with a mix of anger, shock, outrage and confusion and a disbelief that in today’s modern and “open” world comments such as hers could be publicly heard and not refuted! They were further more infuriated that noone on the show stopped her or challenged her comments. They turned to me for my thoughts on boycotts, websites and angry emails in response to this outrage.

Op-Ed: Thank you Susie Essman!

by Dini Freundlich, a Lubavitcher Woman, Beijing China

Although living in Beijing, China, which would seem far from the US and its TV programs, being the Chabad Lubavitch Shlucha here makes me the one that people turn to when they have a Jewish, Chassidic or “Torah perspective Women’s” question. Last week was no different and the big buzz was about the comments made on “The View” by Susie Essman, who plays the role of a Lubavitcher woman in a movie titled “Loving Leah”.

The comments and questions were the talk of my Friday kitchen as I prepared for Shabbat with some University students and the young Shluchot who help us in the Chabad House. I silently listed to them discuss this with a mix of anger, shock, outrage and confusion and a disbelief that in today’s modern and “open” world comments such as hers could be publicly heard and not refuted! They were further more infuriated that noone on the show stopped her or challenged her comments. They turned to me for my thoughts on boycotts, websites and angry emails in response to this outrage.

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JLI Lecture with Schindler’s List Survivor – Sold Out!

SKOKIE, IL [CHI] — Over 1400 people filled the Auditorium at Niles West High School in Skokie, IL to hear the story of one man’s commitment to save thousands of Jews during the dark years of the holocaust. Mr. Leon Leyson the youngest survivor on Schindler’s List, kept the crowd spell-bound for an hour and a half while he retold his personal experience of growing up in Cheder, the takeover of the Nazi Regime and how he was miraculously saved through the efforts of Oskar Schindler and his factory.

More pictures in the Extended Article!

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Watertown Daily Times

CANTON, NY — The owner of kosher food operations in Ogdensburg will be evicted by the city for failure to pay rent and utilities.

Ahava of California LLC, Venice, Calif., reportedly owes the city $90,000 in back rent and $618,138 in delinquent utility payments, according to a four-page complaint filed Friday. The city will evict the business March 10, should the delinquent bills not be paid. The Times was unable to ascertain whether the plant was operating Friday.

City of Ogdensburg moves to Evict Ahava

Watertown Daily Times

CANTON, NY — The owner of kosher food operations in Ogdensburg will be evicted by the city for failure to pay rent and utilities.

Ahava of California LLC, Venice, Calif., reportedly owes the city $90,000 in back rent and $618,138 in delinquent utility payments, according to a four-page complaint filed Friday. The city will evict the business March 10, should the delinquent bills not be paid. The Times was unable to ascertain whether the plant was operating Friday.

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by Ralph J. Bellantoni - mycentraljersey.com

Rabbi Yitzchok Moully turns his photographs of Hasidic life into pop art silkscreens. A rabbinical gathering, Hasidic dancers, dreidels and other Jewish icons become vibrant, boldly colored images.

BASKING RIDGE, NJ — A Hasidic rabbi would seem to share little in common with flamboyant pop artist Andy Warhol. But Yitzchok Moully, a rabbi at the Chabad Jewish Center in Basking Ridge, makes pop art with a Hasidic twist.

Basking Ridge Rabbi Transforms Jewish Icons into Pop Art

by Ralph J. Bellantoni – mycentraljersey.com

Rabbi Yitzchok Moully turns his photographs of Hasidic life into pop art silkscreens. A rabbinical gathering, Hasidic dancers, dreidels and other Jewish icons become vibrant, boldly colored images.

BASKING RIDGE, NJ — A Hasidic rabbi would seem to share little in common with flamboyant pop artist Andy Warhol. But Yitzchok Moully, a rabbi at the Chabad Jewish Center in Basking Ridge, makes pop art with a Hasidic twist.

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CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — The theft of a Sefer Torah, valued at over $40,000, shook Crown Heights last week, many different newspapers and TV stations covered the incident along with the plea to help have it returned.

A number of people made an absurd accusation that the theft had been committed by someone who was Jewish, with the reasoning that only a Jew would know the value of a torah. But police were able to pull surveillance footage from two security cameras on the block.

Surveillance Video of the Thief who Stole the Sefer Torah

CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — The theft of a Sefer Torah, valued at over $40,000, shook Crown Heights last week, many different newspapers and TV stations covered the incident along with the plea to help have it returned.

A number of people made an absurd accusation that the theft had been committed by someone who was Jewish, with the reasoning that only a Jew would know the value of a torah. But police were able to pull surveillance footage from two security cameras on the block.

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by Eli Kohen

The primary ‘solvent’ used by 85% of drycleaners in the United States is a chemical called perchloroethylene, or perc in short, and there have been a large number of studies conducted as to the adverse affects of this solvent can have on people wearing cloths that have been cleaned with it, and the affects it can have on the workers exposed to it, and the environment.

How Safe is Dry Cleaning?

by Eli Kohen

The primary ‘solvent’ used by 85% of drycleaners in the United States is a chemical called perchloroethylene, or perc in short, and there have been a large number of studies conducted as to the adverse affects of this solvent can have on people wearing cloths that have been cleaned with it, and the affects it can have on the workers exposed to it, and the environment.

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A Week of Inspiration

by N. Eichenhorn

MORRISTOWN, NJ [CHI] — The population of Yeshiva Tiferes Bachurim more than doubled in a week. The yearly Winter Program at Morristown is always inspirational and educational, but this year was unique. More than fifty College-age youth from around the United States and, South America, Israel and Europe came for the week after Chanukah in order to immerse themselves in the yeshiva environment and experience in-depth learning, most for the first time in their lives. The schedule of events was filled with nonstop classes, lectures and encounters with Rabbis and an outing to NY and a sports GYM.

More pictures in the Extended Article!

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Mazal Tov! – New Engagement!

We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Menachem Mendel (ben Reb Yitzchok) Yarmush (Montreal, Canada) and Esti Rapaport (Zurich, Switzerland) on their engagement.

The L’Chaim will IYH be TODAY, 4:30pm at Ateres Miriam 1640 Carroll Street [btw Schenectady and Utica Aves]

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