CROWN HEIGHTS [NEWS12] — Police say a Torah was stolen from inside a car parked on Union Street Monday evening.
We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Avremi and Nissa Bracha (nee Gilbert-Mcnabb) Yarmush (Los Angeles, CA) on the birth of their son.
May the newborn be a source of Nachas to his parents, grandparents and Klal Yisroel!
CEDAR RAPIDS, IA — Sholom Rubashkin, the former top executive at the Agriprocessors meatpacking plant in Postville, should be released from custody on $500,000 bond while he awaits trial on multiple federal counts of bank fraud and of helping illegal immigrants obtain false documents, a judge ruled this morning
Rubashkin has been in federal custody since Nov. 14. Prosecutors had contended he might flee if let out of jail.
Rubashkin is expected to be released from jail Thursday morning.
We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Yechiel Schmerling (Zurich, Switzerland) and Dina Lozenik (Miami Beach, FL) on their engagement.
The L’Chaim will IYH be Tuesday night at the Jewish Children’s Museum, 792 Eastern Pkwy [corner Kingston Ave].
CEDAR RAPIDS, IA — An Israeli food company has offered $40 million for the bankrupt Agriprocessors meatpacking plant in Postville and a smaller, subsidiary plant in Nebraska.
The Postville plant was the largest kosher-meat producer in the country before last May, when it was the site of an immigration raid that sparked a spiral into bankruptcy.
From left to right, Rabbi Chanoch Hecht, Chabad of Dutchess County, Rabbi Avrohom Boruch Itkin, Chabad of Greene County with with the newly appointed junior US Senator from New York, Kirsten Gillibrand in Albany, NY earlier today.
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A Chazara Shiur on family Halachos for Men is slated to begin next week. The Shiurim will take place on Tuesdays from Parshas Bo to Parshas Mishpatim; 2,9,16, and 23 of Shvat, the 27th of January, 3,10,17, of February. Maariv is at 9:00 with the shiur following at 9:10pm. The shiurim will be delivered by Rabbi Shmuel Bluming in English at Agudas Yisroel, 456 Crown Street between Brooklyn and Kingston Avenue.
Full flyer in the Extended Article
Bochurim from Oholei Torah Zal took the day to bake Matzos. Starting in the morning the Bochurim baked throughout the day in three shifts.
More pictures in the Extended Article! (Photos by: L.T.)
We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Sammy (Shmuel Dovid) Fraenkel (London, England/Israel) and Rina Zagury (Casablanca, Morocco) on their engagement.
Email your Simcha or Mazal Tov to MazalTov@CrownHeights.info !!
NEW YORK, NY — Con Ed charges its 2.4 million residential customers the highest prices of any major utility company in the 48 contiguous states, new federal data show.
On average, Con Ed charged 21.58 cents for a kilowatt-hour of electricity in 2007 – more than twice the national average of 9.13 cents.
CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — A Sefer Torah was stolen out of a parked car last night. The incident took place in front of 1723 Union Street which is between Schenectady and Utica Avenues, after was the car was parked, which was around 11:00pm, and was discovered at around 10:45 this morning.
Shomrim received the call from the driver of the car informing them of the theft and asked for their help with what to do. After arriving on scene Shomrim called 911 and had police respond to the location to take a report and gather evidence in hopes of recovering the Torah, which has a stated value of $40,000.
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BROOKLYN, NY — For all the blessings of the internet age—and they are enormous—this generation may spell the end of certain social conditions vital to the existential experience.
Tethered as we are to every hi-tech gizmo designed to keep us “in touch” with everyone everywhere at all times, we are rarely alone with ourselves, even when we are without another in the same space. At the very least, we have diminished aptitudes for genuine solitude and the introspection it breeds.
BROOKLYN, NY [CHI] — This Sunday a Siyom Sefer Torah took place in Memory of Rabbi Chaim (Reb Chaim Tashkenter) and Chava Hurwitz A”H. The Torah was completed at the home of Rabbi Sholom Ber Hurwitz in Flatbush and then a procession was led down Ocean Parkway all the way to United Lubavitcher Yeshiva of Ocean Parkway where all the Talmidim greeted the Torah, which proceeded with ‘Atah Horaisah’ and Hakofos.
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Cedar Rapids, IA [KCRG] — A former executive at Postville’s Agriprocessors plant will need to wait until at least Tuesday to find out if he can leave jail.
Sholom Rubashkin faces charges of harboring illegal immigrants, document fraud, bank fraud and identity theft. The 58-year-old man was ordered jailed pending his federal trial because of fears he might flee the country.
NEW YORK, NY [NY1] — City officials are said to be considering a plan that would open up yellow cabs to a shared-rides system.
Cab drivers would be permitted to pick up more than one fare at a time.
The attacks on Jews–especially Orthodox Chassidic Jews–don’t just take place in Mumbai, India, or during a late-night anonymous act of vandalism on a synagogue in North Carolina.
The attacks on Jews have spread to ABC daytime talk shows, watched by millions of mindless, easily propagandized women.
More in the Extended Article.
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