MINEOLA, NY [CHI] — This past week the fascinating and enriching ten-week course on Jewish Business Ethics concluded at Chabad of Mineola NY.
Using the excellent curriculum provided by JLI TorahStudies.com, Rabbi Anchelle Perl led this amazing and timely learning on Torah’s view and attitude towards work and wealth.
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Every 28 years the sun returns to the exact position, at the same time of the week, that it occupied at the time of its creationóat the beginning of the fourth day of creation. A special blessing called Birkat Hachamah, “the sun blessing” is recited to mark this event. Due to the rarity of this event, this blessing is customarily recited amid large public gatherings of men, women and children.
NEW YORK, NY [MSNBC] — News 4 New York has learned Mayor Michael Bloomberg will meet with President Barack Obama at the White House this Friday.
On the agenda: How to get more federal dollars to places like New York City for infrastructure projects that in turn create jobs.
DES MOINES, IA [AP] — A federal judge has denied a request from a kosher slaughterhouse and a former manager to move their trial out of Iowa because of pretrial publicity.
Agriprocessors Inc. and Sholom Rubashkin are charged with bank fraud, money laundering and violations of immigration law. Nearly 400 people were arrested in a May 2008 immigration raid at the Postville slaughterhouse.
S PETERSBURG, Russia [FJC] — A new technological development has reached past the walls of a unique S. Petersburg landmark – the Great Choral Synagogue. Namely, now anybody coming to visit the Choral Synagogue will be able to take advantage of free access to the Internet via their mobile device. This opportunity was made possible through a gift presented to the Synagogue by the telecommunications company PIN-Telecom.
NEW YORK, NY — A judge in the U.S. rejected a claim that the broadcast of an allegedly anti-Semitic song with similarities to the Disney classic “When You Wish Upon a Star,” on a FOX televison show would constitute improper use.
Simcha Cohen (London, UK) and Yehudis Katz (New Haven, CT) .
IYH at Beis Levi Yitzchock, 556 Crown St [entrance ramp on Albany Ave].
Mendel Sputz (Montreal,Canada) and Chanie Rubashkin (Crown Heights)
IYH at Chovevei Torah, 885 Eastern Pkwy [between Troy and Albany Ave].
Email your Simcha or Mazal Tov to MazalTov@CrownHeights.info !!
AUSTRALIA — Yoseph Gutnick has broken his silence on Melbourne’s plight, indicating he could re-emerge as a financial saviour.
Gutnick returned to the Demons for the first time in eight years yesterday and refused to rule out pitching in significantly more than his membership subscription.
We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Kovi and Rivky (nee Danzinger) Raksin (Crown Heights) on the birth of their firstborn son.
May the newborn be a source of Nachas to his parents, grandparents and Klal Yisroel.
In response to a letter sent earlier this month to the CEOs of leading kosher food companies, Assemblyman Dov Hikind (D-Brooklyn) today announced that four major distributors have agreed to reduce or maintain prices for their Pesach items this year.
We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Yossi (Ben R TH OBM) Bronstein (Crown Heights) and Rosie Stein (Johannesburg, South Africa) on their engagement.
Email your Simcha or Mazal Tov to MazalTov@CrownHeights.info !!
Freshen up your knowledge of Hilchos Pesach with special shiurim in Yiddish or English concerning the laws of Bedikas and Mechiras Chometz, kitchen preparation and the Seder. The English shiurim will be delivered by Rabbi Yakov Osdobo on Wednesday evenings at 9:10pm, following a 9:00 Maariv. They will take place Beis Eliyahu Nachum-Lefferts Shul (672 Lefferts Ave) on Chof Beis and Chof Tes Adar, and Zayin Nissan.
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CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — At around 9:30 this morning, Tuesday, a woman crossing the street was struck by a SUV. The incident happened in front of Oholei Torah, on the Eastern Pkwy service lane, between Brooklyn and New York Ave. A women was driving a SUV in the service lane, when another women suddenly appeared between two parked school busses.
WOODMERE, NY — Fighting against the anguish that has struck their family and community, Rabbi Zalman and Chanie Wolowik, the co-directors of Chabad-Lubavitch of the Five Towns in Nassau County, N.Y., announced the building of a children’s library in memory of their son, Levi Yitzchak Wolowik. The nine-year-old boy suddenly passed away in the middle of the night last month.
The Levi Yitzchak Jewish Children’s Library is slated to open in late spring.
HUNTINGTON BEACH, CA [CHI] — Over 200 people celebrated the completion of a new Sefer Torah at Chabad of West Orange County; on Sunday, the 12th of Adar. The Torah was written in Eretz Yisroel and donated in loving memory of Tziporah bas Chaim Yosef whose Yahrzeit was on Vov Adar.
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JERUSALEM — Ahead of Pope Benedict XVI’s May visit to Israel, the rabbi of the Western Wall, Shmuel Rabinovitch, has said that it is not proper to come to the site wearing a cross.
The pope wears a cross in all public appearances and is slated to visit the Western Wall on May 12 after a meeting with Muslim religious leaders at the Dome of the Rock.
