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.
More pictures in the Extended Article.
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.
More pictures in the Extended Article!
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.
Tonight, Monday, January 26, 2009, at 8:00 pm, Rabbi YY Jacobson will deliver a 45-minute live-streamed Parsha class: On the Definition of Freedom — Let freedom ring, but in the Jewish view, liberty requires intense work. The class will have an accompanying curriculum.
To watch, please visit www.TheYeshiva.Net
To listen via telephone, please call: 1-616-347-8000. Access code: 1007852#
The New York City Department of Transportation (DOT) in conjunction with the Department of Sanitation (DSNY) today announced the suspension of Alternate Side Parking (ASP) regulations citywide for Tuesday, January 27 to facilitate snow removal. However, parking meters will remain in effect throughout the City.
For updated information, visit the DOT Web site at nyc.gov/dot or call 311.
Click here for the new, 2009 Alternate Side Parking Regulations Suspension Calendar
In a conversation with CNN during the making of the documentary on the Holtzbergs, Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks discusses the history of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement and how it drove the Holtzbergs to travel to Mumbai.
We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Eliyav Ben-Atar (Jerusalem, Israel) and Soudie Milecki (Sydney, Australia) on their engagement.
Email your Simcha or Mazal Tov to MazalTov@CrownHeights.info !!
BROOKLYN, NY — Tucked amid the shops on a busy street in Brooklyn, the Center for Kosher Culinary Arts is at first hard to find. The one-room school, located on the second floor of a housewares store, is small and unimposing. Despite its humble appearance, the center offers an impressive array of recreational classes for the home cook, from a master class in chocolate, taught by chocolatier Bruce Beck, to preparation of healthful weeknight meals, taught by cookbook author Rachel Saks.
When the school opened in the fall of 2007, it was the first culinary institute of its kind in the United States, catering to a Jewish clientele in the heavily Jewish Brooklyn neighborhood of Flatbush. In addition to its recreational classes, the school started a professional training program last summer, where participants walk out of the six-week, $4,500 course with a joint certificate in culinary arts from Center for Kosher Culinary Arts and Kingsborough Community College. The school now offers the professional program during the day and at night, and added a new crop of seasonal recreational classes this month.
We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Yossi and Chanie (nee Stock) Hecht (Crown Heights) on the birth of their daughter.
May the newborn be a source of Nachas to her parents, grandparents and Klal Yisroel!
MACTAN, Philippines — Authorities arrested an Israeli national over a bomb joke in Mactan Cebu International Airport Sunday.
Airport police nabbed Israeli national Eliav Gaoli for joking that he has a bomb hidden in his shoes.
Gaoli was already on his way back to Manila with his cousin Naor Nariski when he joked about carrying a bomb in his shoes.
He cracked the joke to an airport employee while his shoes were passing through security inspection through an X-ray machine.
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