LITTLE ROCK, AR [CHI] — On Sunday, December 14, 2008 the Jewish community of Arkansas began the writing of the first Torah to ever be written in the State. Over 100 Jews from all around the state came to the Chabad Lubavitch Center for Jewish Life to mark this momentous occasion.
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MONROE, NY [CHI] — At Chabad Of Orange County, children of all ages are busy getting ready for the upcoming holiday of Chanukah. At Chabad Hebrew School, students collected kosher canned items and dry goods to send to Jewish soldiers in Iraq. The children loved designing dreidel-shaped cards with personal messages for the soldiers and packaged the cards and food with chocolate Chanukah “gelt” (coins). “This project flows with the holiday spirit of giving and sharing,” says Chana Burston, director of Chabad Hebrew School. “On Chanukah we add an additional candle to the Menorah each night, signifying that we must always increase in good deeds. It’s empowering for the children to feel that they can send something special to thank the soldiers who are helping our country.” Brendon Pearlman, age 12, of Chester was excited about the idea of this project. “It’s cool that we can send kosher food and Chanukah treats to soldiers across the ocean, and that they will see that kids over here made them cards and care about them,” he said.
MIAMI, FL — For two years, University of Miami junior Seth Kinzbrunner ate a lot of cereal. That and his mother’s weekly supply of food is what kept the kosher-observant accounting major sated.
“I lived off a microwave and a fridge,” says Kinzbrunner, while other students could trot to any of a number of eateries to grab a bite.
CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn — A mash-up of cultures, is home to both the annual West Indian American parade and the headquarters of the Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidim. Adding an upscale bar and beer garden to the mix might seem counterintuitive.
NEW YORK, NY — Chabad-Lubavitch of Wall Street will be opening a yeshiva in the world financial district this week. The new international Yeshivat Hakedoshim, named for the targeted victims of the recent Mumbai tragedy and those of 9/11, is set to open with 10 students who will train for the rabbinate.
LONGMONT, CO — He calls it a little crazy, a little different, something that Longmont has never seen.
But when Rabbi Yakov Borenstein straps his car menorah to his car, Longmont’s only rabbi knows what will happen. People will ask questions.
An Iraqi journalist threw two shoes at President George W. Bush at a press conference in Baghdad, Iraq. The reporter that tossed the shoe has been identified by AFP as Muntazer al-Zaidi and at first hurled an insult at the American president and then let fly both shoes, one at a time.
We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Shlame and Miriam (nee Brook) Landa (Shluchim in Fairfield, CT) on the birth of their daughter.
May the newborn be a source of Nachas to her parents, grandparents, relatives and Klal Yisroel
CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] – At around 11:00pm last night, Police were called to an apartment in a non-Jewish building informing them of an emotionally disturbed woman who had barricaded herself inside her apartment and was threatening to harm herself. It was not clear if she had children in the apartment with her.
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CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — On Motzai Shabbos, a group of 30 kids were impatiently waiting on the corner of Crown and Kingston for a bus that would take them to New Jersey. They planned on celebrating a classmate’s Bar Mitzvah, but after waiting for half an hour, with the bus still a no-show, the kids started looking for a way to keep warm while waiting.
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Fathers and Sons of Oholei Torah’s Pre-1a through 2nd grades gathered in the Lunchroom for a special Melava Malkah earlier tonight.
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MUMBAI, India — More than a fortnight after the Mumbai attacks, eyewitness accounts of what transpired at Nariman House strongly suggest that two terrorists are unaccounted for.
A key witness who declined to be identified told this newspaper that at 9.30 pm the night the Nariman House standoff began, four men with subcontinental features accompanied two Israelis to the Chabad House in the Colaba area. Their entry coincided with the watchman on duty being out for dinner. (The watchman has since been missing).
We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Yossi and Shaina Drizin (Crown Heights) on the birth of their daughter.
May the newborn be a source of Nachas to her parents, grandparents, relatives and Klal Yisroel.
In response to inquiries about the fund established in the aftermath of the Mumbai terror attack: Lubavitch Headquarters in conjunction with the Holtzberg/Rosenberg families, have set up the Chabad Mumbai Relief Fund to assist in the care of the children of Rabbi Gavriel Noach and Rivka Holtzberg, may G-d avenge their blood, and/or the rebuilding of the Mumbai Chabad House.
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Former US attorney and current high powered criminal defense attorney Alan Vinegrad will be a special guest on Talkine with Zev Brenner this Sat night at 12:30 AM to discuss the Feds decision to deny AgriProceessors’ Sholom Rubashkin bal due to the fear that he might fly to Israel and invoke Israel’s Law of Return to avoid prosecution here in the US.
Please tune in to: WMCA 570 AM or via www.talklinecommunications.com
NEW YORK, NY — Mayor Bloomberg said for the first time Friday that “maybe we will” send out that $400 property tax rebate he has been holding hostage for more than a month.
Although not specific, the mayor seemed to link mailing the rebate – worth $256 million to more than 600,000 homeowners – to striking a deal with the City Council on a disputed budget modification plan.
