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Two entrepreneurs who attended Yeshiva University have written software that turns the BlackBerry from a device to check e-mail and stocks into a pray phone.
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We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Levi and Layla (nee Shpigelman) Zirkind (Los Angeles, CA) on the birth of their firstborn son.
May the newborn be a source of Nachas to his parents, grandparents, relatives and Klal Yisroel.
Dear Anash:
We want to thank everyone that came and participated in this very important case of Pidyon Shevuim to help the Rubashkin family. The sentencing phase of this trial was supposed to last for two hours, and it lasted for almost eight hours, the judge postponed the final few minutes of the proceedings to tomorrow morning at 9:30am.
We feel that overwhelming support from the community will have a positive impact on the outcome. We are begging everybody and anybody to please come tomorrow. Plus, if you can, please join Moishe Rubashkin tonight by the Ohel at: 11:00pm.
Again unlike today, we believe that tomorrow’s proceeding will be very short, because all relevant testimony was heard today.
We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Yossi and Rivky (nee Lerman) Pelman (Crown Heights) on their firstborn daughter- Chaya Mushka.
May the newborn be a source of Nachas to her parents, grandparents, relatives and Klal Yisroel.
CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — A few minutes after the drag racing accident another incident occurred at around 12:40am in the intersection of Troy and President. A silver Honda Accord driven by a Bochur collided with a white Ford Van sending it careening into 3 parked cars.
More pictures in the Extended Article.
CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — Two cars ‘drag racing’ at high speeds up Troy Avenue ended in disaster with two damaged parked cars and itself on its roof. The incident took place on Troy between Eastern Parkway and Lincoln Place at around 12:30am.
More pictures in the Extended Article.
CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — Many Mezuzas were stolen from an apartment building in Crown Heights early Sunday morning. Jewish residents living at 350 Lefferts Ave, between New York and Nostrand Ave, were shocked Sunday, when they found out that Mezuzahs from six floors of the building were ripped off and stolen.
More pictures in the Extended Article.
Fire at Minnesota Plant Follows Shutdowns of Two Agriprocessors Facilities
BUFFALOW LAKE, MN — In developments that are likely to cripple the availability of kosher beef in large parts of America, three of the five largest slaughterhouses producing kosher beef have halted production this week.
All eyes have been on the nation’s largest kosher slaughterhouse, in Postville, Iowa, which stopped producing beef last week due to a series of legal problems and arrests at its parent company, Agriprocessors. That company also owns a slaughterhouse in Gordon, Neb., which is thought to be the nation’s fifth-largest plant producing kosher meat. While little attention has been paid to the Gordon plant, local officials told the Forward that it stopped operating in October.
The pink tablecloths and plates at the local party supplies store had never particularly caught her eye before, but by the time Raizy Rubin noticed the donations from a local party supply store, the color had acquired a new significance.
Alternate side parking (street cleaning) regulations will be suspended on Tuesday, November 4th, 2008, for Election Day. All other regulations, including parking meters, remain in effect.
The New York City Department of Sanitation (DSNY) today reminded New Yorkers that in observance of Election Day, there will be no garbage or recycling collection, or street cleaning on Tuesday, November 4th. In addition, all Sanitation Department administrative offices will be closed on Tuesday, November 4th in observance of the holiday.
Residents who normally receive Tuesday garbage collection should place their trash out at curbside Tuesday after 4 P.M. for pickup. Those receiving Tuesday recycling collection will not have their recycling picked up until the following Wednesday, November 12th.
Click here for the 2008 Alternate Side Parking Regulations Suspension Calendar
Update: 7:18pm The case was adjourned to tomorrow morning in a courthouse in Allentown, PA at 9:30. The judge was quoted saying that this was due to the “nature of the late hour.”
PHILADELPHIA, PA [CHI] — Lots of Crown Heights residents made their way to Pennsylvania District Court in order to show support of Reb Moshe and his son Sholom Rubashkin who were indicted on charges of illegal storage of hazardous waste in their Montex Textiles company, formerly located in Allentown, PA, without a permit, and one count of making a materially false statement.
A bus packed with people, in addition to many private cars left Crown Heights as early as 6:30am, and filled the small courtroom well beyond capacity leaving many in the hallways and outside the courtroom just saying Tehillim and curiously awaiting updates.
The gentrifying core of Bushwick occupies only a few blocks, and for Rabbi Menachem Heller, 29, herein lies the problem.
As an emissary of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement, a branch of Hasidic Judaism that emphasizes outreach to less observant Jews, Rabbi Heller wants good access to the hipster arrivistes. Unfortunately, his current spot is too far away from the few hangouts – a health food store, a coffee shop, an artists’ studio space, a bar or two – to get noticed.
The Hanalah of Meorot Chabad in Yerushalayem, a project of the Shluchim office, have prepared a new video. The new video, produced by Shmuel Hoffman Productions, displays the success and uniqueness in the Yeshiva. For more information, visit www.meorotchabad.org
A moment of truth has descended on the Jewish community in which we stand to define to the world, to our children, and to our selves whether we are a people of real action or just empty words.
Whether we are able to put into practice the lofty things we learn and talk about or we simply know how to “talk the talk” but not very good at “walking the walk”
A prestigious Jewish family, known throughout the world for tremendous acts of kindness, care, and love for fellow Jews, in ways that are unparalleled, has fallen on hard times and now faces the loss of their entire company and enterprise to the banks that are foreclosing on them.
We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Yankel Ezagui (Crown Heights) and Shaina Green (Montreal ,Canada) on their engagement.
The L’Chaim will IYH be tonight, Monday at Bais Rivka, 310 Crown St, [between Brooklyn and New York Ave].
We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Zalman and Malya Shmotkin (Stamford, CT) on the birth of their son.
The Bris will take place 8:30 AM – Monday, November 3 at Chabad of Stamford, CT – 770 High Ridge Road, Stamford, CT
May the newborn be a source of Nachas to his parents, grandparents, relatives and Klal Yisroel.
Dear Anash,
The Rubashkin family is well-known in our community for their Ahavas Yisroel and Tzedakah. Lamentably, charges against them have been complicated by the slander of a few former associates looking for revenge.
Tomorrow morning—Monday, November 3—a Pennsylvania judge will sentence R’ Moshe Rubashkin and his son.
It is not for us to act as judge and jury of our fellow Jews. What we can and must do is stand together in support of truth. In particular, it is our responsibility to show a secular judge, a skeptical legal system and a “gotcha” media that our community does not abandon its own.
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