Camp Achoteinu is opening its registration this week – for what promises to be a most incredible summer experience. The first ever Chabad traveling camp for girls in Eretz Yisrael, is celebrating its thirteenth anniversary summer by opening spots for more girls and welcoming shliach and world famous entertainer, Rabbi Asi Speigel, to its staff as a dedicated tour guide.
The MTA failed to follow its own emergency protocol before the blizzard that crippled large swaths of the subway system, the Daily News has learned.
Approximately 50 students and staff gathered on the Queens Lawn Terrace of Imperial College’s South Kensington campus to light the Menorah with Professor Lord Robert Winston. Lord Winston is one of the most famous British professors, medical doctor, scientist, television presenter, and also a politician who sits on the Labour Party benches in the House of Lords.
SOUTH AFRICA — Move over Ronaldo, Wayne and Pele… Cape Town’s West Coast Jewish Community is here! On Thursday 21 October close to 250 Capetonians took to the pitch of the World Cup Stadium in Cape Town to show off their soccer prowess and enjoy a night of fine cuisine, amazing prizes and great entertainment in support of the West Coast Jewish Community, its preschool and junior primary school – the Sinai Academy, and community centre – The Shul of Blouberg – West Coast under the auspices of Chabad of the West Coast directed by Rabbi Asher and Zeesy Deren.
Israeli defense experts were still sounding alarms this week over Google Earth images made public Friday by the Israeli daily Haaretz. The satellite photos, taken March 22, show Scud missiles ready for deployment at a Syrian base at Adra, where earlier reports suggest Syria is training Hezbollah militants in the use of missiles that threaten large parts of Israel.
Semper fake!
For years, Brooklyn commuters have opened their wallets for Robert McMahon, handing cash to this heroic and heartbreaking figure, a Vietnam vet in combat fatigues, his left arm missing and his right leg crippled, as he panhandles on Ocean Parkway in Kensington.
On Monday, August 9, Brooklyn Borough President Markowitz joined New York City Department of Environmental Protection Commissioner Cas Holloway, Lauren Collins, co-founder of the Windsor Terrace Alliance and area residents outside his home to officially commemorate Brooklyn going online for the City’s new wireless water meter program. The installation of an Automated Meter Reading (AMR) unit on BP Markowitz’s home was the 417,000th installed in the City.
I first heard about the Israeli commando counter charge of the now infamous flotilla while waiting to cross the U.S. border from Canada. As my wife and I listened to unconfirmed reports of casualties, I was reminded of a time while at the same U.S. entry port, I waited on queue along side a Red Crescent ambulance in tow. The West Bank-bound vehicle was being donated by a Muslim group in Quebec, and was subjected to a mandatory inspection as any vehicle would that was crossing into the United States.
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NEW YORK [WABC] — There are some harsh words Thursday for President Barack Obama and his plan to slash spending on security.
It would mean the loss of millions of dollars for the Metropolitan area.
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JERUSALEM, Israel – Since its liberation from Jordanian occupation in 1967, the Western Wall has seen its share of crowds. Aside from the tourists, Jewish and non-Jewish, who flock to the holy site daily, every week, scores of Israeli families celebrate their sons’ Bar Mitzvahs at the kotel, as the wall is known in Hebrew.
The first four days of JLI’s Israel trip was packed with excitement and none stop enjoyment. From early Tuesday morning until the final moments before shabbos the participants had their hands full as they explored and discovered Israel on a whole new level.
On March 1, 1994, a gunman in a car opened fire on a van carrying more than a dozen Hasidic students as it began to cross the Brooklyn Bridge from Manhattan, critically wounding two young men and injuring two others.
The lone gunman, driving a blue Chevrolet Caprice equipped with a submachine gun, two 9mm guns, and a “street sweeper” shotgun, pursued the van full of terrified students across the bridge.
He fired in three separate bursts, spraying both sides of the van. He then disappeared into traffic as the van came to a stop at the Brooklyn end of the bridge.
The injured Yeshiva students were among dozens who were returning from a Manhattan hospital where the spiritual leader of the Lubavitch movement, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, had undergone minor surgery.
Fifty congressmen signed a letter which was sent to President Barak Obama urging him to put diplomatic pressure on Israel to resolve the Gaza blockade, the troubling signature in the mix was that of Rep. Yvette Clarke (D-NY), who represents the 11th district which includes Crown Heights.
Two headlines this week interested me in that I have been following their development since their posting. The first intrigues me in terms of history, the second triggers my sense of humanity. One sheds light onto the other which is shrouded in disaster and darkness.
The number of fatalities in Haiti’s throttling earthquake is still unclear, but as it is expected to exceed one hundred thousand, already the figure confounds the comprehension of man.
Tell me, did it hurt? Was it painful? Was there really a bright light at the end of the tunnel, like they describe in the books? Was your relatives who have passed away waiting for you? What was it like?
Were you afraid? Or scared, or even sad? Did you regret not getting the chance to say goodbye? Do you even now long to be back here?
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