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9/11 this Shabbos: In Memory of R’ Shimmy Biegeleisen Hy”d

By admin on September 8, 2010

Five floors above, Shimmy Biegeleisen phoned his wife from his office at money-management firm Fiduciary Trust International Inc. “There’s been an explosion next door,” the 42-year-old vice president said. “Don’t worry. I’m OK.”
After a few minutes, Mr. Biegeleisen grabbed his black canvas bag, walked past a cluster of cubicles and headed toward the stairwell. But when [...]

Photos: Thousands Head to Uman, New Veils Introduced

By admin on September 7, 2010

[Photos below.] The pre-Rosh Hashanah wave of visitors to the town of Uman in Ukraine peaked on Monday as around 9,000 boarded 50 flights from Ben-Gurion International Airport.  Another 5,500 people will travel to Ukraine today on 28 flights to visit the kever of Rav Nachman of Breslov. Overall, some 18,000 Breslover chassidim and others [...]

WTC Steel Columns Installed At 9/11 Museum

By admin on September 7, 2010

As hard-hats hammered and drilled under a hot sun today, city and state leaders celebrated the progress that has been made at Ground Zero just days before the ninth anniversary of 9/11.
A salvaged 50-ton steel column was hoisted onto a support structure at the World Trade Center site, where it will eventually serve as part [...]

Leah Rubashkin Moves to Monsey

By admin on September 7, 2010

Mrs. Leah Rubashkin and her family have moved to Monsey, NY in recent weeks. A family friend told COLlive that the Rubashkins moved to the New York area to be closer to Sholom Mordechai Rubashkin, who is serving a 27 year prison sentence in Otisville, NY. Mrs. Rubashkin chose the suburban area of Monsey over [...]

What’s Up With Google’s Bouncy Ball Logo?

By admin on September 7, 2010

[Video below.] Google launched another Google Doodle guessing game today, with a new interactive Google logo that you can manipulate with your mouse. Google replaced its static logo with a set of dynamic colored balls that make up the Google logo. Move your mouse pointer near the logo and all the balls disperse and don’t [...]

Confirmed: Bob Singer Will Not Run in November Election in Lakewood

By admin on September 7, 2010

Three months after Lakewood, NJ’s incumbent Township Committeeman, 62-year-old State Senator Robert (Bob) Singer, beat 44-year-old Hershel (Harold) Herskowitz in the Republican primary for a seat on Lakewood’s governing body, Matzav.com has confirmed that Senator Singer will be dropping out of the race. Rumors to this effect had been swirling for the last week, and we have [...]

Obama: Critics ‘Talk About Me Like a Dog’

By admin on September 7, 2010

President Obama strayed from his prepared remarks at a Labor Day rally Monday to accused his opponents of talking about him “like a dog.”
Obama was in Milwaukee to speak at the Milwaukee Laborfest, attended by Labor Secretary Hilda Solis, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood and AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka. He used the speech to promote his [...]

Hillary Clinton for President Ad Hits Airwaves

By admin on September 7, 2010

We’ve still got two months left until the 2010 midterm elections, but we now have our first television commercial of the 2012 presidential campaign. And the ad advocates for a person who says she has no intention of running for the White House.
“She has more experience working in and with the White House than most [...]

1,500 Attend Rededication Ceremony for Budapest Shul

By admin on September 7, 2010

“This is the best, most respectable answer to Nazism and anti-Semitism, which once removed us from here, and proof that the people of Israel live – Am Israel Chai,” Chief Ashkenazi Rabbi Yona Metzger said on Sunday, at the rededication of the Óbuda Synagogue in Budapest.In a ceremony attended by Hungarian Deputy Prime Minister Zsolt [...]

Today’s Yahrzteits & History – 28 Elul

By admin on September 7, 2010

Shaul Hamelech and his three sons, 880 BCE or 878 BCE
Rav Sa’adya, father-in-law of Rav Chaim Vital (1574).
Rav Chaim Yehuda Leib Auerbach, co-founder and rosh yeshiva of Shaar Hashomayim, father of Rav Shlomo Zalman Auerbach (1954). The yeshiva came to occupy its current premises on Rechov Rashi in the Mekor Boruch neighborhood. Among the yeshiva’s [...]

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