New York To Receive $6B Chunk Of Federal Aid For Transit

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A subway approaches an above ground station in the Brooklyn borough with the Manhattan skyline in the background, Wednesday, June 21, 2017, in New York. Subway riders are frustrated by power outages, signal problems and other breakdowns with the number of train delays tripled in five years. Gov. Andrew Cuomo concedes the subway is "at its breaking point" and says changes will come in the form of a nearly $30 billion to modernize. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

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New York City’s subways and commuter rails are getting a $6 billion chunk of federal COVID-19 relief funds. Sen. Chuck Schumer announced Wednesday the Metropolitan Transportation Authority has received the money as part of more than $14.5 billion in overall federal relief aid • Full Story

CANADA: Quebec Announces “Significant” Fines For Unvaccinated People Without Medical Exemptions

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Quebec Premier Francois Legault has announced adult residents who refuse to get vaccinated against COVID-19 will be charged a fine if they do not have a medical exemption – the financial penalty amount hasn’t been decided but will be “significant” Legault said Tuesday • Full Story

Mrs. Pearl Kasowitz, 96, OBM

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Mrs. Pearl Kasowitz, a beloved mother and grandmother of a Chabad family from Florida and formerly from New Haven, CT, passed away on 10 Shvat, 5782. She was 96 years old • Full Story

FLORIDA: Police Car Found Torched In Chabad House Parking Lot

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Police in Lauderhill, a city in the Miami metropolitan area, launched an arson investigation after one of their cars was set on fire outside a Chabad shul late Wednesday night • Full Story

Paris Nshei Organizes Magnificent Event

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Nshei U’bnos Chabad of Paris, France organized a beautiful event last night in honor of the auspicious day of Yud Shevat. The program was held in the city’s central Lubavitch center Beth Chaya Mouchka. Images captured by photographer Mordechai Lubecki • Photos

Flandre Farbrengs Yud Shevat

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The community of Flandre, France sat down for an inspiring farbrengen Wednesday evening in honor of the auspicious day of Yud Shevat. The farbrengen was led by Paris’s Senior Shliach Rabbi Mendel Azimov, together with Rabbi Elchanan Marasow. Images captured by photographer Mordechai Lubecki • Photos

Four Women Make it to the Chuppah with Yad L’Achim’s Help

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Four Jewish women who’ve spent years in Yad L’Achim’s care after suffering at the hands of their Arab husbands are this month taking the joyous step of building Jewish homes. One of the brides, born to a Jewish mother and an Arab father, was rescued together with her mother when she was five. Since then, she has benefited from Yad L’Achim mentors who helped her find her way as a Jew, in school and in the community • Full Story

Massive Crowds Converge on the Ohel

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Thousands visited the Ohel in honor of the Frierdike Rebbe’s Yom Hahilula where they poured out their heart for divine mercy on behalf of all of Klal Yisrael, and for the immediate end to this exile with the speedy revelation of the Rebbe MH”M. Images captured by photographer Dov Ber Hechtman • Photos

“More Than 600k People Leaving New York And California For Lower-Taxed States”

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A new report released on Monday revealed more than 600,000 people have left New York and California during the pandemic for lower-taxed states as the two Democrat-led states continue to extend strong COVID-19 restrictions • Full Story

MIHU YEHUDI: Israel To Classify Non-Jews As ‘Extended Jewish’

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Israel’s Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) is eliminating the category of “other” in its official publications, which means that all non-Jews who aren’t Arab will now be classified as being in the “extended Jewish population.” The new classification will include hundreds of thousands of immigrants from the FSU who gained Israeli citizenship through the Law of Return and non-Jews who gained citizenship by marrying Jews – up to 4.6% of the Israeli population or 415, 147 Israelis (as of 2020) • Full Story

Aubervilliers Farbrengs Yud Shevat

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Anash and members of the local community in Aubervilliers, France gathered in the city’s Chabad House Tuesday night in honor of the auspicious day of Yud Shevat. Hosted by Rabbi Shliach Shmulik Tewel. Images captured by Moshe Gansburg • Photos

Tonight: Central Yud Shevat Farbrengen

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The gabboim of 770 are inviting all Anash and Temimim to the central Yud-Yud Alef Shevat Farbrengen which will be taking place tonight Wednesday, 9:00 pm, in “Beis Moshiach” – 770 • Full Details

Israel Donates $500,000 To Afghans Refugees Who Fled Taliban

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Israel has donated $500,000 to the United Nations for food, medical aid and other assistance for Afghan refugees in Tajikistan, the Foreign Ministry said Tuesday • Full Story

Yad Vashem Launches Academy To Train Future Leaders In Holocaust Awareness

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Yad Vashem Security guard stands at the empty Hall of Names in the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Museum in Jerusalem on April 19, 2020. In order to prevent the spread of the coronavirus disease, the Yad Vashem Museum will remain close this year on Holocaust Remembrance Day, but will switch its main activities on their website and social media. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90 *** Local Caption *** יום השואה שואה יד ושם היכל השמות קורונה וירוס ריק הולך מאבטח

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New program will help “make the Jewish catastrophe a firm fact in the international consciousness, a fact beyond denial—in the hope that the world which turned a blind eye during World War II will not do so again and will ensure that such events never recur,” says Dr. Miriam Adelson • Full Story

Hochul Announces $230 Million In Additional Food Assistance For New Yorkers In January

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New York announced Tuesday that every person enrolled in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program will receive the maximum level of food benefits for January. That is an additional $230 million inserted into the program • Full Story

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Koby Berkowitz – Sydney Australia to Chana Weiss Sherman Oaks, CA.

L’Chaim: tonight (Wednesday) in The Garden House 1386 S. Johns PL

Moshe Gordon – Crown Heights to Chayale Movsikov – Crown Heights

L’Chaim: tonight (Wednesday) 571 Albany Ave.

Shmuly Golomb – Crown Heights to Mushky Steinmetz – Briarwood, NY

L’Chaim: tonight (Wednesday) in F.R.E.E. 1383 President St.