13 million reminders

Students in a Hebrew class in Akron, Ohio, are hoping to collect 13 million pennies – one for each person killed in the Holocaust.

Laura Hood, who teaches the class at Temple Israel, said the project will help students grasp the scope of the tragedy. The 14 students have collected 65,000 pennies so far and are seeking donations from residents citywide. (more…)

Borough Park: person got struck in a mva on New Utrecht Ave and 39th Street, Hatzolah responding.

1728 61 ST 5 BLDGS HAVE BEEN EVACUATED DUE TO A GAS MAIN BREAK REQ. KEYSPAN ON A RUSH ne1 with more advise

AVE J and Coney a level 1 mobilization for a bank robbery at wash. mutul bank perp(black) passed a note,fled in a suv

**Warning** Missionaries have begun a campaign of calling Chareidi-religious households. Under the guise of invitations to lectures on the Gemara and offers of free books, the missionary callers raise questions designed to undermine the faith of religious Jews.

Mnhtn: a man became a big hero after he saw a teenager fell off a platform onto a subway track in front of anin front of an approaching No:1 train at 37th St. so he simply jumped in and pulled the teenagerbetween the tracks on the drainage area in the middle, the train passed over them, and they both survived…..

53 st cor new utrecht Heavy accident 1 inj

17 ave x 60st hatsolah responding to report of pedes struck.

Detroit: a fire broke out in Detroit’s Yeshivah Gedoilah, the building was evacuated so B”H no injures just damages.

Lakewood: yesterday hundreds of Yungerleit gathered to watch an unusual scene, a Mamad Chalitzah in Rav Blechs shul.

Brklyn NYPD searching for a white male who just robbed a check cashing at Ave Z & E14th St. with over $200,000 Cash

At a special meeting held on Monday at Yeshivas Mesivta Rabbi Chaim Berlin in Brooklyn, members of the Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah of Agudath Israel of America signed on to a declaration by Gedolei Yisroel in Eretz Yisroel regarding a p’sak prohibiting flying on El Al. (more…)

The nine member National Religious Party Knesset faction invited Public Security Minister Dichter yesterday to discuss several issues of concern amongst them Kever Rochel. Dichter told the MKs that he’ll act to allow Jews to visit Rachel’s Tomb without restrictions in a matter of weeks. (more…)

Former Yerushalayim Mayor Theodor Teddy Kollek who was Yerushalayim’s mayor for 28 years died at age 95

Palestinian militants attacked Gaza’s main cargo crossing with mortar fire,1 truck driver injured delivering building material

The Wreckage of the missing plane was found 12 survivers 90 dead

Indonesia jet liner missing with 100 people on board has been spoted in a mountainess region

Brooklyn, NY - A turf war has erupted between two Lubavitch’r rabbis claiming dibs on the rapidly gentrifying brownstone neighborhoods that surrounds the Atlantic Yards area.
In one corner is Rabbi Ari Kirschenbaum, who showed up in Prospect Heights three years ago to revive a decrepit Orthodox synagogue in the neighborhood. His rival is Rabbi Tali Frankel, who is backed by his wife’s powerful uncle, Rabbi Shimon Hecht of Park Slope. After arriving eighteen months ago, he began holding events advertised as being sponsored by “Chabad of Prospect Heights”—though Kirschenbaum is the neighborhood’s sole officially recognized shaliach. (more…)

ZAKKI HAKIM

Associated Press

JAKARTA, Indonesia - An Indonesian passenger plane carrying 102 people disappeared in stormy weather Monday, and rescuers were sent to the area where the Boeing 737-400 may have crashed in what would be the country’s second major transportation disaster in four days.

Adam Air Flight KI-574 was on a two-hour flight from Indonesia’s main island of Java to Manado, on the northern tip of Sulawesi, one of the largest islands in the archipelago. Just over half of the flight path was over the Java Sea, the Maluku Sea and other smaller bodies of water, with the remainder over Sulawesi Island. (more…)

Muslims are required by their faith to pray to Mecca five times a day. There is nothing sinister or criminal about people peacefully carrying out the obligations of their faith. Airlines that single out praying Muslims and deny them flight privileges permanently are no different than the five-and-dime stores that once prevented black people from eating at luncheonette counters.

It is as unthinkable to ban praying Muslims from a flight, as it would be to deny boarding to a group of praying Hasidic Jews. Both sects engage in public group prayers. Both are exercising their constitutional rights as U.S. citizens.

Persecution of religious minorities by the majority is nothing new in the United States. Nor is an attempt by the majority to link religious minorities to some grandiose and evil global plot against America.

We must ensure that the United States does not fall victim to their militaristic designs by becoming an intolerant religious war zone.

An Israeli commercial airliner was forced to make an unscheduled landing at Athens International airport on Sunday, after reporting a problem with its cabin air compression system.

The Israir Boeing 757 - carrying 228 passengers and 10 crew members - was traveling from Tel Aviv to Paris, and landed in Athens after the pilot reported the problem and requested permission to make an unscheduled landing.

(AP)

the 102 people aboard an Adam Air airplane are beleived to have crashed over Indonesia,