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Mitzvah Tanks Take Synagogues to the Streets
By Susanna Baird - AOL NewsPassover ends and they're back on the streets: the mitzvah tanks, synagogues on wheels offering New York City Jews an unexpected, curbside opportunity to pray. "We invite them in the tank, to have something to eat, something to drink, and we have a blessing," tank driver Yishai Eliefja told the New York Times' Cityroom blog. "Instead of going to the synagogue, we bring the synagogue to you." The Chabad Lubavitch branch of Hasidic Judaism, headquartered in Brooklyn, runs the mitzvah tanks. Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson started the program in 1974. As American synagogue populations ...
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Woman's Screams Alert Brooklyn Neighbors, Attacker Flees [VIDEO]
By not in system - AOL NewsSeveral neighbors rushed out of their homes in the Park Slope section of Brooklyn, N.Y., to scare off a man who was attacking a woman on the 16th Street sidewalk. A video taken from a brownstone stoop, according to the New York Daily News, shows the man grabbing the woman as she screams for help for about 45 seconds Thursday night. The suspect ran off when neighbors came out. No arrest was made. "There's nothing heroic about what we did -- we were just being good neighbors," 44-year-old Donald Harrington said. According to the newspaper, Harrington, a construction worker, responded to the ...
New York Charity Rescues Food
By Susanna Baird - AOL NewsNew York City diners delight in more than 23,000 restaurant options, from celebrity chef Eric Ripert's white-napkined jewel Le Bernardin to an endless list of sparring hot-doggers, including Gray's Papaya, Papaya King and Coney Island-born Nathan's Famous. Despite all those restaurants with all that food, 1.5 million New Yorkers struggle to feed themselves and their families, and not because they can't get a coveted spot on the reservations list. Recognizing excess on one end of the dining spectrum and lack on the other, nonprofit City Harvest has been "rescuing" food from restaurants for ...
Statue of Liberty Stamp Shows Wrong Lady Liberty
By Ben Muessig - AOL NewsYou might say this is one monumental case of mail fraud. Due to a United States Postal Service gaffe, a stamp intended to commemorate New York City's Statue of Liberty features a picture of a Las Vegas replica instead. Though the stamp was supposed to show the real Lady Liberty, the "forever" stamp uses a photograph of a half-sized, 14-year-old rip-off at the New York-New York casino in Nevada, The New York Times reports. USPS The U.S. Postal Service has issued a new Statue of Liberty stamp that's accidentally based on the replica at the New York-New York casino in Las ...
Mom Drives Van Into NY River, Killing Self, 3 Kids
By not in system - AOL NewsNEWBURGH, N.Y. -- A woman who had just been involved in a domestic dispute loaded her four children into a minivan before letting one out and driving the rest of them into the Hudson River, killing herself and the three other children, firefighters said. The 10-year-old boy who had been let out of the minivan Tuesday night ran to a nearby fire station and alerted firefighters, Chief Michael Vatter said. The boy told firefighters his mother had driven off a boat ramp in Newburgh, about 60 miles north of New York City, and into the murky water of the river, Vatter said. Inside with her were the ...
NASA to Send Shuttles to Fla., Calif., Suburban DC
By not in system - AOL NewsCAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- On a memorable day in space history, NASA began its goodbyes to the shuttle program Tuesday, announcing the aged spacecraft will retire to museums in Cape Canaveral, Los Angeles and suburban Washington and sending a test-flight orbiter to New York City. It was an emotional day - the 30th anniversary of the first shuttle launch and the 50th anniversary of man's first journey into space by Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin. Just two more shuttle flights remain, and the head of NASA choked up as he revealed the new homes for the spacecraft in an event at the Kennedy Space ...
Brooklyn Janitor Charged in Rape of Middle School Girl
By Mara Gay - AOL NewsA janitor at a New York City middle school has been arrested and charged in the rape of a 13-year-old student, officials said today. Ambiorix Rodriguez, 32, is accused of raping and sexually abusing a female student multiple times in the basement of the Public School of Marketing and Legal Studies in Brooklyn, police told the New York Post today. He has been charged with rape, sex abuse and committing a criminal sex act. The student told the school principal about the alleged assault Monday, New York City Department of Education spokeswoman Marge Feinberg told AOL News today by ...
ET? Phone Here! NYC Man Launches UFO Hotline
By Ben Muessig - AOL NewsWhen New Yorkers see something unusual on the street, they can call 911. When they see something unusual in the sky, they can call Joseph Capp. Capp, a 68-year-old retiree in Brooklyn, has launched what appears to be New York City's first UFO hotline, offering a sympathetic ear to those who have just witnessed an unexplained phenomenon. "When some people see UFOs, it changes them. It alters their belief system, it challenges a lot of what they believe," he told AOL News. "That can affect someone." But when witnesses try to explain the strange things they've seen, they face intense scrutiny ...
NYC Woman Fatally Stabbed After Screaming for Help; Boyfriend Charged
By Lisa Flam - AOL NewsA New York City woman's panicked screams woke her neighbors shortly before her death early Sunday, but they couldn't locate her to help. Instead, they called police, who discovered the 23-year-old woman had been repeatedly stabbed, and nearly decapitated, after fighting with the boyfriend she was leaving, according to reports. LinkedIn Sarah Coit, 23, was fatally stabbed Sunday in New York City after reportedly fighting with her boyfriend, whom she was leaving. He has been charged with second-degree murder. "She was screaming for quite a while," Dutch tourist Yoost Bohnen, 33, ...
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