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Hurricane Sandy in New York – Recap

by Rafael (Rafi) Hecht • November 4, 2012 • 0 Comments

This probably will be my most controversial post yet. Hurricane Sandy was one of the worst storms in the history of New York State. For many of us native New Yorkers, we have never before seen New York get hit…

by Rafael (Rafi) Hecht • September 15, 2011 • 0 Comments

By Kurt Streeter Leon Weinstein, 101, survived the Warsaw Ghetto. But it is the story of the little girl that he wants to tell AN INSPIRING TALE OF HEROISM AND DETERMINATION TO START YOUR DAY OFF RIGHT! (MCT) She was Jewish, but…

by Rafael (Rafi) Hecht • June 3, 2011 • 0 Comments

Recently ZDNet, a secular website posting tekkie articles, posted an article about GMail saving the day. The article features a Frum Jewish Yeshiva guy, Avrohom Eliezer Friedman, a Florida resident with his Tzitzis flying out, showing how his car with his ”shtoddy” license plate GMAIL saved his car from theft.

by Rafael (Rafi) Hecht • April 4, 2011 • 0 Comments

A few days ago a sand storm hit Kuwait. Some amazed cameramen took videos as the sand storm covered the city and literally turned day into night.

Here’s one of the videos. All I can say is, THAT IS COOL!!!!

by Rafael (Rafi) Hecht • March 15, 2011 • 0 Comments

To say the least, the recent earthquake in Japan was nothing short of horrifying and a testament to the power of the One Above. In Accounting when categorizing damages related to nature they are listed as “Acts of God,” as nothing else can describe it.

It was scary. The earthquake destroyed over a hundred kilometers of land in Japan, which considering the country’s size is a lot of land. Then the earthquake led to a major tsunami.