At Camp Conference, Directors Talk Anything but ‘Bunk’

by Bryan Schwartzman - Chabad.org
Eight Chabad camp directors attended the Foundation for Jewish Camp’s Biennial Leaders Assembly, including (from left) Rabbi Itchy Grossbaum, Camp Gan Israel Toronto; Rabbi Gershon Sandler, Camp Gan Israel in the Poconos; Rabbi Zalman Gerber, Camp Gan Israel Philadelphia; Rabbi Yitzchok Steinmetz, Camp L'man Achai; Binyamin Murray, Pioneers Camp in Vermont; and Rabbi Avraham Laber, Jewish Girls Retreat in Troy, N.Y. Not pictured were Rabbi Yisroel Mockin of Camp Gan Israel Montreal and Rabbi Yossi Goldblatt of Camp Gan Israel Florida.
Eight Chabad camp directors attended the Foundation for Jewish Camp’s Biennial Leaders Assembly, including (from left) Rabbi Itchy Grossbaum, Camp Gan Israel Toronto; Rabbi Gershon Sandler, Camp Gan Israel in the Poconos; Rabbi Zalman Gerber, Camp Gan Israel Philadelphia; Rabbi Yitzchok Steinmetz, Camp L'man Achai; Binyamin Murray, Pioneers Camp in Vermont; and Rabbi Avraham Laber, Jewish Girls Retreat in Troy, N.Y. Not pictured were Rabbi Yisroel Mockin of Camp Gan Israel Montreal and Rabbi Yossi Goldblatt of Camp Gan Israel Florida.

Binyamin Murray grew up on a poultry farm in rural Connecticut, learning to hunt with a bow, and catch fish in lakes and rivers. Spiritually, the 2006 University of Vermont graduate has traveled a long way from his secular upbringing: He’s studying for rabbinical ordination at the Rabbinical College of America, aChabad institution in Morristown, N.J.

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Letter and Spirit: The Behavior of Frum Jews

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In this week’s edition of Letter and Spirit, we present a letter of the Rebbe in which he addresses the issue concerning the inconsistency in the daily conduct of some frum individuals, which turns many people off from Torah. The reason is often misunderstood, and the Rebbe explains it with an interesting example. The letter was written through the Rebbe’s trusted secretary Rabbi Nissan Mindel, and was made available by his son-in-law Rabbi Sholom Ber Shapiro.

Jews and Sports: The Call to Ban Israel

by Yossi Goldstein
Members of the national soccer team of Israel walk in the Raul Wallenberg Memorial Park in the garden of the Dohany Street Synagogue in Budapest, Hungary.
Members of the national soccer team of Israel walk in the Raul Wallenberg Memorial Park in the garden of the Dohany Street Synagogue in Budapest, Hungary.

The Israel National soccer team could be facing a possible World Cup ban, including other soccer sanctions, unless it alleviates travel restrictions and increases field access for Palestinian players and coaches.

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Container Arrives in Nepal Just in Time for Seder

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Over 1,000 Jewish travelers breathed a sigh of relief when, after having been stuck for weeks in an Indian port due to a strike by Israel’s Foreign Ministry, a container of supplies needed by Chabad of Nepal to conduct the world’s largest Seder arrived just hours before the onset of Yomtov.