Unethical in the Name of Ethics
Animal Vs. Human Flesh
The following moving episode from the “other side” of the Atlantic was related by Cantor Moshe Kraus from Ottawa, who observed it first-hand. *
Rabbi Chanoch and Leah Gechtman are the newly named Chabad representatives to Mumbai. Before details of their appointment were made public, they shared a candid conversation with Baila Olidort, Editor-in-Chief of Lubavitch.com/Lubavitch News Service, about their decision to accept this appointment.
Rabbi Menachem Porush was born in Jerusalem in 1916. A seventh-generation Jerusalemite, he devoted his life to championing Torah values and Torah education in Israel. A story about the Previous Rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak of Lubavitch
Hundreds of Bochurim that came from overseas to spend Gimmel Tammuz by the Rebbe, were hosted in basements provided by Yossi Popack and Rabbi Dovid Fisher.
OLYMPIA, WA [KIROTV] — Olympia police are investigating a hate crime after vandals knocked over a Jewish menorah and then desecrated it.
The vandalism happened overnight Monday outside the home and office of Rabbi Cheski Edelman.
FLORIDA — Following on the heels of the amazing success of last week’s CTeen Northeast regional event, is CTeen South’s regional Paintball & BBQ trip. Over 100 teenagers gathered for a day of fun, food and paintball! The event was co-organized by CTeen’s headquarters in Brooklyn and a committee of shluchim in South Florida.
Tzivos Hashem visited Eton College, the school where the Royal Princes attended to run a Kashrus programme. This was part of their monthly Tefillin Club, organised by askan Mr Mendy Tejtelbaum.
Baruch. . . Shehecheyanu V’kiy’manu V’higiyanu Lizman Hazeh.
If you’re wondering what prompts the preceding invocation of thanksgiving and gratitude – normally reserved for particularly pleasing intermittent occurrences – that’s a good sign. It means that you’ve taken the bait. But don’t feel too bad, you can be sure that there is more to the invocation of this prayer, at this seemingly mundane and uneventful time of year, than mere attention grabbing.
The reason for the Shehecheyanu is because I, among others, have experienced this week something more moving and more pleasing than anything I have witnessed in my entire half century of residency in this world. I offer the Shehecheyanu in recognition of that deep soul rending occurrence.
MONSEY — This past Wednesday night, the Cheder held its first boys 8th grade graduation. Rabbi Wolowik welcomed everyone and introduced Mendel Jacobs, a talmid of 8th grade to act as MC. The MC called upon fellow talmidim Yechezkel Gross and Mendel Klein to recite the Rebbe’s and Rebetzin’s capitel tehillim.
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