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JLI Video: Challah Kabbalah – How to Make Mystical Bread for Shabbos

The mundane act of making bread is transformed into a spiritual opportunity when baking challah for Shabbat. Each one of the seven ingredients has mystical and psychological significance. Kabbalists say that the blessings from this mitzvah are so great that every woman should try to make challah at least once a year.

Cheesecake and All-Nighters

Children from Chabad of Orange County, N.Y.’s Torah Trooper Preschool Program, along with director Chana Burston and youth director Nechama Jacobs, proudly display their model Mount Sinais they made in preparation for the Jewish holiday of Shavuot.

Ice cream sundaes and cheesecake will take center stage during celebrations of the upcoming two-day Shavuot holiday, which will begin this year on Tuesday evening, June 7. Commemorating the giving of the Torah, which began with the transmission of the Ten Commandments at Mount Sinai more than 3,300 years ago, Shavuot is traditionally celebrated with dairy feasts, readings of the Decalogue and all-night study sessions.

City Is to Blame on Enforcement of Window Guards

NY Times

Between 2001 and 2007, nine children died falling from windows, according to a report the Health Department issued in 2009. An audit by the New York City comptroller’s office has found deficiencies in the city’s window-guard enforcement program, which prevents children from falling through open windows.

Siberian City Marks First Bris in 80 Years

FJC

For the first time in more than 80 years, Jews in the capital of Buryatia – Ulan-Ude – marked an important event in the life of the community. An 8-day-old boy of one of the community members entered into the covenant of Abraham our Father through the commandment of Brit Mila.

Trailer: The Untold Truth of Sholom Rubashkin

From the producers of the all star Unity for Justice project comes a new documentary film that will shed light on the chain of events leading up to the imprisonment of meat-packing executive Sholom Rubashkin. A father of ten with no previous convictions, the 52 year old Rubashkin was sentenced to 27 years in Federal Prison on charges of bank fraud.

Young Chevra Hold Shabbaton in Running Springs

Many Young Lubavitch families from across Southern California joined together at the picturesque Chabad Running Springs Resort this past weekend, some three hundred men, women and children in total; for the Young Lubavitch Chevra of Southern California’s 4th Annual Shabbaton.