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Eat Some Fat!
by Alan Freishtat – Yeshiva World News
Over the past 40 years, the “public enemy number one” of food has been fat. We spend billions of dollars per year on low-fat foods, fake-fat chips, pills that block the absorption of fat into the digestive system, and all types of specials diets and cookbooks. And, in the past 30 years, we have reduced the amount of fat in our diet by 34% on average. The problem is, we aren’t any thinner or healthier for all this effort. Actually, we are larger and unhealthier than ever. One reasons for this is that there are some fats that are good for you, but we are not including them in our diet.
Project Seeks to Revolutionize How Teachers Prepare Jewish Studies Curricula
A class at Tomchei Tmimim Lubavitch in Moscow
With a team hard at work for nearly two years on the project, the central educational office of Chabad-Lubavitch is about to launch a new educational computer software program that, according to Rabbi Nochem Kaplan, could well transform the face of the Jewish day school system in the United States, if not the entire world. By streamlining the way teachers impart Judaic studies and Hebrew language content to their students, explains the veteran educator, the program opens up a variety of opportunities for tailoring a curriculum to each individual student.
NY1
State lawmakers on Friday passed an omnibus bill that extends the city's rent laws, caps property taxes, and raises tuition at SUNY and CUNY schools.
NYC Rent Control Laws Get Four-Year Extension
NY1
State lawmakers on Friday passed an omnibus bill that extends the city’s rent laws, caps property taxes, and raises tuition at SUNY and CUNY schools.
To’eiva Marriage Now Legal in New York
by Dave Hirsch – Yeshiva World News
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo
Toeiva marriage is legal in New York State. Governor Cuomo, a strong proponent of “equality,” stalwartly pursued its passage, making it his signature legislative achievement. Unlike Assemblyman Dov Hikind’s false assumptions that the New York Assembly doesn’t have the votes, it passed the Democratic-led Assembly by a large margin, and the Republican-led Senate didn’t do anything to stop the bill. The bill still faces many hurdles, and we should not yet surrender; however, as the headlines proclaimed, New York now became the beacon of darkness for the entire nation regarding this matter.
Jews in Sports: HORSERADISH HEX
by Yossi Goldstein
Forty-nine seasons have come and gone since the New York Metropolitans first stumbled onto the Major League Baseball scene in 1962.
It may be difficult to fathom those four National League Pennants, two World Series titles and millions of head-aches that have since passed when Casey Stengel managed the club that couldn’t pitch precisely, mesmerizing fans at the Polo Grounds with its ineptitude on the base-path and on-target throwing failures.
Airport Screeners to Avoid Pat-Downs of Children
CNN
The Transportation Security Administration is changing its policy on how screeners can search children, the agency’s head has said.
Cheder Chabad of Monsey Boys Graduation
This past Wednesday night, Cheder Chabad of Monsey held its second boys 8th grade graduation! Cheder principal Rabbi Wolowik welcomed the gathered crowd and introduced Ruvi Litzman, a talmid of the 8th grade, to act as MC.
Barber Family Dedicates Sefer Torah
Photos by Nathan Brisk
This past Wednesday, Anash of Crown Heights celebrated the Siyum of a Sefer Torah written by Reb Avrohom Barber. The Torah was written L’Zecher Nishmas his father; Hakodosh R. Eliyahu ben R. Yakov Barber, his Mother M’ Itta bas R. Naftali Isser Halevi, and his brother R. Dov Ber ben R. Eliyahu Barber.
The Mechanchim will sign a Pan Kloli for Gimmel Tammuz at the Kinus HaMechanchim.
Mechanchim to Sign a Pan Kloli for Gimmel Tammuz
The Mechanchim will sign a Pan Kloli for Gimmel Tammuz at the Kinus HaMechanchim.
Weekly Unique Photo of the Rebbe
CrownHeights.info and the Avner Institute presents a unique photo of the Previous Lubavitcher Rebbe Joseph Isaac Schneerson, circa 1938, with special thanks to Rabbi Dan Levin.
New Tool to Better Predict Bullying, Violence in Children
Daily India
Scientists have developed a new tool that could improve treatment and prevention of aggressive behavior by children and adolescents in schools and in the community.
Friendship House Gets a New ‘Recovery Rabbi’
West Bloomfield Patch
Rabbi Yarden Blumstein
If Rabbi Yisrael Pinson, outgoing director of the Daniel B. Sobel Friendship House, had known how difficult his job was going to be, he would not have taken it. Now, he is grateful that he did not pass up the opportunity. Rabbi Yarden Blumstein has taken Pinson’s place.
Rubashkin and supporters outside the Sioux Falls federal courthouse.
Yet again, the plight of Agriprocessors boss Shalom Rubashkin has been the subject of more media attention, as his attorneys argued an appeal before a panel of judges in Missouri last week. The ruling was however delayed.
Sholom Rubashkin’s Universal Narrative
Rubashkin and supporters outside the Sioux Falls federal courthouse.
Yet again, the plight of Agriprocessors boss Shalom Rubashkin has been the subject of more media attention, as his attorneys argued an appeal before a panel of judges in Missouri last week. The ruling was however delayed.
NY Daily News
Guns are blazing in Southern Brooklyn, NYPD statistics show. The traditionally less-violent Brooklyn South patrol borough - comprised of 13 police precincts - is the only command in the city to report a spike in shootings so far this year. There were 103 shootings in Brooklyn South - especially in neighborhoods such as East Flatbush, Crown Heights and Coney Island - up from 82 at this time last year.
Shootings in Brooklyn Spike for the Year
NY Daily News
Guns are blazing in Southern Brooklyn, NYPD statistics show. The traditionally less-violent Brooklyn South patrol borough – comprised of 13 police precincts – is the only command in the city to report a spike in shootings so far this year. There were 103 shootings in Brooklyn South – especially in neighborhoods such as East Flatbush, Crown Heights and Coney Island – up from 82 at this time last year.
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