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By Rabbi Yoseph Kahanov, Jax, Florida
A man was once accused of a serious crime. The evidence was so incriminating that a guilty verdict was all but inevitable. “Your only hope,” advised his lawyer “is to enter a plea of insanity; but you must remember to act crazy in court.”

The man followed his lawyer’s counsel and put on a great act. He made the strangest sounds as he twitched his head and thrashed his hands. So well had he performed, that the case was soon dismissed.

To his utter dismay, when the lawyer came to collect his fee, the man resumed his ridiculous gig; strange motions and all. He soon realized that he had become the butt of his own ploy – his expert advice had come back to bite him.
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After a long day of disasters and mishaps, due to inattentiveness and neglect, the exhausted victim could take it no more. “Why,” he cried in exasperation, “Do things that happen to morons keep happening to me?!”

“Where Have I Gone Wrong?” – The Reverberating Effects Of Human Behavior

By Rabbi Yoseph Kahanov, Jax, Florida

A man was once accused of a serious crime. The evidence was so incriminating that a guilty verdict was all but inevitable. “Your only hope,” advised his lawyer “is to enter a plea of insanity; but you must remember to act crazy in court.”

The man followed his lawyer’s counsel and put on a great act. He made the strangest sounds as he twitched his head and thrashed his hands. So well had he performed, that the case was soon dismissed.

To his utter dismay, when the lawyer came to collect his fee, the man resumed his ridiculous gig; strange motions and all. He soon realized that he had become the butt of his own ploy – his expert advice had come back to bite him.
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After a long day of disasters and mishaps, due to inattentiveness and neglect, the exhausted victim could take it no more. “Why,” he cried in exasperation, “Do things that happen to morons keep happening to me?!”

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Chezki and Mushkie Golowinski from Crown Heights had a baby boy! Shalom Zachor: 539 Crown Street
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By Andrew Thompson - Philadelphia Citypaper
Rabbi/band leader Menachem Schmidt has seen Philly's Lubavitch community grow to new heights. But is its progressive orthodoxy too good to be true?


Rabbi Menachem Schmidt. Photo: Neal Santos.

An Orthodox synagogue sits across the street from an abandoned lot on Poplar and North American streets, and on a cool May night, the members of that synagogue use it to throw what is undoubtedly the biggest party in Northern Liberties. The occasion is Lag B'Omer, one of the more obscure Jewish holidays, and the Philadelphia leaders of the Chabad-Lubavitch sect of Judaism had decided to celebrate by lighting an enormous bonfire, serving Miller High Life and cooking kosher barbecue. Next to the bonfire, a bongo line forms, the drums beat by casually dressed youth while Hasidic Jews, dressed in traditional black suits and fedoras with long scraggly beards, drink and chat around them while children throw detritus into the fire.

Too Cool for Shul

By Andrew Thompson – Philadelphia Citypaper

Rabbi/band leader Menachem Schmidt has seen Philly’s Lubavitch community grow to new heights. But is its progressive orthodoxy too good to be true?

Rabbi Menachem Schmidt. Photo: Neal Santos.

An Orthodox synagogue sits across the street from an abandoned lot on Poplar and North American streets, and on a cool May night, the members of that synagogue use it to throw what is undoubtedly the biggest party in Northern Liberties. The occasion is Lag B’Omer, one of the more obscure Jewish holidays, and the Philadelphia leaders of the Chabad-Lubavitch sect of Judaism had decided to celebrate by lighting an enormous bonfire, serving Miller High Life and cooking kosher barbecue. Next to the bonfire, a bongo line forms, the drums beat by casually dressed youth while Hasidic Jews, dressed in traditional black suits and fedoras with long scraggly beards, drink and chat around them while children throw detritus into the fire.

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By Shannon Geis for The Brooklyn Paper

The Brooklyn Paper / Allyse Pulliam
Rabbi Aaron Raskin of Congregation B’nai Avraham shows
off the damage caused the last time a serial burglar tried
to break into the Remsen Street synagogue.
BROOKLYN, NY — A Brooklyn Heights synagogue that has been repeatedly robbed and attacked was hit again last week — and rabbis believe it is the same man responsible for earlier break-ins.

“He’s broken in before,” said Rabbi Simcha Weinstein of Congregation B’nai Avraham on Remsen Street, which has been the site of repeated burglaries and attempted burglaries ever since the suspect, a serial burglar, was invited in for a meal five years ago.

In the Aug. 20 incident, cops said that the burglar broke in through the front door of the house of worship, which is between Henry and Clinton streets, at around 3:30 am.

This time, however, he was confronted by a member of the cleaning staff, who asked what he was doing there.

Rather than answer, he quickly ran out of the synagogue empty handed.

Shul House Rocked — Again!

By Shannon Geis for The Brooklyn Paper

The Brooklyn Paper / Allyse Pulliam
Rabbi Aaron Raskin of Congregation B’nai Avraham shows
off the damage caused the last time a serial burglar tried
to break into the Remsen Street synagogue.

BROOKLYN, NY — A Brooklyn Heights synagogue that has been repeatedly robbed and attacked was hit again last week — and rabbis believe it is the same man responsible for earlier break-ins.

“He’s broken in before,” said Rabbi Simcha Weinstein of Congregation B’nai Avraham on Remsen Street, which has been the site of repeated burglaries and attempted burglaries ever since the suspect, a serial burglar, was invited in for a meal five years ago.

In the Aug. 20 incident, cops said that the burglar broke in through the front door of the house of worship, which is between Henry and Clinton streets, at around 3:30 am.

This time, however, he was confronted by a member of the cleaning staff, who asked what he was doing there.

Rather than answer, he quickly ran out of the synagogue empty handed.

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We are proud to present to you this photo of the 1961 Graduating Jewish 8th grade in Lubavitcher Yeshiva on Bedford and Dean. The following is a list of the names we managed to obtain, feel free to add to the list by using the comment system.

Top Row: (L-R) ?, ?, Aron Cywiak, Manny Greitzer, Joe Bander, Nat Slavin, Rudy Weinberger, Singer, David Shabbat, Ben Tandowski, Meyer Fremder, Zimmet, Rochman, Moshe Winner OBM, Leima Levitin OBM.

Picture of the Day! – Graduating Bedford and Dean 1961!

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We are proud to present to you this photo of the 1961 Graduating Jewish 8th grade in Lubavitcher Yeshiva on Bedford and Dean. The following is a list of the names we managed to obtain, feel free to add to the list by using the comment system.

Top Row: (L-R) ?, ?, Aron Cywiak, Manny Greitzer, Joe Bander, Nat Slavin, Rudy Weinberger, Singer, David Shabbat, Ben Tandowski, Meyer Fremder, Zimmet, Rochman, Moshe Winner OBM, Leima Levitin OBM.

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by Eric Lidji - The Jewish Chronicle
Rabbi Yisroel Meir Altein, an educator, administrator and spiritual mentor in the local Lubavitch community for more than 60 years, passed away on Saturday, Aug. 22.

He was 86.

Altein came to Pittsburgh in the mid-1940s. As one of the oldest and longest serving emissaries, or shluchim, of Rabbi Yosef Yitzchok Schneersohn, the sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe, Altein watched the Lubavitch movement grow from a small outpost in the East End of Pittsburgh to a large school with a vast, regional presence in the community.

Around 1 p.m. on Sunday afternoon, more than 200 people gathered outside of the Lubavitch Center on Wightman Street in Squirrel Hill to read psalms as the hearse stopped in front of the synagogue Altein helped build. Then, a 30-car procession drove up Murray Avenue and on to the Homewood Cemetery, where Altein was buried.

Rabbi Yisroel Meir Altein OBM, an Educator & Spiritual Mentor

by Eric Lidji – The Jewish Chronicle

Rabbi Yisroel Meir Altein, an educator, administrator and spiritual mentor in the local Lubavitch community for more than 60 years, passed away on Saturday, Aug. 22.

He was 86.

Altein came to Pittsburgh in the mid-1940s. As one of the oldest and longest serving emissaries, or shluchim, of Rabbi Yosef Yitzchok Schneersohn, the sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe, Altein watched the Lubavitch movement grow from a small outpost in the East End of Pittsburgh to a large school with a vast, regional presence in the community.

Around 1 p.m. on Sunday afternoon, more than 200 people gathered outside of the Lubavitch Center on Wightman Street in Squirrel Hill to read psalms as the hearse stopped in front of the synagogue Altein helped build. Then, a 30-car procession drove up Murray Avenue and on to the Homewood Cemetery, where Altein was buried.

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Will major media attention help?

Mom says daughter taunted, attacked on Crown Heights playground

An 11-year-old Jewish girl was attacked at a Crown Heights playground by a band of black youths who slammed her into a metal slide, kicked her repeatedly - and pelted her with anti-Semitic invective, the girl's mom said Wednesday.

NY Daily News on the Beating of Jewish Girl

Will major media attention help?

Mom says daughter taunted, attacked on Crown Heights playground

An 11-year-old Jewish girl was attacked at a Crown Heights playground by a band of black youths who slammed her into a metal slide, kicked her repeatedly – and pelted her with anti-Semitic invective, the girl’s mom said Wednesday.

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The Rebbe says:

1. At the end of this week’s Torah portion the Torah tells us of the commandment to remember what the nation of Amalek did to us. The Torah reads, “Remember what Amalek did to you on the road, on your way out of Egypt. That he met you on the way and cut off those lagging to your rear, when you were tired and exhausted; he did not fear G-d. Therefore... you must obliterate the memory of Amalek from under the heavens. Do not forget”.

When we analyze these words of the Torah we will see that there are three elements here. Firstly there is the commandment to remember what Amalek did to us. Secondly there is the commandment not to forget what Amalek did to us. And thirdly, there is the commandment to wipe out Amalek.

2. The Rebbe shows how important this is:

The Weekly Sicha of the Rebbe – Parshas Ki Seitzei

The Rebbe says:

1. At the end of this week’s Torah portion the Torah tells us of the commandment to remember what the nation of Amalek did to us. The Torah reads, “Remember what Amalek did to you on the road, on your way out of Egypt. That he met you on the way and cut off those lagging to your rear, when you were tired and exhausted; he did not fear G-d. Therefore… you must obliterate the memory of Amalek from under the heavens. Do not forget”.

When we analyze these words of the Torah we will see that there are three elements here. Firstly there is the commandment to remember what Amalek did to us. Secondly there is the commandment not to forget what Amalek did to us. And thirdly, there is the commandment to wipe out Amalek.

2. The Rebbe shows how important this is:

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Chabad at the Shore – Jewish Summer Fest

ATLANTIC CITY, NJ [CHI] — Chabad at the Shore recently held its 5th annual Jewish Summer Festival. The Jersey Shore is a popular vacation destination and it attracts many Jewish vacationers each summer. Each year as summer comes to an end and families get ready to go back to school, Chabad offers visitor its mega summer event – The Jewish Summer Fest.

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By Sharon Udasin for the Jewish Week
They may be in Thessaloniki or in the foothills of the Himalayas, but emissaries-to-be in the Rebbe’s Army — as befits the high tech-savvy Chabad movement — are online all the while.

This summer in Chabad’s long-running “Roving Rabbis” program, in which rabbis-in-training are dispatched to far-flung locales to help out local emissaries, they are also assigned to blog about their experiences of the movement’s flagship site, chabad.org. The posts tell riveting stories of survival during the Holocaust and simple ones of Jews living life far off the beaten path.

Lubavitch Laptops – Tech Savvy Roving Rabbis

By Sharon Udasin for the Jewish Week

They may be in Thessaloniki or in the foothills of the Himalayas, but emissaries-to-be in the Rebbe’s Army — as befits the high tech-savvy Chabad movement — are online all the while.

This summer in Chabad’s long-running “Roving Rabbis” program, in which rabbis-in-training are dispatched to far-flung locales to help out local emissaries, they are also assigned to blog about their experiences of the movement’s flagship site, chabad.org. The posts tell riveting stories of survival during the Holocaust and simple ones of Jews living life far off the beaten path.

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Gang Attack. Illustration Photo.

CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — A 12-year-old Jewish girl was the victim of a vicious racially motivated physical and verbal gang assault by a large group of 10-year-old Black boys in a local playground.

The incident took place Tuesday evening at around 7:00pm in the new playground on Montgomery Street between Troy and Schenectady Avenues, according to an account by the girls mother she said that the group first tried provoking her into fighting with them by verbally taunting her, following it up with throwing a ball at her.

Racially Motivated Gang Assault by 10-year-olds, Police Brush it off

Gang Attack. Illustration Photo.

CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — A 12-year-old Jewish girl was the victim of a vicious racially motivated physical and verbal gang assault by a large group of 10-year-old Black boys in a local playground.

The incident took place Tuesday evening at around 7:00pm in the new playground on Montgomery Street between Troy and Schenectady Avenues, according to an account by the girls mother she said that the group first tried provoking her into fighting with them by verbally taunting her, following it up with throwing a ball at her.

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Coming Soon from JEM: My Land!

As reported earlier, JEM in collaboration with Malka Touger are in the final stages of producing a new, exciting film for kids: My Land – A children’s tour through Israel’s Holy Cities accompanied by teachings of the Rebbe.

Here they were spotted in Ein Yael, Yerushalayim doing a scene about the Shivas Haminim (7 Species) of Eretz Yisroel.

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On 4 July 1976, Israel Defense Forces saved the lives of 104 Jews hostages held by terrorists at Entebbe Airport, Uganda. The Avner Institute is pleased to present a wonderful letter sent by the Rebbe to a Chabad supporter in Cleveland, Ohio, in which the Rebbe explains the lessons to be learnt from the miraculous victory of Operation Entebbe. To learn more about the Rebbe visit: portraitofaleader.org

“Victory Entebbe” – A Unique Letter of the Rebbe

On 4 July 1976, Israel Defense Forces saved the lives of 104 Jews hostages held by terrorists at Entebbe Airport, Uganda. The Avner Institute is pleased to present a wonderful letter sent by the Rebbe to a Chabad supporter in Cleveland, Ohio, in which the Rebbe explains the lessons to be learnt from the miraculous victory of Operation Entebbe. To learn more about the Rebbe visit: portraitofaleader.org

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Police Involved in an Accident on Eastern Parkway

CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — A police cruiser with an officer and a sergeant on board was involved in a collision as they drove through the intersection of Eastern Parkway and Brooklyn Avenue. The officers were assigned to Transit Division 32 which are the officers that patrol the subway lines and platforms.

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MYFOXNY.COM — If Libyan President Muammar Qaddafi visits the United States next month, there is a good chance he'll be staying in a tent next door to celebrity Rabbi Shmuley Boteach.

Good Day NY's Greg Kelly spoke with the enraged Rabbi who says he'll do everything possible to stop the “terrorist” from pitching a tent next to his home.

Rabbi Shmuley Boteach to be Libyan President’s Neighbor

MYFOXNY.COM — If Libyan President Muammar Qaddafi visits the United States next month, there is a good chance he’ll be staying in a tent next door to celebrity Rabbi Shmuley Boteach.

Good Day NY’s Greg Kelly spoke with the enraged Rabbi who says he’ll do everything possible to stop the “terrorist” from pitching a tent next to his home.

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