Analysts Find Israel Struck a Nuclear Project Inside Syria

Israel’s air attack on Syria last month was directed against a site that Israeli and American intelligence analysts judged was a partly constructed nuclear reactor, apparently modeled on one North Korea has used to create its stockpile of nuclear weapons fuel, according to American and foreign officials with access to the intelligence reports.

The description of the target addresses one of the central mysteries surrounding the Sept. 6 attack, and suggests that Israel carried out the raid to demonstrate its determination to snuff out even a nascent nuclear project in a neighboring state. The Bush administration was divided at the time about the wisdom of Israel’s strike, American officials said, and some senior policy makers still regard the attack as premature.

Internet-based “Jewish” Zoo Debuts on Chabad-Lubavitch Web Site

For 300 days, Noah, his family and two of every non-kosher species of animal – minus those of the sea – and seven of every kosher one occupied a three-deck ark of wood.

Just what stories did Noah tell his children to pass the time?

Yeshiva Re-Opens With A Bang

AN A-list gathering, including Israel’s chief Ashkenazi rabbi, politicians and the community gathered at the Yeshiva Centre on Wednesday morning for the announcement that Yeshiva College Bondi has been officially registered as a school by the NSW Board of Studies (BOS).

The school – which was officially accredited only hours before the formal gathering – will open in 2008 and will be the first school in Australia to teach Torah education.

JCM Hosts a Day of Golf on Par with the Pros

INWOOD, NY [CHI] — “We don’t usually have kosher hotdogs here!” exclaimed Ira Weinstein yesterday, dressed in his finest golf attire. Indeed, although Weinstein, President of Reds Pools and Patios, plays at the Inwood Country Club often, yesterday’s game of golf took on an unexpected form.

The Jewish Children’s Museum’s welcomed over a hundred businessmen and friends for their Premiere Golf Celebration, a day of serious golf, abundant food, and prizes.

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My Favorite Museum

Hello, my name is Batya and I live in Brooklyn. One day last year, on Chol HaMoed Succos, my bubby took me on the subway to a tall, shiny museum building. It looked very new. It wasn’t a quiet, serious museum about science, or one that has lots of paintings. It was a museum all about me — and you — and it was fun!

Tmimim Boys Choir Performs in Dorney and Sesame park

This past Chol Hamoed The“ Tmimim Boys Choir” led by Rabbi Yossi Goldstein, performed at Dorney and Sesame parks. Together with the enthusiastic audience they sang Chabad Yom Tov Nigunim as well as Geula songs making a Kiddush Lubavitch and instilling pride in our boys.

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Jewish Group’s Proposal To Renovate House In Historic District Results In Nit-Picking

LITCHFIELD, CT — The town’s famous green is surrounded by picture postcard churches of all stripes – Protestant and Catholic, stone, wood and brick – with an abundance of crosses, steeples and stained-glass windows.

But when an orthodox Jewish group went before the Litchfield Historic District Commission last month to informally present its plans to transform a somewhat rundown 1870s Victorian on West Street into the town’s first synagogue, the nit-picking immediately began.

Kosher Cooking School To Open In Brooklyn

Brooklyn, NY — Brooklyn is soon to have its very own cooking school. And what’s more, it’s 100% kosher!

The Center for Kosher Culinary Arts, set to open its kitchen this October after the Sukkot holiday, will offer intimate, hands-on, recreational cooking and baking classes in a variety of subjects for children, teens and adults, taught by some of the city’s top culinary professionals.

Sukkot in Lubavitch Crown Heights: A Time for Dancing and Singing

CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn — Sparkling confetti and children’s plastic glow-toys dazzled the air on Kingston Avenue Sunday night as black-clad men danced in jumbled circles till 6:30 a.m., during their weeklong celebrations that follow the Jewish holiday Sukkot.

Now Live: Simchas Beis Hashoeva in Crown Heights

Once again COL brings to you a live coverage of the Simchas Beis Hashoeva in Crown Heights. This broadcast started at 9:30pm and will carry on until 2:00am EST.

The live broadcast was generated by COL’s technical team in New York: Mendy Lewis (broadcasting technician) Shemarya Yaret (sound) and with the assistance of Reb Shlomie Lehrer of Kingston Pizza and Reb Chaim Mitinsky of SPS-Security Cameras.

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Indonesian Native Returns Home From the UK for Sukkot

Growing up in Surabaya, Indonesia, Dovid Sayers did not know much about Jewish life, but his classmates always reminded him that he was Jewish. His first name, significantly different from the local variant of Dued, said it all. He was constantly bullied; one time a girl threw a stick at his face following the release of an American movie about Christianity.

Politicians Visit Rosh HaKohols Sukkah

CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — Last night local politicians visited the Sukkah of Rabbi Moshe Rubashkin, chairman of the Jewish Community Council of Crown Heights. The visitors expressed their amazement upon learning that Rubashkin has been hosting over 100 Bochurim in his home for the month of Tishrai.

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Sukkah Mobile – 1970, Sukkah Mobile – 2007

Back in 1970 Reb Sholom Ber Goldstein built a ‘Succah on Wheels’ with the greeting to ‘Come in and use our Lulav & Esrog’ (pictured at the Columbia University in Manhattan).

Today the Mitzvah Tank Org. outfitted two 50 foot long trailers with enormous Sukkahs on them with ‘Chabad Lubavitch wishes you a happy Sukkos’.

Jewish Students at Columbia University Unite in Face of Iran’s President

NEW YORK, NY — If the audience’s applause was any indication, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad scored points Monday when he denied advocating the violent destruction of Israel and instead called to “let the people of Palestine freely choose what they want for their future.”

The comment, which by definition was the tacit endorsement of Israel’s disappearance as a Jewish-majority state from the Middle East, earned cheers from the estimated-600 crowd who turned out to watch the leader answer questions in a forum sponsored by Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs.