Avi Piamenta Playing Music, Without Instruments!

In an interesting reproduction of his famous song “Siman Tov U’Mazal Tov” Avi Piamenta created a unique and interesting A cappella song, in which all sounds recorded are done by mouth, with no instrument accompanying, thereby making this music allowed in the Sefirah.

Click Here in order to listen to the song!

Yeshivas Kayitz Detroit Announced

Lubavitch City, MI — This year, on the 660 acres of Gan Israel, Lubavitch City, MI. there will be a Varme Chassidishe atmosphere for the Bochur who seeks to spend a summer filled with learning and Farbrengens. The program is geared for Bochurim of Mesivta age.

Hand in hand with the Chasidishe learning environment, there will be activities such as swimming in an indoor pool, boating on a beautiful lake, sports and original exciting trips.

More in the Extended Article!

The Empire, the Rabbis and the Color of Money

IT’S a tale that includes a string of rabbis from Oxford to Argentina with thousands of investors in tow, and meetings with high-powered money men throughout the world.

Throw in a supposed telephone call from Neale Daniher, coach of the Melbourne football team, and conversations in Yiddish about who should get what, and you wind up with some of the colour behind a bitter legal battle being played out in the Supreme Court.

Chabad Yeshivos got over 10 million dollars in federal funding

In recent years Chabad Yeshivos have been the beneficiaries of over 10 million dollars in federal funding. Nearly all the funds are from the Federal Pell Grant Program while the rest came from Federal Work-Study Program and Federal Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grants.

According to records obtained by SHMAIS.com, that cover the fiscal years of 2002-2005, “770” has received nearly $6,000,000, Oholei Torah nearly $3,000,000, Morristown nearly $1,300,000 and Ohr Elchonon in Los Angeles just over $800,000.

A full breakdown in the Extended Article

YK Minnesota announce its staff for summer 5767

Director – Schneor Nejar

Head Counselors – Laizer Labkowsky

Learning Director – Shneur Silberberg

Program Director – Mayer Chaikin

Counselors & Learning Teacher in Extended Article

Wanted: Soldiers, Officers of Disengagement

Extreme Chabad faction is circulating photographs of soldiers who took part in disengagement, looking for their details

What do the police do when they are looking for criminals? They publish pictures of the offenders and ask the public’s help in finding them.

Former Mossad chief: Kill Ahmadinejad

Western countries must unite in an effort to assassinate Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, former head of the Mossad Meir Amit said on Wednesday night.

“Even though in the past I have been opposed to assassinating Arab leaders, this case is different because it alone is the center of the nuclear issue,” Amit told the weekly Kfar Chabad magazine set be published on Thursday.

Amit said he did not perceive an existential danger to Israel following Iran’s nuclear development – “but that is only on condition that we do something about it.”

A Time To Cry, A Time To Act

Blacksburg, VA — At Virginia Tech, students need time to heal, and then an opportunity to act.

Virginia Tech students sat quietly, some weeping at the Blacksburg Jewish Community Center’s brief prayer service Tuesday night, too overcome, too emotionally exhausted to do much more than answer ‘amen’ to recital of the mourner’s prayer by Rabbi Yossel Kranz, Executive Director of Chabad of the Virginias.

Head Staff for Gan Israel – Detroit Announced!

Announced on the GCI Detroit’s website are the head staff members for this year’s summer!

The “Head Counselors” are: Yitzi Steiner (Toronto, Ontario), Yudi Shmotkin (Milwaukee, WI) and Zalman Bendet (S. Paul, MN) and the “Learning Directors” are: Mendel Shemtov (Uruguay)and Mendel Shemtov (Toledo, OH).

Thirty Three Murders – Current Events

G-d was murdered Monday. Thirty-three times over.

No, this isn’t my hyperbolic way of venting my sadness and rage. It’s what the sages of the Talmud said more than two thousand years ago.

They pointed out that the Ten Commandments were inscribed by G-d on two stone tablets, forming a correlation between one set of five commandments inscribed on the first tablet and the second set inscribed on the second tablet. Thus the first commandment, “I am the L-rd your G-d” corresponds to the sixth commandment, “You shall not murder.”

Footballer fined for ‘Nazi’ insult

Melbourne, Australia — An Ocean Grove footballer has been convicted and fined $1000 for abusing a Jewish businessman.

Magistrate Barbara Cotterell earlier blasted footballer Simon Phillip Christian’s “extremely racist” behaviour when he was part of an alleged race hate attack last year.

Kavod Acharon For Professor Librescu

Shortly after the devastating news broke of the massacre at Virginia Tech, the family of Professor Liviu Librescu was notified of his death. The 75-year-old Holocaust survivor sacrificed his life to save his students.

The family immediately contacted the ZAKA Organization in Eretz Yisroel to help expedite the release of the niftar, who in turn advised the family to contact Rabbi Isaac Lieder in Monsey, NY.

Rabbi Lieder quickly contacted the medical examiner’s office in Roanoke, Virginia, and explained that the professor was Jewish and Jewish law prohibits performing an autopsy on a deceased person. They guaranteed Rabbi Lieder that even though they were dealing with the largest investigation of a shooting on US soil, there would in fact be no autopsy, just a minimally invasive procedure to remove the bullets, followed by a few x-rays.

Man Accused of Vandalizing Chabad House Rearrested

Toronto, Canada — A man accused of smashing windows at a local Jewish centre was arrested again a day later, after failing to comply with the conditions of his release.