Director – Schneor Nejar
Head Counselors – Laizer Labkowsky
Learning Director – Shneur Silberberg
Program Director – Mayer Chaikin
Counselors & Learning Teacher in Extended Article
As part of learning the weekly Pirkei Avos, the young Temimim of ULY – Crown Heights, had a hands-on experience on the lesson of Ayin Ro-ah: Hashem sees all of our actions, yet we cannot see Him.
More pictures in the Extended Article.
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.
Nili, an 11th grader from Jerusalem, was photographed standing alone against dozens of black-clad policemen during evacuation of Amona. Though photo earned photographer Balilty a Pulitzer, Nili says it is ‘nothing to be proud of’
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.”
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.
Brooklyn, NY — Wednesday, 4 in the afternoon, Professor Liviu Librescu OBM Levaya leaving Shomrei Hachomos in Borough Park to be taken to Israel for burial by his wife who arrived just a few minutes before the processions.
Paying their respects were NY State Assemblyman Dov Hikind, NYC Councilman Simcha Felder, Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz, and representatives of the Mayor’s office.
Hamokom Yenachem eschem Besoch Shaar Avaylay Tzion VeYerushalayim.
More pictures in the Extend Article
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).
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.”
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.
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.
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.
Blacksburg, VA — As Israel observed Holocaust Day, thousands of miles away, A Rumanian-born Holocaust survivor gave his life in another senseless murder – and apparently in an act of heroism.
Among the 32 people killed by a lone gunman at Virginia Tech Monday is 77-year-old engineering professor, Liviu Librescu, a citizen of Israel. According to eyewitness accounts, Librescu ran to the door of his classroom and blocked it with his body – preventing the gunman from entering but getting shot to death himself as a result.
Brooklyn, NY — He was European rockin’ royalty until he saw the light of the rebbe.
Now Isaac Bitton’s former bosses at Le Marais, a French kosher steakhouse in Manhattan, may use his fast-living past against him in their $10 million lawsuit denouncing allegations they failed to maintain a kosher kitchen.
More in the Extended Article.
At around 5:45pm hundreds of Anash, Bochurim and Woman escorted Mrs. Shterna Sara Rosen OBM. The Levaya passed 770 and from there went to the airport to go to Israel where she will be laid to rest in Tzfat, Israel.
More pictures in the Extended Article.
Princeton, NJ — Last week N.J. Gov. Jon S. Corzine broke his left leg in two places, as well as six ribs, his sternum and a vertebra – and after seeing crash photos, his doctor says he’s “lucky.”
Bucharest, Romania — A haredi lawyer from Kfar Chabad is embroiled in a scandal in Romania that threatens to bring down the government, after he briefly represented a Syrian-born businessman who was indicted by Romanian authorities for terrorist activity and corruption.
A few days ago, attorney Mordechai Tzivin informed the Romanian legislature he was prepared to address its Parliamentary Control Commission for SRI (the Romanian Information Service) regarding alleged corruption in the country’s secret services and government.
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