Jewish institute to open Boulder branch

The Rohr Jewish Learning Institute, the largest network for adult Jewish education, is planning to open a Boulder branch this fall. Course-registration deadline is Monday.

Rohr JLI is also accepting registrations for its first National Jewish Retreat, which will be held Aug. 16-20 at Copper Mountain.

“Nothing of this scope has ever been done before,” said Rabbi Hesh Epstein, chairman of the retreat-planning committee.

So, these two rabbis travel Arkansas … and bring blessings

Linda Sweizer of Hot Springs had been praying for someone to help her teach her grandchildren what it means to be Jewish.

Then she read in her newspaper that two rabbis were in Arkansas as part of a New York based program that sends rabbis on summer trips to areas where Jews are isolated. So she called them.

Sweizer and her family are among Jews across the state who had a visit from rabbis Menachem “Mendy” Margolin and Yosef “Yossi” Kopfstein as they spent two and a half weeks crisscrossing Arkansas as part of the Jewish Community Enrichment Program, informally called the Traveling Rabbis.

Israel File: Children, Soldiers, Heroes

The war in Israel is turning young kids into adults all too soon. Their physical wounds may heal, but the terror, blood and death will haunt their dreams for years. “I can’t sleep. The images of what happened keep me awake at night,” said the young soldier.

‘Global Gan Israel’ exhibit open this Sunday

Celebrating jubilee at Kiryat Gan Israel of New York

PARKSVILLE, NY – The flagship Camp Gan Israel is celebrating its golden jubilee this Sunday, August 6 – a half century since the Rebbe founded and visited the first campers at the original site in New York.

A global exhibit consisting of presentations by branches in 34 countries around the world and most states in our country will be held this Sunday at the picturesque grounds of the mother camp at Kiryat Gan Israel, Old Route 17, between Liberty and Parksville N.Y.

Inspirational Israel rally at JCC focuses on Torah and mitzvot

More than 300 children and their families, teachers and adults from across the community gathered in support of Israel this past Monday afternoon, July 31, at the Jewish Community Center’s main campus on South Braeswood. Held inside the Center’s Kaplan Theatre, “Houston for Israel Family Rally” was a program designed specifically for children and parents, emphasizing strongly the importance of Torah, prayer and charity. The Consul General of Israel to the Southwest, Jewish Federation of Greater Houston, Camp Gan Israel of Houston and JCC Summer Day Camps sponsored the event; Chabad Outreach of Houston shaliach and Camp Gan Israel director, Rabbi Dovid Goldstein, emceed.

“We are gathered here today to offer peaceful ammunition in support of Israel and Jews everywhere through our prayers, charity and Torah study,” announced Rabbi Goldstein to the standing-room-only crowd of Israeli flag-wavers, day campers and attentive children. “And it is here that we pray especially for a peaceful resolution, and mourn the unnecessary loss of life, on both sides of the conflict.”

Blue Ash resident travels to Israel

Blue Ash, OH — With fighting intensifying between Israel and Hezbollah, many are vacating the Mideast country.

However, one Blue Ash resident recently left for Israel in a show of support for her country and people.

Chavi Mangel, the daughter of Rabbi Yisroel Mangel with the Chabad Jewish Center, traveled to Israel as part of a six-week educational tour of the country.

Photos that damn Hezbollah

THIS is the picture that damns Hezbollah. It is one of several, smuggled from behind Lebanon’s battle lines, showing that Hezbollah is waging war amid suburbia.

The images, obtained exclusively by the Sunday Herald Sun, show Hezbollah using high-density residential areas as launch pads for rockets and heavy-calibre weapons.

Dressed in civilian clothing so they can quickly disappear, the militants carrying automatic assault rifles and ride in on trucks mounted with cannon.

The photographs, from the Christian area of Wadi Chahrour in the east of Beirut, were taken by a visiting journalist and smuggled out by a friend.

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Mazal Tov! 2 Baby Boys on Tisha B’Av!

We would like to wish a hearty Mazal Tov to Moishe and Deena Gutleizer (Crown Heights) on the birth of their first born son! Born On Tisha B’Av.

The Sholom Zochor will IY”H be at 1301 Carroll St. [between Kingston Ave and Brooklyn Ave].

And another Mazal Tov to Shloime and Shaindle (nee Reiter) Hect, Shluchim at the University of Connecticut (Storrs Mansfield, CT) on the birth of their newborn Baby Boy! Born on Tisha B’Av.

May they be a constant source of Nachas to his parents, grandparents, relatives and klal yisroel.

Hundreds Attend the Levaya of R. Yaisef Deitsch OB”M

A large motorcade escorting R. Yosef Yitzchok Deitsch pulled up in front of 770, the Lubavitch World Headquarters, where hundreds of Bochurim, Men and Woman joined the Levaya from where it made its way to the Montefiore Cemetery in Queens where he was buried.

Jewish boarding school to open

Facility will be only such school in Minnesota

A Jewish boarding school for boys will open its doors in Cottage Grove this fall.

Yeshiva High School of the Twin Cities is buying the vacant Eagle Grove Baptist Church and hopes to teach and house about 30 boys from across the United States and other countries, said Rabbi Mottel Friedman, its director.

Picture of the Night – 3:00am

3:00am the streets are deserted, aside from the occasional car passing and the few individuals hurrying along to wherever it is they are going, a light glows in the Shain Shul, upon closer observation a man is seen through the window fixing and binding the spines of old and new Seforim.

Lubavitcher Shul Attacked In Sydney, AU

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Community and political leaders have condemned attacks on a synagogue and a mosque in Sydney at the weekend as police searched for those involved.

On Saturday a brick was thrown at a mosque in Eden Street, Arncliffe, smashing a window.

In another attack, police say up to 10 people, whom they described as “Middle Eastern men”, threw concrete blocks at a residence attached to a synagogue in Parramatta on Sunday night, smashing the windows of two parked cars.