Yesterday, Wednesday, at two o’clock in the afternoon, campers from day camps in the Tri State Area gathered in 770 for a special rally in honor of Tu B’Av. The kids said the twelve Pesukim, watched an an interesting acrobatic show and more! R. Shimon Hecht was the MC.
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Four weeks of exciting activities and trips were climaxed with the first-session Grand Trip to Six Flags – Hurricane Harbor! The campers had a great time with the water rides and slides while also making a great Kiddush Hashem by wearing their Yarmulkes and Tzitzis throughout the water park rides.
The campers then headed to the Timberland Lake camping grounds and gathered around a cozy bonfire for a BBQ and some sleep. Rabbi Mendel Okunov, the Executive Director of Camp F.R.E.E., farbrenged with them until the wee hours of the morning. Upon returning home a camper was asked what he liked most about the trip, to which he replied, “The stories told around the bonfire by Rabbi Okunov.”
For the second visiting day of this summer Camp Gan Israel of Parksville New York held a unique program for its 50th “Golden Jubilee” anniversary since its first summer, so in honor of this special year bunk’s undertook the task of creating “model Gan Israel’s” located around the world, and were all places on display on the front lawn for all to admire!
Following was a concert on the soccer field featuring Benny Friedman and the Camp Choir, who preformed for the visiting parents and campers. The weather was phenomenal which enabled this event to go on with out any problems!
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Much speculation has gone into why was there hundreds of police vehicles lined up on Kingston Ave. and Eastern Pkwy. on Friday last week and the past two days, some reported it being “an added police presents due to a rise in crime” or “Police always perform these drills across the city”. This drill was infact titled a ‘general exercise’ which was a city wide anti terror and readiness drill in which cars from precincts around the city participated in.
Both 770 and the Jewish Children’s Museum are considered terror targets, and may be one of the reasons the drill was performed here.
The world’s best-known Holocaust survivor says strangers invariably ask him how he managed to preserve his faith despite his suffering
Perhaps no Holocaust survivor alive today is more widely known than Elie Wiesel, who has written and spoken extensively of his experiences and the need for world leaders to stop human atrocities even outside their countries’ borders.
His first book published in English, Night, recounts his time in Auschwitz, Buchenwald and other Nazi concentration camps from 1944 to 1945. It has sold millions of copies since its 1958 publication. Oprah Winfrey recently selected it for her book club.
As the sun begins to set over the Andes Mountains on a Friday afternoon, a van slowly winds down a lone country road. Inside are ten weary young boys, accompanied by two adults. They have traveled a long journey to reach their destination; this group along with their leaders, Rabbi Berky Rodal and Shlomo Nathanson hail from Chabad of Mt. Olympus CA to spend Shabbos at Camp L’man Achai in Andes, NY.
The boys and their counselors have come to visit a camp that caters to boys like themselves; boys who have little experience with true Yiddishkeit. They have come to spend a Shabbos in Camp L’man Achai’s special, warm atmosphere to bask in its spirit and spirituality.
Newark, NJ — More than 100 Chabad Rabbis, varied practitioners in the field of education, convened at the Robert Treat Hotel in Newark, NJ. from Sunday night August 5th through Tuesday afternoon Aug. 7th. They heard lectures and panel discussions, participated in workshops and in strategy sessions, they shared meals renewed friendships, as they retooled professionally and were rejuvenated spiritually.
Concurrent lectures were presented throughout the conference, geared to primary and secondary education respectively. Dr. Judah Weller director of P’TACH and a disciple of the famed pediatrician Dr. Mel Levine, presented a series of lectures on the theme of “Schools Attuned”. His lectures featured Dr. Levine’s developmental philosophy which outlines the complex constructs which constitutes cognition. It focuses on a study of eight neurodevelopment constructs that affect learning: attention, language, memory, neuromotor functions, temporal-sequential ordering, spatial ordering, social cognition, and higher order cognition.
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This year the Yeshiva Gedolah of Melbourne celebrates its 40th anniversary. The yeshiva of Melbourne is the only yeshiva which the Rebbe considered as if his personal property and the Rebbe included it on his annual chometz sale contract.
This year’s picture of the Yeshiva and its faculty. From right to left: Members of hanahala: R. Rueven Tartarka, R. Mendel Serabraynski and R. Yechezkiyahu Herzog. The Director- R. Yosef Yitzchok Gutnik. Member of hanhala- R. Sholom Gutnik. Rosh Yeshiva- R. Binyamin Cohen. Administrator- R. Avraham Procel, Magid Shiur- R. Mordechai Shmerling. Mashpia- R. Yaakov Winner. Mashgiach- R. Sholom Ber Engel. Magid Shiur- R. Shmuel Lesches. Due to health reasons, the Morah D’asra and member of hanahala, Rabbi Yitzchok Groner is not present.
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Morristown, NJ — One hundred and sixty five talmidim eagerly gathered outside the Beis Medrash of the Rabbinical College, waiting to enter the lavishly decorated Zal for the Siyum HaRambam, marking the simultaneous siyum of both the 3 Prokim and 1 Perek cycles of Rambam. The doors opened, and the wave of excited Talmidim rushed into heavily advertised and anticipated event.
As the Talmidim sat to enjoy the first part of the 3 course meal, Rabbi Chaim Dovid Janowski, who gives a daily Shiur in Perek Echad in YSP made a Siyum on the Rambam. He then held a grand raffle for the 80 daily participants of the Rambam Shiur. A Palm PDA loaded with Rambam and other goodies as well as a set of Rambam was raffled off. Then Talmid Chanoch Weinberg of Johannesburg South Africa started the 25th Cycle of the Rambam.
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At around 1:30am Shomrim received a distressed call from a Bochur who was approached by a black male on the corner of Kingston and Carroll who said to him “this is going to be a stickup or a homicide”. The Bochur who was walking and talking on his cell phone when he was approached by the perp told his friend on the other end of the line “there is this Black guy trying to mug me”, upon hearing this, the would-be-mugger hit the Bochur in the head knocking his phone out of his hand and ran.
The call to Shomrim prompted an immediate canvass of the area by numerous members, who spotted a group of bystanders holding a black male who matched the description of the perp on Carroll between Troy and Schenectady, apparently the bystanders saw the perp running and a canvass going on they thought it was related and grabbed him and notified Shomrim.
Devastated by the sudden loss of his mother, Mr. Roy Glazer found himself in a dire predicament. Living in Lockport, N.Y, a small town near Buffalo, meant that the closest synagogue was half hour away. How would he get a minyan to say Kadish during shiva?
Roy contacted his friends at the Mesivta Menachem in the neighboring township of Amherst. The Mesivta, entering its ninth year, is a growing source of pride to the greater Buffalo community. Under the guidance of Rabbi Yosef Munitz, the Mesivta has reignited an excitement and enthusiasm for Yidishkeit throughout the area.
The Glazers were able to experience this effect first hand. When the Bochurim heard about the opportunity to participate in this great Mitzvah, they were more than happy to comply. Throughout shiva, different shifts of Bochurim made the half hour drive to Lockport, twice a day (most of the travel time coming during their own breaks) to help make the minyan. It was a true Kiddush Hashem.
The former Chief Rabbi of Israel, Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau was in New York on Sunday morning to speak at a breakfast to benefit Colel Chabad. The breakfast was held at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Morris Anteby of Deal, New Jersey. The event was organized by Rabbi Chaim Gurevitch. After the event, Rabbi Lau along with Rabbi Sholom Duchman, Director of Colel Chabad, visited the Rebbe’s Ohel.
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On Sunday afternoon, the entire country felt the tragedy. 12 of Israel’s reserve soldiers were killed, in a direct hit by Hizbullah mortar in Kfar Giladi.
Today, as the dead are yet being buried, attention has moved to new exigencies. While the images of the scene—the raw horror and agony of the soldiers who saw their comrades killed—were hard to look at, harder still to forget, Israeli reticence is beginning to make more sense to me. The daily news here is made of tragedies and sacrifices—monumental and rare events in other countries—successive and constant ones here. Where others have time to heal their wounds, in Israel, it’s a luxury no one really can afford. So instead, the heartaches, like the heroes, are buried.
As those lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer come to a close, avenues for Jewish learning here in Kansas City are plentiful.
“Inquiring minds want to know,” said Chabad Rabbi Mendy Wineberg of the appeal of the Men’s Summer Yeshiva Program.
“People do want to study. We are the people of the book. Most of the time, the problem is we don’t have enough time or a class may not be at a convenient time or place,” he said.
In setting Brooklyn politics astir as a white man trying to take a Congressional seat traditionally held by black politicians, Councilman David Yassky has faced one huge challenge: capturing the support of black voters, who are the majority in the central Brooklyn district.
As part of his effort to attract these voters, Mr. Yassky’s campaign sent out fliers over the last month that discussed his passion for gun control laws, an issue that resonates among many minorities. One flier featured an endorsement by Thelma Davis, the mother of James E. Davis, a black city councilman who was killed by a gunman in City Hall three years ago.
Dr. Linda Kelley is Taking Chabad Hebrew Academy to Uncharted Heights
It’s early July and there’s a healthy stir inside and a lot of high energy surrounding the sprawling Scripps Ranch home of the Chabad Hebrew Academy.
Kids are shouting, laughing, running around and having a blast at Chabad’s Camp Gan Israel, which is in full swing on the 27-acre ampus. (But that’s typical for every summer at Chabad’s high-energy day camp.)
In the coming months, people in Westlake Village, Agoura Hills and Oak Park may notice a construction project that involves securing fishing line to area streetlights.
This unique construction is for an eruv — a religious demarcation of an area that allows Jews to carry items within that perimeter on the Sabbath, said Rabbi Moshe Bryski of Chabad of the Conejo.
The Westlake Village City Council approved it by a 5-0 vote July 25. City Engineer John Knipe called it the “most interesting” encroachment permit the city has “ever seen.”
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