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Collegian
Graduate student Cara Gilbert creates a shofar
yesterday in celebration of Rosh Hashanah.
The Chabad Jewish Student Organization and Chabad on Campus at Penn State gathered in front of the Allen Street Gates yesterday in celebration of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year.

The group members created shofars and invited those passing by to join. One of the most important symbols of Rosh Hashanah, the shofar, is a hollowed-out ram's horn. It is blown to call the people to repent.

“When people see us making them, they're reminded of the holiday,” Rabbi Nosson Meretsky, director of Chabad of Penn State, said. “It's a fun activity.”

The holiday of Rosh Hashanah begins at sunset on Friday and ends at nightfall on Sunday. It is the start of the High Holidays, a 10-day period of reflection and atonement, Meretsky said.

Jewish students celebrate

Collegian
Graduate student Cara Gilbert creates a shofar
yesterday in celebration of Rosh Hashanah.

The Chabad Jewish Student Organization and Chabad on Campus at Penn State gathered in front of the Allen Street Gates yesterday in celebration of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year.

The group members created shofars and invited those passing by to join. One of the most important symbols of Rosh Hashanah, the shofar, is a hollowed-out ram’s horn. It is blown to call the people to repent.

“When people see us making them, they’re reminded of the holiday,” Rabbi Nosson Meretsky, director of Chabad of Penn State, said. “It’s a fun activity.”

The holiday of Rosh Hashanah begins at sunset on Friday and ends at nightfall on Sunday. It is the start of the High Holidays, a 10-day period of reflection and atonement, Meretsky said.

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U.S. Department of State
Diverse communities in Virginia work to further common interests

Muslim and Jewish communities in the state of Virginia successfully have lobbied for enactment of a halal/kosher labeling statute. The new Virginia law requires that any food offered for sale as kosher or halal be labeled with the name of the person or organization certifying the item kosher or halal. Violations are punishable by a $500 fine.

Observant Muslims and Jews observe similar, but not identical, dietary restrictions. These practices - halal for Muslims and kashrut (kosher) for Jews - forbid consumption of certain foods and regulate how animals may be slaughtered. Trained individuals and organizations ensure compliance with these standards and permit vendors to affix their symbol of compliance on the product packaging.

Muslim, Jewish Communities Secure Halal-Kosher Labeling Law

U.S. Department of State

Diverse communities in Virginia work to further common interests

Muslim and Jewish communities in the state of Virginia successfully have lobbied for enactment of a halal/kosher labeling statute. The new Virginia law requires that any food offered for sale as kosher or halal be labeled with the name of the person or organization certifying the item kosher or halal. Violations are punishable by a $500 fine.

Observant Muslims and Jews observe similar, but not identical, dietary restrictions. These practices – halal for Muslims and kashrut (kosher) for Jews – forbid consumption of certain foods and regulate how animals may be slaughtered. Trained individuals and organizations ensure compliance with these standards and permit vendors to affix their symbol of compliance on the product packaging.

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Shluchim Office Connects Bochurim and Shluchim for Tishrei

The Shluchim Office has recently launched Bochurim Placement.org — a brand new online service for Shluchim worldwide.

Since its post-Pesach launch, the online, interactive system has skyrocketed in popularity, with a combined total of several hundred Shluchim and Bochurim being electronically matched by qualifying criteria with many positions being filled. The simplified, user-friendly online application form electronically sorts and streamlines the right seekers to the right positions–and vice-versa–giving all the results they are looking for.

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Going Kosher Grows in Boulder

By Rebecca Rosenthal – Lubavitch.com

Boulder, CO – Smoky sweet pastrami, lamb and pine nuts, couscous spiked with kosher harissa flown in from a Parisian suburb and more filled the air with piquancy atypical of kosher events. But then the Kosher Taste of Colorado hosted by Chabad of Boulder was indeed, an atypical event.

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The Friendship Circle Kickoff Party!

by Shlomo Abraham

BROOKLYN, NY -– The new school year has just begun but last Tuesday night, pop-quizzes were far from the minds of two hundred local high school girls. The girls abandoned their books to take part in a festive Kickoff Party for the 2006-07 Friendship Circle season.

Friendship Circle volunteers visit children with special needs to offer friendship to the children and respite to their overburdened families. Tuesday’s Kickoff Party at the Jewish Children’s Museum was a chance for students to learn about the incredible programs and to volunteer. With soft music playing in the background the girls enjoyed a lavish salad bar while Chayle Kopfstein, program coordinator of the Friendship Circle, made her rounds chatting with them and answering questions.

More in the Extended Article!

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JTA
Jewish leaders meet with Shashi Tharoor, center left, the U.N. Undersecretary General, at an event organized by American Friends of Lubavitch.

Washington DC - As the U.N. General Assembly opens, diplomats vying to be the world’s top peacekeeper are taking the time to consult with a group that has emerged as a critical constituency: American Jewish leaders.

Chabad Jewish leaders press concerns

JTA
Jewish leaders meet with Shashi Tharoor, center left, the U.N. Undersecretary General, at an event organized by American Friends of Lubavitch.

Washington DC – As the U.N. General Assembly opens, diplomats vying to be the world’s top peacekeeper are taking the time to consult with a group that has emerged as a critical constituency: American Jewish leaders.

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JTA
A Toronto Jewish motorcycle club raised $35,000 for a Tennessee school that collected millions of paper clips in memory of the Holocaust.

Sandra Roberts, the Whitwell Middle School’s principal, appeared last week with Sid Rochwerg, founder of the motorcycle club, in an event sponsored by Chabad-Lubavitch.

Students at the school decided in 1998 to collect 6 million paper clips to help them understand the magnitude of the Holocaust, and they began receiving paper clips from all over the world as word of their mission spread.

Jewish bikers raise $35,000 for school

JTA

A Toronto Jewish motorcycle club raised $35,000 for a Tennessee school that collected millions of paper clips in memory of the Holocaust.

Sandra Roberts, the Whitwell Middle School’s principal, appeared last week with Sid Rochwerg, founder of the motorcycle club, in an event sponsored by Chabad-Lubavitch.

Students at the school decided in 1998 to collect 6 million paper clips to help them understand the magnitude of the Holocaust, and they began receiving paper clips from all over the world as word of their mission spread.

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IDS News
Jonathan Langer, Avi Goltz and Kevin McKasson
await a prayer to dedicate the new Torah donated
to the Chabad House by McKasson’s family.
In a procession 70 people strong, students and Jewish leaders paraded down Seventh Street Sunday afternoon.

With Hebrew music blaring in the background, four men carrying a large blue and white shawl used in Jewish weddings led the clapping and tambourine-clambering promenade from the Indiana Memorial Union to the Chabad House, a Jewish cultural center for students.

It had arrived.

The evening marked the acceptance of a 300-year-old Torah — the holy book for Judaism — given to the Chabad House by IU alumnus Kevin McKasson in honor of his wife's grandparents. The five sacred rolls of parchment made their journey to Bloomington all the way from Jerusalem.

Jewish center receives 300-year-old holy book

IDS News
Jonathan Langer, Avi Goltz and Kevin McKasson
await a prayer to dedicate the new Torah donated
to the Chabad House by McKasson’s family.

In a procession 70 people strong, students and Jewish leaders paraded down Seventh Street Sunday afternoon.

With Hebrew music blaring in the background, four men carrying a large blue and white shawl used in Jewish weddings led the clapping and tambourine-clambering promenade from the Indiana Memorial Union to the Chabad House, a Jewish cultural center for students.

It had arrived.

The evening marked the acceptance of a 300-year-old Torah — the holy book for Judaism — given to the Chabad House by IU alumnus Kevin McKasson in honor of his wife’s grandparents. The five sacred rolls of parchment made their journey to Bloomington all the way from Jerusalem.

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by Aliza Karp
Ohr L’Chof Hey Elul N’shei U’Bnos Chabad sat downstairs in 770 for their yearly pre-Rosh Hashana Farbrengen.

Mrs Sara Tova Best graciously chaired the evening.

Rabbi Yossi Paltiel skillfully developed the concept of the commandment to ask Hashem for what we need. “It is not that we have the option, but that it is an obligation for us to approach Hashem and to ask,” he said. But he cautioned, we are not to put Hashem on a schedule. We are to ask and He will find the way to bestow the Brochas upon us.

N’shei U’Bnos Chabad Gathered In 770

by Aliza Karp

Ohr L’Chof Hey Elul N’shei U’Bnos Chabad sat downstairs in 770 for their yearly pre-Rosh Hashana Farbrengen.

Mrs Sara Tova Best graciously chaired the evening.

Rabbi Yossi Paltiel skillfully developed the concept of the commandment to ask Hashem for what we need. “It is not that we have the option, but that it is an obligation for us to approach Hashem and to ask,” he said. But he cautioned, we are not to put Hashem on a schedule. We are to ask and He will find the way to bestow the Brochas upon us.

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NY Daily News
The scene of the accident which claimed the live of 8 year old Amber Sadiq.

When an 8-year-old Brooklyn girl died after a schoolmate sneaked onto an empty school bus parked on a hill and sent it hurtling into her, parents prayed steps would be taken to prevent another tragedy.

Apparently, nothing was done.

All last spring and all last week - until the Daily News made inquiries - buses were parked on a hill on Nostrand Ave. in Crown Heights, just as they were before the accident that killed straight-A student Amber Sadiq.

No bus stopped

NY Daily News
The scene of the accident which claimed the live of 8 year old Amber Sadiq.

When an 8-year-old Brooklyn girl died after a schoolmate sneaked onto an empty school bus parked on a hill and sent it hurtling into her, parents prayed steps would be taken to prevent another tragedy.

Apparently, nothing was done.

All last spring and all last week – until the Daily News made inquiries – buses were parked on a hill on Nostrand Ave. in Crown Heights, just as they were before the accident that killed straight-A student Amber Sadiq.

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the NCFJE’s Annual Empowerment Breakfast

NYC Councilmen, State Assemblymen, Jewish community activists and lay leaders filled the Skyline Hotel Ballroom on Sunday, Sept. 10th, for the NCFJE Empowerment Breakfast.

The annual breakfast honors elected officials, public servants and business leaders who play a vital role in shaping the growth of New York City and its communities.

“These are the people who champion the causes that affect the Jewish community,” said Rabbi Shea Hecht, Chairman of the Board of Trustees. “The nature of their work often keeps them behind the scenes, but they are the ones that keep this city going. Their hard work on our behalf really needs to be recognized. That’s the purpose of this event.”

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Triple Simchah at Chicago’s Largest Chabad Synagogue

This past Sunday, 24 Elul, September 17, 2006, nearly 1000 people from all walks of the community, including rabbonim from throughout the Chicago Jewish community (among them Chabad, Brisk, Agudah, Chassidic, Persian, Sephardi and other communities) attended festivities throughout the day at Congregation Bnei Ruven Nusach Ari in Chicago, Illinois (one of the largest Chicago shuls and the main Chabad shul).

More pictures at the Extended Article!

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One of the original incidents these two teens committed
Sun-Sentinel
West Boca, FL — Two young men accused of committing hate crimes faced their victims and representatives of the Jewish community during an unusual meeting Tuesday organized by the Palm Beach County State Attorney's Office.

Connor Ranieri, 19, and Jordan Gentile, 18, apologized for defacing cars, a mall bathroom and a Judaica store in May, saying they did not know their actions would so deeply offend the Jewish community, according to people at the session.

Ranieri and Gentile attended the meeting, part of which was closed to the media, as part of their guilty pleas.

In West Boca synagogue, pair start to make amends for anti-Semitic vandalism

One of the original incidents these two teens committed

Sun-Sentinel

West Boca, FL — Two young men accused of committing hate crimes faced their victims and representatives of the Jewish community during an unusual meeting Tuesday organized by the Palm Beach County State Attorney’s Office.

Connor Ranieri, 19, and Jordan Gentile, 18, apologized for defacing cars, a mall bathroom and a Judaica store in May, saying they did not know their actions would so deeply offend the Jewish community, according to people at the session.

Ranieri and Gentile attended the meeting, part of which was closed to the media, as part of their guilty pleas.

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History in Buckhurst Hill, UK

The new Chabad House of Buckhurst Hill in Essex, UK under the direction of Rabbi Odom & Henny Brandman welcomed its first Sefer Torah on Sunday. The streets of Buckhurst Hill had never heard the sounds of Klezmer music and happy Jews dancing which prompting many local residents to come out of their houses to wave the procession on.

More in the Extended Article!

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Nelson Confirmed Breaking Into Cars

Friday at around 12:30pm Shomrim received a call from an alert resident about a Black male lurking around cars on Malbone St. Shomrim immediately responded and spotted the perp breaking into a car. When the perp noticed he was being watched he attempted to flee when one of the members grabbed the perp while another member confirmed that he had infact broken into the car.

While more members were arriving on the scene, the perp, who is well known both Shomrim and Police, managed to break free and get away. The perp known as Derrick (Terrence) Nelson, about 35 years of age, has a long history of breaking into cars in Crown Heights and even served a few sentences related to such crimes.

More in the Extended Article! Plus a picture of the perp!

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Explosion in 770

At around 11:45pm on Motzoai Shabbos an explosion went off inside the closet which houses the electrical circuits for most of 770 including those for the air conditioners. What happened was an electrician was there changing the breakers for the air conditioner of the front part of 770 when one of the gabboyim decided to ‘clean’ the wire contacts.

The electrician told him not to while another man there made a crack about taking a picture of him before he is no more, and everyone exited the room when the bang went off. Hatzalah was called in a CODE 1 which is generally what someone who isn’t breathing or is suffering a heart attack is called for, the gabbay walked out of the room himself, was conscious and was able to see. His yarmulke and glasses melted right off his face.

More pictures in the Extended Article.

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