Reckless N.Y. Times endangers itself and us

The most puzzling thing about The New York Times’ exposure of America’s counterterrorism secrets is that it has no apparent sense of self-preservation. If the Times were headquartered in, say, Bismarck, N.D., its spectacular disregard for human safety might be explained by its bet that terrorists never would hit it directly.

However, the Old Gray Lady occupies the bull’s-eye on Islamic terrorists’ dartboard. If Gotham ever suffered a dirty-bomb attack, Times Square would be the quintessential venue for a radiological blast. In that event, gamma rays would race through the thyroids of Times staffers within seconds.

Perhaps America’s self-appointed “paper of record” is so self-absorbed that its morally vain editors and publishers ignore al-Qaeda’s 9/11 attack that killed 2,749 individuals in Manhattan. As author Ron Suskind reported, al-Qaeda came within 45 days of unleashing a 2003 cyanide-gas assault on New York subways that could have killed Times readers and employees.

Tzivos Hashem Traveling Camp

The first week of camp has been a smashing success, being the first traveling yeshivas kayitz in the U.S.A, the Tzivos Hashem traveling camp has reached new heights… 13,000 feet!!!

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Shluchim meet to brainstorm how to refocus the Global Moshiach Campaign

In a discrete boardroom in the new Jewish Children’s Museum, a group of Lubavitcher Chassidim gathered for a brainstorming session organized by the Global Moshiach Campaign initiative of the Kinus HaShluchim. The purpose of the meeting: To better focus the group’s efforts and create new programs that bring Moshiach to the forefront of global consciousness.

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Probe into kosher industry

Investigation into suspected price-fixing finds grand jury asking for documents from major meat packers

Several of the nation’s kosher slaughterhouses and suppliers have been served with federal subpoenas in connection with an investigation of possible antitrust practices, according to a statement by one of those suppliers.

A lawyer for AgriProcessors, the nation’s largest kosher slaughterhouse, in Postville, Iowa, confirmed yesterday that the company received a grand jury subpoena requesting documents, as did a number of other meat packers. AgriProcessors is owned by Aaron Rubashkin, a Lubavitch Jew who moved from Brooklyn to northern Iowa in 1987 and who sells kosher meats under the labels Rubashkin’s and Aaron’s Best.

Rabbonim visit David Elliott Poultry

Badatz of Crown Heights, Horav Avrohom Osdoba, Horav Yitzchok Zirkind and Horav Shlomo Yehuda HaLevi Segal, (along with R’ Yossi Brook and Rabbi S.Z. Osdoba from the Vaad Hakashrus Administration) visited (inspected) David Elliott Poultry Farm (chicken plant) located in Scranton, Pennsylvania, to see the whole process of the shechita, hachshoro etc. The Rabbonim, Chavrei HaBadatz, reviewed the whole process of the shechita which is being done by Shochtim, Tmimim and Yirei Shomayim and were very impressed with the high standards and Hiddurim of this plant.

Police Delays Hatzalah Response By Over 10 Minutes

Wednesday night at around 9:45pm just as Maariv ended and as people were making their way to the Ohel, Hatzalah received a call for a medical emergency and members responded immediately. One of the members responding, making his was up Kingston Ave. to retrieve the ambulance in front of 770 to transport the patient to the hospital, when police began perusing the Hatzalah Member.

Apparently the problem was the fact that he was driving with Lights & Sirens and unknown to the cops was that he was the fact that he was a member of Hatzalah. But when he produced proper identification, the officers decided that it was not enough, and continued to hold him back from getting into the ambulance.

Chabad is given new offer

Hollywood, FL – Hollywood commissioners offered a last-ditch offer Thursday to settle a religious discrimination case with an Orthodox synagogue.

As with a settlement proposed earlier this week, the new offer calls for the city to pay $2 million to the Hollywood Community Synagogue Chabad Lubavitch, while the synagogue would be able to continue to remain in two homes in a residential neighborhood.

But compared to the previous proposal, the new offer would place stricter limits on the synagogue’s right to expand in its current site without seeking city approval.

The congregation could expand into no more than three additional lots in the neighborhood without seeking city approval.

The rebbe’s new soldier: Chabad to open in Old Tappan

Old Tappan, NJ – Chabad-Lubavitch will extend its New Jersey outreach later this summer when it opens a post in Old Tappan that will also serve Northvale, Rockleigh, and Harrington Park.

Once the Old Tappan outpost is up and running, Chabad will have six centers in Bergen County and one in Hudson County, in Hoboken, but the new center was needed, according to Rabbi Mordechai Shain, the director of Lubavitch on the Palisades in Tenafly.

At present, Shain’s Tenafly Chabad house covers the Old Tappan region, which ranges from Tenafly to Route 9W, but that area is too large and has too many Jewish families for one center alone, he said.

“We have around 4,000 families in the area,” he said. “How am I ever going to have close relationships with 4,000 families? It’s impossible. In order to be successful, you have to be able to divide the area. Think of it like an army. You have to be able to divide certain locations. One general goes here, the other there.”

General “Pan” Reading

At 12 PM today Gimmel Tammuz, the General “pidyon nefesh” on behalf of Anash and temimim all over the world was read at the Ohel.

Rabbi Avrohom Shemtov, chairman of the international Agudas Chasidei Chabad in an emotional tone read the “Pan” as members of Aguch, heads of shluchim, mashpiim and rabbis and the mass crowd that was there stood by.