FL Rabbis meet Senatorial Candidate Marco Rubio

Photos by Mendy Bleier

Thirty community Rabbis, representing a large portion of the Florida orthodox spectrum gathered today for a discussion of issues and an exchange of ideas in Ft. Lauderdale with Florida United States Senatorial candidate Marco Rubio.

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JLI Teen Interns win International Video Contest

Congratulations and Mazel Tov to Eli Bakal, Charlene Swain and Sasha Matusevich, The North of Boston JLI Teen interns, for winning the International JLI Teens Video Contest. The Boston trio competed against other JLI Teen Interns from around the world, putting their creativity and acting skills to the test.

Charity, Beautifully Disguised

Wall Street Journal

Michal Schick, left, a co-founder of Bobbie’s Place, and Tzivie Herber help a customer.

It won’t come as news that closet space is at a premium in New York City, especially if your family includes five kids. So when Avi and Michal Schick’s two teenage daughters outgrew their old clothes, the Schicks did what a lot of people do: They placed them in bins in their Flatbush, Brooklyn, basement and invited less-fortunate locals to help themselves.

Google Will Digitize the Complete Dead Sea Scrolls

The Israel Antiquities Authority and Google announced Tuesday that they are joining forces to bring the Dead Sea Scrolls online.

The more than 2,000-year-old Dead Sea Scrolls — one of the greatest archaeological discoveries of all time — will soon be available for free, widespread access on the Internet, thanks to combined efforts from Google and the Israel Antiquities Authority.

Report: Cuban Pilots Helped 150,000 Jews Flee to Israel in 1950s

Illustration Photo – Jews Fleeing Yemen in the 1950s

Cubans helped bring Jews from Iraq, Iran, India and Yemen to Israel in operation whose details have been kept secret until now, French daily reports.

NYC Council Honors Shomrim Heroes at City Hall

New York, NY – At an important ceremony at City Hall, Councilman David Greenfield presented Proclamations on behalf of the New York City Council to the four members of the Boro Park Shomrim Safety Patrol who were recently shot while confronting a known criminal.

Google Earth Photos Reveal Syrian Scuds

AOL News

Israeli defense experts were still sounding alarms this week over Google Earth images made public Friday by the Israeli daily Haaretz. The satellite photos, taken March 22, show Scud missiles ready for deployment at a Syrian base at Adra, where earlier reports suggest Syria is training Hezbollah militants in the use of missiles that threaten large parts of Israel.

New Jewish Childrens Entertainment Site Goes Live

TorahTreasure.com is a new portal for Jewish education and entertainment. Unlike commercial sites that push products, TorahTreasure.com presents all the best Jewish videos for children in one site. There is no need to scroll through a number of sites searching for individual videos. Instead, everything has been collected and arranged, and parents can easily play playlists with multiple videos. New videos will also be added on a regular basis.

Transcripts on ’73 War, Now Public, Grip Israel

The New York Times

JERUSALEM — For many Israelis, the 1973 Arab-Israeli war was their single most terrifying moment, when a woefully unprepared nation, deluded into believing that its neighbors regarded it as impregnable, suffered a devastating attack and struggled back to victory at enormous cost with last-minute American help.

Shliach Joins Nassau County Panel on Domestic Violence

On Oct 1, 2010, Rabbi Anchelle Perl, director of Chabad of Mineola and the National Committee for the Furtherance of Jewish Education, was appointed by the Nassau County Executive Edward P. Mangano, to join a distinguished panel of individuals representing health and human services, education, law enforcement and the judiciary to review the problems of family and domestic violence in Nassau County.