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by Shimon Posner

Excuse me, but was that you talking? Do you wake up in the morning overwhelmed? Can’t fall asleep from worry? Do you finally get rid of one bill just to have it replaced by three? Do you dread the ringing phone? Have you at least on occasion not even bothered opening the mail because it is just too painful – and hopeless? Do you have so much month at the end of the money that home ownership sounds like a sick joke? Or did you (finally!) buy a home only to realize that you’re stuck with a bottomless-pit mortgage that feels like a deadly curse with a vague promise of sometime in the foggy future home-ownership?

Op-Ed: Tuition! Weddings! HEEEEEELLLLLLP!!!

by Shimon Posner

Excuse me, but was that you talking? Do you wake up in the morning overwhelmed? Can’t fall asleep from worry? Do you finally get rid of one bill just to have it replaced by three? Do you dread the ringing phone? Have you at least on occasion not even bothered opening the mail because it is just too painful – and hopeless? Do you have so much month at the end of the money that home ownership sounds like a sick joke? Or did you (finally!) buy a home only to realize that you’re stuck with a bottomless-pit mortgage that feels like a deadly curse with a vague promise of sometime in the foggy future home-ownership?

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Baby Boy!

Shuki and Chaya Sara (nee Marasow) Friedman from Baltimore, MD had a baby boy!
New Engagement!

Tzvi Tiechtel (Tempe, AZ) to Chaya Rochel Kalmanson (Chicago, IL) L’Chaim: Tonight, Thursday, 8:00pm at Ulam Chana
New Engagement!

Nachum Preger (Miami, FL) to Rachelle Zago (Huntington Beach, CA) L’Chaim: Tonight, Thursday, 8:00pm at Lubavitcher Yeshiva Crown Street
New Engagement!

Yechiel Zirkind (Weston, FL) to Devorah Lea Heintz (Utrecht, Netherlands) L’Chaim: Tonight, Thursday, 8:30pm at The Simcha Hall 571 Albany Ave
New Engagement!

Mendel Lieberman (West Hempstead, NY) to Chumy Heber (Crown Heights) L’Chaim: Tonight, Thursday, 8:30pm at Bais Rivkah 310 Crown Street
New Engagement!

Arale Raskin (Crown Heights) to Sheva Unsdorfer (Lauderhill, FL) L’Chaim: Tonight, Thursday, 8:30pm at Lubavitcher Yeshiva Crown Street
Baby Girl!

Mattanya and Rochel Ginsburg from Crown Heights had a baby girl!
Baby Girl!

Meir Menachem Mendel and Chaya Ita (nee Goldberg) Ciment from Kingston, PA had a baby girl!

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New Engagement!

Mendel Shifrin (Little Neck, NY) to Moussia Bukiet (Salvador, Brazil) L’Chaim: Tonight, Tuesday, 8:00pm at Anshei Lubavitch 578 Albany Ave
New Engagement!

Zalman Serebryanski (Gold Coast, Australia) to Rochele Cheruty (Miami, FL) L’Chaim: Tuesday, May 12th, 8:30pm at Lubavitcher Yeshiva Crown Street
New Engagement!

Schneur Berger (Los Angeles, CA) to Sara Gorodetsky (Crown Heights) L’Chaim: Tuesday, May 12th, 8:00pm at Bison and Bourbon
New Engagement!

Nissim Elbaz (Sarcelles, France) to Dinah Moyal (Geneva, Switzerland)
New Engagement!

Dovi Bensoussan (Paris, France) to Shirel Ayache (St. Maur des Fossés, France)
New Engagement!

Levi Laufer (Crown Heights) to Rochel Mochkin (Rochester, NY) L’Chaim: Sunday, May 3rd, 8:00pm at Lubavitcher Yeshiva Crown Street
New Engagement!

Sholom Ber Schtroks (Cologne, Germany) to Chaya Minzberg (Tzfat, EY)
New Engagement!

Zusha Sandman (London, UK) to Rivkale Kaplan (Oak Park, MI) L’Chaim: Tonight, Thursday,8:30pm at Rubashkin’s 1349 President St. Upstairs
New Engagement!

Menachem Mendel Backman (Crown Heights) to Elka Miriam Ross (Toronto, Canada)
by Surie Herskovics

It is quite shocking that the knee-jerk reaction of the Jewish community is automatically conditioned to be appalled at accusations and feel sorry for the accused without first thinking for even a moment about the horrendous implications for the victim.

Op-Ed: In Support of the Victim

by Surie Herskovics

It is quite shocking that the knee-jerk reaction of the Jewish community is automatically conditioned to be appalled at accusations and feel sorry for the accused without first thinking for even a moment about the horrendous implications for the victim.

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Op-Ed: Is He Missing or Is He Not?

by Anonymous

I am a member of the volunteer corps organized by Shomrim yesterday in search of Yakov Gourin, the missing French Twin. I penned this op-ed to describe the hardships we experienced over the uncertainty and conflicting reports that emerged from various news outlets over the course of the day, and the potential dangers posed by them.

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Op-Ed: Is Chabad Lubavitch?

by Levi Cooper – Jerusalem Post

Is Chabad Lubavitch? Is Lubavitch Chabad? Are the two terms – “Chabad” and “Lubavitch” – synonymous? Chabad is an acronym; Lubavitch is a town. Chabad represents a hassidic philosophy; Lubavitch the ancestral home of a hassidic court. They are not synonymous. Cryptic though it may sound, Lubavitch is Chabad, but Chabad is not only Lubavitch.

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Op-Ed: Degeneration of Society Due to Lack of Tznius

by Anonymous

I was watching online the dedication of the new Chabad center in Kiryat Arbah named for the daughter of the shluchim there, Chaya Mushka Attiah, a”h. Besides shedding quite a few tears as I watched Chaya Mushka’s father dance with the sefer Torah and as I heard his voice break as he spoke a few words, suddenly a thought came to my mind: If a little girl could give up her life for the inyan of tznius, how much more so must we all make a huge effort to increase in tznius within ourselves, our children, our communities.

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by Dovid Efune - Algemeiner

Two years ago, following the release of the Jerusalem Post’s first list of the world’s 50 most influential Jews, I was inspired to initiate an annual list of my own. Not of Jews, but of non- Jews, specifically those who are most positively influencing the Jewish future.

Op-Ed: Top 10 Non-Jews Influencing the Jewish Future

by Dovid Efune – Algemeiner

Two years ago, following the release of the Jerusalem Post’s first list of the world’s 50 most influential Jews, I was inspired to initiate an annual list of my own. Not of Jews, but of non- Jews, specifically those who are most positively influencing the Jewish future.

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Op-Ed: Taking Stock of Where We Stand

by Anonymous

There is a tendency within Chabad to be quick to call out and put down another sector of the orthodox community when something is being done within Chabad that one may not approve of. For example, a report on someone taking a hard stance on Tznius usually results in comments such as “who do you think we are, Satmar?”

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by Morton A. Klein

Mitt Romney at the Western Wall in Jerusalem, Israel.

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has been assailed for saying at a fundraiser in Jerusalem that “culture” plays a large part in Israel's superior “economic vitality” over the Palestinians, just as it does “between other countries that are near or next to each other. Chile and Ecuador, Mexico and the United States.” For this commonsensical statement of the obvious, he has been pilloried, not least by the Palestinian Authority's Saeb Erekat, who described his remarks as “racist.”

Op-Ed: Israel’s Economic Success Due to Culture

by Morton A. Klein

Mitt Romney at the Western Wall in Jerusalem, Israel.

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has been assailed for saying at a fundraiser in Jerusalem that “culture” plays a large part in Israel’s superior “economic vitality” over the Palestinians, just as it does “between other countries that are near or next to each other. Chile and Ecuador, Mexico and the United States.” For this commonsensical statement of the obvious, he has been pilloried, not least by the Palestinian Authority’s Saeb Erekat, who described his remarks as “racist.”

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Jews in Sports: Modern-Day Moses

by Yossi Goldstein

Sir Ludwig Guttmann

Through the glorious grandeur that is the Modern Day Olympiad, and, more specifically so, its Opening Ceremony, the world as a whole recently embarked on what is sure to be a fun-filled and exciting next couple of athletics-viewing weeks.

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by Dovid Efune - Algemeiner

Mitt Romney posts a note in a crack in the Western Wall.

Comments have been circulating, accusing Mitt Romney of ‘disrespect’ and poor choice in selecting Tisha Be’Av, a day of national Jewish mourning over the destruction of the Jerusalem Temple, for his photo-op tour of the Jewish State. Frankly, I personally can’t think of a better day for him to visit.

Op-Ed: Romney Picked the Right Day to Visit Israel

by Dovid Efune – Algemeiner

Mitt Romney posts a note in a crack in the Western Wall.

Comments have been circulating, accusing Mitt Romney of ‘disrespect’ and poor choice in selecting Tisha Be’Av, a day of national Jewish mourning over the destruction of the Jerusalem Temple, for his photo-op tour of the Jewish State. Frankly, I personally can’t think of a better day for him to visit.

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by Sarah Schochet

Just as there is a mitzvah to eat, there is a mitzvah to take care of your health. The Torah states, “Guard yourself and guard your soul very much (Deut. 4:9)” and “You shall guard yourselves very well (Deut. 4:15).” The Sages explain that these verses refer to the mitzvah of protecting one's physical health.

Op-Ed: The Importance of Exercise

by Sarah Schochet

Just as there is a mitzvah to eat, there is a mitzvah to take care of your health. The Torah states, “Guard yourself and guard your soul very much (Deut. 4:9)” and “You shall guard yourselves very well (Deut. 4:15).” The Sages explain that these verses refer to the mitzvah of protecting one’s physical health.

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Op-Ed: Crown Heights Needs an Old-Age Home

by Anonymous

The Crown Heights Community can be justifiably proud in the wonderful work of Hafatzus Hamayinus that they do worldwide. A prime example is your recent article of photographer Meir Alfasi, who traveled to the mountains of Bolivia, where he brought Judaism to fellow Yidden some of the most remote places on earth. However, with the many elderly and vulnerable residents that we now have in Crown Heights, one does not have to go to the remotest places on earth to help another Jew.

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