Daily Archives: November 29, 2005

SUSPECT EYED IN 2ND SHOOT

A hero Brooklyn cop yesterday was shot through the heart but lived long enough to help nab his attacker — who had mercilessly pumped a bullet into another officer just a week ago, police said.

Decorated Officer Dillon Stewart, 35, took one deadly bullet through his left armpit — a mere quarter-inch above the protective plate of his armored vest — while driving in pursuit of the Glock-toting thug in Flatbush around 2:49 a.m., cops said.

Suspected cop killer Allan Cameron — who last night also was fingered in the infamous gunpoint mugging of an off-duty officer in Crown Heights on Nov. 19 — got off at least five shots at Stewart and his partner, Paul Lipka, authorities said.

AP at the International Shluchuim Conference

The group picture of the International Shluchuim Conference was not only photographed by all the Chabad news website, which there were many of those (including us), there were photographers from the local newspapers and reporters, namely there was the New York Times, New York Daily News, New York Post, and there was Channal 2 CBS news and Channel 4 NBC News.

In extended article there are 2 more pictures by an AP photographer with her caption and take on the event.

So, Jews, the goyim will win after all?

According to the newspapers in Israel, Jews are rejoicing because the International Federation of the Red Cross and the Red Crescent Societies (IFRCRC) has finally agreed to open its doors to the Red Shield (or Star) of David, the Israeli organization that offers equivalent services to the Red Cross and Red Crescent.

Ok, so there’s a small catch: The Israelis cannot actually use their Red Star of David in this new arrangement, but must agree to a new symbol, a Red Crystal, inside which, for advertising purposes alone, they may now and then insert a small Star of David.

But hey, what’s the big deal? I mean, the Israeli organization has been fighting for decades, almost pleading, to be recognized in the same way the Muslim world’s Red Crescent Society been. And now, at last, it will be.

A Most Unusual Event

Shoppers, fresh from the streets of a city mad with holiday glitter swept into the lobby of the New York Hilton and found themselves in a different world. Eddies of buddy groups, the boys who played basketball in the yeshiva gym and grew up into spiritual leaders the world over, who only saw each other over the four-day International Conference of Shluchim clustered alongside the lobby sculpture. Newlywed young, wise eyed sages, the thin, the not-so-thin. Ginger headed, blond, gray streaked, speaking a polyglot of Hebrew, Yiddish, English, Russian and French. Chabad-Lubavitch Shluchim–2,769 representatives–had come to town and the night was theirs.

Catching up on family and community took a backseat when a woman approached a Chabad representative. She had a couple of questions and would the rabbi mind answering them. The shliach leaned in. Spoke with a smile. Never mind that former roommates and long lost friends waited to speak with him. A Chabad shliach is a Chabad shliach, always on mission. Finally, the woman smiled back. “Rabbi, I am glad I stopped by.”