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Chabad Comes to KU
The University Daily Kansan
Chabad @ KU
Those wanting to learn about and practice Judaism have another option at the University of Kansas.
Two weeks ago, Rabbi Zalman Tiechtel, his wife Nechama, and his infant daughter Mina, opened a Chabad Jewish Center in their new home at 1201 W. 19th St.
Chabad offers an opportunity for Jewish students to experience what it’s like in an Orthodox Jewish home — a home that practices all 613 laws of Judaism.
“We like to call ourselves the Google for anything Jewish,” he said.
by Lori Lowenthal Marcus
It is a perverse human quality, but we are drawn to news stories about human tragedies. Some characteristics of such stories intensify the level of our interest: descriptions or pictures of gore or disfigurement; pictures of grieving loved ones; and some form of personal connection - no matter how indirect - to those at the center of the tragedies. The adage “if it bleeds it leads” condenses this notion to a pithy directive.Yet, the American media has failed to cover a story containing every item on the sure-to-interest-newsreaders' checklist. I invite you to ponder why that is.
An Arab Palestinian homicide bomber detonated himself at a falafel stand in Israel on April 17th, during Passover. The murderer killed nine innocent people and wounded dozens.
Daniel’s Story – Arutz 7 Opinion
by Lori Lowenthal Marcus
It is a perverse human quality, but we are drawn to news stories about human tragedies. Some characteristics of such stories intensify the level of our interest: descriptions or pictures of gore or disfigurement; pictures of grieving loved ones; and some form of personal connection – no matter how indirect – to those at the center of the tragedies. The adage “if it bleeds it leads” condenses this notion to a pithy directive.
Yet, the American media has failed to cover a story containing every item on the sure-to-interest-newsreaders’ checklist. I invite you to ponder why that is.
An Arab Palestinian homicide bomber detonated himself at a falafel stand in Israel on April 17th, during Passover. The murderer killed nine innocent people and wounded dozens.
The Jewish Ledger
SIMSBURY, Connecticut — In March, when Daniel Miller of Simsbury celebrated his bar mitzvah at Chabad of the Valley in Simsbury, Rabbi Mendy Samuels called up to the bimah Jacob*, the 15-year-old foster child that has been living with Daniel's family.Although he is Jewish, Jacob didn't have a Jewish education and hadn't had a bar mitzvah. But Daniel honored his foster brother in his bar mitzvah speech and presented him with a tallis.
“It was a very special moment,” said Lynn Rynar, Daniel's mother and Jacob's foster mother.
‘A tremendous act of kindness’
The Jewish Ledger
SIMSBURY, Connecticut — In March, when Daniel Miller of Simsbury celebrated his bar mitzvah at Chabad of the Valley in Simsbury, Rabbi Mendy Samuels called up to the bimah Jacob*, the 15-year-old foster child that has been living with Daniel’s family.
Although he is Jewish, Jacob didn’t have a Jewish education and hadn’t had a bar mitzvah. But Daniel honored his foster brother in his bar mitzvah speech and presented him with a tallis.
“It was a very special moment,” said Lynn Rynar, Daniel’s mother and Jacob’s foster mother.
This week's section contains thirty-nine negative commandments andtwenty-four positive ones, one of which is “Counting the Omer.” The Omer was a bundle of barley from the new harvest brought to the Temple altar on the day after Passover in a complicated ritual. Although today there is no Omer and no Temple (until the Moshiach builds the third and final one), counting the forty-nine days from Passover to Shavuot (“Seven COMPLETE weeks” — 23:15) still remains a commandment.
And in fact, with a bit of Chassidic soul preparation, it can become one of the most deeply personal commandments of them all.
The teachings of Chassidut explain in detail that these seven weeks correspond to the seven character aspects (or emotions) of G-d and of man (because man is made in G-d's image) and through this commandment we can link our personalities to that of the Creator.
And in fact, with a bit of Chassidic soul preparation, it can become one of the most deeply personal commandments of them all.
The teachings of Chassidut explain in detail that these seven weeks correspond to the seven character aspects (or emotions) of G-d and of man (because man is made in G-d's image) and through this commandment we can link our personalities to that of the Creator.
The Weekly Sedra – Emor
This week’s section contains thirty-nine negative commandments andtwenty-four positive ones, one of which is “Counting the Omer.” The Omer was a bundle of barley from the new harvest brought to the Temple altar on the day after Passover in a complicated ritual. Although today there is no Omer and no Temple (until the Moshiach builds the third and final one), counting the forty-nine days from Passover to Shavuot (“Seven COMPLETE weeks” — 23:15) still remains a commandment.
And in fact, with a bit of Chassidic soul preparation, it can become one of the most deeply personal commandments of them all.
The teachings of Chassidut explain in detail that these seven weeks correspond to the seven character aspects (or emotions) of G-d and of man (because man is made in G-d’s image) and through this commandment we can link our personalities to that of the Creator.
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