North Miami, FL – On Motzei Shabbos, unknown vandals spray painted swastikas on two Lubavitch owned businesses in North Miami, Florida. In addition the vandals targeted the Shaaray Tefilah, Young Israel shuls.
The Lubavitch owned stores that were defaced were Judaica Enterprises owned by R’ Yossel Bronstein and Kosher World owned by Yitzie Spalter.
Conejo Valley, CA – Growing up in Agoura, CA, Lisa Yakir remembers when Jewish food used to fill a sliver of a grocery aisle–matza crackers, soup cubes and borsht, mostly–at Albertsons.
2 Bochurim in Brighton Beach on Mivtziom made a new friend, Jason, who was ‘working’ the Brighton Beach area where the Bochurim were Mezakeh him with the mitzvah of Tefillin!
“You are the pioneers of this camp; you are the cornerstone for an innovative future in the Jewish camping world”. These were the opening words to the children seated in the plush grounds of Camp Gan Israel on South Padre Island, Texas for the 2006 summer session.
An oasis on the Gulf of Mexico, this newly founded camp is a longtime dream of Rabbi’s Asher Hecht and Eli Laber, who serve as camp co-directors. “For the past few years much time and money has been invested in studying the void in serving Jewish children with summer camps”, Hecht said. After learning that only 7% of Jewish children attend Jewish overnight camps throughout the USA, they undertook this major initiative.
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