Assemblyman Karim Camara who was born raised in Crown Heights, took a tour of the Jewish community with his chief of staff Thursday. The tour given was led by Rabbi Beryl Epstein of Chassidic Discovery Center. The Assemblyman who has a Lubavitcher working in his office, said that he was inspired and amazed by all he had learned about Lubavitch during his tour and he would do all he can to help our community.
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It’s hip-hop with a Jewish beat, and it’s straight out of Baltimore. Well, it’s actually out of a beit midrash, or study hall, in Morristown, N.J., but Menachem Shapiro — aka “White Mike” — is your typical American homeboy graduate of Franklin High School in Reisterstown. He went to Adat Chaim Synagogue and wore a chai around his neck, but never got into the Jewish thing.
Two nations are in your womb. Two governments will separate from inside you; the upper hand will go from one government to the other.
The Holy One, blessed be He, created two impulses, one good and the other evil.
Like it or not, we are each engaged in a battle against our own set of mean genes. They are wily opponents too. Masters of the visceral, they control through satisfaction, pain, and pleasure.
Destroy man’s desire to sin, our sages tell us, and you would destroy the world.
Not that anyone needs to sin. But one who lacks the desire to sin is not a citizen of this world. And without citizens, who will effect lasting change?
Capetown, South Africa – Today six children engage in the hard work of learning through play and exploration at Chabad of Table View’s new Jewish Montessori preschool. Their next lesson: learning to share. At the beginning of next term, in January, seventeen new children will join the school.
Come January, Chabad of Cape Town’s executive director Rabbi Mendel Popack will complete Chabad’s 30th year in the seaside city by adding another young couple to the staff. While the world Jewish community wrote off Cape Town as an upcoming Diaspora ghost town, a victim of political change and mass emigration, Chabad of Cape Town focused on the future. Newest signs of growth: Rabbi Pini and Chani Hecht, who have been running JLI and educational programs from headquarters in Sea Point, and Rabbi Asher and Zeesy Deren, who are reaching out to the 500 Jewish families in Table View for the past two years.
Woodcliff Lake, NJ – Chabad of the Pascack Valley had such a full house during Rosh HaShanah and Yom Kippur that it relocated to the Woodcliff Lake Hilton. With 150 to 200 people per month attending Chabad events and more than 50 children, other programs have been spread between the Chabad house and other area homes that can accommodate larger crowds.
After six years in a house on Overlook Road in Woodcliff Lake, the group is looking to buy a 3.8-acre property so it can move all of its programs to one address.
“For six years now Chabad has offered all this wonderful programming,” said Rabbi Dov Drizin, director of Valley Chabad, who lives in the Overlook Road facility with his wife Hindy and five children. “We’ve been all over the place and it’s been scattered. Now there’ll be one place people can go for programs. It’s a Jewish discovery center that I believe will serve the entire Jewish community.”
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In a unanimous vote the Taxi and Limousine Commission approved a fare hike Wednesday that will double the rate passengers pay for sitting in traffic.
“Drivers deserve as living, but right now, it’s a terrible struggle,” said William Lindauer of the Taxi Workers Alliance.
Disclaimer: readers of the following parsha article, may find the material interestingly different and possibly entertaining. That’s ok.
Face it – you’ve got problems. Who doesn’t? (Unless you really don’t. Then I apologize.) And it’s ok. Most normal breathing, walking, talking, yoga doing, karaoke singing people type persons constantly find themselves in situations that call for a couple less margaritas than usual.
Much of the time, your woefully woeful woes may not even be within your ability to control; what can you do about the sad fact that your pet moth has contracted severe cervical dysthymia? Not much.
Dear Fellow Member of Anash:
I get to travel a lot. Wherever I go, people express their love for our Chabad Shluchim and Shluchos. Just recently, on a trip to Brazil, one businessman said to me “If only I could, I would send every Shliach a million dollars.”
Let’s face it; we can’t cover every Shliach’s budget but we can sure make their personal lives a bit more comfortable.
That’s why I’m writing to you today about Yad L’Shliach. On the first yahrzeit of my father, Rabbi Yaakov Moshe HaKohen Friedman ע”ה who would help Shluchim at every opportunity, my family launched a project to do just that – Help families on Shlichus.
I’m not sure my Rabbi would approve of this honor. You see, my Rabbi, I’ll just refer to him as Reb Avram, is a very humble man. As a matter of fact, he probably doesn’t think that he has done anything so extraordinary. In fact, all that Reb Avram has done is provide sweet and delicious Torah education to young children for over half a century. Imagine – today there are gray bearded men who were taught by Reb Avram fifty years ago and this very morning, Reb Avram was still teaching, still caring, still reaching out to that ‘pintele Yid’ – that divine spark within each child that sometimes only he can see.
Reb Avram, you see is a different kind of teacher who believes that every child can learn. When I first arrived at the Yeshiva, I needed some remedial tutoring. Reb Avram spent his lunch hours catching me up. When I advanced to higher grades, he would always pass me in the hallways and offer his words of encouragement along with his radiant smile. When I began to teach, he was a primary role model. He offered practical, sage advice along with hand written teaching materials that he had created and perfected over the years. Need a Halachic decision? A blessing for a sick child or expectant mother? Want to hear a practical and meaningful gem of Torah about this week’s Parsha? Reb Avram has always been there – just a phone call or a visit with him lifts the spirit and the soul.
As several senior Israeli government officials are mired in controversy, the Jewish State is in serious need of ethical soul-searching, Commonwealth Chief Rabbi Sir Jonathan Sacks said this week.
“The way I see it is this: Zionism has achieved its first great objective – creating a Jewish state it is time now to achieve the second great objective – which is a Jewish society, and that is something quite different.”
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