This Sunday, November 12, 2006 NCFJE celebrated its 66th Annual Awards Dinner at the Museum of Jewish Heritage.
The Sofer Family, Beny & Mira, Oren, Lior, Amit & Randi, were honored for continuing their family Legacy of Charity on behalf of Jewish Education & Continuity.
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Rostov, Russia — Jews form all over Russia came to visit the Ohel of the fifth Lubavicher Rebbe Sholom Dov Ber Schneerson on his birthday last week.
This year, members of Rostov Jewish community showed particular activity. Students form the Ohr Avner Jewish day school, members of the women’s club, big group of youth club members, participants of the STARS program and many others came to the Ohel at the old Jewish cemetery to remember the Rebbe.
Last night the theatre at the Jewish Children’s Museum saw an unexpected type of screening. A new film about the Rebbe and Rebbetzin’s life in Paris between 1932-1938, was unveiled.
Produced and presented by Jewish Educational Media, the event was billed as “a thank you for all those who made the film happen.” In the audience were interviewees and their families; the staffs of the Rebbe’s Library, Merkos L’Inyonei Chinuch, and others who assisted with research, along with the film’s producers and editors.
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“How did you fit such a big Likutei Sichos into such a small book?” That’s the question that springs to mind when feasting your eyes on the new, Single volume Chumash from Kol Menachem—due to be launched at the upcoming Kinus Hashluchim. The “Synagogue Edition” contains all the material from the five-volume Gutnick-Chumash set, and impressive new features too.
The commentaries are drawn from a staggering 1200 sichos and ma’amarim of the Rebbe, a totally unprecedented hafatzas hamayonos in one just book! The translation and commentaries are, by now, legendary, used by Shluchim worldwide as the first resource for the synagogue and the classroom. Now this classic will be available in one convenient volume, for less than half the price of a full set and volume discounts will be available.
An estimated 4,000 Jewish federation lay leaders and professionals gathered in Los Angeles for the United Jewish Communities’ annual General Assembly. This year’s meeting of the North American federation system, which will run Sunday through Wednesday, is focused on Israel under the theme “Together on the Frontline, One People, One Destiny.”
The gathering, which features scores of plenary, breakout sessions and workshops on Jewish communal topics, kicked off with an opening plenary highlighted by a speech by Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni. Prime Minister Ehud Olmert will address the gathering Tuesday evening.
On hand with exhibits is Ask Moses, Chabad.org, Federation of the Jewish Communities of the CIS, FridayLight, JLI / JNet and Kehot among many other Shluchim who are attending doing Mivtziom and networking.
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Rockville, MD — You are staring down the barrel of a gun. Do you kill the dangerous intruder, or do you let yourself be killed?“ ”Do you intervene to stop the crazed maniac attacking the woman at the street corner, or do you walk on by?“ ”Is there ever a reason to turn a weapon on yourself?“
These are some of the questions that will be brought under the intellectual microscope in a new class, ”Matters of Life and Death.“ The program promises an opportunity to experience ”yeshiva-style” learning, even for those with no background in the study of Talmud, says Rabbi Mendel Kaplan of Potomac’s Friends of Lubavitch, who will teach the class starting next Tuesday at 8 p.m., at the Jewish Community Center of Greater Washington in Rockville.
In event of a heart attack L”A every passing moment in which a patient does not receive emergency medical assistance, it significantly reduces he likelihood to survive. A machine call an Automated External Defibrillator [AED] is a device which had the ability to ‘shock’ a patient’s heart and restart it.
An initiative between the Shul Members gathered the required funds to purchase such a device and on Motzoai Shabbos they received instruction from Hatzalah Paramedics on how to use the device. This is a positive initiative and each Shul should follow suit. At this time there are a few other Shuls getting onboard, keep an eye out for signs in your Shul for instruction courses.
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