JERUSALEM, Israel [CHI] — 98 young shluchim from all over the world who attend the Summer Yeshiva under the auspices of Yeshivas Tzeirei Hashluchim in Tsfas led by Rabbi Chaim Kaplan spent this past Shabbos in the old city in Jerusalem and left a strong impression on the residents and visitors there.
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BELLINGHAM, WA [CHI] — Yosef Silverstien and Shalom Ceitlin knock on doors, and have their doors knocked on.
Sometimes the men have been given the name and address of the occupant by another contact. Other times, they said, they’re there because they found the address while searching a phone book for “Jewish names.” While yet other times someone is in need, and gives them a call.
It was Thursday afternoon, February 1, 2008. I had just removed the fish from the freezer in preparation for cooking for Shabbos. Suddenly, I received an amazing phone call. The man on the other end of the line introduced himself as David L. and began to relate his story.
Approximately eight years ago, David was returning from a business trip in New York to his home in Ottawa, Canada. His flight was delayed, and it soon became apparent that he would not have time to arrive home in time for Shabbos. David called his wife, told her of his predicament, and asked her to try to make some kind of arrangements for him.
Two black cops who reported a boss for using a racial slur say they were viciously chewed out by an African-American chief in the NYPD and are now planning a lawsuit.
Assistant Chief Gerald Nelson went ballistic after Officer Shelron Smikle made a June 10 report to the Internal Affairs Bureau charging that a black sergeant at the 83rd Precinct dropped the N-bomb on him.
Two days later, Nelson, the commander of Patrol Borough Brooklyn North, ordered Smikle, 28, and his partner, Blanch O’Neal, 38, to his office, they told the Daily News in an interview.
“’We have friends in IAB, and you’re full of s—!’” Nelson screamed, according to Smikle and O’Neal. “So what, he [the sergeant] called you a n—-r? If you can’t handle it, resign!’”
Last week Rabbi Sholom Leib Aisenbach of Montreal Canada celebrated his 70th birthday. Taking advantage of this opportunity Mr. Bernie M. Farber, the CEO of the Canadian Jewish Congress, sent Rabbi Aisenbach a birthday greeting in which he praised Rabbi Aisenbach and Chabad for all the work that they have done “on behalf of K’lal Yisroel”.
MOSCOW, Russia [JTA] — The executive director of the Chabad-led Federation of Jewish Communities of the former Soviet Union has left his post to create an independent office in Moscow, JTA has learned.
Rabbi Avraham Berkowitz, 32, was recruited by the chief Chabad rabbi in Russia, Berel Lazar, and the president of the Federation of Jewish Communities, Lev Leviev, to head up the organization’s fund-raising and outreach efforts in the Commonwealth of Independent States.
NEW YORK, NY [WNBC] — A subway riders advocacy group, the Straphangers Campaign, has released its annual report on the city’s 22 subway lines, saying the timeliness and quality of service on most lines has deteriorated from the previous year.
The 2007 “State of the Subways” report card analyzes service in key areas including wait time, regular arrival, a chance for a seat, clean cars, and understandable announcements.
MINEOLA, NY [CHI] — Nassau County joined the worldwide learning on the details of the Bais Hamigdash in the amazing Rohr Jewish Learning Institute three-week virtual tour of the Holy Temple.
In Mineola, the center of Nassau County, Rabbi Anchelle Perl leads the presentation in the Capitol Ballroom at Cong Beth Sholom Chabad.
Gdansk.
The day started out a little shaky. We had a meeting at 11, but we didn’t realize the meeting was an hour and a half away, so we were already delayed. We had arranged for a translator to come with us to our meeting with us. He was an 18 year old boy, who wasn’t Jewish. When his grandmother moved to Gdansk, there were Germans, and Jews. The Jews befriended her, the Germans didn’t. She came to like the Jews, even though she was Catholic, and pushed her grandson to do the same. He goes to shul regularly, to help the Jews of the community, and does whatever he can, to help the elderly Jews of the community. When I asked him if his parents were happy with his behavior, he told me,
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NEW YORK, NY — Prices for kosher meats and poultry are on average 15% higher than they were just before the raid on the Agriprocessors plant on May 12th. While there are still retailers that say that their prices have not risen, they are by far in the minority. The retailers point out that even non-kosher meat and poultry products have gone up by as much as 5%, but nowhere near the increases in the kosher market.
Camp Shalom under the directorship of Rabbi Yossi and Rivky Shuchat held at South Head Shul of Rabbi Milecki had 200 children in its winter day camp in Sydney Australia and made it to the front page of the Jewish news.
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