DUBUQUE, IA [KCRG] — The former head of the Agriprocessors kosher meatpacking plant in Postville is out of jail.
Sholom Rubashkin posted bail a day after a judge set it at $500,000 dollars.
CANTERBURY, New Zealand [NZPA] — A Christchurch rabbi is battling efforts to autopsy an Israeli hiker whose body was found near the Mueller Glacier in the Southern Alps.
Rabbi Menachem Goldstein, director of the Jewish Chabad-Lubavitch sect in New Zealand, has been acting as a liaison between local officials and the Israeli Embassy in Australia.
S DIEGO, CA — The San Diego City Council cleared the way yesterday for an expansion of the Chabad Educational Campus in Scripps Miramar Ranch.
Plans for the campus, at 10785 Pomerado Road, include a high school and college that will require new buildings, sports facilities and 280 housing units for students and faculty.
SDEROT, Israel — After years of enduring Kassam attacks from Gaza, Sderot’s hesder yeshiva plans to consecrate on Thursday a specially-built, rocket-proof beit midrash, or study hall, the first of its kind ever erected in Israel.
In honor of the release of Rabbi Sholom Rubashkin, a song has been given out from the Archives of Mordechai Ben David, a song with the theme of “G-D frees and redeemed his Captives” the song is performed by Mordechai Ben David and Shlomo Simcha in Teal Aviv.
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ULYANOVSK, Russia [CHI] — As you know Jews are required to fulfill 613 commandmants.This, of course, is not easy, especially considering the conditions of Russia and, specifically, a city like Ulyanovsk.
Take the commandment of Kosher, for example. There are a myriad of practical questions associated with this commandment. How does one observe the rules of kashrus? Where can kosher products be obtained? Is it necessary to have a kitchen with two counters and kosher tableware? What other kitchen items required to keep all of the rules of kashrus? How does one kasher tableware?
Next week, February 6th and 7th, hundreds of Shluchim from around the world will gather their communities for ‘One Shabbat One World,’ a Shabbos dedicated to Moshiach. In what they are anticipating as the largest turnout ever, Shluchim are encouraged to invite all to attend. Rabbi Chaim Hershkowitz, director of the program says they went “All out this year. Rabbi Sholom Paltiel, Shliach of Port Washington has prepared a special speech for the event. We have mailed out free personalized napkins to the Shluchim, professional flyers and a custom mini site the excitement keeps building.”
One Shabbat One World is a yearly project for the Moshiach Campaign, a division of Merkos L’Inyonei Chinuch.
WASHINGTON, DC — In the case of Chabad-Lubavitch vs. Russia, US District Court Judge Royce C. Lamberth today accepted Chabad’s request to deny Russia’s legal counselors release from the case.
In a hearing on Tuesday, the Judge gave the defendants 45 days to find substitute counsel, and 60 days to report on the status of the Archive and Library of Chabad-Lubavitch, which Chabad now fears may have been compromised.
Anybody who shops for groceries is well aware that there’s a premium attached to kosher food.
At one midtown grocery store, kosher lean ground beef was nearly twice the cost of the non-kosher variety, while kosher chicken nuggets were more than double the price of an equivalent non-kosher brand, and strawberry yogurt in the kosher section was almost 100 per cent more costly than the non-kosher brand only a few aisles away.
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