S DIEGO, CA [CHI] — On Sunday, January 25th, 29 Teves a beautiful Hachnosos Sefer Torah was held at Chabad House on Montezuma Road in S. Diego. This Chabad House was established over 30 years ago, and recently with the move of the main Chabad Center to Scripps Ranch, Chabad House has been run successfully by Campus Shluchim, Rabbi Chalom and Mairav Boudjnah.
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(By Annie Gibson, Levy Hertzel and Susan Shapiro)
Hasidic groups in New York patrol religious neighborhoods in marked cars, but they occasionally clash with outside groups and even among themselves.
NEW YORK — The disheveled man looks momentarily confused. He’s wearing a puffy red coat that looks as if it was salvaged from the city dump. “Are you guys cops?” he asks.
He’s been set upon by four Hasidic Jews in the center aisle of House and Home Hardware on Flushing Avenue, a commercial strip that runs through the Hasidic section of Williamsburg in Brooklyn – a neighborhood uncanny for its resemblance to a 19th-century shtetl.
NEW YORK, NY [ADL] — A new survey of seven countries across Europe shows millions continue to believe the classical anti-Semitic canards that have persistently pursued Jews through the centuries.
The findings released by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today revealed that nearly half of the Europeans surveyed believe Jews are not loyal to their country and more than one-third believe they have “too much power” in business and finance.
DETROIT, MI [CHI] — Close to 50 volunteers from the Girls Divisions of over 15 national and international Friendship Circle branches converged on Detroit’s Meer Family Friendship Center this past weekend for the annual International Friendship Circle Volunteer Conference.
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MELBOURNE, Australia [CHI] — Chabad is at the forefront of the Jewish community’s efforts to assist the victims of the devastating bushfires in the state of Victoria. These are the worst bushfires in Australian history, claiming more than 200 lives.
This years Grand Kinus Shluchos Farbrengen will be taking place at the Shluchim Office Thursday, Chai Shvat, February 12th @ 9:15 P.M., following the last Kinus session. It will be streaming live online for all Shluchos who were not able to make it to the Kinus.
GRAND PRIZE: Dr. Jack and Joy Fishman
Land Rover Lease: To be raffled on Purim (not enough tickets sold yet)
Split-The-Pot: Chaya B.
Jackpot: Etty Cohen
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JERUSALEM, Israel — Members of the ultra-Orthodox community opening the weekend edition of haredi daily Hamodia in search of a recipe for a good Shabbat meal last week were shocked to find a recipe for stir-fried chicken noodles with none other than dairy Feta cheese – a combination that is against the rules of kashrut and is strictly forbidden.
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