Photos: Every Day is Visiting Day in Camp Gan Israel, NY!
Visiting day for the first trip at Camp Gan Israel, Parksville New York.
Daily Archives: July 12, 2009
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CATSKILL MOUNTAINS, NY [CHI] — The Flu has spread to multiple sleep-away camps and bungalow colonies in upstate New York. Being that today, June 12th, is visiting day for many camps, certain precautions have been taken.
“We have isolated the remaining flu cases in our infirmary,” said the nurse at Camp Emunah, a Jewish sleep-away camp for girls. “We suggest that flu patients take Tamiflu, but that only shortens the duration of the flu. We are not distributing it to the entire camp… There is no preventative [measure to be taken].”
Flu Outbreak in NY Mountains
CATSKILL MOUNTAINS, NY [CHI] — The Flu has spread to multiple sleep-away camps and bungalow colonies in upstate New York. Being that today, June 12th, is visiting day for many camps, certain precautions have been taken.
“We have isolated the remaining flu cases in our infirmary,” said the nurse at Camp Emunah, a Jewish sleep-away camp for girls. “We suggest that flu patients take Tamiflu, but that only shortens the duration of the flu. We are not distributing it to the entire camp… There is no preventative [measure to be taken].”
Please join the Friendship Circle of Brooklyn 4ourth annual Summer Package Party benefit. Bring a wrapped item of up to $20.00 in value to be auctioned off by the entertaining Mrs Bassie Kalmenson.
Friendship Circle Summer Package Party
Please join the Friendship Circle of Brooklyn 4ourth annual Summer Package Party benefit. Bring a wrapped item of up to $20.00 in value to be auctioned off by the entertaining Mrs Bassie Kalmenson.
The Spokesman-Review
Rabbis Mendy Singer, top, and Mendel Dalfin are spending time in Spokane, meeting people and educating them about their branch of Orthodox Judaism, as part of their rabbinical studies.
SPOKANE, WA — An hour before the newspaper interview, Rabbi Mendy Singer and Rabbi Mendel Dalfin e-mail the protocol for shaking hands: They do not shake the hand of any woman, even if the woman doing the interview is old enough to be their mother.
They meet for the interview at a Starbucks on Spokane's South Hill. They have been in town for two weeks as part of the Chabad Rabbinical Visitation Program, a program designed to introduce “unaffiliated” Jews with the history and rituals of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement, a branch of Hasidic Judaism.
Roving Rabbis Travel Through Area in Search of Unaffiliated Jews
The Spokesman-Review
Rabbis Mendy Singer, top, and Mendel Dalfin are spending time in Spokane, meeting people and educating them about their branch of Orthodox Judaism, as part of their rabbinical studies.
SPOKANE, WA — An hour before the newspaper interview, Rabbi Mendy Singer and Rabbi Mendel Dalfin e-mail the protocol for shaking hands: They do not shake the hand of any woman, even if the woman doing the interview is old enough to be their mother.
They meet for the interview at a Starbucks on Spokane’s South Hill. They have been in town for two weeks as part of the Chabad Rabbinical Visitation Program, a program designed to introduce “unaffiliated” Jews with the history and rituals of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement, a branch of Hasidic Judaism.
Chabad of Simcha Monica Mark 6 Years to Accident
S. MONICA, CA [CHI] — Marking Six years to the accident in Farmers Market in Simcha Monica, where an elderly man plowed through the barricades with his car, and sent the Mivtzoim table flying, Yisroel Yosef Levitansky, the director of ‘Mitzvos On the Spot’ for people on the Go, under the auspices of Chabad in Simcha Monica, organized a Seudas Hodaah and Kinus Hakhel.
Personal Reflections on the passing of a friend ob”m and the Purpose of Life
“As for me… life has been a living hell… but along the way, it’s been a journey.” I was told that the ink of these words was still fresh when they were found. Mark Shuster, my dear friend and congregant of blessed memory, had written them, in all probability, just moments before his shocking death.
Mark had a gentle soul. Perhaps it was too gentle for his afflicted body. Mark also had a very big heart. And beyond his self-described “living hell”, lay a flickering flame of warmth and kindness that shone luminously. At times, I was even blinded by its gleaming light that constantly yearned to help and give. He wanted to be a “philanthropist”, he once told me quietly, with his characteristic humility. Indeed, he wanted to change the world. And although I have heard many a visionary uttering this dream, I believed Mark. For Mark was authentic and real. A true, straightforward New-Yorker, that resented fabrications and lies. But above all, it was Mark’s voracious thirst that touched me. He was always thirsty for meaning, for growth, for understanding. We would sometimes talk for hours about the meaning of life, his past, our present, and the world’s future, which he sadly did not live to see. I doubt Mark was ever satisfied with life in general. His thirst was unquenchable, his quest - insatiable. Mark was right: “it’s been a journey.” Indeed, a journey, alas with no destination.
by Rabbi Pinchas Allouche
A Journey, Without a Destination“As for me… life has been a living hell… but along the way, it’s been a journey.” I was told that the ink of these words was still fresh when they were found. Mark Shuster, my dear friend and congregant of blessed memory, had written them, in all probability, just moments before his shocking death.
Mark had a gentle soul. Perhaps it was too gentle for his afflicted body. Mark also had a very big heart. And beyond his self-described “living hell”, lay a flickering flame of warmth and kindness that shone luminously. At times, I was even blinded by its gleaming light that constantly yearned to help and give. He wanted to be a “philanthropist”, he once told me quietly, with his characteristic humility. Indeed, he wanted to change the world. And although I have heard many a visionary uttering this dream, I believed Mark. For Mark was authentic and real. A true, straightforward New-Yorker, that resented fabrications and lies. But above all, it was Mark’s voracious thirst that touched me. He was always thirsty for meaning, for growth, for understanding. We would sometimes talk for hours about the meaning of life, his past, our present, and the world’s future, which he sadly did not live to see. I doubt Mark was ever satisfied with life in general. His thirst was unquenchable, his quest - insatiable. Mark was right: “it’s been a journey.” Indeed, a journey, alas with no destination.
Op-Ed: The Sudden Death of a Friend
Personal Reflections on the passing of a friend ob”m and the Purpose of Life
by Rabbi Pinchas Allouche
A Journey, Without a Destination
“As for me… life has been a living hell… but along the way, it’s been a journey.” I was told that the ink of these words was still fresh when they were found. Mark Shuster, my dear friend and congregant of blessed memory, had written them, in all probability, just moments before his shocking death.
Mark had a gentle soul. Perhaps it was too gentle for his afflicted body. Mark also had a very big heart. And beyond his self-described “living hell”, lay a flickering flame of warmth and kindness that shone luminously. At times, I was even blinded by its gleaming light that constantly yearned to help and give. He wanted to be a “philanthropist”, he once told me quietly, with his characteristic humility. Indeed, he wanted to change the world. And although I have heard many a visionary uttering this dream, I believed Mark. For Mark was authentic and real. A true, straightforward New-Yorker, that resented fabrications and lies. But above all, it was Mark’s voracious thirst that touched me. He was always thirsty for meaning, for growth, for understanding. We would sometimes talk for hours about the meaning of life, his past, our present, and the world’s future, which he sadly did not live to see. I doubt Mark was ever satisfied with life in general. His thirst was unquenchable, his quest – insatiable. Mark was right: “it’s been a journey.” Indeed, a journey, alas with no destination.
MELBOURNE, Australia [AJN] — There are many dates during the year when we commemorate the passing of great leaders.
For Chabad, Gimmel Tammuz -– Tammuz 3 -– is particularly significant, as it marks the passing of the Lubavitcher Rebbe Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson in 5754 (1994).
For Australian Jewry, that date has additional meaning, as it is the date of the passing in 1991 of Reb Zalman Serebryanski, fondly recalled as one of the founders of Chabad and the yeshivah community in Australia.
Remembering Rabbi Groner: One Year On
MELBOURNE, Australia [AJN] — There are many dates during the year when we commemorate the passing of great leaders.
For Chabad, Gimmel Tammuz -– Tammuz 3 -– is particularly significant, as it marks the passing of the Lubavitcher Rebbe Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson in 5754 (1994).
For Australian Jewry, that date has additional meaning, as it is the date of the passing in 1991 of Reb Zalman Serebryanski, fondly recalled as one of the founders of Chabad and the yeshivah community in Australia.
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