WHITE PLANES, NY [CHI] — Friends and supporters of the Jewish Childrens Museum turned out for its 3rd annual golf tournament benefiting the museum. Despite the recession economy an impressive amount people partook in a relaxed day of golf on the expansive green of the Ridgewood Country Club in White Planes.
Is there’ a “Shidduch Crisis” ? Not if you’ve been participating in the Brooklyn Ladies’ Shidduch Group. For us, well, we see only opportunities. With the motto “Let’s help each other.”, we’ve been meeting once or twice monthly for over one year. We meet in Flatbush, at Bais Menachem Mendel at 1000 East 17th St, and have developed a lively cameraderie. Mostly, ladies come and present someone single – sometimes their own child. Women have presented their siblings, their Shabbos guests, even themselves! Numerous professional shadchanim. have visited, as have a mashpiah presenting her mushpa, one mother who drove 4 hours from out-of-state to present her children, and visitors from California, Montreal, and Israel !
During the meetings, ladies present a profile of a single. General appearance, background information, style of religiosity and personality attributes are described. Other participants ask questions to clarify what the single is about or is seeking. Names of singles are not used.
POSTVILLE, IA — The sale of Agriprocessors in Postville was approved this morning by U.S. Bankruptcy Court Judge Paul J. Kilburg to a newly formed company.
SHF Industries, a company formed in May by Canadian plastics manufacturer Hershey Friedman and his son-in-law Daniel Hirsch, is set to become the company’s new owners. Friedman has indicated that he will continue the plant as a meatpacking operation, and will continue to focus on kosher products.
In a historic move for Chabad of RARA, winter in Australia will see TWO major trips head out. Mendel Perlstein and Naftoli Goldschmidt will be blazing a trail in the RARA tank through the states of Victoria, South Australia and Western Australia. Ari Mochkin and Ari Cadaner will be based in NSW for the next month.
RHINEBECK — A Rhinebeck Jewish group’s plans to build a cultural and religious center in the town have been temporarily derailed by a real estate agent the organization later learned had filed for bankruptcy, the group’s leader said.
Lubavitch Day Camp, Toronto, has come out with a follow up to last weeks video.
Chabad of Melbourne CBD were honored to have Rabbi Yosef Chaim Kantor, Chief Rabbi of Thailand as their guest speaker today, Monday for their Businessmen Luncheon.
Rabbi Chaim Herzog, the Shliach of Chabad of Melbourne CBD welcomed Rabbi Kantor and said that he was sent to Thailand by the Lubavitcher Rebbe in May 1993 and now has 9 other emissaries helping him in his holy and inspiring work.
ISRAEL — Bank of Israel Governor Stanley Fischer on Monday called on the heads of the ultra-Orthodox sector in Israel to promote employment among Haredi men and women in order to minimize the prevalent poverty among them.
During a conference for the ultra-Orthodox community in Jerusalem, Fischer said that the low employment rate among the Haredi men and women was the root cause of for the high incidence of poverty, higher than any other sector in Israeli society, including the notoriously poor Arab sector.
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