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Mr. Greens Healthy Fruity Shalach Manos (a)

This year Mr. Greens, Crown Heights’s premier fruit and vegetable store, is offering a new and uniqe way to give Shalach Manos – healthy fruit and vegetable baskets. Customers can mix and match, create their own, or choose from a number of standard option.

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Israeli Veterans Recover with Aspen Ski Vacation

The Aspen Times

Injured Israeli vet Yogev Menashe was among the participants in the Golshim L’Chaim program in Aspen this past week.

ASPEN, CO — The Hebrew language has no specific word for “skiing.” The word used — “golshim” — literally means “to slide,” and is also used to describe surfing, even surfing the Internet. Which does not mean skiing is nonexistent in Israel. Located in the country’s extreme north is Mount Hermon — pitched as a “magical winter wonderland,” even if the snow is mostly ice, the lift lines are predictably long, and the roads to get to the slopes are usually clogged.

Rabbi to Settlers: Shoot Back at Troops

Article by Jpost. Video by Shturem.net

At the 1 minute mark, the Rabbi makes his questionable remarks.

A Chabad rabbi has called to strike back at soldiers in the same way they act against settlers, predicting a civil war among Israel’s Jews.

Lawsuit Seeks to Erase Bike Lane in New York City

NY Times

A bike lane along Prospect Park West in Brooklyn is the focus of a lawsuit filed Monday against the Transportation Department.

Well-connected New Yorkers have taken the unusual step of suing the city to remove a controversial bicycle lane in a wealthy neighborhood of Brooklyn, the most potent sign yet of opposition to the Bloomberg administration’s marquee campaign to remake the city’s streets.

Church to Become a Chabad House

NJ Jewish Standard
<%image(20110308-chabad-bergen-county.jpg|525|297|A computer rendering of the planned building. Rabbi Chanoch Kaplan (inset))%>

A computer rendering of the planned building. Rabbi Chanoch Kaplan (inset).

After a decade of local wanderings, Chabad Jewish Center of Northwest Bergen County is in contract to purchase a former church as its permanent Franklin Lakes address.

Foolish Kings

by Yochanan Gordon

Among the Arab nations, the mightiest despots, who have been ruling with an iron fist for 30, 40, or even 50 years, have overnight been stripped of their power. It just goes to show us how tenuous a grip these rulers really have.