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Shomrim Answer the Call to Yet Another Odd Rescue

CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — Earlier this week Shomrim were called to help free the leg of a young boy who got entangled in the frame of his bicycle, but Tuesday, an even more bizarre call came in. A girl was trapped inside of her basement apartment after someone had tied their dog up to her door!

“Eretz Peru”

Tablet Magazine

An Israeli restaurant (r) in Cusco, Peru (l).

Walk down the cobblestone alley, and you’ll see it lined with restaurants serving falafel and schnitzel and Internet cafés advertising their businesses with Hebrew signs and Israeli flags. Shoppers speak Hebrew, and Israeli pop music emanates from storefronts. A shopkeeper waves and calls out to a passerby, “Shalom!”

Britain’s Chief Rabbi to Open Cambridge Mikvah

After almost 30 years of planning and discussions Chabad of Cambridge are pleased to announce that from mid-September the city will have its own community Mikvah. The Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks will officially open the Mikvah at a ceremony taking place on Sunday 11th September 2011.

Jews Flock to Ukrainian City Every Weekend

Elderly residents of Makeyevka, Ukraine, enjoy a kosher meal and Jewish inspiration at the home of Chief Rabbi Eliyahu and Dassi Kramer (l). One of the Kramers’ children helps a Jewish man don tefillin (r).

Every weekend, the Jewish population in the eastern industrial city of Makeyevka, Ukraine, swells. Thanks to a guest house opened in 2008, each and every Sabbath at the home of Chief Rabbi Eliyahu and Dassi Kramer features the new faces of those drawn by the promise of a spiritually-uplifting experience, free food and even free transportation.

Houston Patients Find a Caring Embrace in Aishel House

A volunteer with Houston’s Aishel House delivers a kosher meal to a hospital patient staying at the organization’s apartment complex.

The first time Susan Biondi stepped foot in Aishel House, the Houston-based organization founded by Rabbi Eliezer and Rochel Lazaroff to service families in need at nearby Texas Medical Center, she was, in her own words, “blown away.”