Chabad of North Orlando Distributes Free Mezuzahs

Heritage Florida Jewish News

Chabad of North Orlando, led by Rabbi Yanky and Chanshy Majesky, is currently holding a mezuzah campaign to help local families display their Jewish heritage with pride. Fifty Jewish households in Lake Mary, Longwood and Sanford can have a mezuzah installed on their home for free. The mezuzahs will be provided on a first-come, first-served basis. The current campaign is being sponsored by Chaim and Lauren Thomas of Longwood.

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Jews and Politics: UN Resolution on Iran Is Predictably Soft and Pathetically Meaningless

by Yechezkel Gordon

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad tours a nuclear facility in Natanz.

Inside the International Atomic Energy Agency headquarters in Vienna, diplomats from around the world tried to formulate a resolution to repudiate Iran for its suspicious nuclear intentions. Sitting around a long conference table in a spacious room were the leading diplomats of the west, including the US, Britain, France, Germany, and the diplomats of Russia and China.

Open Letter: Thank You Avremel!

by Anonymous Shliach

The Kinus has always been the highlight of a Shliach’s year. It’s a time when we can connect, meet old chaveirim, and draw chayus for our shlichus. Even more than what we gain at the kinus, is the experience our children, the Yaldie Hashluchim, have.

Fried to Mark Jerusalem Hospital’s 110th Anniversary

Arutz 7

Clockwise: Hasidic Singer Avraham Fried; old Shaarei Tzedek hospital on Jaffa Street in Central Jerusalem; new Shaarei Tzedek Hospital Complex in Bayit Vegan neighborhood.

Jerusalem’s Shaare Zedek Medical Center, which will be celebrating 110 years since it opened its doors, has announced a major gala concert to mark that occasion.

The Meeting of a Lifetime

When Darren [name changed] first met Rabbi Dovid Weinbaum, it was at the CTeen Shabbaton last January. As the only representative from his Chabad Center in Hillsborough, NJ, Rabbi Shmaya Krinsky arranged for Darren to join Rabbi Dovid’s group from Montreal.

The Chabad Army at Ease

by Barbara Sofer – Jerusalem Post

The Chabad movement’s emissaries in cities and backwater villages throughout the world are often described as an army. This week I had a rare opportunity to observe their field officers at ease. I was one of a few women reporters invited to the banquet of the International Conference of Shluchim in Brooklyn.