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‘Obamacare’ Challenge Begins In Supreme Court

NY1

President Obama signs Affordable Health Care Reform Act.

Members of the U.S. Supreme Court waded Monday into the constitutional challenge to President Barack Obama‘s controversial health care overhaul.

Blockbuster Sholom Bayis Workshops at AC Pesach Program

The Clarion Hotel in Atlantic City where the Pesach program will take place.

Renew and Build the Energy of Your marriage with Pesach lectures by Rabbi Yitzchok Dovid Smith and, together with Elisheva Smith, the acclaimed marriage workshop “Couplehood as a Spiritual Pathway: The Imago Journey for Jewish couples” utilizing the proven Imago dialogue techniques to create connection in marriage.

Woman Donates Brand New Mikvah to Chabad House

Cleveland Jewish News

Ruthy Wolfson affixes a mezuzah to the door of the mikvah.

The little, yellow storybook house at 29800 Cannon Road blends in nicely with the Solon residences it neighbors. But the house is not a home.

Sergeant: NYPD Manipulating Crime Statistics

WABC

In an exclusive interview, a 19-year veteran of the NYPD describes widespread manipulation of crime reports at the 100th Precinct in Queens. The sergeant says when he blew the whistle on the routine fudging of crimes, the department retaliated and transferred him to a midnight shift at Bronx Central.

Students of Online Smicha Program Show Fluency

Rav Dovid Schochet, President of the Toronto Rabbinical Council and a member of Va’ad Rabbonei Lubavitch, flew into New York this past week to test talmidim of “Online Smicha” in a variety of topics including Pas Akum, Bishul, Akum, Chalav Akum, and Chasamos.

Did you say the ‘Nasi’ Today? (Yom Gimmel)

From the Safer Haminhagim: [Every day from Rosh Chodesh Nissan until the twelfth of the month, usually after Shacharis,] one reads the passage [from Bamidbar 7-8:4] that describes the offering brought on that day by a particular Nasi, or tribal prince, for the dedication of the altar of the Mishkan. [In common parlance, each day’s passage itself is often referred to as “the Nasi.”] This daily reading is followed by the prayer which opens with the words yehi ratzon (and which appears in Siddur Torah Or [as well as in Siddur Tehillat HaShem, p. 371]). This prayer is recited even by a Kohen or a Levi [despite its seeming relevance only to tribes other than the Tribe of Levi]. [284]

Blog: From Harlem to Jerusalem

by Leah Schwed

As a young woman who decided in her early 20s to become Orthodox, my life has been anything but boring. I grew up with a tight knit family, went to a reform synagogue, attended inner city schools and learned how to interact with all walks of life at a young age. Those friendships I still hold onto dearly. After my high school graduation I was accepted to a college in NYC and soon enough I was living in the city that never sleeps. I found a cute apartment in Spanish Harlem where many people are too afraid to walk even in broad daylight.

Shluchim Pause to Pray at Grave of Kedoshim

Whilst on the recent JLI Land and Spirit Mission to Israel, over a minyan of shluchim joined together early one morning to visit the kever of fellow shluchim Hakdoshim Rabbi Gavriel Noach and Rebbetzin Rivka Holtzberg HY”D on Har Hazeisim, as they felt that being in Eretz Yisroel shluchim should make a point to visit the kvorim.

Chabad UF Expands to Accommodate Growing ‘Family’

Gainesville Sun

Rabbi Berl Goldman and his wife Chanie thank all those in attendance during the Groundbreaking Celebration for the Tabacinic Lubavitch-Chabad Center for Jewish Life and Learning, in Gainesville on Sunday.

Hundreds of members of the local Jewish community gathered on a dirt lot Sunday where soon a 23,000-square-foot Jewish student center will stand.