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Vacant Restaurant to Become Chabad House

For two years Rabbi Hershy Bronstein tried to buy the vacant Buffalo Southwestern Café building in Coral Springs, Florida to convert it into a Chabad synagogue. But it took the help of an evangelical Christian and divine providence to make the purchase happen.

Florida Sun-Sentinel

Video: America Is No Different

On this day, 9 Adar II, in 1940, the previous Lubavitcher Rebbe stepped of the boat that took him from war-torn Europe onto the Piers of New York City and declared “America iz nisht andersh” (America is no different). Here too would a network of Yeshivos, Chadorim, Shuls and Chasidishe institutions be built, despite the overwhelming secularism of America’a Jewish population.

Op-Ed: The Cantonist Decree in 21st Century Canada

When I read the news this morning that two teenage girls of the Lev Tahor sect are undergoing a hunger strike after being separated from their parents by Canadian authorities, I came to the conclusion that I could no longer remain silent in the face of such a grave injustice. After all, if we don’t speak out for them, who will speak out when they come for our children?

by Anonymous