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Shimon and Meira (nee Kaner) Emlen (Seattle, WA)

From Days Gone By: CGI Napa Valley, 1976
Campers and counselors sing and dance at Camp Gan Israel in Napa Valley, CA, 1976.

Video: Chicken Soup from Scratch
You may have seen shows for the lazy chef, the practical chef, the ambitious chef or the professional chef. Jewbellish is proud to introduce a new show geared for the realistic Kosher chef. Enter Mendy’s Kitchen. Hosted by Jewish comedian Mendy Pellin. Finally a chef you can relate to.

4 Weekend Robberies – Jewish Homes ‘Emptied Out’
A pattern of disturbing burglaries is emerging after a Jewish home was ransacked, while the family was away for Shabbos. This was the fourth such weekend robbery in Crown Heights in under a month.
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State Tax Credit Programs on the Rise, Bring in Millions for Yeshivas
The past decade has seen a marked increase in the number of private Jewish day schools and yeshivas actively looking to tap into federal and state tax dollars for help, and as the number of institutions has risen, so too have the ways in which state lobbyists and organizational coalitions are approaching the matter.

Friendship Circle Helps Special Needs Kids Learn to Bike
A tearful Ann Marie Haggerty watched her son Aidan ride a “two-wheeler” bike for the first time Wednesday morning.

Chabad.org To Broadcast Daily Siyum for 9 Days
Chabad.org is once again proud to partner with the NCFJE, which has been broadcasting live siyumim on the radio for over thirty years, to bring you live broadcasts of daily siyumim for the nine days.

Open Letter: To the Mother Who Left Her Children in the Car During a Heat Wave
Dear Mother, I am writing this open letter to you because I feel it’s too important for you and your children to ignore what I saw. I meant to approach you and speak with you yesterday, but my utter shock rendered me speechless, so I am reaching out to you this way.

Chabad on the Harbor: A Visit to Malta
I didn’t realize it at the time, but I was about to make history. My friend Henry Stein of Tempe and I were on a public bus on Malta’s northern coast in a hard-to-pronounce town called Bugibba. We had just finished a scenic 90-minute cruise through the harbors surrounding this Mediterranean island-nation’s capital city of Valletta and were headed back to our hotel.

New Women’s Rosh Chodesh Site Launched
In honor of Rosh Chodesh Menachem Av, when the Rebbe teaches that we’re supposed to find ways to bring out the inner meaning of the mourning and to celebrate all that is permissible to celebrate during this time, Chabad.org rolled out an all-new special Rosh Chodesh site for women.

TODAY: Children’s Rally for Baby’s Refuah Shlaima
The Jewish community around the world was gripped by the new of the tragic accident with left 18-month old Chaim Zev Aryeh ben Nechama on life support. Today a children’s rally will be held in the JCM for the merit of his complete and speedy recovery.

Chabad Women Visit Rebbe’s Hometown
On a rooftop in Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine’s fourth-largest city, a group of women and girls of different ages look out at the city below. They have come together from countries as distant as Venezuela and Australia, to experience a piece of their shared history.

Mitzvah Tanks Cruise South Florida
First came the food trucks. Then the boutiques on wheels. But there are mobile units serving up something truly divine in South Florida: religion.
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Yitzi and Leah Spalter (Crown Heights)

Photos: Visiting Day in Camp Gan Israel, Montreal!
Dozens made the six-hour-long trek up to Montreal Canada to visit their children attending Camp Gan israel.

Photos: Visiting Day at Camp Gan Israel, NY
Braving the long journey and sweltering heat parents and friends made the trek up to the mountains to visit their children in the various camps, including Camp Gan Israel in Parksville, NY.

Jews in Sports: Most Important Lesson Learned
As fate would have it, the two Jewish players who played in this strike-shortened National Hockey League season (Eric Nystrom spent his hockey year in Norway’s GETligan before getting injured after appearing in just six games) both had a fair crack at making the playoffs.