Photos: Campers Make Sushi from Candy
Bunks 8 and 9 of Camp Gan Israel in Parksville, NY enjoyed a unique ‘cooking session’ with Head Counselor Ari Raskin. Using different types of colorful candy, they made their very own ‘worms in a cup’ and sushi.
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Audio: Friendship Connection
Yosef Peysin and Mordy Kurtz formed a band two years ago by the name of Rogers Park. Now, as they prepare to release their debut album, they have composed a song in honor of the Friendship Circle and all those involved in making the organization a success.
Left: Rabbi Margolin of the EJA. Right: Rabbi Schudrich of the CER.
Will ‘Jewish Wars’ Sabotage the Fight Against Polish Shechita Ban?
The Jewish organizations that did not succeed in preventing the legislation banning on kosher slaughtering in Poland continue to try and sabotage the efforts to changing the law.
Jews in Sports: Chabadnam-Style
Since it was uprooted from Russia, Chabad has reinvented itself as a movement to move all others. Over the past 90+ years, since the first shliach was sent to another country to promote Judaism, there have been many ways and manners wherein shluchim have accomplished their task to bring Jews closer to Judaism every single day.
by Yossi Goldstein
Shomrim Track down Stolen Pocketbook
At about 1:15 in the afternoon, Shomrim received a call from a shopper at Hamefitz Judaica saying her pocketbook had suddenly disappeared.
Crown Heights Hospital Set to Close Doors
The Interfaith Medical Center in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, has sent layoff notices to its more than 1,500 employees.
Video: Rabbi and Rebbetzin Bake Challah on TV
Rabbi Yossi and Rochel Baila Yaffe, Directors of Chabad of the Shoreline in Connecticut, were in the kitchen on local TV channel WTNH demonstrating their recipe for challah.
Rabbi Isakov with his family in Derbent, Dagestan region, Russia.
Wounded Shliach Back on His Feet
Chabad Shliach to the Russian region of Dagestan Rabbi Ovadia Isakov, who was shot and critically wounded last week by a Muslim terrorist and flown to Israel for medical care, has stood up and is walking around without assistance.
A Tribute to My Namesake
Erev Rosh Chodesh Elul will mark the 44th anniversary of the passing of my great-grandfather, Hachassid HaTamim Reb Yochanan ben Reb Yisrael Gordon, zt’l. For the longest time, this date has come and passed rather unceremoniously on my end, without memorializing him. It struck me rather odd that this idea has weighed so strongly on my mind of late, compelling me to write when so many years have gone by without as much as a word or even a thought.
by Yochanan Gordon
Info to be Menachem Avel Rabbi Sholom Baras
Rabbi Sholom Baras will be sitting Shiva after the passing of his mother, Chana, OBM, at 437 Sterling Street, on Friday and Motzei Shabbos. Nichum Aveilim will begin on Friday at 12:00pm. Mincha will be at 5:00pm. Hamokom Yenachem Eschem Besoch […]
Car Smashes into Tree on Eastern Parkway
A gray Toyota with Maryland plates smashed into a tree on Eastern Parkway between Kingston and Albany at about 9:30 this morning.
No Jew in Oklahoma Left Behind
The “roving rabbis” are making their way through Oklahoma. Moshe Sasonkin, of Akron, Ohio, and Levi Misholovin, of West Bloomfield, Mich., are spending their summer vacation traveling the country to provide for the needs of Jewish people throughout remote areas or towns with small Jewish populations.
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Baby Boy!
Noach and Chani (nee Baitch) Weinstein (Crown Heights)
Cross Country Bikers Reach Ohio
Nine bicyclists riding across the United States stopped in New Albany, Ohio last week to help raise awareness of the Friendship Circle, a Jewish program that pairs teens with special-needs children and adults.
This Week
Video: The Health Benefits of Edible Flowers
Lubavitcher herbalist Sara Chana Silverstein discusses ways to integrate edible flowers into your diet on CBS Los Angeles.
Chabad Representatives: Concessions ‘Accelerate Bloodshed’
The official representatives of the Chabad/Lubavitch community in Israel have joined calls by other leading religious and political figures against the surrender of Israeli territory to the Palestinian Authority.
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Video: A Day in Camp Gan Israel, 1960
After publishing a video last week of the Rebbe’s visit to Camp Gan Israel in Swan Lake, NY in 1960, we obtained more footage of the Rebbe’s visit that summer – and life around camp in general.
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