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Video: JLI Makes the Abstract Concrete

The Rohr Jewish Learning Institute (JLI) course The Kabbalah of You explores the concept of happiness and self-actualization via a “mystical roadmap.” To make lofty insights such as the innate relationship between the soul and G-d more accessible to human understanding, JLI’s multimedia department looked to children, whose innocent words in the video point to an underlying truth.

Video: Latino Chanukah Celebration in Florida

Feliz Hanukkah! Rabbi Mordechai Lichy and his 200 members of the Habbad Spanish Center in Coral Springs, Florida have created a Latino community where their Jewish faith, Spanish language and Latino culture co-exist as one.

Chanukah Flames Burns at Marlboro Fire Station

MARLBORO, NJ — Chanukah flames were kindled by Rabbi Avrohom Bernstein, in front of the Robertsville Fire Station, Marlboro NJ on the fifth night of Chanukah in the presence of tens of “little firemen” (wearing firemen hats). The hats were distributed to the children by the station, in honor of the occasion.

Out-Of-Town Shliach Nabs Burglar, Shomrim Reunites Victim with Teffilin

CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — A Shliach from out of town on his way to the Hey Teves Farbrengen, was walking on East New York Avenue when he spotted a Black man carrying a Tallis and Teffilin bag. Without pause he snatched it from the man and a struggle and commotion ensued.

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Luxurious New Mikvah is Dedicated in Nashville

by Dovid Zaklikowski – Chabad.org

Nashville has not had a new Mikvah dedicated in over 50 years, which changed this week when Chabad-Lubavitch of Nashville dedicated their new Mikvah, the crown jewel, of its campus.

Chabad of Baka Remebers Levi Hendel OBM

Chanukah is an especially meaningful time for Chabad of Baka, which was founded in memory of Levi Hendel ob’m, one of the temimim who passed away en route to Chanukah mivtzaim in 2006. Levi Hendel was 13 years old at the time. He and two other Chabad volunteers, Yonatan Biton and Moshe Golan, lost their lives in a car accident on the road from Eilat.

Jacob Ostreicher Released to House Arrest

AP and VIN News

US entrepreneur Jacob Ostreicher arrives to court in Santa Curz, Bolivia, 18 December 2012. A Santa Cruz judge ordered Ostreicher to post a bail and to stay in house arrest within the city of Santa Cruz. Ostreicher has been jailed in Bolivia jail for 18 months on allegations of ties to money laundering and drug trafficking.

LAZ PAZ, Boliva — A Bolivian judge on Tuesday released a New York businessman and granted him house arrest after he was jailed for 18 months without charge despite strong evidence that he was fleeced and extorted by corrupt prosecutors.