During a recent telephone conversation, a friend of mine asked me whether I had caught the “Elul disease”. When I asked him what he meant by “the Elul disease” was, he explained that he was asking whether I had become caught up in the frenzy of reflection, regret, repentance, prayer and “stockpiling” of last-minute good deeds in advance of the looming days of judgment and awe, when our fate for the coming year will be decided.
Keren Simchas Chosson V’Kallah’s newly formed young leadership committee invites all members of the community to a gala awards dinner celebrating KSCVK founder and director Devorah Benjamin’s upcoming ‘Ruby’ (40th) birthday.
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A New York City hardware store clerk who pleaded guilty to kidnapping, killing and dismembering a lost little boy has been sentenced to 40 years to life in prison.
Alec Russin turns 13 next month, and as is customary with a bar mitzvah community service project, Russin donated his time to an organization, in this case one that helps special-needs children. However, Russin’s involvement with The Friendship Circle, based out of Livingston, NJ, was deeply personal.
Zalman and Chani (nee Klein) Schapiro (Crown Heights)
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The young newly-wed Chabad woman arrested by Israeli military police remains imprisoned at this time, Wednesday afternoon. ‘D’ was arrested on Monday as she tried to retroactively arrange affairs vis-à-vis military service, something she neglected to do as a teenager. Today, a married frum woman, military police felt compelled to immediately lock her up for her offense, sending her to Prison 4 where she remains, on a hunger strike.
The Indian Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld the death sentence of 26/11 Mumbai terror attack convict Mohammed Ajmal Amir Kasab, saying that waging war against the country was the primary and foremost offence committed by the Pakistani terrorist.
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Once again superstar Lipa Schmeltzer is using his celebrity status as a springboard for the greater good, with the release of a music video that uses a hit song to promote solidarity among Jews worldwide, no matter what their background or religious leanings.
Koren Publishers Jerusalem, an exhibitor at the National Jewish Retreat’s Resource Fair, created for the event a special booklet containing a selection from their new edition of the Steinsaltz Gemara. The first 12 pages of the Babylonian Talmud were specially printed and bound for the Retreat.
Once a Gotham-like void that went dark after the law offices, jewelry shops and fashion houses closed for the day, Los Angeles’ downtown is now a center of arts and culture, its trendy cafés and chic galleries entertaining a growing number of young professional residents.
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Crown Heights [CHI] — At around 8:00pm on Sunday, an Israeli Kvutzeh Bochur was sitting outside the bagel shop on Kingston Ave. when an African-American male approached him and snatched his iPhone right out of his hands.
New Orleans resident Jill Halpern raced home to do her laundry and bring her lawn art inside last night. She wanted to clean her clothes before the power went out, and to make sure there wasn’t anything in the yard that could go flying through the air and break through the glass.
The Federation of Jewish Communities in Russia, angered over the way a Russian TV station presented the history of the baby Gabriel, who was allegedly tortured to death by the Jews and then canonized by the Orthodox Church as a saint, published its protest.
Abdul Kareem was born in Sierra Leone, West Africa, to a Muslim father from Sierra Leone and a Jewish mother originally from Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine.
Five teenage bicycle riders stayed at Manalapan’s Chabad of Western Monmouth County near the start of a weeklong ride from New York to Washington to raise funds for Friendship Circle International.
A Jewish student at Michigan State University was the victim of a hate crime where he was beaten unconscious and had his mouth stapled while his attackers made anti-Semitic taunts.
Mendy (ben R’ Yossi) Korf (Crown Heights) and Sarah Glick (Crown Heights)
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