Video: My Encounter Goes to School

As we recently reported, several weeks ago JEM held a breakfast for supporters who have assisted JEM’s efforts to record, preserve, and share the video, audio, and photographic recordings of the Rebbe’s life. The breakfast began with this emotional video about the My Encounter with the Rebbe project’s initiative to bring the actual interviewees into the schools and involve the children with the interview process.

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Menorah Lighting Comes to New Jersey Prisons

Left: Roger Jacobs, a West Orange attorney, and Rabbi Zalman Grossbaum, executive director of the Friendship Circle of MetroWest, welcomed news that menora-lighting will be allowed in NJ prisons. Right: New Jersey Governor Chris Christie.

The inspiring glow of the Menorah will be experienced in New Jersey state prisons for the first time, thanks to a new ruling announced by the New Jersey Department of Corrections.

Ahavas Chesed Blood Drive Thursday

A blood drive will take place Thursday, November 29 (15 Kislev) from 3:00pm to 8:30pm at Ahavas Chesed, 271 Kingston Ave. [between Lincoln and St. Johns Place]. Refreshments will be served. Please bring identification.

Warning: One must wait 56 days between blood donations.

Chabad Father-Son Team Looks Toward Expansion

Washington Jewish Week

At the start of their careers, young Chabad rabbis and their wives typically set out for a wilderness to be tamed: a Jewish area lacking a Chabad presence. There they drive in their stakes and go to work. As they push back the frontier, other, younger couples arrive to continue the expansion. That’s what Chabad emissaries, or shlichim, do.

Northwestern University Students Petition for Chabad

by Cat Zakrzewski – Daily Northwestern

Rabbi Dov Hillel Klein, director of Chabad at Northwestern University, Illinois.

Northwestern students and alumni are voicing their concerns about the University’s decision to disaffiliate with Tannenbaum Chabad House and Rabbi Dov Hillel Klein in a petition distributed to trustees and administrators.

Op-Ed: Slow News Day for CBS Miami

by Naftali Cohen

This morning, CBS Miami reported on “a possible new development” in the case of missing millionaire Guma Aguiar, who disappeared on his boat in June leaving behind a wife, 4 kids and a $100 million dollar fortune. The earth-shattering news – brought to the press’ attention by Guma’s wife, Jaime – was that Guma’s sister moved to the Netherlands.

RCE Denounces Polish Court’s Ban on Shchita

European Jewish Press

Polish President Bronisław Komorowski (right) meets with RCE rabbis.

The Rabbinical Centre of Europe on Wednesday slammed a ruling by the Constitutional Court in Poland that shechita, the Jewish ritual slaughter of animals, was “illegal.”

Crowdsourcing a Menorah in Needham

Boston.com

Past designs for Chabad Jewish Center’s menorahs on Needham Common have featured ice, toys for Mumbai attack victims, glow-in-the-dark materials, balloons, and wood.

One tradition of Judaism gets a fanciful update every year by the Chabad Jewish Center in Needham, Massachusetts, with its Hanukkah menorah-lighting ceremony on the downtown common. Each time, the menorah changes: Last year, it glowed a luminous blue-green, and past versions have been made from Legos, ice, and balloons.