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Video: A Jewish Perspective on Election 2012 (Part 1)

Mitt Romney and Barrack Obama

Taxation, immigration, health care: What is the Jewish perspective on the hot button issues of today? Drawing on sources from the Torah, this video series examines hotly debated contemporary political issues from an authentic Jewish perspective.

Man Sentenced to 3-6 Years for Stealing Chabad Torah

Members and friends of the Chabad House rejoice over the Torah’s return last February.

Christopher Colvill, 41, of Liberty, New York was sentenced today to three to six years in prison for his role in stealing and possessing a $35,000 Torah scroll from the Landfield Avenue Synagogue in Monticello last December in order to collect the $6,000 reward money. Colvill was also fined $5,000.

Op-Ed: Is Chabad Lubavitch?

by Levi Cooper – Jerusalem Post

Is Chabad Lubavitch? Is Lubavitch Chabad? Are the two terms – “Chabad” and “Lubavitch” – synonymous? Chabad is an acronym; Lubavitch is a town. Chabad represents a hassidic philosophy; Lubavitch the ancestral home of a hassidic court. They are not synonymous. Cryptic though it may sound, Lubavitch is Chabad, but Chabad is not only Lubavitch.

Video: Late-Night Thief Strikes Again

Two days after trying to force his way into a Montgomery St. home, Crown Heights’ late-night thief was back in action. Surveillance video caught this unidentified middle-aged African-American male stealing a bicycle from inside the 580 Crown St. condos at around 5:00am last Thursday.