Roving Rabbis Visit the North State

Chico News & Review

Shlomie Kagan, left, and Mendel Karczag ask passersby in downtown Chico, California, “Are you Jewish?”

Two wispy-bearded, tall, thin young men wearing long black coats and wide-brimmed hats walked the sidewalk in front of Chronic Tacos in downtown Chico, California on Friday, Aug. 3.

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Mitt Romney Resets Campaign with VP Pick

Fox News

Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney, right, with U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin.

Mitt Romney, after picking Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan as his running mate Saturday, charges into the final pre-convention stretch giving voters a much sharper picture of where his campaign stands as he hits the reset button on the race.

“Never Send Your Kids to Yeshiva”

by Rabbi Shimon Posner

Rabbi Shlomo Aron Kazarnovky, OBM.

Considering sending your child to yeshiva? Think again. Or rather, don’t send them. So I learned from my grandfather, the esteemed Lubavitcher chosid, Rabbi Shlomo Aron Kazarnovsky. He planted this seed in my head over 30 years ago, on a walk down Nashville’s stately West End Avenue going home from my father’s shul to my parent’s home at the corner of Whitland and Leonard.

Hatzalah Paramedics Ticketed in Catskills Town

Two Hatzolah EMS volunteers responded to a call for an individual who was in diabetic shock near Woodridge’s Village Hall Wednesday night, when they were ticketed by ‘Police Chief’ (the town has only two police officers) John Calvello for “unlawful use of red lights.”

4 Sholom Zochors This Week!

Moshe and Zeesy (nee Klein) Grossbaum
1582 Carroll St. [between Troy and Schenectady Ave.]

Zalman Shimon and Chaya Mushka (nee Hecht) Wolf
35 Balfour Place

Yossi and Chani Okunov
656 Crown St. [between Troy and Schenectady Ave.]

Ephraim and Devora (nee Katz) Piekarski
Kozy Acres, Monticello, NY Unit #29

JLI’s National Jewish Retreat Makes Waves in Florida

Photos by Bentzi Sasson

The National Jewish Retreat held this past week in Weston, Florida, was a sold-out phenomenon that drew on an international roster of speakers, teachers and outstanding personalities from the business and academic worlds. Some 800 Jews from all over the world gathered for five days of inspiration and learning sponsored by the Rohr Jewish Learning Institute (JLI).