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On Thursday, July 12th, rocks, mud and trees crashed down a mountain above the shores of Kootenay Lake in British Columbia, ripping through Johnsons Landing. It was followed by another slide on Friday. At least three houses were engulfed when the wall of mud, rock and trees cascaded down the hillside.
Thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jews protested Monday in Jerusalem against attempts to draft members of the ‘Haredi’ community into the Israeli military.
BOG war (the fist-month version of color war, with three teams: Blue, Orange and Green) came as a surprise last week to campers at Gan Yisroel in Parksville, NY.
Gathered in Danbury Connecticut, over 150 Mechanchim are taking part in a two day conference aimed at sharpening their teaching skills as well as presenting and discussing new ideas. The conference is organized by the Chinuch Office which is directed by Rabbi Nochum Kaplan.
Deriving inspiration from its role in the recovery of six stolen Torah scrolls, the Tzfat branch of the Israel Police has established a synagogue in the local police station and arranged for the use of one of the scrolls belonging to the holy city’s historic Tzemach Tzedek Synagogue.
A property was purchase for a new Chabad House in central Paris yesterday, which will cater to Jewish students attending several nearby universities.
Tzvi and Sheva Tauby (Crown Heights)
Mayor Bloomberg finally called the city’s rash of recent violence “unconscionable,” as an aide said the NYPD is flooding crime-plagued neighborhoods with cops.
Last week tens of pairs of tefilin were distributed to Israeli soldiers stationed in Chevron.
The city’s payphones are about to start pulling double-duty as wireless hotspots.
PARKSVILLE, NY [CHI] — Despite a heavy and sporadic downpour, parents and friends made the trek up to the mountains to visit their children in the various camps. Our photographer visited Camp Gan Israel in Parksville, NY.
CATSKILL MOUNTAIN REGION [CHI] — Unfortunately, this year’s first visiting day was not only marked with excited children greeting their parents. Thankfully and miraculously, those other incidents did not turn out grimmer.
Bochurim prepare for Shabbos by shopping, doing laundry and reviewing the Sedra twice with targum at Yeshiva Summer Program in Morristown, NJ.
Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, who is currently on an official visit in the Ukraine, met the local Chabad emissaries on Friday.
An African-American family was robbed in their Crown Heights apartment by two knife-wielding thieves wearing ski masks, who walked into their apartment on Albany Avenue at about 4:30 a.m., authorities reported.
Menachem Mendel and Rivka (nee Zayac) Gurevitch (Crown Heights)
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About a year ago Marianne Grin, a Jewish woman from Florence, Italy, fled to Russia with her three children to escape a ruling by an Italian court giving full custody of the children to her estranged non-Jewish husband. The husband had successfully portrayed her as ‘mentally unstable’ to the Italian judge, citing the fact that she enrolled her children in a Gan Israel summer camp run by Chabad – which he argued was a ‘radical religious cult.’
