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Sara Slavin saw a real need in Mississauga for a Jewish summer day camp. The city’s Jewish population isn’t huge but the closest summer camps for Jewish children are in Hamilton and Toronto.
The Lubavitcher Rabbi’s Memoirs are a veritable treasure chest of Chasidic learning and lore, of anecdotes, historical annotations and commemorations, and represent the very best of informal writing from the prolific pen of the sixth leader of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement, Rabbi Yosef Y. Schneersohn, of blessed memory and are now back in print and available from Kehot Publication Society.
The Brooklyn Butcher will likely die in prison in a plea deal that’s been agreed to by all sides, the Daily News has learned.
The Jewish world today celebrates the completion of learning Shas after seven and a half years of learning one page a day, with central celebrations held in all major Jewish communities around the world, especially in Eretz Yisroel and in America – the main event will be tonight in the Metlife Stadium in New Jersey. This morning, for the first time in [Lubavitch inhabited] Crown Heights, Congregation Anash 770 Montgomery St. held a Daf Yomi siyum as well.
Believe it or not, at one time, Rabbi Daniel Bortz, a 20-something, energetic, newly ordained Chabad rabbi, wasn’t so Jewishly observant.
Shragi Putter (Crown Heights) and Fraydee Boyarsky (Montreal, Canada)
A new sign is being put up this morning by Sign It Inc. for a new juice and smoothie shop on Kingston Ave. near Montgomery St.
Sholom Ber and Zeldie (nee Hecht) Cunin (Los Angeles, CA)
At a Friday night dinner in a New York City apartment in mid-July, young professionals celebrated Shabbat around long tables with familiar faces they hadn’t seen since college, and a lively routine led by Chabad campus representatives Rabbi Peretz and Chanie Chein, harking back to the popular campus Shabbat dinners at Brandeis University.
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo will veto a bill requiring school officials to consider religion and other family beliefs when approving taxpayer-funded tuition for special-education students at private schools, an administration official said.
Binyomin Lieblich (Crown Heights) and Zahava Shagalov (California / Crown Heights)
Some of the first riders to use Omaha’s new bike lane started their trek at the Pacific Ocean — and will end it in the Atlantic.
Mordechai Ben David composed a new song for the Siyum Hashas of Jerusalem at Teddy Stadium. The song, Yachad Shivtei Yisroel, was arranged by Ami Cohen with Choir by Moshe Roth. Photography by Baruch Ezagui.
Surveillance video caught three African-American teenagers trespassing into a condo-apartment building and leaving moments later with two bicycles. The building, located on Brooklyn Ave. between East New York and Maple St., is predominantly Jewish.
Chabadnikim serving in the IDF who identify with the Meshichist element received a new guideline from the military today. They may no longer wear the so-called ‘Yechi’ yarmulkes.
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