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Op-Ed: Camps Unmasked

by Yehudah Kaplan

Over the past decade, thousands of words have been spilled, in conversation and in print, over the alarming rate of our youth going off the derech. Accusations have been made against our school systems and against the parents. The rabbonim, the mashpiyim and even our store vendors have been blamed.

French Police Close In on Toulouse Killer

French police searching for a gunman who shot dead four people at a Jewish school in Toulouse have launched a raid in the north of the city. Two police officers have been injured in the operation, which is reported to have begun before dawn and is ongoing. The suspect, named as Mohammed Merah, is reported to have travelled to fight in Afghanistan and to have been jailed there before escaping in 2008. Latest Update: 1:30 PM

Young Bochur Injured in Hit-&-Run, Police Indifferent

In a shocking incident this morning, a 14-year-old boy was hit by a rogue driver and was left to fend for himself. Although he was quite possibly the victim of a hate crime, the police showed no interest in pursuing the perpetrator and bringing him to justice.

New Engagement!

Yossi Dworcan (Johannesburg, South Africa) and Sarah Malka Lipskar (Johannesburg, South Africa)

L’chaim will be tonight at 655 Montgomery St.
[between Kingston and Brooklyn Ave.]

Aspen Chabad House Construction Set to Begin

Aspen Times

Rabbi Mendel Mintz speaks to more than 150 people who gathered for Sunday’s groundbreaking ceremony.

Construction on the long-awaited Chabad Jewish Community Center of Aspen is likely to start in three to four weeks, Rabbi Mendel Mintz said. Mintz, members of the local Jewish community and other well-wishers gathered for a groundbreaking ceremony Sunday afternoon at the project site, where the synagogue’s temporary facility now stands.

Couple Honored for Rescuing West Coast Chabad HQ

It was the largest rabbinic gathering in the history of West Coast Chabad. On Sunday, March 4, Chabad’s 260 rabbis — emissaries of The Rebbe from up and down the states of California and Nevada — gathered in Westwood to celebrate the 40th Annual West Coast Kinus HaShluchim and to pay tribute to Shlomo Yehuda and Tamar Rechnitz, pillars of chesed in California and throughout the world, who stepped forward last year and courageously rescued the West Coast Chabad Headquarters from financial distress.

NYPD Beefs Up Security at 770

DNA Info

The NYPD stepped up security at Jewish institutions on Monday after a gunman at a Jewish school in Toulouse, France, shot and killed a teacher and three children. Though there was no specific threat, extra police presence was added to more than 50 Jewish centers across the city, including Lubavitch headquarters on Eastern Parkway in Crown Heights, NYPD officials said.

PSA: Young Entrepreneurs Workshop Today

Crown Heights Young Entrepreneurs Invites you to a networking event called “Start it up” With Zalmi Duchman. With your mind set on a goal – to get to the point of “Start it up,” you should be successful and follow through to reach your dreams. Duchman will be speaking about his experiences as the founder and CEO of “The Fresh Diet.”