Kids Enjoy Camp Reunion in South African Winter
While school children and camps around the world are warming up for summer, in South Africa’s Cape Town they are buttoning up for another winter; the Summer’s December holiday is a distant memory.
by Meir Shenhav - Canadian Jewish News
What a surreal picture! At a busy and noisy construction site, workers in white or yellow helmets mix cement, while others carry blocks or lift steel rods. In the midst of it all stands a bearded man wearing a black helmet, a black suit, white shirt and a tie.
New Chabad House Takes Shape in Toronto
by Meir Shenhav – Canadian Jewish News
What a surreal picture! At a busy and noisy construction site, workers in white or yellow helmets mix cement, while others carry blocks or lift steel rods. In the midst of it all stands a bearded man wearing a black helmet, a black suit, white shirt and a tie.
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Cops Cracking Down on Unlicensed Flower Peddlers
NY Post
Life is anything but rosy for illegal flower peddlers in Borough Park. Cops in the predominantly Hasidic neighborhood are cracking down on the unlicensed hawkers after legit florists complained they are costing them between $5,000 and $10,000 a week in sales.
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PSA: 25th Annual Fleet Week Kicks Off Wednesday
An annual New York City tradition begins Wednesday, as Fleet Week kicks off with the Parade of Ships along the Hudson River.
In honor of the upcoming Yom Tov of Shavuos, students in Lubavitcher Yeshiva's Pre-1A took a 'field trip' to Kingston Avenue, where they went to work planting beautiful flowers in the tree beds.
Photos: ULY Pre-1A Students Beautify Kingston!
In honor of the upcoming Yom Tov of Shavuos, students in Lubavitcher Yeshiva’s Pre-1A took a ‘field trip’ to Kingston Avenue, where they went to work planting beautiful flowers in the tree beds.
Immigrant, Underprivileged Boys Celebrate Bar Mitzvah
Shturem
Rabbi Avraham Chazan, Shliach in Lod, Israel, arranged for about 20 boys from immigrant and underprivileged homes to celebrate their Bar Mitzvah with much fanfare. The celebration took place on Monday, Erev Rosh Codesh Sivan; it began with a visit to the Knesset, continued with the main event at the Western Wall, and ended with a festive banquet at the Kaliv halls in Jerusalem.
Meir Pliskin, a photographer from Crown Heights, got whacked for taking pictures of the Monsey Viznitzer Rebbe at the Citi Field internet gathering on Sunday.
Video: Viznitzer Chasidim Attack Photographer
Meir Pliskin, a photographer from Crown Heights, got whacked for taking pictures of the Monsey Viznitzer Rebbe at the Citi Field internet gathering on Sunday.
In a Psak Din issued by the Beis Din Ohel Chaim, the Dayanim ruled today against R. Yosef Braun for steadfastly refusing to appear and be judged by the Beis Din. The Dayanim wrote that “according to din we should be issuing a Ksav Siruv [against R. Braun], and anyone who wishes to ask Halacha questions by him should get permission from accepted rabbinic sources first.”
Psak Din Released: R. Braun “Should Be in Siruv”
In a Psak Din issued by the Beis Din Ohel Chaim, the Dayanim ruled today against R. Yosef Braun for steadfastly refusing to appear and be judged by the Beis Din. The Dayanim wrote that “according to din we should be issuing a Ksav Siruv [against R. Braun], and anyone who wishes to ask Halacha questions by him should get permission from accepted rabbinic sources first.”
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This Man Wanted for Shooting of 12-Year-Old
The NYPD is seeking the public’s assistance with the whereabouts of Gerald Spears, who is wanted in connection with the shooting of a man and a 12-year-old boy in crown Heights.
Op-Ed: Growing Up Is Optional
by Anonymous
There is an old American saying: “Getting Old is Mandatory, Growing Up is Optional.” This morning I discovered that the option of growing up was not approved by the local Beis Din: as I walked past the Badatz offices, I saw what looked like a Meah Shearim wall after a torrential rain. But it wasn’t an act of G-d, it was an act of babies masquerading as Rabbis.
Rabbis Meet with EU Ambassador to Israel
A senior delegation of the Rabbinical Congress for Peace (RCP) met today with Ambassador Andrew Standley, the Head of the European Union in Israel, to present the Torah view on the issue of giving up land to the Arabs.
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New Engagement!
Zalman Levine (Crown Heights) and Simcha Beila Haviv (France)
Renewal Celebrates 150 Transplants
You usually don’t think of organ donation as something to celebrate. Don’t tell that to the people of Renewal. Last Thursday over 300 people got together for a lavish reception at the Renaissance Ballroom in Brooklyn to honor their kidney donors, an elite group of selfless individuals who have given the gift of life to others, often to complete strangers.
Steinsaltz Gemara Translated into English
JTA
Rabbi Adin (Even Yisroel) Steinsaltz
A Talmud that took Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz 45 years to translate from ancient Hebrew and Aramaic into modern Hebrew is being published in English.
Chernobyl remains a deserted 'ghost town.'
After the producers of a new movie dramatizing the 1986 Chernobyl disaster received criticism that they are exploiting the 400,000 victims of the nuclear meltdown, Chabad's Children of Chernobyl expressed support for the film, because it portrays the true extent of the disaster - something which the world has remained mostly ignorant of due to Soviet censorship.
Chabad Chernobyl Organization Backs Filmmakers
Chernobyl remains a deserted ‘ghost town.’
After the producers of a new movie dramatizing the 1986 Chernobyl disaster received criticism that they are exploiting the 400,000 victims of the nuclear meltdown, Chabad’s Children of Chernobyl expressed support for the film, because it portrays the true extent of the disaster – something which the world has remained mostly ignorant of due to Soviet censorship.
My Teacher Who cared
by Dov Greenberg
In the Second Book of Samuel, after the deaths of Saul andJonathan, King David cries out, “They were swifter than eagles, they were stronger than lions”—“מִנְּשָׁרִים קַלּוּ,מֵאֲרָיוֹת גָּבֵרוּ”. Rabbi Yeshaya Schtroks, beloved father, husband, community builder, remarkable teacher, was swift like the eagle, strong like the lion, and now he has passed away at the young age of 55.
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