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Open Letter: To the Real Mother of the Child

Your child, about 4 years old, was seen walking alone through Atlantic Center, and out towards the subway station below. My wife noticed him and quickly alerted me. I ran over before he made it through the doors and asked him: “Where are your parents?”. He looked confused. So I asked again: “Who are you here with?”. He motioned with his hand, pointing upwards at the crowd of people who were leaving the mall.

Hebrew School Creates Links to Heritage

Herald-Tribune

Parents, teachers and students of the Hebrew school at Chabad of Venice and North Port pose for a picture.

There were no caps and gowns, but there was no shortage of proud parents at the Chabad of Venice and North Port’s Hebrew school graduation.

The Court Case: Disheartening, Frightening and Exhilarating

by Aliza Karp

Ahavas Moshe, aka The Maple Street Shul.

I learned about Contempt of Court in Elementary School. The teacher spoke about automobile drivers obeying stop signs. Why should they? “Why should we obey any signs?” she asked. Our young minds grappled with the question but couldn’t come up with an answer that our teacher could not refute. “So what if you got caught,” she argued, “could we really go to jail for not obeying a sign – how silly!”

An Ambitious Expansion Project in West Boca

With a target completion date of March 2013, Chabad-Lubavitch of West Boca Raton’s new home will encompass 12,000 square feet of space on an acre and a half campus in Palm Beach County.

Rabbi Zalman Bukiet’s usually enthusiastic voice was even more filled with pride and excitement as he described his hopes for his South Florida congregation’s ambitious expansion plans. Having recently purchased $900,000 worth of land, Chabad-Lubavitch of West Boca Raton is setting out to build a permanent home in Palm Beach County.

Op-Ed: Rabbis Aren’t Always the Enemy

by Yaacov Behrman – Forward

Forcing rabbis to report abuse allegations, as Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes wants, may intimidate families into staying quiet.

All competent rabbinic authorities are in agreement that cases of child abuse should be reported to law enforcement. Agudath Israel of America nevertheless requires parents to obtain rabbinic permission before reporting abuse to authorities. Although in the overwhelming majority of cases, abuse allegations turn out to be accurate, there has been a minority of cases in which innocent individuals were wrongly charged with abuse crimes. These individuals were vindicated only after lengthy proceedings. Therefore, some rabbis feel that in a case where there are no witnesses to the abuse and there is only one victim, who is a minor, a rabbi should assess the validity of the allegations before the accusations are brought to the police.

Forbes Israel Ranks Israel’s Richest Rabbis

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Israel’s richest rabbi. Photo: Kikar Shabat.

Rabbi Pinchas Abuhatzeira, the great-grandson of the Babi Sali, is Israel’s richest rabbi, with an estimated fortune of NIS 1.3 billion, according to the “Forbes Israel’s” ranking of Israel’s ten richest rabbis. The magazine says that the social protest hurt the fortunes of the rabbis’ by greatly reducing their income from donations from tycoons.