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Op-Ed: The Growing Anti-Jewish Hate

by C. W.

The official name was called anti-Semitism, before that it was called anti-Judaism, but those names seem so vile. The present name is ant-Zionism. But they all mean the same, hate of the Jewish people as a whole.

New Engagement!

Shmuel Rothstein (Baltimore, MD) and Chasi Weinstein (Pittsburgh, PA)

L’chaim will be tonight, Sunday at Empire Shtiebel
489 Empire Blvd. [between Brooklyn and New York Ave.] at 8:30 PM

“We Can Differentiate Between Black and White Hats”

Globe and Mail

The Foreign Minister in the central synagogue in Kfar Chabad

Everywhere he went in Israel this week, Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird would say: “Israel has no greater friend in the world than Canada.” So much so that Israeli Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz joked at a reception for the Canadians Thursday night: “I think Canada’s an even better friend of Israel than we [Israelis] are.”

Torah in 10 Unveils New “Friday Night Companion”

CrownHeights.info and Kol Menachem is happy to present the first class in a new “Torah in Ten” series on “The Journey of Shabbos.”

These classes are based on the new “Lifestyle” Friday Night Prayer Companion that was released last month. In this class Rabbi Miller gives a personal insight into why he wrote this companion, as well as insights into the mystical meaning of the Shabbos candles.

Reb Zalman Posner Relates Anecdotes of Early Years

Reb Zalman Posner farbrengs.

In honor of Yud Shvat, the Avner Institute presents a charming collection of anecdotes from Rabbi Zalman Posner, who was one of the first students of the American-based Lubavitcher Yeshiva established in 1940 by the Previous Rebbe, and who, for 45 years, served as Chabad emissary in Nashville, TN.

Blog: The Red Devil

by Matthew Shaer – Forward

Rabbi Israel Shemtov talks to the press during the 1991 Crown Heights riots.

In December, not long after “Among Righteous Men” was published, I returned to Crown Heights. The evening was unseasonably warm, and I walked east from my apartment, past the lip of Prospect Park, and down the undulating clamor of Eastern Parkway, my hands in my pockets. The neighborhood, where I had spent so many months reporting — some happy, some not — appeared largely unchanged.

Info to Be Menachem Avel the Simpson Family

The Simpson family is sitting Shiva after the passing of their father, R’ Aron OBM, at 900 E. 24 St. [corner Ave. I] in Flatbush until Monday morning. Mrs. Goldman is sitting shiva at her home, 820 Montgomery St. [between Albany and Troy Ave.].

Hamakom Yenachem Eschem Besoch She’ar Aveilei Tzion VeYerushalayim