Prison Chaplains Gather at the Aleph Institute
Over fifty men and women who serve as Rabbis and mentors in the federal, state and local prisons gathered for the annual conference at the Aleph Institute in Pittsburgh.
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Shabbos at Besht: Where is Lubavitch Headed?
This Shabbos at the Besht, Rabbi Chaim Shochet will lead a discussion titled ’18 Years After Gimel Tammuz, Where Is Lubavitch Headed?’ On Motzei Shabbos, Rabbi Chaim Dalfin will give a lecture on ‘Who’s Who in Lubavitch: Rabbi Mendel Futerfas.’
Bloomberg Compares Forgetting to Move Your Car to Murdering Your Parents
Politicker
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg
Mayor Bloomberg was asked about New York City’s unpopular sanitation parking stickers during his weekly appearance on John Gambling’s WOR radio show today. A Brooklyn councilman has introduced a bill that would ban the stickers, which are placed on cars that violate alternate side parking rules and are incredibly difficult to remove, but Mayor Bloomberg told Mr. Gambling he supports the stickers and he compared people who break the rules to someone murdering their parents and not understanding why they have to go to jail.
Sholom Rubashkin's appeal to the Federal 8th circuit for a new trial was denied yesterday. His only legal recourse now is to appeal to the United States supreme court within 90 days, which his lawyers plan to do. The Supreme Court almost never agrees to hear criminal cases if there is no major constitutional question involved.
Rubashkin Appeal Denied by 8th Circuit
Sholom Rubashkin’s appeal to the Federal 8th circuit for a new trial was denied yesterday. His only legal recourse now is to appeal to the United States supreme court within 90 days, which his lawyers plan to do. The Supreme Court almost never agrees to hear criminal cases if there is no major constitutional question involved.
British Government Wants to Regulate Bris Milah
Jewish Chronicle
There are fears that Jewish circumcision in the UK could be regulated by NHS bodies for the first time, following a move to curb malpractice in other ethnic groups.
Report: U.K. & U.S. Drawing Up Plan to Attack Iran
Daily Mail
The UK and U.S. are drawing up plans to attack Iran amid growing tensions in the Middle East, it was claimed last night.
Baby Boy!
Enan and Gitty (nee Silver) Francis (New Haven, CT)
Sholom Zochor will be at 3 West Rock Ave.
New Engagement!
Yanky (Ben R’ Moshe) Scheinfeld (Crown Heights) and Malky Kaler (Baltimore, MD)
Weekly Unique Photos of the Rebbe!
CrownHeights.info and the Avner Institute presents a series of Photos of Rabbi Zalman Jaffe A”H and one of his grandchildren with the Rebbe, in the upstairs Shul in 770.
Remembering Rabbi Aaron Chitrik, 73
Rabbi Aaron Chitrik with his fiancee, Slava Kahan, shortly after his engagement in 1961.
Rabbi Aaron Chitrik, a renowned expert on Hebrew manuscripts, tasked with preparing and annotating some 300 volumes of archival documents from Chabad’s Central Library, passed away on Thursday, October 27th. He was 73.
New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman was met with open hostility as he addressed students at Yale last week. The Pulitzer Prize winning author delivered a talk entitled ‘how America fell behind’ where he discussed his new book on foreign policy, co-authored by Michael Mandelbaum.
Chabad Rabbi Protests Thomas Friedman at Yale
New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman was met with open hostility as he addressed students at Yale last week. The Pulitzer Prize winning author delivered a talk entitled ‘how America fell behind’ where he discussed his new book on foreign policy, co-authored by Michael Mandelbaum.
by Yochanan Gordon
A brother-in-law of mine residing in Crown Heights sent me an op-ed published on Crownheights.info entitled ‘Chabad Lite.’ In it, the author bemoans the spiraling state of altruistic Chassidic values which is widespread amongst many of today’s youth specifically in Lubavitch circles. It seems, in the words of the author, that people choose for one reason or another to identify with Lubavitch but are not prepared to hold themselves accountable and continuously refine their character and connection to the Rebbe’s ideals as old world Chassidim did.
Op-Ed Response: Organic Chabad
by Yochanan Gordon
A brother-in-law of mine residing in Crown Heights sent me an op-ed published on Crownheights.info entitled ‘Chabad Lite.’ In it, the author bemoans the spiraling state of altruistic Chassidic values which is widespread amongst many of today’s youth specifically in Lubavitch circles. It seems, in the words of the author, that people choose for one reason or another to identify with Lubavitch but are not prepared to hold themselves accountable and continuously refine their character and connection to the Rebbe’s ideals as old world Chassidim did.
Thousands of Mancs Celebrate with L’Chaim-Chabad
Fire Juggling Performace at the Grand Family Simchas Beis Hashoeva
It would be close to impossible to choose a highlight from L’Chaim Chabad’s myriad of High Holiday programmes. From youth parties, to senior events, services and feasts to classes and celebrations, thousands of Manchester residents enjoyed dozens of Holiday programmes.
L.A. Diamond Daveners Hold Presidential Election
Presidential Team with former Governer Arnold Schwarzenegger in Sacramento, Capitol of California.
This Motzei Shabbos Parshas Lech Lecha, close to 150 boys and girls of Anash families in Los Angeles will gather to elect their Presidential Officials and Secretary of State as they cast their ballots during an evening of Presidential Debates. As in the past 10 years, each year the Mispallelim and Mispallelos of Kol Yakov Yehuda, the Rebbe’s Diamond Daveners of Los Angeles, choose a few of their own to lead their Jr. Congregation – the Shul for the kids, by the Kids.
A nationwide survey of the American people released today by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) found that anti-Semitic attitudes have risen slightly in America, demonstrating once again that “anti-Semitic beliefs continue to hold a vicegrip” on a small but not insubstantial segment of America.
ADL: Anti-Semitism on the Rise in America
A nationwide survey of the American people released today by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) found that anti-Semitic attitudes have risen slightly in America, demonstrating once again that “anti-Semitic beliefs continue to hold a vicegrip” on a small but not insubstantial segment of America.
Experts Say N.Y. Police Dept. Isn’t Policing Itself
NY Times
Raymond W. Kelly, left, New York City Police Commissioner, and Chief Charles V. Campisi, head of the department’s Internal Affairs Bureau.
Seven narcotics investigators are convicted of planting drugs on people to meet arrest quotas. Eight current and former patrol officers are charged with smuggling guns into the state. Another is charged with making a false arrest, apparently as a favor for his cousin. Three more are convicted of robbing a perfume warehouse.
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