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In the 1890s, Russian Jews fleeing anti-Semitic violence and discrimination arrived by the thousands to a remote corner of the Argentine Pampas. They founded hamlets similar to the shtetls they left behind. They spoke Yiddish, built synagogues and traditional Jewish schools — and became farmers and gauchos, the mythical Argentine cowboys.

Argentina’s Jewish ‘Shtetls’ Keep Traditions Alive

NPR

In the 1890s, Russian Jews fleeing anti-Semitic violence and discrimination arrived by the thousands to a remote corner of the Argentine Pampas. They founded hamlets similar to the shtetls they left behind. They spoke Yiddish, built synagogues and traditional Jewish schools — and became farmers and gauchos, the mythical Argentine cowboys.

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Leshawn Reyes, 7, plays in front of his apartment building on President Street - the same building where Gavin Cato once lived twenty years ago.

Twenty years after riots erupted between blacks and Jews in Crown Heights, newcomers — including hipsters, Latinos and Asians — are calming old racial divisions.

20 Years Later, the Healing Continues

Daily News

Leshawn Reyes, 7, plays in front of his apartment building on President Street – the same building where Gavin Cato once lived twenty years ago.

Twenty years after riots erupted between blacks and Jews in Crown Heights, newcomers — including hipsters, Latinos and Asians — are calming old racial divisions.

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Jews and Politics: Can the Downgrade of the US Credit Spell Chaos for Our Nation?

by Avi Lesches

“The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him/her to hold in higher esteem those who think alike then those who think differently.” (Friedrich Nietzsche)

Chaos, anarchy and bloodshed have engulfed London; it’s one of the worst outbreaks of violence that London has seen in a very long time. The riots are not happening in the slums or poor sections of the city, rather in upper and middle class neighborhoods. Who are these rioters? Young teens, college kids and young adults. Many of them are gang members and troubled teens who are looking to lash out against a society that has promised them so much, yet in the end has left them with nothing.

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Jews in Sports: Humble Beginnings to Bright Future

by Yossi Goldstein and Yochonon Goldman

Dani Cole and Zevi Steinhauser, commissioners of the Crown Heights Softball League.

It had to happen that Yaffa Wigs, Advantage Wholesale Supply, Landmark Funding Group and softball would all be mentioned in one breath. It was only a matter of time.

True to our Jewish heritage of small beginnings, perseverance and continuum, the Crown Heights Softball League too has flourished since its inception in 2004, originating under the “Kloppers League” banner.

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Parliament Puts Menorah on Permanent Display

by Joshua Runyan – Chabad.org

New South Wales Legislative Council President Don Harwin, left, Legislative Assemply Speaker Shelley Hancock, MP Victor Dominello and Opposition Leader John Robertson unveil a permanent display of Parliament’s silver menorah at Parkes Room in Sydney.

New South Wales, Australia — State legislative leaders from both the majority and opposition parties unveiled a permanent display for the Parliament of New South Wales’ prized silver Chanukah menorah.

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Ynet

Gunmen abducted an American Jew after breaking into his house in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore on Saturday in an unusually brazen raid that illustrated the threat to foreigners in this militancy-wracked, US-allied country.

American Jew Abducted in Pakistan

Ynet

Gunmen abducted an American Jew after breaking into his house in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore on Saturday in an unusually brazen raid that illustrated the threat to foreigners in this militancy-wracked, US-allied country.

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by Dovid Zaklikowski - Chabad.org

Hugh Carey, right, meets with the Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, of righteous memory, in the early 1970s. LEFT: NY State Assemblyman Howard Lasher, Gov. Hugh Carey, and Rabbi Yisroel and Rochel Rubin mark the signing of a proclamation declaring Lubavitch Month in 1975. (Photo: Menachem Wolff Collection/Lubavitch Archives)

As former New York Gov. Hugh Carey was being interred Thursday in Shelter Island, Rabbi Yisroel Rubin recalled the man as an effectual leader whose dedication to the citizens of the Empire State served as a lesson in public service.

Shliach Recalls Governor’s Style of Public Service

by Dovid Zaklikowski – Chabad.org

Hugh Carey, right, meets with the Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, of righteous memory, in the early 1970s. LEFT: NY State Assemblyman Howard Lasher, Gov. Hugh Carey, and Rabbi Yisroel and Rochel Rubin mark the signing of a proclamation declaring Lubavitch Month in 1975. (Photo: Menachem Wolff Collection/Lubavitch Archives)

As former New York Gov. Hugh Carey was being interred Thursday in Shelter Island, Rabbi Yisroel Rubin recalled the man as an effectual leader whose dedication to the citizens of the Empire State served as a lesson in public service.

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