NYPD to Patrol Facebook and Twitter to Nab Criminals
Daily News
The NYPD has formed a new unit to track troublemakers who announce plans or brag about their crimes on Twitter, MySpace and Facebook.
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Roving Rabbis Knit Far-Flung People Together
Bismark Tribune
Yisroel Glick, left and Ephraim Carlebach visited Bismarck on Tuesday. Glick is originally from Australia and Carlebach is from Brooklyn, N.Y.
After four summers traveling the Midwest, the pair of Roving Rabbis have become accustomed to being mistaken for Amish, or Mennonites, or in the Dakotas, Hutterites.
(L-R) Rabbi Alan Green, Senior Rabbi at Shaarey Zedek and Rabbi Avrohom Altein, local Chabad Shliach.
A conservative synagogue and its senior rabbi touched off a heated discussion after Rabbi Alan Green and Shaarey Zedek introduced a proposal to bring interfaith burials into its cemetery. Local Shliach Rabbi Avrohom Altein along with several other community members with family buried at the cemetery took issue with this proposal, and Rabbi Greens contention that the “time has come to “embrace” intermarriage”.
Interfaith Burial an Issue in Winnipeg – Shliach Challenges
(L-R) Rabbi Alan Green, Senior Rabbi at Shaarey Zedek and Rabbi Avrohom Altein, local Chabad Shliach.
A conservative synagogue and its senior rabbi touched off a heated discussion after Rabbi Alan Green and Shaarey Zedek introduced a proposal to bring interfaith burials into its cemetery. Local Shliach Rabbi Avrohom Altein along with several other community members with family buried at the cemetery took issue with this proposal, and Rabbi Greens contention that the “time has come to “embrace” intermarriage”.
Lipa Schmeltzer – Leiby Forever.
NY Daily News
Hasidic singer Lipa Schmeltzer, also known as the ‘Jewish Elvis,’ is honoring Leiby Kletzky (below) with a seven-minute song called ‘Leiby Forever.’
A Hasidic singer will release Wednesday a tribute song and music video featuring home movies of a slain 8-year-old Brooklyn boy.
HOUSTON, TX [CHI] — In Houston for Shabbos, the Bike 4 Friendship cyclists met with Head Shliach to the state of Texas, Rabbi Shimon Lazaroff at an event Sunday Morning. A city proclamation from Mayor Annise Parker, acknowledging the bike team and their educational efforts, was read to the crowd.
Head Shliach of Texas meets with Bike 4 Friendship
HOUSTON, TX [CHI] — In Houston for Shabbos, the Bike 4 Friendship cyclists met with Head Shliach to the state of Texas, Rabbi Shimon Lazaroff at an event Sunday Morning. A city proclamation from Mayor Annise Parker, acknowledging the bike team and their educational efforts, was read to the crowd.
FBI launches iPhone App to Help Find Missing Children
Reuters
The FBI has launched a new app, its first mobile application, for parents to store and access pictures and other vital information about their children in case they ever go missing.
Australian Court’s Decision Sends Ripples Through Jewish Community
Chabad Lubavitch Retreat Center in North Shore, Sydney
An Australian environmental justice’s decision to invalidate some rezoning plans in New South Wales has downgraded Jewish institution’s property values, in some cases by millions of dollars.
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Levi Aron on Suicide Watch at Rikers
NBC
The man suspected of abducting and killing an 8-year-old boy who was walking home from day camp has been moved to Rikers Island and is on suicide watch, NBC New York has confirmed.
As London Burns, Riots Spread to Jewish Communities
JTA
While some Jews in London marked Tisha b’Av on Tuesday by lamenting the burning of the Holy Temples on that day some two millennia ago, other London Jews watched as their city burned amid widespread rioting.
Binyomin Abrams (l), Boston University (r).
Binyomin Abrams isn’t your typical university instructor.
Boston University Chemist Builds Bridges to Students
Binyomin Abrams (l), Boston University (r).
Binyomin Abrams isn’t your typical university instructor.
Audio: “Protecting Our Children, Making Safety Kids”
At this year’s Merkos Chinuch Office Teachers Conference one topic appealed to all, child safety. Presented by Mrs. Debbie Fox, all teachers sat riveted throughout the hour and a half lecture focusing on identifying the telltale signs of abuse.
CrownHeights.info presents the full audio of her lecture.
Photos: Eicha, Beans and Umbrellas at Oihel Nosson
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — Led by Rabbi Shua Brook, mispalelim of Oihel Nosson took to the floors and recited Eicha. Some made light and enthusiastically took to beaning each other, while others brought umbrellas for protection.
It Can Take 19 ..18..21..Years – An Incredible Encounter
Boston University, 1970s. An anguished father struggles for a way to bring his bright son back to Jewish observance.
CrownHeights.info and the Avner Institute presents a touching encounter, where the Rebbe urges that family ties—and patience—be maintained, in spite of level observance, and that in time Torah will prevail, with special thanks to Rabbi Mordechai Berkowitz.
Photos: Eicha at Itchke’s Shteibel
Led by Rabbi Chaim Fogelman the mispalelim of Itchkes Shteibel recited Eicha.
2,000 Year-Old Sketch of Menorah Found in Jerusalem
Arutz 7
The diagonal branches of the menorah in the sketch (center) seem to vindicate the Rebbe’s opinion that the menorah in the Beis Hamikdosh had straight branches as in the Rambam’s sketch (right), and not curved as usually depicted (left).
Exciting finds, including an intact Roman era sword and a stone “sketch” engraving of the Menorah, have been discovered in archeological digs near the Temple Mount recently, and the Antiquities Authority is making them known for Tisha B’Av – the anniversary of the Temple’s destruction.
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