Council Members Defend Shomrim

The Jewish Week

Several City Council members who bankroll volunteer patrol groups in Orthodox Brooklyn neighborhoods with their discretionary funds say they will continue to do so amid some recent criticism of how such groups operate.

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3 Sholom Zochors This Week!

Dovber and Brochie (nee Goldman) Segelman (Crown Heights)
860 Eastern Pkwy [between Kingston and Albany Ave]

Yossel and Mushka Gerlitzky
313 Crown St [between New York and Nostrand Ave]

Mendy and Nechama (nee Baras) Minsky
510 Crown St Apt 3E [between Kingston and Albany Ave]

Largest Jewish Camp Network in World Turns 55

Campers at the original Camp Gan Israel in upstate New York pose for a group picture in 1958.

In the spring of 1956, faculty of the central Chabad-Lubavitch grade-school yeshiva in New York, including its dean, Rabbi Chaim Meir Bukiet, sought a solution to the distinctly modern problem of summer vacation: They had no place to send their students to continue their studies during the summer months.

Rabbi YY Jacobson – Israel’s Significance Today

The state of Israel means many different things to different people. There are those that see it as an entirely political entity, those who believe its creation is an indication of the immanent redemption and even others who, while they see the physical land as holy, do not believe that the political state holds any spiritual significance.

Loan to Russian Museum Cancled over Chabad Archive

New York Times, Art Info

New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Metropolitan Museum of Art has canceled plans to loan items by fashion designer Paul Poiret to the Kremlin Museum, making that show the latest casualty in an ongoing legal and diplomatic dispute that has suspended Russian loans to American museums. The conflict centers on an archive of thousands of religious books and documents that has been held in Russia since World War II. Last August, a United States court ruled that the Brooklyn-based Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidic movement had rightful ownership to the trove, and Russia banned all exhibitions traveling to the United States in response.

Shomrim Kept Jewish Neighborhoods Safe During London Riots

Ynet

The Shomrim (“guardians”), a volunteer-based Jewish organization, has been keeping London’s Jewish neighborhoods safe in cooperation with the Scotland Yard for years. Now, with the riots in the British capital, their work has become doubly important.

Telling It Like It Wasn’t – The Crown Heights Riots

Ari L. Goldman – The Jewish Week

In iconic New York Post page one photo, Isaac Bitton lies injured on Crown Heights street with his son cowering next to him.

Former Times reporter looks back on coverage of the event, and what went wrong.

Twenty years ago next week, on the night of Aug. 19, 1991 — the night that Gavin Cato and Yankel Rosenbaum were killed — my editor called me at home to tell me that riots had broken out on the streets of Crown Heights. “We’re covered for tonight but I want you to start your day there tomorrow,” he said.

Roving Rabbis to Come to Isle of Man

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ROVING RABBIS: Rabbis Shimon Kivman (front) and Mendel Yaffee

Roving Rabbis Mendel Yaffee and Shimon Kivman are visiting the Isle of Man this week. The Roving Rabbi Project sends out rabbis and rabbinical students across the globe bringing Judaism or a helping hand to communities which either do or do not have a rabbi or a full ledger Jewish community.