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by Karen Schwartz - Chabad.org

Many of the vendors in gladiator gear around Rome’s Coloseum are actually Jewish.

As the sun’s rays start to play on Rome’s Coloseum, Mordechai Piazza Osep is setting up folding tables. It is not even 8:00 in the morning. Three men dressed in gladiator gear chat by the Metro entrance. The first batches of the day’s tourists are just starting to trickle in, posing for impossible shots of themselves against the massive stones. The gladiators are soon to become props in their classic “Rome-visit” photos.

The Jewish Gladiators of Rome

by Karen Schwartz – Chabad.org

Many of the vendors in gladiator gear around Rome’s Coloseum are actually Jewish.

As the sun’s rays start to play on Rome’s Coloseum, Mordechai Piazza Osep is setting up folding tables. It is not even 8:00 in the morning. Three men dressed in gladiator gear chat by the Metro entrance. The first batches of the day’s tourists are just starting to trickle in, posing for impossible shots of themselves against the massive stones. The gladiators are soon to become props in their classic “Rome-visit” photos.

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Maimon Kirschenbaum Responds: Negative Commenting Has to Stop

Dear Crownheights.info Readers:

As many of you have probably seen yesterday on this website, the NY Post ran an article about me and my business. The article certainly portrayed me and my business in a less than positive light. But I can live with that. My business is very controversial, and I have brought lawsuits against some very wealthy and powerful individuals. Therefore, it was no surprise when one of the defendants in my lawsuits succeeded in having a tabloid run a story about me containing many extreme exaggerations and misrepresentations regarding me and my motives, in an effort to clear his name in the press rather than in a courtroom, where law and reality govern. But the underlying merits of the article are not the subject of this letter.

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Bergen Record

A tradition of leaving the stove on during holidays in the Orthodox community is causing concern for some North Jersey fire officials who are trying to reach observant Jewish residents with a message about safety.

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Bergen Record

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In a TriBeCa Park, a Question of Law and a Religious Symbol

NY Times

Rabbi Zalman Paris and his wife, Chana, of Chabad of TriBeCa, which has asked for a permit for a sukkah in a small park.

Ralph Musolino unreeled his Stanley tape measure across the walkway of a small park in TriBeCa, marking off space for the construction of a Jewish ritual hut known as a sukkah, while Rabbi Zalman Paris, in auburn beard and tzitzit fringes, crouched nearby holding the tape’s other end.

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The tens of thousands who will be leaving Eretz Yisrael ahead of Rosh Hashanah began making their way to Ben-Gurion International Airport on Sunday morning (26 Elul), and the congestion was evident, especially flights to Kiev, impacting Breslov Chassidim. Organizers in Uman report that expect upwards of 35,000 mispallalim this year, many coming from Eretz Yisrael.

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