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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.

The Seven Most Powerful Teachings in Judaism

by Rabbi Chaim Miller

Featured on the religeon page of the Huffington Post: Aug. 9 this year marks the saddest day on the Jewish calendar (Tisha b’Av) when the Holy Temple in Jerusalem was destroyed. But however much the Jews have been battered throughout history, they always seemed to bounce back. Here are the seven most powerful ideas in Judaism that have catalyzed Jewish renewal, time and time again. I’ll teach you how you can apply them to your life.

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.

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.