Bill Passed to Make Kindergarten Mandatory in NYC
AP
Kindergarten would become mandatory for all 5-year-olds in New York City under a bill passed this week by state lawmakers.
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Eber’s Tishrei Sale
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Op-Ed: Preventing Child Abuse at Summer Camp
by Anonymous
In the next few days, our children will pack up their clothes, bedding and favorite pillows and head off to summer camp. Most will return home with wonderful memories of new friends and fun filled days. Some will return home with devastating memories that will last a lifetime – memories of being abused.
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Shluchim Meet with Washington D.C. Officials
JTA
Congressional leaders and top Obama administration officials met with representatives of Chabad-Lubavitch, lead by Rabbi Avrohom Shemtov.
Muslim Brotherhood Wins Egyptian Presidency
Mohamed Morsi, a member of the Muslim Brotherhood – of which Hamas is an offshoot, was declared the new president of Egypt on Sunday, following the first democratic election in Egypt’s history.
Elie Wiesel, one of the most passionate Jewish voices of our time, enjoyed an enduring correspondence and personal relationship with the Lubavitcher Rebbe. An avid student, a sought after teacher, survivor of Auschwitz and Buchenwald, Wiesel is the author of numerous related books, among them the bestselling Night, the first in a trilogy about his life in the concentration camps. Recipient of many literary awards and honorary degrees, Mr. Wiesel, a professor at Boston University, spoke with Baila Olidort.
In Conversation with Nobel Prize Winner Elie Wiesel
Elie Wiesel, one of the most passionate Jewish voices of our time, enjoyed an enduring correspondence and personal relationship with the Lubavitcher Rebbe. An avid student, a sought after teacher, survivor of Auschwitz and Buchenwald, Wiesel is the author of numerous related books, among them the bestselling Night, the first in a trilogy about his life in the concentration camps. Recipient of many literary awards and honorary degrees, Mr. Wiesel, a professor at Boston University, spoke with Baila Olidort.
91-Year-Old Puts on Teffilin for First Time
Junior Shluchim Shaina and Dovid Gutnick went along with their father to give out Shabbos candles and put on teffilin with other Jews in honor of Gimmel Tammuz in Boca Raton, FL. One man they met was 91 years old, and had never put on teffilin before, so they celebrated his Bar-Mitzvah right in the middle of Costco!
From the day he first met the Rebbe in 1959, Reb Zalmon Jaffe, OBM, dedicated his life to use every opportunity to make the Rebbe happy and to serve as the Rebbe’s Public-Relations man in England.
Personal Correspondence Between the Rebbe and Reb Zalmon Jaffe Published Online
From the day he first met the Rebbe in 1959, Reb Zalmon Jaffe, OBM, dedicated his life to use every opportunity to make the Rebbe happy and to serve as the Rebbe’s Public-Relations man in England.
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Video: When the Rebbe Diffused My Tantrum
Torah Café
Rabbi Yizchok Schochet of London’s Mill Hill Synagogue talks about the weekly custom of his father, Rabbi Jacob Immanuel Schochet, to place his hands upon his head and bless him, and why this caused him to throw a tantrum in the Rebbe’s room as a little boy.
Rabbis Avraham and Yirmi Berkowitz speak with the Turkish Prime Minister.
Two Chabad rabbis encountered Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan at the Rio+20 UN Conference on Sustainable Development, and asked him to “protect Jewish people living in Turkey,” according to Turkish state-run news agency Anatolia.
Turkish Prime Minister: Jews Safe in My Country
Rabbis Avraham and Yirmi Berkowitz speak with the Turkish Prime Minister.
Two Chabad rabbis encountered Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan at the Rio+20 UN Conference on Sustainable Development, and asked him to “protect Jewish people living in Turkey,” according to Turkish state-run news agency Anatolia.
In addition to each individual's personal Pan that they would write and read at the graveside of our Rebbe, it is a custom, practiced for many years, for everyone to get together and write a ‘general’ Pan, signed by all participating Chassidim. The Pan was read at the Rebbe's Tziyun by Rabbi Avrohom Shemtov with tears and a cracked voice.
Photos: Pan Kloli Read at the Ohel
In addition to each individual’s personal Pan that they would write and read at the graveside of our Rebbe, it is a custom, practiced for many years, for everyone to get together and write a ‘general’ Pan, signed by all participating Chassidim. The Pan was read at the Rebbe’s Tziyun by Rabbi Avrohom Shemtov with tears and a cracked voice.
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Chaim and Dina Seewald (Crown Heights)
D.A. Hynes Keeps Pledge, Arrests 4 for Intimidation
NY Times
Charles J. Hynes, the Brooklyn district attorney, announcing the charges, which he said he hoped would “be a message.”
The Brooklyn district attorney, facing a wave of public criticism about his handling of abuse allegations in the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community, on Thursday charged four men with attempting to silence an accuser by offering her and her boyfriend a $500,000 bribe, and threatening her boyfriend’s business.
The students of Yeshivas Lubavitch of Manchester, UK do Mivtzoim, reach out to Jews of all backgrounds and inspire hundreds, following the vision of the Lubavitcher Rebbe.
Video: Inspiring a Future
The students of Yeshivas Lubavitch of Manchester, UK do Mivtzoim, reach out to Jews of all backgrounds and inspire hundreds, following the vision of the Lubavitcher Rebbe.
Torah to Be Written in Memory of Mrs. Itta Spitezki
This Sunday, 4th of Tammuz, at 4:00pm, family and friends will join together at Shain’s Shul (390 Kingston Ave.) to begin a Sefer Torah in honor and memory of Mrs. Itta Feiga Spitezki, OBM, in conjunction with her tenth yahrtzeit. Mrs. Spitezki was a longtime Shlucha of the Rebbe in Brussels, Belgium.
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