Jews in Sports: CHOICES – The Bedrock of Life

by Yossi Goldstein and Yochonon Goldman

Life is full of options: Where we elect to go to school, send our kids to camp; Should we travel to a place where we can sun and surf, or hike and bike?

A decision we make at one stage in life will likely come full circle later on, as its impact on us is revealed.

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Shliach Makes the Navy Feel at Home

by Rabbi Levi Cunin – Malibu Patch

Not far from the shops and restaurants of Westwood Village is a veterans cemetery. So many people drive on the adjacent 405 Freeway and probably do not reflect that they pass near hallowed ground. I grew up across the street and I thought about these gravestones frequently. They represent great heroes who served our country.

Enthusiastic Chabad Article Boosts Givot’s Share Price

Globes Business – Israel

Givot Olam’s Megged 5 oil rig

An enthusiastic article about the Givot Olam Oil Exploration Company on an Israeli Chabad website sent the partnership’s share price up 6.3% by early afternoon today to NIS 0.068, giving a market cap of NIS 676 million. But some speculators are concerned the article may be a bit exaggerated.

New Gemara Project to be Launched at Chinuch Conference

Can students learn, understand and remember what they learned cumulatively, for weeks? Perhaps the best answer to that question resides with the master torah program. At the Kinus Hamechanchim Rabbi Meir Pagrow will teach the Melamdim how.

Letter Questions Whether Chabad is Jewish

In response to a full page ad taken out in the ‘Jewish Week’ by an unrecognized organization calling themselves “Kabbolas Hamalchus,” a reader – after first complimenting Chabad’s outreach efforts – goes on to attack the entire movement, comparing them to Jews for Jesus, and questioning whether they are Jewish altogether.

Forward March for the Rubashkins

“We’re not afraid of hard work.” Getzel and Meir Simcha Rubashkin acclimate to new venues in New York.

Over the past few years, images of the Rubashkin family have been freeze-framed in our consciousness: The meat plant. The raid. The living room. The courtroom scenes. The rallies…These scenes have been seared on our collective memory. The Rubashkins, though, have chosen to move forward. They’ve relocated and recalculated, adjusting the rhythm and routine of daily life to meet new challenges.