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VIN News
A Borough Park camp found a unique way to both entertain its campers and provide a service to the community by offering free car washes the day after Tisha B’Av.
Video: “Du Iz Shmitzik!” – Boro Park Day Camp Car Wash!
VIN News
A Borough Park camp found a unique way to both entertain its campers and provide a service to the community by offering free car washes the day after Tisha B’Av.
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.
Chabad Rabbis to Avrohom Fried: “Nothing Personal”
Arutz 7
Rav Yeshayahu Herzl, Chief Rabbi of Natzerat Illit, said Thursday that a flyer signed by Chabad rabbis against mixed-audience music performances was not directed against an upcoming show in Afula, located at the northwest corner of the Jezreel Valley, by singer Avraham Fried.
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.
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.
Psych Evaluation Finds Levi Aron Has “Disorder;” Daily News Slams Insanity Defense
NBC, Daily News
Leiby’s Funeral
A man charged with abducting, killing and dismembering an 8-year-old Brooklyn boy is confused and apathetic, a “practically blank” personality whose younger sister died while institutionalized with schizophrenia, according to a psychiatric evaluation obtained by The Associated Press.
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.
Op-Ed: Anti-Semitism Did Not Cause the ’91 Riots
by Jerome A. Chanes – The Jewish Week
‘Crown Heights was about ‘black anti-Semitism’!” Twenty years later, I still hear the trope.
Roving Rabbis to Come to Isle of Man
iomtoday.co.im
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.
Promising New Treatment Cures 3 Leukemia Patients
AP
Illustration Photo
Scientists are reporting the first clear success with a new approach for treating leukemia — turning the patients’ own blood cells into assassins that hunt and destroy their cancer cells.
New Engagement!
Avi Slutzkin (Johannesburg, SA) and Gavi Brenner (Milwaukee, WI)
Markham Chabad Branching Out
Canadian Jewish Tribune
Markham Deputy Mayor Frank Scarpitti, centre, accepts an award from Rabi Avraham Plotkin, left, and Richard Steyn, president of Chabad Lubavitch of Markham, as part of Chabad Lubavitch of Markham’s 18th anniversary celebration.
Chabad Lubavitch of Markham has launched a new branch in the Bayview-Steeles area, under the leadership of Rabbi Yehuda and Chayala Zarchi. Chabad decided to establish the new branch, which is on Laureleaf Road, in the hopes that it will attract the thousands of unaffiliated Jews who live along the Bayview corridor and serve as a centre where they can explore Jewish life.
From hatchery to hot dog, JTA shows you how a kosher chicken is raised, slaughtered and turned into lunch.
Video: The Life of a Kosher Chicken
From hatchery to hot dog, JTA shows you how a kosher chicken is raised, slaughtered and turned into lunch.
Voices from the Streets
The Jewish Week
Some of the players in the Crown Heights drama look back, in their own words:
Roving Rabbis Arrive in Idaho
CDA Press
Athol, with a population near 700 and at most a handful of Jews, is not high on the priority list of most Jewish organizations.
Hand-Crafted Candelabrum Welcomes Detroit-Area Worshippers
Engineer, inventor and entrepreneur Martin Abel presents the plans of his 16-foot candelabrum that he had built for The Shul in West Bloomfield, Mich., in honor of his 65th wedding anniversary.
Once lit, a single candle can be used ignite other lights in an endless number of places. But without that initial spark, that same candle cannot light even the smallest space.
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