Jewish Groups Get 97% of Federal Security Funds

Jewish Week

Chabad houses, yeshivas, organizational headquarters and even a mikveh in the New York area are among the beneficiaries of $9.7 million in funds allocated by the Department of Homeland Security for Jewish organizations and facilities considered vulnerable to terrorist attacks.

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Prisoner Admits Was Voice Behind Chabad Attack

In this Friday, June 29, 2012 photo, Delhi police officers escort Syed Zabiuddin Ansari, face covered, out from a government hospital after a medical check up in New Delhi, India.

The voice had long haunted Indian police investigating Mumbai’s deadly 2008 terrorist attack. They had repeatedly listened to a tape of cell phone intercepts containing chilling words from one of the men guiding 10 terrorists through the gun-blazing rampage that killed 166 people in India’s financial capital. “Pass this message to the media—`This is just the trailer; the real film is yet to come,’” the voice said.

Sending Special Help Westward

Rabbi and Mrs. Shlomo and Aliza Menkes with Dr. Daniel Shabani.

Yaldei Shluchei HaRebbe, Merkos Suite 302’s organization that assists shluchim families who have children with special needs, inaugurated its newly formed West Coast chapter with its very first local event on the night of Rosh Chodesh Tammuz.

London Court Dismisses Lawsuit Against Leviev

Jerusalem Post

Lev Leviev speaks at a regional Kinus Hashluchim in the former Soviet Union.

Russian-born Israeli businessman Arcadi Gaydamak has lost a case in London’s High Court against Bukharan-Israeli billionaire Lev Leviev that centered on profits from the Angolan diamond industry.

Children with Special Needs Work, Learn at Cafe

South Florida Local 10

Dov Cattan, 11, greets customers at Friendship Circle Cafe.

Brushing up on dealing with others and finding their way around the kitchen are part of the mission of the Friendship Circle Cafe in Deerfield Beach, FL, where almost two-dozen children with Down syndrome or autism spectrum disorders are learning by doing.