Levi Aron, charged with first degree murder in the death of Leiby Kletzky, has pleaded not guilty.
Levi Aron Fit to Stand Trial; Pleads Not Guilty
Levi Aron, charged with first degree murder in the death of Leiby Kletzky, has pleaded not guilty.
Levi Aron, charged with first degree murder in the death of Leiby Kletzky, has pleaded not guilty.
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YU Study: DNA, Not Lifestyle, Is Key to Longevity
Jerusalem Post
Healthy centenarians lucky enough to have inherited “longevity genes” can thank their genetic makeup for their long lives. Unlike everybody else, they didn’t have to watch their diet, exercise daily or avoid alcohol to reach that age. They didn’t even have to stop smoking – although tobacco use would certainly harm their descendants.
Video: Rabbi Dr. J. Immanuel Schochet — What is Faith?
Watch this brilliant clip to learn what real faith is all about. It’s not blind belief and acceptance of information or values. Rabbi Dr. J. Immanuel Schochet illuminates the fundamental connection between faith and knowledge. True faith that is rooted in knowledge is exhibited in a person who synthesizes information and allows the logical consequences of this reality to have an affect on the way he or she lives.
Modesty Helps Women Be Friends
by Jennifer Fulwiler – NC Register
One of the things I’ve found most refreshing about religious culture is the understanding of the importance of modesty. Though each woman may have different ideas about exactly what it means to be modest, there is a general agreement that putting forth some level of conscious effort to avoid looking like a backup dancer in a Snoop Dogg video is a good thing. And it’s fascinating to see the effect that it has on women’s interactions with one another.
Baby Girl!
Yisroel Meir and Bassie (nee Butman) Munitz (Buffalo, NY)
Baby Boy!
Nochum and Chana Brocha Weisfish (Crown Heights)
Op-Ed: Counselors, Please Stop Scar(r)ing Our Kids
First of all, I would like to genuinely thank all the staff that have helped my son grow tremendously in Gashmiyos and especially in Ruchniyos over the first part of the summer. My son has really gained a lot and has noticably excelled and matured of the short four weeks he spent at camp. There is one thing however I would like to address:
Flanked by Chabad-Lubavitch Rabbis Shmuel Segal, left, Yehuda Tiechtel, and two local Israelis expatriates, Israeli Chief Rabbi Yonah Metzger helps inaugurate the new Chabad-Lubavitch Israeli Center in Berlin.
Israelis visiting and living in the fastest growing section of Berlin now have a synagogue to call their own. Since its doors officially opened last month, the new Chabad-Lubavitch Israeli Center has attracted more than 100 locals and tourists to Sabbath services and affiliated programs.
Israelis in Berlin Finally Have a Synagogue of Their Own
Flanked by Chabad-Lubavitch Rabbis Shmuel Segal, left, Yehuda Tiechtel, and two local Israelis expatriates, Israeli Chief Rabbi Yonah Metzger helps inaugurate the new Chabad-Lubavitch Israeli Center in Berlin.
Israelis visiting and living in the fastest growing section of Berlin now have a synagogue to call their own. Since its doors officially opened last month, the new Chabad-Lubavitch Israeli Center has attracted more than 100 locals and tourists to Sabbath services and affiliated programs.
Chabad Expanding in the Former Soviet Union
by Tamar Runyan – Chabad.org
Over the coming year, 20 new Chabad-Lubavitch emissary families will take up residence in former Soviet countries, a committee of leaders announced in a dispatch from the annual conference of Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries to the former Soviet Union.
Police block off Nostrand Aveune. Inset: a makeshift memorial at the scene of the murder.
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — Traditionally, the first Tuesday of August is known as the National Night out against Crime, a night where residents come out of their homes and together with police ‘take back the streets’ from crime. This year it wasn’t so in 71st Precinct where a man was shot dead on Carroll Street and a Jew was attacked on Crown Street.
Bloody ‘Night Out Against Crime’ in Crown Heights
Police block off Nostrand Aveune. Inset: a makeshift memorial at the scene of the murder.
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — Traditionally, the first Tuesday of August is known as the National Night out against Crime, a night where residents come out of their homes and together with police ‘take back the streets’ from crime. This year it wasn’t so in 71st Precinct where a man was shot dead on Carroll Street and a Jew was attacked on Crown Street.
Dnepropetrovsk sofer Reb Reuven Margolin
The United Jewish Community of Ukraine bestowed its “International Award” on Chabad-Lubavitch Rabbi Reuven Margolin of the National Scribal Center in Dnepropetrovsk in recognition for his work on restoring two centuries-old Torah scrolls and saving them from an almost certain burial.
Ukraine Scribe Lauded for Torah Restorations
Dnepropetrovsk sofer Reb Reuven Margolin
The United Jewish Community of Ukraine bestowed its “International Award” on Chabad-Lubavitch Rabbi Reuven Margolin of the National Scribal Center in Dnepropetrovsk in recognition for his work on restoring two centuries-old Torah scrolls and saving them from an almost certain burial.
All B”H Safe as Grad Rockets Rain on Kiryat Gat
Shturem
One day before the Tmimim of Tomchei Tmimim Yeshiva Ketana in Kiryat Gat leave for Bein Hazmanim, the tranquil city was shaken by a barrage of Grad rockets shot from Gaza. B”H there were no reports of injuries or damages to property.
Live Siyum for the 9 Days at 7:30
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Washington State Upholds Legality of Shchita
JTA
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A Washington state appellate court ruled against an animal protection group’s bid to strike down as unconstitutional a law protecting religious slaughter.
All-Stars Clash: Canada Evens Up Vs America
Photos by Dovid Steinahuser
On a bright beautiful Sunday, July 24 the Crown Heights Softball All Stars met the Canadian Softball All Stars in Syracuse, NY to have their annual softball tournament. Canada dominated the New York team in the first game, winning 12 – 0, and swept New York in the following two.
by Mindy Rubenstein - Chabad.org
Illustration photo: A S. Francisco group opposed to circumcision tried to outlaw the practice by bringing the question up for a referendum.
A proposed ban on circumcision failed a legal test Thursday as a S. Francisco judge, ruling that the initiative conflicted with a state law prohibiting local governments from regulating doctors, struck the item from the upcoming municipal ballot.
City’s Defense of Jewish Community a Factor as Circumcision Ban Falls
by Mindy Rubenstein – Chabad.org
Illustration photo: A S. Francisco group opposed to circumcision tried to outlaw the practice by bringing the question up for a referendum.
A proposed ban on circumcision failed a legal test Thursday as a S. Francisco judge, ruling that the initiative conflicted with a state law prohibiting local governments from regulating doctors, struck the item from the upcoming municipal ballot.
New York Loses 1.6 Million Residents
NY Post
Taxed-out New Yorkers are voting with their feet, with a staggering 1.6 million residents fleeing the state over the last decade, a new report found.
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