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Beware of Giant Plant Which Can Cause Blindness
Department of Environmental Conservation
Giant Hogweed
State environmental officials are trying to nip a huge, dangerous plant in the bud.
New Torah Completed Two Years After Chabad House Robbery
On Gimmel Tammuz there was a Siyum Sefer Torah held for a Torah written in memory of Rabbi Tzvi Yosef Kotlarsky OBM by his children and grandchildren in conjunction with Chabad of Kenosha, Wisconsin.
Friendship Circle Directors Turn to Michigan Suburb Where it All Started
The Friendship Theater is part of the town mockup at the Weinberg Village in the Ferber Kaufman LifeTown center.
Friendship Circle International personnel from across the United States and Canada descended on the Detroit suburb of West Bloomfield, Mich., for the chance to inspire one another and strengthen efforts to increase awareness and acceptance of children with special needs.
Convention Explores New Ideas in Education
NORWALK, CT — More than 150 Torah educators from across the US, and from as far away as, Melbourne, Australia, Moscow, Russia, and S. Paulo Brazil, convened at the Dolce Conference Center in southern Connecticut earlier this week for a two-day conference on education.
New Engagement!
Berel Hassan (Wesley Hills, NY) and Shternie Stock (Crown Heights)
Are Airport Duty-Free Stores Still a Bargain?
USA Today
Duty-free shops were once a hidden gem in airports, with the best deals a country could offer.
Tenafly Chabad Seeks to Expand Facilities for 7th Time
The Record
Rabbi Mordechai Shain and his Chabad House in Tenafly, NJ
Lubavitch on the Palisades is preparing to seek expansion approvals, and history shows it’s gotten the routine down seamlessly, from passing municipal reviews to communicating with the community.
Baby Boy!
Shmuel and Raizel (nee Babushkin) Stange (Montreal, Canada)
Evidence Increasingly Against Cellphone Cancer Link
Reuters
Despite a recent move to classify mobile phones as possibly carcinogenic, the scientific evidence increasingly points away from a link between their use and brain tumors, according to a new study on Saturday.
Bloomberg: Perp Walks Are Outrageous
NY Post
Doing the perp walk, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), departs a New York Police Department precinct.
Mayor Bloomberg did a flip-flop in the direction of French critics who’ve denounced the NYPD’s “perp walk” of Dominique Strauss-Kahn by calling such public displays “outrageous” and a “circus.”
Chabad’s Youth Rabbi Reaches Out with Artwork
Warren Patch
Rabbi Yitzchok Moully, youth rabbi at the Chabad Jewish Center in Basking Ridge, wears many hats there: his responsibilities include the center’s Hebrew School, Bar and Bat Mitzvah training, and running the teen group.
Photos: Hundreds at Central Gimmel Tammuz Farbrengen
Hundreds of Anash and Bochurim packed into Beis Rivkah’s Rosa Hall in Campus Chomesh for a farbrengen marking the seventeenth Gimmel Tammuz.
Yeshiva Centre Marks Gimmel Tammuz
Photos by Mendel Moskovitz
Hundreds gathered this past Tuesday, Gimmel Tammuz, in the Yeshiva Centre in Sydney, Australia for a farbregen with a special guest – Rabbi Moshe Feller, Shliach in Minnesota.
Beis Medrash Farbrengs for Gimmel Tammuz
A sizable crowd joined the Beis Medrash for a Farbrengen marking Gimmel Tammuz with Rabbi Yehuda Leib Schapiro, Rosh Yeshiva of the Yeshiva Gedolah in Miami Beach.
Picture of the Night: R. Groner Farbrengs at Beis Shmuel
Cellphone photos sent in by a reader.
Rabbi Yehuda Leib Groner farbrenged at Beis Shmuel last night, in honor of Gimmel Tammuz.
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