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Are You Having a Hard Time Motivating Your Campers?

After three years of successful programming in Chabad schools worldwide, Tzivos Hashem constantly get requests from shluchim to use the Chayolai Tzivos Hashem program in camps and Hebrew schools. This year ten camps are eagerly piloting the new system.

Dodgers Coming Back to Brooklyn? Fuhgeddaboudit!

Journal Inquirer

With the Los Angeles Dodgers filing for reorganizational bankruptcy, some people, encouraged particularly by the New York Sun, are musing about returning the baseball team to Brooklyn, where it was central to the identity of the working-class borough, smashed racism with the hiring of Jackie Robinson and other great black players, and contributed the best part of the golden age of New York baseball.

Inspiration for 3 Tammuz

With Gimmel Tammuz coming, many of us are searching for ways in which we can prepare ourselves for the day. In the newest edition of the JEM Farbrengen Club, viewers can receive inspiration directly from the Rebbe.

Daily Kosher Meals Coming to University of Florida

University of Florida undergrads enjoy a kosher meal at the Tabacinic Lubavitch-Chabad Jewish Student & Community Center in Gainesville.

An 18-wheeler semi frequently pulls up in front of the Tabacinic Lubavitch-Chabad Jewish Student & Community Center at the University of Florida, delivering massive amounts of kosher food. During the school year, Rabbi Berl and Chanie Goldman serve upwards of 400 students for Sabbath dinner – that number drops to about 150 each week during the summer – and their weekly Café Chabad draws between 30 and 60 students every Tuesday night.

Working and Still Getting Unemployment Benefits? The Feds are Coming After You

AP

A nationwide crackdown is coming for people fraudulently drawing unemployment payments — those who were never eligible and workers who keep getting checks after they return to work — a $17 billion benefits swindle last year alone, say federal officials.

Camel Double Take in Skokie

Skokie Patch

Toddlers from Junior Gan Israel Day Camp rode the camel four at a time.

Drivers passing by East Prairie Public School may have done a double take on Tuesday: A 400-pound camel was walking in circles near the building’s field.

NEW COLUMN: Jews and Politics: Why Vote?

by Avi Lesches

“Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.” (John Quincy Adams)

Today, John Huntsman officially announced that he will be adding his name to the list of promising candidates who are competing to replace President Obama. The question is – why should this concern me as a frum Jew?

JTA Wires Report on 28 Sivan Commemorations

The Jewish Telegraphic Agency, one of the most trusted sources of Jewish news worldwide – and referred to by many as the ‘Jewish Associated Press,’ wired a report on the commemoration of the Rebbe’s arrival in America 70 years ago on 28 Sivan – a previously little known date outside the Lubavitch community.