Shavuot: A Learn-A-Thon at the Besht
As is customary we stay awake and learn the entire first night of Shavuot, the Besht and Beis Shimshon put together a special set of though provoking and interesting Shiurim to run throughout the night.-
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Photos by Berale Shainer
The thought of spending your summer vacation studying and learning is something almost any college student would pass on. Yet for a select group of 80 university students, this is exactly their itinerary.
Gallery: Students Explore the Holy Land with ‘IsraeLinks’
Photos by Berale Shainer
The thought of spending your summer vacation studying and learning is something almost any college student would pass on. Yet for a select group of 80 university students, this is exactly their itinerary.
NY Times
When New Yorkers head underground, they cannot always be sure of what awaits them. The city’s subway system can be mysterious, with daily delays resulting from minor emergencies, track work and other events in the tunnels that riders know they will never truly understand.
NYC to Use Phone Data to Track Public Services
NY Times
When New Yorkers head underground, they cannot always be sure of what awaits them. The city’s subway system can be mysterious, with daily delays resulting from minor emergencies, track work and other events in the tunnels that riders know they will never truly understand.
Vacaville Valedictorian’s Speech Saved
Contra Costa Times
Vacaville High School Valedictorian Carolyn Fine is observing the Jewish holiday of Shavuot on graduation day, and will not be using electricity. Not only will she be walking to the ceremony, her speech is prerecorded and will be played during the event. Photo: Rick Roach, The Reporter.
In observance of the Jewish holiday of Shavuot, 18-year-old Carolyn Fine will not use electricity, even that which powers the microphone. Nor will she ride in a car to her graduation; instead, she’ll walk to the ceremony.
Confirmed: Dead Pakistani Al-Qaeda Operative Deliberately Targeted Indian Chabad Houses
Indian Express
Kashmiri, according to investigators, was responsible for ordering attacks on Chabad Houses in India.
The letter rogatory sent to Pakistan in connection with the 26/11 Mumbai terror attack has described Ilyas Kashmiri as one of the accused behind the attack who was planning more such attacks on India. Kashmiri was reported to have been killed in a US drone strike in South Waziristan tribal region. Many believed that Kashmiri was going to be the new face of al-Qaeda after Osama’s death.
Not Just Any Door – Aliya Entrance Dedicated
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — For some of our wandering youth the door to Aliya isn’t just a door, it’s an entrance to a place that will accept them no matter what, at any time of day or night and for some it can be the last place for them to go. This is the significance behind the dedication of the new door by Shaya Gordon.
WOAI
San Antonio's Jewish community on Sunday celebrated the arrival of a new, Torah scroll.
SA Jewish Community Celebrates New Torah Scroll
WOAI
San Antonio’s Jewish community on Sunday celebrated the arrival of a new, Torah scroll.
In honor of Shavuot, JLI and TorahCafe.com are proud to bring you our Shavuot Webcast entitled: From Sinai to Cyberspace. With an introductory montage of Rabbi Adin Even-Israel Steinsaltz, Chief Rabbi Sir Jonathan Sacks and Chief Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau, From Sinai to Cyberspace is a perfect piece to share with your friends and family this Shavuot to offer them a fresh look with unique approaches to how they can bring a little bit more Torah into their lives.
Video: From Sinai to Cyberspace
In honor of Shavuot, JLI and TorahCafe.com are proud to bring you our Shavuot Webcast entitled: From Sinai to Cyberspace. With an introductory montage of Rabbi Adin Even-Israel Steinsaltz, Chief Rabbi Sir Jonathan Sacks and Chief Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau, From Sinai to Cyberspace is a perfect piece to share with your friends and family this Shavuot to offer them a fresh look with unique approaches to how they can bring a little bit more Torah into their lives.
A Jewish wedding underway in Dnepropetrovsk is uniting two families whose patriarchs were once considered dissidents by the very government that now embraces the religious revival taking place throughout Ukraine’s third-largest city.
Historic Ukrainian Wedding Pairs Soviet Dissidents’ Great-Grandchildren
A Jewish wedding underway in Dnepropetrovsk is uniting two families whose patriarchs were once considered dissidents by the very government that now embraces the religious revival taking place throughout Ukraine’s third-largest city.
Twin Boys!
Chaim and Rochel (nee Schechter ) Schochet (South Beach, FL)
The Mitzvah ATM is about to dispense the Torah in honor of the holiday of Shavuot. One snag, though: It wants trustworthy guarantors.
Video: Our Underage Underwriters
The Mitzvah ATM is about to dispense the Torah in honor of the holiday of Shavuot. One snag, though: It wants trustworthy guarantors.
Hamodia Profiles Chabad’s Work in Winnipeg
Shturem
The English edition of Hamodia profiled the Lubavitcher community in Winnipeg, headed by Shliach Rabbi Avrohom Altein. Read the full article, a true Kiddush shem Lubavitch.
Cheder Menachem’s 11th Annual MBP Ceremony
As every year, from Yud Shevat thru Yud Alef Nissan, talmidim of Cheder Menachem in Los Angeles worked in preparing a special and most befitting present for the Rebbe in honor of Yud Alef Nissan with their annual Mishnayos Be’Al peh program; together, the talmidim learned and were tested on a total of over 158,864 lines of Mishnayos, Tanya, Siddur and Yediyos Kloliyos.
New Engagement!
Uri Weitz (Philadelphia, PA) and Leah Liba Maller (Los Angeles/Crown Heights)
Crain's NY
The chief executives of three ailing Brooklyn hospitals are finalizing a de facto merger proposal that they expect to submit to state officials as early as this week. Their plan, which calls for a “northern Brooklyn health care alliance,” could include a major restructuring, closure or repurposing of at least one of the hospitals.
Half of Brooklyn’s Hospitals on Life Support
Crain’s NY
The chief executives of three ailing Brooklyn hospitals are finalizing a de facto merger proposal that they expect to submit to state officials as early as this week. Their plan, which calls for a “northern Brooklyn health care alliance,” could include a major restructuring, closure or repurposing of at least one of the hospitals.
Ireland’s Only Jewish Member of Parliament, Now Minister of Justice, Equality and Defense
Alan Joseph Shatter, Teachta Dála (TD) for the Dublin South constituency, Minister for Justice and Equality and Minister for Defense.
Alan Shatter, Ireland’s only Jewish member of Parliament, was sworn in as the new Minister for Justice, Equality and also Minister for Defense. Following last week’s parliamentary election, a coalition government of his center-right Fine Gael Party and the liberal Labor Party was formed. Mr. Shatter, 60, represents a constituency in the south of Dublin, where most of Ireland’s Jews live.
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