Enthusiastic Chabad Article Boosts Givot’s Share Price

Globes Business – Israel

Givot Olam’s Megged 5 oil rig

An enthusiastic article about the Givot Olam Oil Exploration Company on an Israeli Chabad website sent the partnership’s share price up 6.3% by early afternoon today to NIS 0.068, giving a market cap of NIS 676 million. But some speculators are concerned the article may be a bit exaggerated.

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New Gemara Project to be Launched at Chinuch Conference

Can students learn, understand and remember what they learned cumulatively, for weeks? Perhaps the best answer to that question resides with the master torah program. At the Kinus Hamechanchim Rabbi Meir Pagrow will teach the Melamdim how.

Letter Questions Whether Chabad is Jewish

In response to a full page ad taken out in the ‘Jewish Week’ by an unrecognized organization calling themselves “Kabbolas Hamalchus,” a reader – after first complimenting Chabad’s outreach efforts – goes on to attack the entire movement, comparing them to Jews for Jesus, and questioning whether they are Jewish altogether.

Forward March for the Rubashkins

“We’re not afraid of hard work.” Getzel and Meir Simcha Rubashkin acclimate to new venues in New York.

Over the past few years, images of the Rubashkin family have been freeze-framed in our consciousness: The meat plant. The raid. The living room. The courtroom scenes. The rallies…These scenes have been seared on our collective memory. The Rubashkins, though, have chosen to move forward. They’ve relocated and recalculated, adjusting the rhythm and routine of daily life to meet new challenges.

Oak Park Rabbi with a Mission

OakPark.com

Faith in the future: Rabbi Yitzchok Bergstein with his mother-in-law and his youngest of 10 children, as they prepare to celebrate Passover in April at the family’s home in Oak Park.

Rabbi Yitzchok Bergstein insists he is not a missionary, but he is definitely a man with a mission: “To give every Jew the ability to celebrate Judaism.”

Anti-Semitism Rising in UK, but Jewish Life Thrives

Last month, a small English city called Leicester grabbed headlines when Rabbi Shmuli Pink, Chabad representative there was targeted by anti-Semitic vandals. In three separate attacks, bricks shattered the windows of Pink’s home and car, shaking the 300-strong Jewish community.

Archaeologist: Structure Beneath Temple Mount is 2nd Beis HaMikdash

World Net Daily

Dr. Eilat Mazar, Hebrew University of Jerusalem archaeologist, points to the tenth century excavations that were uncovered under her direction in the Ophel area adjacent to the Old City of Jerusalem. Photo: Sasson Tiram

One of the most prominent Israeli archaeologists declared today that remains from the First and Second Jewish Temple period – including the Second Temple itself – lie underneath the Temple Mount surface, just waiting to be excavated.