Chief Rabbi Slams Recent Trend of ‘Rabbi Letters’

Jpost

Chief Ashkenazi Rabbi Yona Metzger spoke out sharply on Wednesday night against the trend of rabbis’ letters addressing various social or political causes, declaring that such letters led to disparagement of religious leaders.

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L’man Achai Chinese Auction – A Lantern of Hope

It was a dark rainy night, just the kind of weather that makes one want to cuddle up in bed. However, like a lantern illuminated in the forest, L’man Achai’s Chinese Auction displayed the tenacity and goodwill of the many hundreds of participants. Though it may have stormed outside, the hall was aglow with light and unity.

200 Attend Shabbat 200

On March 4 2011, the Rohr Chabad Student Network of Ottawa organized Shabbat 200. As indicated by its name , the goal was to gather 200 Jewish students from both Carleton and Ottawa U. over 240 Jewish students attended this event.

PSA: Achdus Baskets Deadline Extended

If you have not yet ordered your Achdus Baskets, you can still do so, and together with a hassle-free Purim, partake in this tremendous endeavor that will enable you to both give tzedokah and ease your Purim burden by giving everyone on your list Shalach Monos!

Mechanchos Group Photo at Yad Vashem

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The Chabad seminar at the International School for Holocaust studies concluded Tuesday, leaving the participants of the first such undertaking, in high spirits and with a new sense of mission. The group spent nine days in intensive study, in a course designed specifically for them, featuring carefully selected lecturers and strongly religious underpinnings.

Battle for Historic LES Ends With Old Guard in Charge

Forward

Contested: The Sixth Street Community Synagogue, shown here in a 2009 file photo, has strug- gled for decades to remain financially viable.

Three years after a Lower East Side match that seemed made in heaven, Manhattan’s historic but struggling Sixth Street Community Synagogue and popular Chabad rabbi Simon Jacobson have divorced amid acrimony to rival that of a bad marriage from an Isaac Bashevis Singer tale.

Intel Gift Pushes Israeli Youth Club Closer to Goal

By Tamar Runyan – Chabad.org

Members of the Tzivos Hashem club in Kiryat Gat, Israel, play with new computes donated by Intel.

A youth club in the economically distressed southern Israeli town of Kiryat Gat received 10 new computers from Intel, a gift that has given more opportunities for 85 children from the surrounding area to relax with their peers at the local Chabad House.