More than four months have passed since the arrest of R’ Eli Hecht in Spain, after being duped into carrying a drug-laden suitcase for a ruthless individual. The committee members worked tirelessly with lawyers to get him released to house arrest before Pesach.
Education comes in many forms: First and foremost is to provide a living example. The best way to influence someone is by practicing what you preach. But in order to prevail upon a student to adopt a basic level of good behavior, the educator must show an example many times above the standard, because the student automatically assumes that he can’t be as great as his teacher, who is much older and wiser than he.
The Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor of the U.S. Department of State has noted that the number of acts of anti-Semitism in 2010 in Ukraine has decreased.The U.S. Department of State said this in the “2010 Human Rights Reports: Ukraine” published on its Web site on April 8.
A number of security lapses in an airport shuttle system in New York is raising concerns among some Port Authority officers and state senators.
Dr. Alexander Mashkevich, president of the United Israel Appeal’s annual conference of Jewish leaders in Washington, has announced his plan to form a pro-Israel international news network, similar to al-Jazeera and the BBC.
Despite protests from Jewish groups and an appeal to Liberal Prime Minister Mark Rutte, Holland is set to ban shechita, the Jewish ritual slaughter of animals following the Socialist party’s decision to support a proposal from the pro-animal party, the world’s first such party to be elected to parliament in 2006.
S. MONICA, CA — Local and federal law enforcement officers were searching for a man on Saturday thought to be responsible for an explosion outside a synagogue [Chabad of Simcha Monica].
It was December 1957, and Naftali Dulitzky, a wealthy Tel Aviv businessman, was asked by the Rebbe to donate a very large sum for the fledgling neighborhood in Kfar Chabad. Dulitzky obeyed, and in the end learned that both spiritual and material rewards were far greater. The Avner Institute presents this amazing encounter, where the Chassid who fretted over giving away a bit too much ultimately learned to trust the Rebbe’s promise of repayment.
In selecting Cathleen P. Black as schools chancellor, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg was, in many ways, playing to type: a man famous for ignoring advice, relying on his own instincts and doing the opposite of what an ordinary politician would do had chosen as leader of the nation’s largest school system a woman with no relevant experience whom he knew socially.
Moishe and Sarale (nee Naparstek) Orimland (Crown Heights)
Mendy (ben Naftoli) Cohen (London, England) and Simi Gutnick (Crown Heights)
L’Chaim Sunday at Lubavitcher Yeshiva
570 Crown St [hall entrance on Albany Ave]
After a decade of reaching out to local Jewish students, a Massachusetts Chabad-Lubavitch center’s program has been granted official status by Babson College.
What if Moses had lived in the digital age and could use social media like Facebook and Twitter? The international Jewish website Aish.com decided to answer that question, and made a funny video about it.
Dovid Rosenfeld (Crown Heights) and Chaya Wineberg (Vancouver, Canada)
L’Chaim Motzai Shabbos at Oihel Nosson
580 Crown St [between Albany and Troy Ave]
Once again it is Friday — time to watch The Living Torah. As the screen flickers on we await the Rebbe’s holy countenance and his immortal words. We watch and are transported back to those incredible years when farbrengens abounded and occasions to see the Rebbe were many. Perhaps at times we took those magical days for granted and didn’t take advantage of every golden opportunity.
Levi Groner (Melbourne, Australia) and Chayale Weingarten (Grand Rapids, MI)
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