Season Opener: Kloppers Fall to Heifers, Tribe and Skullcaps Draw

CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — A clear brisk morning greeted players in the Crown Heights softball league who opened the 2011 season today. Beginning at 9:45am the Daily Steals Kloppers squared off against the Landmark Funding Red Heifers. Later on the Advantage Wholesale Skullcaps played the Tribe.

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Anti-Semitic Incidents Down This Past Year, Still High

This historic synagogue in Worms, Germany became the target of an anti-Semitic arson attack in mid-May, 2010.

Anti-Semitic incidents worldwide dropped sharply in 2010 from their peak in 2009, according to an annual report issued by an Israeli university on the eve of the nation’s Holocaust Memorial Day.

Boruch Dayan Hoemes – Mrs. Esther Shur OBM

With sadness we inform you of the passing of Mrs. Esther Shur of Montreal, who passed away today. She was 81.

She is survived by her husband Reb Zalman, and her children, Rebbetzin Shaindel Chaikin (Cleveland, OH), Yosef Yitzchok (Fitche) (Crown Heights), Alta Silberstein (Montreal), Moshe (Montreal), Kreina Lepkivker (Crown Heights), Berel OBM, and Yona (Toronto).

Sen. Lieberman Authors Foreword for JLI Shabbos Course

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In an age of constant contact and an almost umbilical attachment to an array of communications devices where what is important is often displaced by what seems to be urgent, the Rohr Jewish Learning Institute (JLI) is launching a course on Shabbos: the block of time where nothing intrudes on the peace and sanctity of being fully present with ourselves, our family, our Maker.

Boruch Dayan Hoemes – Rebbetzin Miriam Swued OBM

With sadness we inform you of the passing of Rebetzin Miriam Swued from Mexico City this Shabbos Parshas Kedoshim.

She was the wife of Rabbi Chaim Swued A”H, and is survived by her children Rajel Levy (Buenos Aires, Argentina), Rosa Cohen (Montreal), Eliyahu Swued (Mexico City), Naomi Heber (Crown Heights), Shevi Piekarsky (Bogota, Colombia).

The Half-Jewish Nazi Who Saved the Lubavitcher Rebbe

Thanks to the late Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, Chabad Lubavitch is a well-known and powerful Hasidic movement, with 4,000 emissaries now stationed around the world. But few people know that the rebbe’s predecessor, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneerson, owes his life to a half-Jewish Nazi officer acting under the direct order of the head of the Third Reich’s military intelligence agency.

Children’s Torah and Jewish Unity Campaign Turns 30

Thousands celebrate the completion of the first Children’s Torah Scroll at the Western Wall in Jerusalem.

Three decades ago on his birthday, the Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, of righteous memory, spoke of the special power children have to make the world a better place. All over the globe, their “very breath free of sin,” they could fuel a dramatic demonstration of unity that could change the planet.