Amicus Brief Slams Judge For Misconduct, Prejudice

by Debbie Maimon – Yated

Lending serious weight to calls for a retrial in the Rubashkin case, the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL) has filed a sharply worded amicus curiae brief with the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals, urging the court to vacate Sholom Mordechai’s conviction.

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As thousands of Shluchos prepare their itineraries for their upcoming trip to New York for the Kinus Hashluchos at the end of the month, Rabbi Moshe Kotlarsky of Merkos L’Inyonei Chinuch joined a meeting with the staff of Chabad House HQ (Suite 302) in a conference room in the offices above 770 to generate ideas to best serve them.

Will The Know-Your-Rights Seminar Facilitate Better Police-Community Relations?

by Eliyahu Federman

On January 30, 2011, at 1 pm, at Synagogue Beis Shmuel in Crown Heights, constitutional lawyers Norman Siegel and Earl Ward along with 57th District Assemblyman Hakeem Jeffries and Senator Eric Adams will be coming together to help educate citizens about their rights and responsibilities when stopped, questioned, arrested, ticketed or searched by the police.

Video: Organic Torah


With buzz words like “sustainablitiy,” “going green” and “organic lifestyle” becoming part of our everyday language, we are forced to ask the question: Do environmental awareness and Judaism go hand in hand or do they conflict in their basic precepts?