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Photos: Jewish Awareness at the Boyscouts Jamboree

Hundreds recite Shema together in the ‘Shul Tent’.

Thousands of Jewish boyscouts were exposed to their Jewish culture and heritage at the national jamboree which took place this year in Fort A.P. Hill, Virgina.

How the Tanya Was Printed in Egypt

by Moshe Frank & Berri Spitezki

It seems like we have something going with the ambassadors. As you may have read a few days ago, we met with the Swiss Ambassador to S. Korea. And now we met the Israeli Ambassador, Mr. Tuvia Israeli.

NY Times Interviews Rabbi Yehuda Krinsky

Recently, Newsweek published a list, “The 50 Most Influential Rabbis in America,” and placed Rabbi Yehuda Krinsky at No. 1. New York Times reporter, Deborah Solomon took this opportunity to ask him a few questions.

Newsweek just published a list, “The 50 Most Influential Rabbis in America,” and placed you at No. 1. As a Hasidic rabbi and a leader of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement, do you think you can rank rabbis or any other religious leaders as if they were athletes?

I am of the opinion that you can’t rank human beings. Every person has something to contribute to the welfare of the next human being. No two people think alike or look alike, and everyone has something that another person does not have. Who’s to say who is higher and who’s lower? In terms of the essence of human beings, I don’t feel it’s proper to rank them because we don’t really know what their mission in life is.

Epidemic of Young Adults Starting to Smoke

Focus at the upcoming RCCS 8th annual BBQ August 10th

Local Hospital to Join Annual Barbecue Effort to Benefit Cancer Stricken Patients – Offering Smoking Cessation Aids and Tips.

Recent studies have shown that, despite the surgeon general’s warnings, and despite billions of dollars in ad campaigns, young teens and adults are lighting up in large numbers, especially in the Orthodox Jewish community.

As a result of a recent Cancer Awareness Project initiated by volunteers of RCCS, calls have been coming in to the RCCS office begging for help in getting children and spouses to quit… before it is too late.

What’s Wrong With Being Right? – The Truth About Moral Relativism

By Rabbi Yoseph Kahanov Jax, FL

When Robert A. Rockaway, a recognized authority on Jewish-American history, decided to chronicle the story of the Jewish mob, he sought out Jewish old-timers in order to gather information on this less than reputable element.

Rockaway even interviewed his own mother, a native of Detroit, Michigan, who personally knew some friends and family members of the nefarious subjects of his research.

Once, while talking to his mother about the reprehensible conduct of a particular mobster, his mother stopped him short in his tracks: “All that you say may be fine and good, no one said the guy was a saint. Between you and me, he was known to have made a few people disappear. . . But you shouldn’t rush to judgment. Don’t forget that he was always kind to his mother! Does that count for nothing? Trust me; the man was a real Mentch!”

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No great, inspiring culture of the future can be built upon the moral principle of relativism. For at its bottom such a culture holds that nothing is better than anything else, and that all things are in themselves equally meaningless. Except for the fragments of faith (in progress, in compassion, in conscience, in hope) to which it still clings, illegitimately, such a culture teaches every one of its children that life is a tale told by an idiot, signifying nothing – Michael Novak

Ten Minute Video Class! – Parshas Re’eh

We are pleased to present our eleventh online class in the “Torah in Ten” series, presented by the editor-in-chief of Kol Menachem, Rabbi Chaim Miller.

6 Sholom Zochors This Week!

Yehuda and Estee (nee Goldberg) Lieblich
860 Eastern Pkwy [between Kingston and Albany Ave]

Erez and Nina Safar
Aliya, 525 E New York Ave [between Kingston and Brooklyn Ave]

Levi and Chanie Schechter
706 Montgomery St [between Kingston and Albany Ave]

Moishy and Chani Sandhaus
1394 Union St [between Kingston and Brooklyn Ave]

Zalman and Chaya Schapiro
820 Montgomery St [between Albany and Troy Ave]

Mendel and Chanie Ehrlich
763 Eastern Pkwy, Apt F2 [corner New York Ave]