“Every Living Thing Must Grow!”

In this week’s “Opening the week with the Rebbe”: We are presenting a short video clip from the 5 Tishrei, 5748 ‘Machne Israel’ Yechidus. At this Yechidus the Rebbe tell Mr. Max Karl: “I’m not satisfied for my work to ‘continue’ – it must increase! Every living thing must grow!”. From the weekly video magazine, ‘Living Torah’. Courtesy of JEM.

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Perception or Deception? – The Pious Animal Inclination

by Rabbi Yoseph Kahanov Jax, FL

Abe Steinfeld is pretty sure that the man on the street he’s just run into looks exactly like his old friend Sam.

“Sam,” he says, “Is that you?! Why, you’ve put on a ton of weight and your hair has turned so gray. You seem a few inches shorter than I recall and your cheeks are puffy. What’s happened to you Sam?” You sound so different; gosh, you even walk differently.

“My name is David, not Sam and I don’t know you from Adam,” replies the gentleman; half amused and half bewildered, “so why don’t you just buzz off”

“Wow!” says Abe: “Look at you, you son-of-a-gun! You even changed your name.”

Mesivta Menachem Open House in Crown Heights

BUFFALO, NY — Mesivta Menachem of Buffalo has announced that Rosh Yeshiva, Rabbi Yosef Y. Munitz will be hosting an Open House for all bochurim interested in learning more about the Mesivta. The Open House will iy”H take place on Friday, August 13th /3rd Elul at the Brod residence, 427 Kingston Ave between Empire and Montgomery between the hours of 12:00pm and 4:00pm.

Ponzi Scheme Targeted Orthodox Jews

Eliyahu Weinstein is led away by investigators Aug. 12, 2010

The criminal complaint filed against Weinstein and a co-defendant, Vladimir Siforov of New York, alleges that Weinstein played off his connections to the Orthodox Jewish community, exploiting the community’s “social and business customs and practices,” in order to bilk numerous clients out of millions of dollars.

Birmingham Celebrates 25 Years of Couple’s Jewish Service

British Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks congratulates Rabbi Fishel and Esther Cohen on their quarter-century of work serving Jewish students in the Midlands Region of England.

When Rabbi Fishel and Esther Cohen came to Birmingham, England, in 1984, neither had any idea what the future would hold.

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