VACAVILLE, CA [CHI] — Twenty bright green tie-dyed t-shirts, proudly displaying the Camp Gan Israel logo, were spotted all over Solano County and beyond, last week.
Farbrengen video of the Rebbe talking about how one should never speak disparagingly of a Jew in public. If your aim is to teach them right from wrong, then speak in a way that will be heard – in a gentle and positive way.
He isn’t a rabbi in the typical sense of the word, but David Lazerson is nevertheless known as the “Rappin’ Reggae Rabbi.”
Why?
Because since the 1970s, he’s developed a reputation as an internationally-celebrated musician and educator acclaimed for his work with special needs students in gritty, inner-city schools.
“The word ‘rabbi’ just means ‘teacher,’” he said. “In a way, it fits in good with my career.”
His career has been all over the place. He’s performed before Congress, at Woodstock reunions, even with the Grateful Dead.
Efraim Rubin (Albany, NY) and Menucha Rochel Chazan (Manchester, UK)
Levi adn Sorah (nee Zaetz) Cunin (Malibu, CA)
A Motzai Shabbos concert featured three Jewish music personalities, Benny Friedman, Michoel Schnitzler and Yehuda Green, who preformed a variety of their hits for a crowd at the Kutchers Hotel in the Catskils.
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.
Seven members of the same family were killed in the fatal collision between a minibus and a train on Thursday evening.
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.
At the Kozy Acres bungalow colony Yossi Feigenson inspects the Eruv Erev Shabbos as his son watches.
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — Four cars were broken into and airbags were stolen Thursday night. The cars were all parked on President Street in the vicinity of the Albany Avenue intersection.
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.
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.
A learning class in Hachayal (camp in Minnesota) learned and got tested on Gemara Masechta Brachos 4th Perek Alos Hashacar.
Chabad in Simcha Monica had a booth at the local National Night Out, put on by the SM Police Department.
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!”
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
CrownHeights.info and the Avner Institute would like to present a newly released photo of the Rebbe from Erev Rosh Hashanah 1980. With Special thanks to Mendy Hayward.
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