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Chicago Mayor, Shliach, and Paris Mayor Meet

Mayor of Paris, Bertrand Delanoë, Mayor of Chicago, Richard M Daley and Rabbi Meir Chai Benhiyoun attended a private reception in the Chicago French Market on Tuesday, April 27. The French Mayor together with Deputy Mayor of Paris, Pierre Schapira were in Chicago as guests of honor in the Global Cities Forum, which brings together mayors and/or deputy mayors of Chicago partner cities, to exchange innovative ideas about the future of cities.

Fire Hazard Sends Seforim and Beis Moshiach to Dumpster

It was a bizarre spectacle seeing boxes of brand new Seforim, along with thousands of copies of Beis Moshiach magazine being hauled out of an Eastern Parkway building’s basement, and into a large dumpster waiting at the curb.

Accountant Testifies at Rubashkin Sentencing

By Nigel Duara for the Press

CEDAR RAPIDS — An accountant testified Thursday that prosecutors who won a conviction in the financial fraud trial of an Iowa kosher slaughterhouse manager miscalculated the millions of dollars in losses suffered by a bank.

London Lubavitch Library to be Transformed

By Simon Rocker for the Jewish Chronicle Online
Stacks and shares: Zvi Rabin in the new premises with some of the library’s 15,000 volumes. Photo: Moishe Lew.

ENGLAND — The place is overrun with books, scatterered in wobbly towers across tables and too numerous for the stacks that are meant to contain them. For years, a cramped room in Lubavitch HQ in Stamford Hill has been home to the country’s largest Jewish lending library.