MORRISTOWN, NJ [CHI] — On Monday, the 12th of Iyar, a grand Siyum Harambam took place in the Berger Auditorium in the RCA, Tomchei Temimim of Morristown New Jersey. The event was organized by the students of Tomchei, with the assistance of the members of Hanhala.
Around 200 supporters came together at the federal courthouse in Cedar Rapids, Iowa to show support for Sholom M. Rubashkin, whose hearing on sentencing is taking place over the next two days. After a day of testimony the group stopped and Davend Mincha in the Courthouse parking lot.
Chief Rabbi of Great Britain, Rabbi Dr. Lord Jonathan Sacks, has issued a glowing review of the Pirkei Avot with Commentary, recently release by Kehot Publication Society, the Chabad-Lubavitch publishing house.
[The Avner Institute] — Lag B’Omer is a special day, marking the passing of famed Kabbalist Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai. Jews all over the world celebrate with music and bonfires, and thousands flock to his gravesite in Meron. In years Lag B’Omer fell on Sunday, a special parade would be held in front of Chabad headquarters, 770 Eastern Parkway, where thousands of children would gather and hear a special talk delivered to them by the Rebbe.
Five torahs and other religious items worth as much as $250,000 were swiped from a Brooklyn synagogue, community leaders said Wednesday.
The brazen theft was discovered this morning at Congregation Yirah Haschem in Borough Park.
In support of Sholom Mordechai Rubashkin, group of Shluchim started a campaign to get 10,000 people to don Tefillin by Thursday evening. As of Wednesday morning, the campaign has been successful in getting 2,256 pledges from many Jews.
The campaign’s goal is to get 10,000 people to don Tefillin, before Sholom Mordechai Rubashkin sentencing. Arguments are scheduled to begin today.
A group of Crown Heights residents gathered last night for a special evening of entertainment in a local home.
The Merkos Shlichus office has announced that registration for Merkos Shlichus for Summer 5770 has recently opened. Each summer and holiday season, Merkos L’inyonei Chinuch, the educational arm of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement, dispatches hundreds of rabbinical students to small Jewish communities around the globe.
A fierce debate over Sholom Rubashkin’s prison sentence begins in federal court today with arguments over the former slaughterhouse manager’s role in a bank fraud scandal, his past, and a chorus of supporters who say the possible life sentence would be too harsh.
Yeshiva Gedolah Lubavitch of Miami hosted a Siyum HaRambam dinner and Farbrengen this past Sunday. Many local residents and nearby Shluchim attended, as well as Bochurim from the Coral Springs Mesivta.
A former Postville mayor may have accepted cash payments from former Agriprocessors executive Sholom Rubashkin while in office, or tried to extort money from the one-time eastern Iowa slaughterhouse chief, according to documents filed in federal court.
The conflicting accusations are buried in sentencing memos filed by prosecutors and defense lawyers in Rubashkin’s financial fraud case.
Australian politician and the Premier of New South Wales, Kristina Keneally presented Rabbi Mendel Kastel from the Jewish House with a check for $53,000 at the care organization’s inaugural business luncheon.
Several former U.S. attorneys general, a former deputy attorney general, more than half-a-dozen former U.S. attorneys and a former federal judge have authored and signed letters to the judge in the Sholom Rubashkin case, criticizing the prosecutors’ recommendation that Rubashkin receive life in prison for his bank fraud conviction under Federal Sentencing Guidelines. The authors of the letters include former U.S. attorneys general Janet Reno, Dick Thornburgh, Nicholas Katzenbach, and Edwin Meese III, as well as former deputy attorney general Larry D. Thompson, and former federal Judge Paul G. Cassell. The jurists represent the gamut of sentencing philosophies and includ officials nominated by both Democratic and Republican administrations. Law professor Alan Dershowitz also sent a letter asserting the same conclusion. At press time, more distinguished former U.S. attorneys are adding their names to the widening list of distiguished legal experts challenging the proposed life sentence.
Sholom Mordechai Rubaskin’s wife Mrs Leah Rubashkin speaks out
