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Rabbi Shmuley Boteach
At middle age I have come to accept my limitations. Although I like to have an opinion on almost everything, I am conscious of the fact that I am not a legal scholar and do not understand all the complexities of the criminal case against Shalom Rubashkin, the former CEO of America’s largest kosher meat plant, Agriprocessors of Postville, Iowa.

But I am not a stupid man either. And I, and a heck of a lot of other fairly intelligent and educated people are scratching our heads as to why government prosecutors are requesting that Rubashkin, who has ten children, including an autistic son, and a reputation for enormous philanthropy, be given a life sentence in prison.

A life behind bars. The very words are ominous. Isn’t that reserved for society’s most heinous offenders? Life sentence has one conjuring images of rapists and murderers, international drug cartel kingpins and white-collar criminals guilty of gargantuan fraud, like Bernie Madoff.

Op-Ed: Does a Kosher Butcher’s Fraud Mandate a Life Sentence?

Rabbi Shmuley Boteach

At middle age I have come to accept my limitations. Although I like to have an opinion on almost everything, I am conscious of the fact that I am not a legal scholar and do not understand all the complexities of the criminal case against Shalom Rubashkin, the former CEO of America’s largest kosher meat plant, Agriprocessors of Postville, Iowa.

But I am not a stupid man either. And I, and a heck of a lot of other fairly intelligent and educated people are scratching our heads as to why government prosecutors are requesting that Rubashkin, who has ten children, including an autistic son, and a reputation for enormous philanthropy, be given a life sentence in prison.

A life behind bars. The very words are ominous. Isn’t that reserved for society’s most heinous offenders? Life sentence has one conjuring images of rapists and murderers, international drug cartel kingpins and white-collar criminals guilty of gargantuan fraud, like Bernie Madoff.

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Baby Boy!

Dovid and Baila (nee Spielman) Vogel from Crown Heights had a baby boy!
New Engagement!

Yechezkel Markovitch (Kiev, Ukraine) to Layah Carlbach (Montreal, Canada)
New Engagement!

Meir Manssouri (Los Angeles, CA) to Raizy Altschul (Chicago, IL)
New Engagement!

Ari Drizin (New Haven, CT) to Batsheva Lisbon (San Diego, CA) L’Chaim: Tonight, Monday, 8:00pm at The Arches 1394 S. Johns Pl
New Engagement!

Berel Laufer (Providence, RI) to Batya Deitsch (Columbus, OH) L’Chaim: Tonight, Monday, 8:00pm at Albany Manor 641 Rutland Rd
New Engagement!

Mendel Stolik (Lantana, FL) to Mussie Chanin (Har Shmuel, EY) L’Chaim: Tonight, Monday, 8:00pm at Lubavitcher Yeshiva
New Engagement!

Yossi Brownstein (Davis, CA) to Chayale Klasner (Toronto, Canada)
New Engagement!

Meir Simcha Silberberg (Chicago, IL) to Yehudis Korf (Miami Beach, FL)
New Engagement!

Mendel Bluming (Chapel Hill, NC) to Mushka Lifshitz (Boise, Idaho) L’Chaim: Tonight, Wednesday, 8:30pm at Lubavitcher Yeshiva
New Engagement!

Leib Telsner (Crown Heights) to Sarale Scheiner (Oak Park, MI) L’Chaim: Tonight, Wednesday, 8:30pm at Lubavitcher Yeshiva
New Engagement!

Zushi Rivkin (Tampa, FL) to Shifra Weinstein (New Hempstead, NY) L’Chaim: Tonight, Wednesday, 8:00pm at The Garden House 1386 S. Johns Pl
Baby Girl!

Mendel and Bracha Eizenbach from Crown Heights had a baby girl!
New Engagement!

Melly Chein (Crown Heights) to Sara Rivkah Duchman (Surfside, FL) L’Chaim: Tonight, Tuesday, 8:00pm at The Arches
New Engagement!

Betzalel Schanowitz (Chicago, IL) to Chaya Mushka Gurary (Simi Valley, CA)
New Engagement!

Yankel Raices (Chicago, IL) to Mushka Broner (Rio De Janeiro, Brazil)
Baby Boy!

Mendel and Mussie Rapaport from Hyde Park, IL had a baby boy.
New Engagement!

Zalman Stein (Northbrook, IL) to Nechama Dina Whitt (Oak Park, MI)

LIVINGSTON, NJ — Friendship Circle of New Jersey has won a 2010 Aegis Award for “Mindsets”, a 4 minute video produced by JewishFilms.com. The Aegis Awards are the video industry's premier competition for peer recognition of outstanding video productions and non-network TV commercials. “Mindsets” was honored by a distinguished panel of judges representing industry professionals from across the country.

Video: Friendship Circle Video Wins 2010 Aegis Award

LIVINGSTON, NJ — Friendship Circle of New Jersey has won a 2010 Aegis Award for “Mindsets”, a 4 minute video produced by JewishFilms.com. The Aegis Awards are the video industry’s premier competition for peer recognition of outstanding video productions and non-network TV commercials. “Mindsets” was honored by a distinguished panel of judges representing industry professionals from across the country.

Videos
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Daniela Lazarová for Radio Praha

Among the souvenirs that tourists bring back from a visit to Prague are little clay figures of the Golem – a giant linked to one of Prague’s best known legends. What few of them know is that there is a fierce battle underway for ownership rights, which has sent a much larger version of the clay monster into hiding.

Battle Over Ownership Rights Sends Prague Golem Into Hiding

Daniela Lazarová for Radio Praha

Among the souvenirs that tourists bring back from a visit to Prague are little clay figures of the Golem – a giant linked to one of Prague’s best known legends. What few of them know is that there is a fierce battle underway for ownership rights, which has sent a much larger version of the clay monster into hiding.

Jewish News
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NY Daily News

Reunited Thursday night with the hero in pinstripes who saved her from choking on food at Yankee Stadium, a Bronx rabbi's wife exclaimed, “I would be dead without you.”

“Thank you! Thank you! Thank you,” Toby Weiss told John Stone, the Army medic and Iraq veteran who rushed to her rescue during the first inning of Wednesday's game. “Without you, I don't know where I would be.”

Woman Who Choked at Yankees Game Reunited with ‘Angel’

NY Daily News

Reunited Thursday night with the hero in pinstripes who saved her from choking on food at Yankee Stadium, a Bronx rabbi’s wife exclaimed, “I would be dead without you.”

“Thank you! Thank you! Thank you,” Toby Weiss told John Stone, the Army medic and Iraq veteran who rushed to her rescue during the first inning of Wednesday’s game. “Without you, I don’t know where I would be.”

Jewish News
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This Weeks Sholom Zochors!

This Weeks Sholom Zochors!

Shneur and Liba (nee Frankel) Nejar
581 Crown St [between Albany and Troy Ave]

Zalman and Altie Heller
619 Empire Blvd [between Kingston and Albany Ave]

Nissan Moshe and Chani Vaisfiche
531 Crown St [between Kingston and Albany Ave]

Yossi and Miriam Wolfson
21 New County Rd, Monsey, NY

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By Rabbi Yoseph Kahanov Jax, Fl
“THEY CAME FIRST for the Communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist.

THEN THEY CAME for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew.

THEN THEY CAME for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist.

THEN THEY CAME for the Catholics, and I didn’t speak up because I was a Protestant.

THEN THEY CAME for me and by that time no one was left to speak up.” (Pastor Martin Niemöller (1892–1984))

Skin off Your Own Back, Please! – When To Judge Favorably And When To Be Critical

By Rabbi Yoseph Kahanov Jax, Fl

“THEY CAME FIRST for the Communists, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Communist.

THEN THEY CAME for the Jews, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Jew.

THEN THEY CAME for the trade unionists, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a trade unionist.

THEN THEY CAME for the Catholics, and I didn’t speak up because I was a Protestant.

THEN THEY CAME for me and by that time no one was left to speak up.” (Pastor Martin Niemöller (1892–1984))

Something Jewish
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Max Kelly is running the gauntlet that every observant Jewish male must face at age 13—a months-long preparation for his bar mitzvah, a big day that involves being called to lead the Torah reading during a service to symbolize one’s adult membership of the Jewish community.

Jewish Tradition Gets a Boost Through an Online Rabbi

Max Kelly is running the gauntlet that every observant Jewish male must face at age 13—a months-long preparation for his bar mitzvah, a big day that involves being called to lead the Torah reading during a service to symbolize one’s adult membership of the Jewish community.

Shlichus
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Workers at a slaughterhouse in Uruguay are captured on video using a chain to lift a cow by the leg, which is widely criticized as inhumane.

A PETA activists recorded a video in a slaughterhouse in Uruguay, depicting cows being treated inhumanely. The cows are lifted by a chain attached to one leg and then restrained by workers for the slaughter. The OU, which gives the Hechsher on the slaughterhouse, said two years ago they wanted to stop this practice. However since the raid on Agriprocessors, the OU has not been willing to endanger the country's supply of kosher beef.

PETA Targeting Another Kosher Slaughterhouse

Workers at a slaughterhouse in Uruguay are captured on video using a chain to lift a cow by the leg, which is widely criticized as inhumane.

A PETA activists recorded a video in a slaughterhouse in Uruguay, depicting cows being treated inhumanely. The cows are lifted by a chain attached to one leg and then restrained by workers for the slaughter. The OU, which gives the Hechsher on the slaughterhouse, said two years ago they wanted to stop this practice. However since the raid on Agriprocessors, the OU has not been willing to endanger the country’s supply of kosher beef.

Jewish News
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By Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu for Arutz Sheva

Courtyard of the Chabad Synagogue (IsraelNationalNews.com)

BISHKEK — The 2,000-member Jewish community of Kyrgyzstan suddenly lives in fear following an attack on its only synagogue after rebels last week apparently overthrew the government in a bloody uprising in which more than 80 people were killed.

Kyrgyzstan Jews in Danger; Anti-Semites Attack Chabad

By Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu for Arutz Sheva
Courtyard of the Chabad Synagogue (IsraelNationalNews.com)

BISHKEK — The 2,000-member Jewish community of Kyrgyzstan suddenly lives in fear following an attack on its only synagogue after rebels last week apparently overthrew the government in a bloody uprising in which more than 80 people were killed.

Chabad News

In the few short years since its inception, the Online School has defied one limitation after another: distance, time zones and technology. Recently, they defied another slew of would-be obstacles - altitude, for one – when a teacher gave a class while flying!

Video – Shluchim Online School Goes Airborne!

In the few short years since its inception, the Online School has defied one limitation after another: distance, time zones and technology. Recently, they defied another slew of would-be obstacles – altitude, for one – when a teacher gave a class while flying!

Videos
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chabad.org.uk

Following a recent excursion to the Tower of London, pupils from Lubavitch Junior Boys' School were awarded a prize for their outstanding behaviour.

As part of their Geography and History curriculum, year 3 pupils visited the Tower of London. After taking special note of their exemplary behaviour,the Yeoman Warders voted the class the best behaved visitors for the month of March, awarding them Her Majesty’s Tower of London Certificate of Merit.

Tower of London Awards Pupils for Exemplary Behaviour

chabad.org.uk

Following a recent excursion to the Tower of London, pupils from Lubavitch Junior Boys’ School were awarded a prize for their outstanding behaviour.

As part of their Geography and History curriculum, year 3 pupils visited the Tower of London. After taking special note of their exemplary behaviour,the Yeoman Warders voted the class the best behaved visitors for the month of March, awarding them Her Majesty’s Tower of London Certificate of Merit.

Chabad News
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