Lag Ba’Omer Parade Excitement Hits Los Angeles

LOS ANGELES, CA [CHI] — When the Anash children of Los Angeles heard about the great Lag Ba’Omer 5770 parade, featuring the world’s best Jewish singers and marking the special year 5770 – the following was heard amongst them: “I wish I can be at this parade,” said Yossie Plotke, a 12 year old from Cheder Menachem or “Can’t we fly cross country to be part of this historic celebration?” said Mendy Kievman, a 5th grader at the Hebrew Academy of Long Beach. Levi Weiss of Hancock Park was heard saying, “Why do all great events happen in Crown Heights? If only my parents would send me to 770 for the day.”

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Sentence Hearings Conclude, Rubashkin Cries Shema Yisrael

Family and friends of Sholom Morechai Rubashkin outside the Northern District of Iowa Federal court house

CEDAR RAPIDS [CHI] — Federal prosecutors asked Federal Judge, Linda Reade today, Thursday to sentence Sholom Mordechai Rubashkin to 25 years in prison, less than the life sentence they initially requested.

Sholom Rubashkin, dressed in an orange jump suit and chains, gave a tearful speech at the end of his sentencing hearing in U.S. District Court in Cedar Rapids. He told the court he had made mistakes and was remorseful. In a thick Brooklyn accent, he reiterated that he was sorry for his actions, and that he was put in a position by his family of running the operations of a large plant for which he had no training or interest.

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.