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Where is the Line Drawn? Hate Group Posts Anti-Semitic Video

Hate is the name of their game, the infamous Westboro Baptist Church travels around the United States and under the banner of the freedom of speech they spread their hate filled message, be it at a Shul in Boro Park, a Chabad House in Long Island, or the funeral of a fallen soldier, they picket and shout adding pain and hurt to the bereaved.

Senior Citizen Steals Schools Checks, Banking Material

CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — Motzai Yom Tov revealed a very disturbing scene for school administrators at Darchai Menachem, over Yom Tov one of their offices was broken into and the thief made out with tuition checks, now worth nothing after being canceled.

Australia To Allow Shechita Practices to Continue

By Peter Kohn for the Ausralian Jewish News

Illustration Photo – Rabbi Osdoba inspects a knife used to slaughter cows at a meat plant – 2006

AUSTRALIA — According to media reports, the findings of a review into ritual slaughter, which have been leaked, will allow shechitah to continue, even though Australian standards require that animals be electrically stunned immediately after ritual killing.

Shechitah, or Jewish ritual slaughter, has historically been asserted as the most humane method of killing animals for food.

Mazal Tov! – It’s A Boy!

CrownHeights.info wishes Mazal Tov to Yosef and Shira (nee Charter) Muchnik (Shluchim to Camarillo, CA) on the birth of their firstborn son.

May the newborn be a source of Nachas to his parents, grandparents and Klal Yisroel.

Boruch Dayan Haemes – Dr. Aviva Palgi OBM

With great sadness we inform you of the untimely of a dear friend and long time Crown Heights resident Dr. Aviva Palgi.

Her Levaya will take place today, Tuesday at Shomrei Hadas Chapel (3803 14th Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11218) at 3:00pm and pass 770 at about 3:45pm en route to Eretz Yisroel for the Kvura.

Boruch Dayan Hoemes

Mobile Sukkahs Attract Over 1000 People in London

www.chabad.org.uk

LONDON, UK — Over 1000 people climbed on board four mobile sukkahs which made their way around the capital during the Sukkot festival this week.

The sukkahs, which were mounted on the back trucks, visited locations in the City, West End, North and East London, as well as going as far afield as Oxford, to allow people to eat in a sukkah, shake the Lulav and Etrog and learn more about the festival.

Fall Semester Full of Spiritually Uplifting Jewish Programs

By Yonit Tanenbaum for Chabad.edu
Jewish students at S. Diego State University enjoy a game of volleyball at a welcome back event coordinated by Jewish Student Life, a Chabad-Lubavitch organization serving colleges in the area.

Returning university students and incoming freshmen alike have jumped into a semester of Jewish promise at schools across North America.

Pointing to activities ranging from the current crop of High Holiday programs to weekly Shabbat dinners, and 2009 calendars that kicked off with back-to-school barbeques and other massive offerings of food, Jewish collegians say their local Chabad Houses have provided an interesting counterpoint to the decidedly secular atmosphere of university life.