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The 2008 Chabad Telethon Now Available on CD/DVD & DIGITAL DOWNLOAD

Since 1980, the Chabad L’Chaim-To-Life! Telethon has supported a network of 200 community centers and nonsectarian social services that educate, comfort and provide hope to those in need.

This CD and DVD is a record of last years 2008 Telethon. Featured on this show are Avraham Fried, Mordechai Ben David, Keith David, M Generation, Ethan Bodnick, Ray Chew Boys Choir of Harlem with Ki Vo Moed, 8th Day, Mike Burstyn, Leo Chelyapov and the Lior Kaminetsky Ensemble. Also included are the comedy routines from Elon Gold and other many entertaining treats.

ESPN, MLB Atones, Moves Yankees Game out of Yom Kippur

By Marlene Naanes for AM NY

ESPN and Major League Baseball yesterday changed back the start time of the Sept. 27 Red Sox-Yankees game after getting backlash for moving it to the middle of Yom Kippur.

The game will now start at its original time of 1 p.m. instead of 8 p.m.

Beth Rivkah Montreal – Hakhel Alumni Reunion

The Rebbe’s call to make Hakhel gatherings even in the last moments of Hakhel, is the inspiration for a grand Alumni Reunion for anyone who attended Beth Rivkah of Montreal in any grade, and is now post- High School age (even Bubbies). The reunion will take place iy”h in BRM, 5001 Vezina, Sunday 24 Elul 5769/ September 13th 2009 from 1:00 – 3:00 p.m.

Kashrus Advisory from OK Kosher (a)

Please be advised that:

Within the next four weeks Post Cereal has elected to discontinue with the Pas Yisroel status of all their cereals. All Pareve Post cereals that will be found on the shelves of stores and supermarkets for the next four weeks from the date of this notice (except Great Grains, Shredded Wheat and product of Canada, which are not Pas Yisroel) will have been produced under the Pas Yisroel program.

OK KOSHER CERTIFICATION cannot accept responsibility of the Pas Yisroel status for any products purchased after this date.

Rubashkin Trial Delayed, Could be Moved Out of Iowa

CEDAR RAPIDS, IA [AP] — A federal judge on Monday delayed the trial of four former top managers at an Iowa slaughterhouse where 389 people were arrested last year in what was the largest immigration raid in U.S. history at the time.

U.S. District Court Judge Linda Reade agreed to an Oct. 13 trial date as she considers whether to move the trial out of Cedar Rapids, about 75 miles from where the kosher Agriprocessors Inc. operated in Postville. Defense attorneys want it moved to another state.

Career Criminal Befriends Rabbis, then Robs Them

By Rocco Parascandola for the NY Daily News

Rabbi Aaron Raskin of the Congregation B’nai Avraham

This guy sure has chutzpah.

A career criminal befriended by rabbis at a Brooklyn Heights synagogue – who gave him food and money – returned the favor by busting into the house of worship and stealing whatever he could, police sources said.

Op-Ed: On Foreclosure, Loan Modifications and Credit Repair

by Lazer Avtzon

PSA – Thirteen Cardinal Rules on Home Foreclosure/Loan Modifications and Credit Card Repair/Settlement or Consolidated debt.

Since my last article generously published by CrownHeights.info, I have met with dozens of local families and have worked with many to modify their loans and fix their credit.

Every case is unique and different and there is no one set of rules or advice that can be given.

With more than 200 local families currently several months behind in their mortgage payments, spiraling credit card debt, and tuition bills that need to be addressed at the beginning of the year, not to mention, the upcoming month of Tishrei, I felt the need to share just a few thoughts to help all those families that are either too embarrassed to ask for help, or who think they can do it themselves.

There is no specific order to these rules, each is important in its own right.

Parking Tix Haul Plunges $30 Million

By Reuven Blau for the NY Post

NEW YORK — The city handed out 13,000 fewer parking summonses and saw its ticket revenues nose-dive by $30 million last fiscal year — despite a record number of traffic agents on the street.

Downtrodden motorists too broke to pay their tickets are driving the sudden plummet in revenue, driver advocates theorized.