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Former Agriprocessors Financial Officer Pleads Guilty to Conspiracy

By Grant Schulte for the Des Moines Register

CEDAR RAPIDS, IA — The former chief financial officer at Agriprocessors Inc. pleaded guilty today to a charge that he conspired to make false statements to a bank.

Mitchel Meltzer, 50, of Postville was convicted of the conspiracy charge in U.S. District Court in Cedar Rapids.

With Sukkos Approaching, the Sukkah Mobiles are Back!

CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — As Sukkos is quickly approaching, dozens of Bochurim and Shluchim have already confirmed their Sukkah Mobiles for this coming Chol Hamo’ed. After tremendous efforts, by Bochurim and Yungerleit, the Sukkahs are ready to be assembled, rental contracts are already confirmed and much more has already been done in advance of the biggest Sukkah Mobile Season yet.

Op-Ed: Enough is Enough

Everyone, listen to yourselves! This is a little long, but please hear me out, since this is very important!

As a 16 year old Lubavitcher girl born and raised in Crown Heights, I observe adults who are supposed to be my role models getting all fired up about such little things! With all due respect, I just don’t understand why you’d be willing to give up Ahavas Yisroel, the most basic, fundamental principle that the entire Torah is based on and have such petty arguments!

Enough is enough!

Baruch Dayan Hoemes – Hilda Brafman OBM

With sadness we inform you of the passing of Mrs. Hilda Brafman of Miami Beach, Florida.

She is survived by sons Chaim (Morristown, NJ), R. Yaakov (Miami Beach, FL) and R. Leibish (Crown Heights).

The Levaya will take place today, Sunday, 1:00 pm at Mount Sinai Cemetery in Miami Beach.

The Brafman family will be sitting Shiva today only.

For nichum aveilim email: namfarb@aol.com

Baruch Dayan Hoemes

Video: Netanyahu Recalls 770 Visit to the 92nd Y

Following the Israeli Prime Ministers powerful speech to the United Nations General Assembly, and the subsequent interviews to the Israeli media, in which Benjamin Netanyahu repeatedly referred to the Lubavitcher Rebbe and to the advice he gave him, did so once again before a crowd of 1500 in the 92nd Street Y in Manhattan.

Desert Population Grieves After Passing of Beloved Chief Rabbi

by Tamar Runyan – Chabad.org

Rabbi Ben Tzion Lipsker passed away
at the age of 65.
(File photo: Tina Fineberg)

A father figure to thousands of Jews in the southern Israeli city of Arad, Rabbi Ben Tzion Lipsker passed away Wednesday at the age of 65. The sudden loss of one of the city’s two chief rabbis comes just a year before the slated completion of a massive complex to house institutions Lipsker personally founded over a career spanning more than three decades.

A member of Israel’s Chabad-Lubavitch Rabbinical Court, Lipsker and his wife Sarah opened the desert town’s central Chabad House 31 years ago after moving to the city at the suggestion of the Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, of righteous memory. Since then, he presided over the opening of two religious schools, a synagogue, soup kitchen, numerous Jewish ritual baths, and several learning institutes for immigrants and elderly citizens.

But after his burial Thursday, the rabbi – who in addition to his wife, leaves behind four daughters and dozens of grandchildren – was most remembered by locals as a spiritual guide and benevolent mentor to generations of Arad’s children and adults of all ages.