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Cops at the Labor Day Parade this past Monday. Illustration Photo.

The following letter was written by a frum NYPD cop, and sent to his father-in-law. Names were omitted.

Dear Schver,

I just got home from working a triple shift- I went to work at 4:30pm on Sunday, and it is currently 1:20am on Tuesday. Nonetheless, I feel it is important to e-mail you concerning an incident which occurred tonight.

I was sent to the West Indian Parade Detail in Crown Heights earlier tonight, together with ten other officers. During a lull in the chaos the [revelers] on the street were creating, my Sgt. overheard me saying that the G. family had invited me over to eat by them. He was intrigued that anyone would want a cop eating over in their house in that neighborhood, and asked if he could join me.

Letter: A Lull in the Labor Day Chaos Give Cops a new Insight into Jews

Cops at the Labor Day Parade this past Monday. Illustration Photo.

The following letter was written by a frum NYPD cop, and sent to his father-in-law. Names were omitted.

Dear Schver,

I just got home from working a triple shift- I went to work at 4:30pm on Sunday, and it is currently 1:20am on Tuesday. Nonetheless, I feel it is important to e-mail you concerning an incident which occurred tonight.

I was sent to the West Indian Parade Detail in Crown Heights earlier tonight, together with ten other officers. During a lull in the chaos the [revelers] on the street were creating, my Sgt. overheard me saying that the G. family had invited me over to eat by them. He was intrigued that anyone would want a cop eating over in their house in that neighborhood, and asked if he could join me.

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Jews Cruise Kicks off New Year for Chabad Serving NYU!

NEW YORK, NY [CHI] — Some 400 NYU students, dressed in their finest, boarded the Jews Cruise at The Pier and sailed The Temptress around the Hudson River last night to the sound of live Jewish music and delectable food. With its fourth annual kickoff event, Chabad House serving NYU is looking forward to a school year filled with events, services, and study catered to the many Jewish students attending New York University.

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By Cnaan Liphshiz for Haaretz

One of Russia's chief rabbis on Sunday spurned an honor from the mayor of the Ukrainian city of Uzhhorod, formerly Ungvar, who has publicly made anti-Semitic statements.

Rabbi Berel Lazar, who is one of two claimants to the title of Russia's chief rabbi, refused the honor from Mayor Serhiy Ratushnyak at a reception given by the Jewish community after a memorial ceremony for a mass grave of murdered Jews from the Holocaust, which was discovered in the city.

Russian Chief Rabbi Rejects Medal from Anti-Semitic Mayor

By Cnaan Liphshiz for Haaretz

One of Russia’s chief rabbis on Sunday spurned an honor from the mayor of the Ukrainian city of Uzhhorod, formerly Ungvar, who has publicly made anti-Semitic statements.

Rabbi Berel Lazar, who is one of two claimants to the title of Russia’s chief rabbi, refused the honor from Mayor Serhiy Ratushnyak at a reception given by the Jewish community after a memorial ceremony for a mass grave of murdered Jews from the Holocaust, which was discovered in the city.

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By Michael Slackman for the New York Times

Restoration work being done last month at a synagogue where Moses Maimonides once worked and studied in Cairo.

CAIRO — Egyptians generally do not make any distinction between Jewish people and Israelis. Israelis are seen as the enemy, so Jews are, too.

Khalid Badr, 40, is pretty typical in that regard, living in a neighborhood of winding, rutted roads in Old Cairo, selling snacks from a kiosk while listening to the Koran on the radio. Asked his feelings about Jews, he replied matter-of-factly. “We hate them for everything they have done to us,” Mr. Badr said, as casually as if he had been asked the time.

Private Motive for Egypt’s Public Embrace of a Jewish Past

By Michael Slackman for the New York Times

Restoration work being done last month at a synagogue where Moses Maimonides once worked and studied in Cairo.

CAIRO — Egyptians generally do not make any distinction between Jewish people and Israelis. Israelis are seen as the enemy, so Jews are, too.

Khalid Badr, 40, is pretty typical in that regard, living in a neighborhood of winding, rutted roads in Old Cairo, selling snacks from a kiosk while listening to the Koran on the radio. Asked his feelings about Jews, he replied matter-of-factly. “We hate them for everything they have done to us,” Mr. Badr said, as casually as if he had been asked the time.

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By Matthew Wagner for the Jerusalem Post

Illustration Photo - Chabad House at Indiana University

ISRAEL — Religious Services Minister Ya'acov Margi of Shas recommended during a cabinet meeting on Monday that the state fund Chabad Houses around the world, to “strengthen Jewish identity and the connection with the Land of Israel and the State of Israel.”

He told Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and the other cabinet members that the difficult economic situation worldwide meant many Chabad emissaries were financially strapped.

Religious Services Minister Calls to Fund Chabad Houses

By Matthew Wagner for the Jerusalem Post

Illustration Photo – Chabad House at Indiana University

ISRAEL — Religious Services Minister Ya’acov Margi of Shas recommended during a cabinet meeting on Monday that the state fund Chabad Houses around the world, to “strengthen Jewish identity and the connection with the Land of Israel and the State of Israel.”

He told Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and the other cabinet members that the difficult economic situation worldwide meant many Chabad emissaries were financially strapped.

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Photos: Cleaning up the Aftermath

“As if a tornado struck, a real smelly and dirty tornado” was the way one passerby described what Eastern Parkway looked like, as an army platoon of city sanitation workers labored throughout the night cleaning up.

Men armed with brooms were not enough, they had leaf blowers and plows, along with street sweepers and garbage trucks, and this year the city employed a new weapon, a bulldozer with jaws to collect the garbage.

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by Yonit Tanenbaum

Morah Leah's Pre-1a class learning about Pesach last year.

QUEENS, NY [CHI] — Due to the suffering economy, many schools have found it difficult to pay their staff. Despite the financial squeeze, the Hanhala of Cheder Tzeirei Hashluchim at the Ohel made it their chief concern to pay teachers their dues before the new school year began.

Keeping up with Teachers’ Salaries

by Yonit Tanenbaum

Morah Leah’s Pre-1a class learning about Pesach last year.

QUEENS, NY [CHI] — Due to the suffering economy, many schools have found it difficult to pay their staff. Despite the financial squeeze, the Hanhala of Cheder Tzeirei Hashluchim at the Ohel made it their chief concern to pay teachers their dues before the new school year began.

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Chabad at the Beaches Hosted a Cultural Fair

PONTE VEDRA BEACH, FL [CHI] — Chabad at the Beaches hosted a cultural fair Sunday, it offered adults and children alike the opportunity to get into the spirit of the High Holidays in a hands-on, fun and entertaining way. Over 65 people attended. The High Holiday Family Fair, was held at Chabad at the Beaches’ Center for Jewish Life, 521 A1A North Ponte Vedra Beach.

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Tonight, Monday 18 Elul - 7 September, took place a Chai Elul Hakhel Farbrengen in the Yeshiva Centre - Chabad Headquarters of NSW, 36 Flood Street, Bondi.

The Farbrengen was in honor of the auspicious day of Chai Elul which is the Birthday of Rabbi Yisroel Baal Shem Tov, the founder of the Chassidic movement 113 years ago and Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi founder of the Chabad Lubavitch movement and author of the Tanya and the Shulchan Aruch Harav.

Chai Elul Farbrengen in Sydney, Australia

Tonight, Monday 18 Elul – 7 September, took place a Chai Elul Hakhel Farbrengen in the Yeshiva Centre – Chabad Headquarters of NSW, 36 Flood Street, Bondi.

The Farbrengen was in honor of the auspicious day of Chai Elul which is the Birthday of Rabbi Yisroel Baal Shem Tov, the founder of the Chassidic movement 113 years ago and Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi founder of the Chabad Lubavitch movement and author of the Tanya and the Shulchan Aruch Harav.

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