Activists Who Exposed Meat Industry Reveal Their Own (Kosher) Identity

Marissa Brostoff – Forward

SLAUGHTERHOUSE TWO: PETA undercover
investigator Philip Schein and his wife, Hannah,
exposed inhumane practices at a kosher meat
plant in Uruguay

When AgriProcessors, America’s largest kosher slaughterhouse, was caught on tape conducting what a federal agency later called “acts of inhumane slaughter,” officials at the plant knew they had been infiltrated by undercover investigators. What the company didn’t know was that two of those infiltrators were a married couple who keep kosher themselves.

Meet Hannah and Philip Schein, undercover investigators for the animal rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. Now, for the first time, they are going public with their identities.

Since 2002, the Scheins have taken on about 20 undercover cases, as well as others they have conducted publicly. The targets of their stings have run the gamut from an egg farm managed by Trappist monks, to a Canadian bear-baiting operation that has supplied fur to the British Royal Guards, to songstress Beyoncé Knowles, once an enthusiastic wearer of fur.

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Two Car Accidents over Shabbos

CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — Over Shabbos and Motzai Shabbos there were three accidents in Crown Heights, the most serious of which took place just as Shabbos ended, where an Israeli Bochur crossed Eastern Parkway and was struck by a passing livery cab, causing injuries and was transported by Hatzalah to Kings County Hospital.

More in the Extended Article.

Tell Chaya that Mrs. Schneerson from President Street called

“Alle Chassidim zainen dem Rebbe’s kinder (”All Chassidim are the Rebbe’s children).“ This the Rebbetzin would say about her husband’s followers. Just as they were his children, they were hers as well.” The following story, as retold by Rabbi Shmuel Lew, Principal of Lubavitch Girls’ School in London, UK, illustrates the Rebbetzin’s maternal care and concern for the “Rebbe’s daughters” of Bais Rivkah.it’s an excerpt from the new book on the Rebbe to see more Visit: www.inspiringageneration.com

“While my oldest daughter Chaya was studying at Bais Rivkah, in New York, my father- and mother-in-law Rabbi and Mrs. Zalman Jaffe went to visit the Rebbetzin. It was during Tishrei—the start of the Jewish year, a month full of holidays, and an auspicious time for blessings–so they took along with them other family members, including my daughter.

UNLV All Set For First-Ever Shabbat Mega-Dinner

By Joshua Runyan

The University of Nevada, Las Vegasí Lied
Library (Photo: Roy Tennant)

LAS VEGAS, NV — Jewish students at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas were making final preparations Friday for the school’s first-ever mega Shabbat event.

According to freshman Jackie Honig, organizers of the Shabbat100 dinner sponsored by the Chabad-Lubavitch Jewish Student Center along with Hillel and the Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity are expecting about 80 people to attend.

“It’s going really well,” she said on Thursday in the midst of handing out flyers. “We’ve been advertising and talking about it a ton.”

17 Years to the Sicha – “Do All That You Can”

Tomorrow, Chof Ches Nissan marks 17 years to the Sicha the Rebbe said unexpectedly in 5751 after returning from the Ohel. The Rebbe said with great pain “that all that I have done… it is up to you to do all that you can to bring Moshiach down here…” AD MOSAI?!

Click Here To Listen To The Sicha (Courtesy of Sichos.com)

Click Here to see a transcript of the Sicha in Hebrew (PDF)

A translation of excerpts of the Sicha can be read in the Extended Article.

A Safed Hostel and Outreach Center Offers Mysticism

By Reuvena Leah Grodnitzky

Visitors to Ascent, a Chabad-Lubavitch center in Safed, Israel, listen to a presentation on Jewish mysticism.

SAFED, Israel — It’s where a nose-ringed backpacker, elderly tourist, undergraduate, yeshiva student and middle-aged secretary meet. It’s where they ascend a mountain to learn, tour an ancient city and discover the mysteries and spirituality of their Jewish heritage. Welcome to Ascent of Safed, Israel.

Mazal Tov! – Its A Boy!

We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Yudi and Sarah (nee Spangenthal) Dukes (Crown Heights) on the birth of their son.

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

New Video Footage From JLI’s Mission to Israel

Rave reviews are still pouring in about the JLI’s Mission to Israel. The mission comprised of 35 Shluchim and over 300 participants from JLI affiliates worldwide who just concluded a 6 week course entitled “The Land & the Spirit- Why We All Care About Israel”.

Archival Community Witnesses Film Preservation Effort

By Joshua Runyan

Henry Mayer, left, of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum joined Rabbi Elkanah Shmotkin, director of Jewish Educational Media; Sarah Stauderman, preservation manager for the Smithsonian Institute; Joshua Harris, chief archivist for the National Geographic Society; and Lucy G. Barber of the National Archives at a reception coinciding with a JEM presentation of its Living Archive, containing more than 4,000 hours of footage of the Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, of righteous memory.

A delegation of archivists representing several U.S. government and private institutions joined several dozen members of Jewish communities in suburban Maryland, Virginia, and Washington, D.C., for a rare presentation given by Jewish Educational Media, the Chabad-Lubavitch organization responsible for preserving and disseminating footage of the Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, of righteous memory.

When Young Idealism Leads

International Friendship Circle’s teen-driven Leadership Club impresses with new initiatives.

BROOKLYN, NY [CHI] — Much talk is heard about today’s teens, corrupted more than ever by messages of how to dress, eat, think, socialize, shop, recreate or otherwise indulge in endless decadence to gross excess.

But should one have been in attendance at the recent annual convention of the Volunteer Leadership Club, quite the opposite picture emerges.