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Reconciliation in Australia: Gutnick and Feldman make Peace!

Rabbi Pinchus Feldman (L) and Rabbi Joseph Gutnick pose for a picture together at the Bar Mitzva!

Sydney, Australia — A long standing family dispute has been resolved, stated a joint statement by the families. Rabbi Joseph Gutnick and his brother-in-law and sister Rabbi Pinchus and Rebbetzin Pnina Feldman had been embroiled in a long standing dispute over 10 million dollars dating back over ten years ago. Last night it had been resolved at a family Simcha along with the recitation of the blessing of ‘Shehecheyanu’.

More pictures and the joint statement in the Extended Article!

‘Gan Israel’ Camp Season Ends in Estonia

FJC.ru

Tallin, Estonia — In Estonia, the ‘Gan Israel’ Camp has finally wrapped up after an eventful season. All day for 20 days, Jewish children and teenagers gathered at the ‘Kanutimaya’ Center for Youth Creativity, located in the very center of town for an entertaining and educational program.

Spreading the Jewish Faith

Capital News
Rabbi Yisroel Kotlarsky, from New York City, blows on a Shofar rams horn, used to help celebrate the Jewish new year. Along with Rabbi Simcha Zajac, from Montreal.

Kelowna, BC, Canada — Chabad-Lubavitch is a Jewish organization based out of New York, whose summer program for their university students aims to connect disparate members of the Jewish community together and give them support and resources for observance in everyday life.

Lubavitcher Life Threatened

Rabbi Kluger

Jerusalem, Israel — Last Friday afternoon the phone rang in the offices of Yad Leachim in Jerusalem. The person on the other line asked to speak to Rabbi Binyamin Kluger (a Lubavitcher Chosid who lives in Jerusalem and is part of the anti-missionary department in Yad L’achim). When Rabbi Kluger took the call the person introduced himself as Hannania C. a member of a missionary cult in “Mevaseres malchus” that is headed by Mr Shimon Nochum, who threatened Rabbi Kluger with his life.

FJC Russia expands cooperation with the Russian army to assist Jewish Soldiers

Moscow, Russia -– A meeting took place between the Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia and the company VMK (War Memorial Company) to widen their cooperation. While established in 1997 at the initiative of the Russian Ministry of Defense, VMK now is comprised of 300 branches in 76 regions of Russia.

Rabbis Reach Out to Rural Jews

Rabbis Levi Slonim and Yitzchok Steiner from Brooklyn, N.Y.
pack the trunk of their car before they leave Boise and head
to northern Idaho on a summer-long community outreach
to Jews living in isolated areas.

Boise, ID — ‘Lubavitch Summer Peace Corps’ aims to spread joy, culture.

“The Nazis hunted down Jews with utter animosity.

”The antidote to such cruelty is to search for every Jew and reach out to them with absolute and unconditional love.”

Traveling Rabbis Levi Slonim and Yitzchok Steiner will be heading back to Brooklyn, N.Y., Monday after a 15-day excursion to connect with Jews in rural Idaho.

Moscow Wraps Up 2007 Jewish Camp Season

FJC.ru

Moscow, Russia — The ‘Gan Israel’ Camp near Moscow has wrapped up, putting an end to the 2007 season. Over 110 youth and 20 counselors involved in this last camp bid farewell and looked forward to the upcoming school year. This year, several retreats were held this year in order to give the opportunity to attend camp from over 20 surrounding cities.

Hillel and Chabad team up for the Sabbath of Sabbaths

Xiaolin Zhao – TheDartmouth

Hanover, NH — Hillel and Chabad, the two Jewish organizations on campus, served a mass home-cooked Shabbat meal to more than 200 students and 20 professors and administrators on Friday night in Alumni Hall.

“In Judaism there’s no better way to come together than over food,” Chabad Rabbi Moshe Leib Gray said.

Woman Arrested In Fatal Hit-And-Run In West Hollywood

KNBC
At the scene of the accident Tuesday, August 2nd 2007.

Los Angeles, CA — A woman was in custody Tuesday in lieu of $250,000 bail for allegedly driving a truck that fatally injured a man in West Hollywood, authorities said. Lindsay Rae Ellingsworth, 27, was arrested Monday at her office in Century City and booked for “hit-and-run causing death,” said Deputy Denise Fuchs of the Sheriff’s Headquarters Bureau.