SDEROT, Israel [CHI] — Democratic presidential candidate Barack Hussein Obama II visited the Sderot today, Wednesday. He was escorted thorough the rocket battered city by the city’s mayor, Eli Moyal, Defense Minister Ehud Barak, along with some other Israeli government officials.
Rabbi Moshe Zev Pizem, the Shliach to Sderot was also on hand to greet the presidential candidate.
More pictures in the Extended Article!
RIO DI JANEIRO, Brazil — This month’s Portuguese edition of National Geographic treats its Brazilian readers to an eye-opening, enthusiastic essay on Chabad, with a close examination of the Chabad yeshiva in Brazil.
Titled “A School of Tradition,” the photographic feature opens on a personal note: “My son became sociable and compassionate to those around him.”
NEW YORK, NY — A proposal by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority to increase transit fares and tolls in 2009 drew sharp criticism from an array of powerful officials on Tuesday, as the mayor, City Council speaker and Assembly speaker said they would oppose it, and the governor pledged “to do everything I can to prevent it.”
SOUTH PADRE ISLAND, TX — Cars stacked up in a slow-moving procession across the Queen Isabella Bridge as a strengthening Hurricane Dolly inched ever closer to South Padre Island, Texas. Among the exodus of residents and tourists heading inland were the 40 campers and staff of Lubavitch Camp Gan Israel.
NAPLES, FL — You’ve sent Johnny away to baseball camp, space camp and math camp. Why not add a religious camp to the list?
How about a camp centered around pride in the Jewish faith?
More pictures in the Extended Article! (by Jennifer Whitney)
JERUSALEM, Israel — As the city of Jerusalem cleaned up after another terrorist attack, Chabad’s Terror Victims Project geared up to once more visit the injured in the hospital.
I would like to wish Mazal Tov to my friend Chaim and Rivky (nee Wilansky) Perl (Crown Heights) on the birth of their daughter.
May the newborn be a source of Nachas to her parents, grandparents, relatives and Klal Yisroel.
BONITA SPRINGS, FL — Rabbi Mendy Greenberg pointed to two symbols on the package of frozen chicken he pulled from the freezer.
“That shows it’s held to a higher standard,” Greenberg said, because two groups judge the product as meeting kosher standards.
PALO ALTO, CA — Wondering who’s Jewish? Take a tip from Rabbi Dov Greenberg. As director of Stanford University’s Rohr Chabad House, he’s developed a foolproof way to find out:
“Sometimes I sit in the center of campus and try to meet Jewish students,” he explained. “I’ll ask, what faith community are you part of? If the student tells me he’s Mormon, I know the student is Mormon —that’s fine. If the student says he’s Buddhist, I know the student is Buddhist. But if the student answers, I’m a human being,” Greenberg said, “I switch to Hebrew and invite him to Chabad House for Shabbos.”
BROOKLYN, NY — The price of a gallon of Cholov Yisroel (higher standard kosher milk) reached $6.40 a gallon in some places in New York State last week.
The soaring prices for kosher milk are part of the steadily rising prices for kosher foods in general.
This weeks Living Torah, titled “Bris Milah for Soviet Jewry” (Volume 51, Episode 201)
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Available in Hebrew, French and Russian in the Extended Article.
Please take a moment and say a Kapitel Tehillim for a Refuah Shlaima.
Fruma Baila bas Zelda Sarah
Shayna bas Esther
Nachum ben Sarah
Eliyahu Asher ben Chaya
Sara Chaya bas Zisha Leah
JERUSALEM, Israel [INN] — For the second time in three weeks, an Arab commandeered a bulldozer to commit a terrorist attack in Jerusalem. He wounded several people before being shot and killed.
More pictures in the Extended Article.
We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Mendy and Rochie (nee Minkowicz) Lieberman (Crown Heights) on the birth of their daughter.
May the newborn be a source of Nachas to her parents, grandparents, relatives and Klal Yisroel.
Yosef Gansburg (Crown Heights) and Baila Behrman (Crown Heights)
IYH at 1265 Carroll Street, [between Brooklyn and New York Ave].
To submit a Simcha or Mazal Tov please email us mazaltov@crownheights.info
The three-week JLI course on the Beis Hamikdosh opens this week at over 200 Chabad Houses across the globe. In keeping with the Rebbe’s directive to study Hilchos Bais Habchirah during the three weeks, the course will bring to life the central role and function of the Bais Hamikdosh. The course materials include a dynamic Flash audio-visual which, when displayed overhead, takes the participants on a virtual tour of the Bais Hamikdosh.
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