A New Generation of Israeli Soldiers Confronts the Unknown Across the Lebanon Border

ISRAEL’S NORTHERN BORDER — Ohad, 22, is a narrow-faced warrior who has spent four years in the Israeli Army and operated tanks in the Palestinian territories, tough duty for any soldier. But going across the Lebanese border brought a new set of anxieties.

Having worked on the border before, he was familiar with the Hezbollah fighters he would be facing. Hezbollah positions and Israeli positions had been close enough for soldiers on each side to recognize the faces on the other, he said. But southern Lebanon itself was a forbidding place, known only from the hearsay of past wars.

Jews For J On New Mission In NYC

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Those evangelical Christians of Jewish heritage are back in town setting out to convert Jews. The Jews for J are fanning out around New York during the month of July at the end of a five-year program to visit every city in North America with more than 25,000 Jews living in it. New York is the finale.

CBS 2 caught up with one group recently in the Diamond District; two women and one man moving among the Jewish owned businesses there trying to attract coverts. It’s not an easy sell.

“Who do you think J is?” they ask? Most people don’t even look up. Those who do, seem less than thrilled.

Picture of the Night – Monticello

Children in the Mountain Lodge Bungalow Colony, Monticello stand around a late night bon fire and roast marshmallows.

Visiting Day in YSP – Morristown

More pictures in the Extended Article!

New Shluchim To Canada

Rabbi & Mrs. Menachem Gansburg will IYH be moving on Shlichus to Toronto, Canada, where they will be establishing a new Chabad House on Avenue Road.

The Gansburgs were appointed by Ontario’s Head Shliach Rabbi Z. A. Grossbaum.

Hatzlacha Rabba!

The Gansburgs’ can be reached via e-mail at Menachem@myJLI.com.

Cornerstone for New Synagogue in Ukraine

Dneprodzerzhinsk, Ukraine -– The cornerstone has been laid for the foundation of the future Synagogue and Community Center at a festive ceremony in Dneprodzerzhinsk.

The synagogue and Community Center building will be completed in one year and will constitute an exact copy of the famous Synagogue 770 in New York, the headquarters of the World Lubavitcher Movement. The Synagogue will be called Beit Baruch in honor of Boris Bogoliubov, the father of the main donor of this project and Chairman of the Jewish Community of Dnepropetrovsk Gennady Bogoliubov. The Community Center will be called “Beit Reuven” in memory of Rabbi Reuven Kaminetsky, the father of Chief Rabbi of Dnepropetrovsk and its region Shmuel Kaminetsky.

To Be a Body

If you’re a single-celled creature, you basically need to do everything on your own

To be a body is for each part to do things for the others. For example: every cell in our body requires oxygen, but it is the mouth and lungs that inhale it and process it. Similarly, every part of the body needs or wants to eat, drink, think, talk, sing, walk, dance, toss a ball, plant a garden and watch a sunset. Certain tissues, organs and limbs assume the task and do it for everyone else.

Ditto and Lee Are Off The Streets!

CrownHeights.info has learned that the two ‘Officers’ that were assigned to car 1474, Ditto and Lee, known as the APL car [or otherwise knows as the car that gives out all the seatbelt and cell phone tickets], were removed from street duty! This news comes after they have harassed Crown Heights residents, and according to most residents, they were biased and have harassed both Shomrim and Hatzalah Members in the past.

Motorists still remember the first two ‘Officers’ Kennedy and Muintz who were removed from their duties for various violations. The most serious being; they struck a pedestrian on Purim during the ticket blitz then left the scene, telling the pedestrian “nothing happened”, and another incident where they made a motorist get out of her vehicle to collect her drivers license and ticket.

After the removal of these two ‘Officers’, Lee and Ditto were assigned to the APL car. There are numerous rumors flying about as to the circumstances of their removal, one of them being; after an investigation of hundreds of complaints to the CCRB [Civil Complaint Review Board] against the duo. The CCRB opened the camera that is located on the windshield of the car [placed there to prevent departmental irregularities] and the investigators came across a harrowing incident where the ‘Officers’ chased a motorcycle out of the jurisdiction of the 71st precinct, during which the cyclist was involved in a fatal accident and upon this happening the two ‘Officers’ ‘fled’ the scene.

Keeping the Jewish spark burning

Four months ago, Rabbi Dovie and Chaya Shapiro came to Flagstaff from Brooklyn, via Miami Beach, to start a special Jewish center in town.

The couple was brought to town by Rabbi Zalman Levertov, regional director of Chabad of Arizona, centered in Phoenix, to establish a Chabad Jewish Center in Flagstaff.

Their goal was to reach out to Jews in the Flagstaff area, help make them more aware of their Jewishness and bring them closer to their Jewish roots.

What happens when 200 friends come for a haircut

Chaim Newman’s long blonde hair reached down to his waist. But it all disappeared at his third birthday party where he had his very first haircut.

His mother, Yehudis Newman, cut the first piece of hair from his forehead. Then his father, Rabbi Mordechai Newman, lopped off a section in the back that was in a ponytail, His grandparents followed, each taking a snip. His father then invited the 200 guests attending the July 10th party at the Courtyard by Marriott hotel in Alexandria, to take turns cutting as well.

More in the Extended Article!

Brooklyn congressional race heats up

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It was a seat once held by Shirley Chisholm in a district that was redrawn to help increase the amount of African American representatives in Congress.

Now, in Crown Heights, Brooklyn the question being asked is “Should a white man represent a primarily black district?”

This part of Brooklyn has always had an African American representing them in Washington. It all dates back to the days of Chisholm, the Voting Rights Act and a lot of politicians like Al Sharpton say the district’s historic black representation should continue.