Forward March for the Rubashkins

“We’re not afraid of hard work.” Getzel and Meir Simcha Rubashkin acclimate to new venues in New York.

Over the past few years, images of the Rubashkin family have been freeze-framed in our consciousness: The meat plant. The raid. The living room. The courtroom scenes. The rallies…These scenes have been seared on our collective memory. The Rubashkins, though, have chosen to move forward. They’ve relocated and recalculated, adjusting the rhythm and routine of daily life to meet new challenges.

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Harvard Chabad Scholar Discusses Genetic Engineering

Rabbi Shlomo Yaffe giving a class to Crown Heights ‘Nightlife’

Genetic engineering is only permissible by Jewish law when it is used to preserve life, and it should not be used in pursuit of specific personality and physical traits, Rabbi Shlomo Yaffe, Chabad’s scholar-in-residence from Harvard University, said during a talk in Kemeny Hall on Tuesday.

A Kotel That’s Being Built in Kawkawlin

The Bay City Times

Artist Martin Roznowski stands in front of a scale replica of the Western Wall which he and his team created at Holsinger Manufacturing in Kawkawlin. The replica of the Western Wall will be installed at the Jewish Children’s Museum in Brooklyn NY.

KAWKAWLIN, MI — In a shop just off M-13, in a small township called Kawkawlin Township, Michigan, a team of six artists has worked for the past month to recreate an ancient and significant piece of history now on its way to Crown Heights.

Battle for Historic LES Ends With Old Guard in Charge

Forward

Contested: The Sixth Street Community Synagogue, shown here in a 2009 file photo, has strug- gled for decades to remain financially viable.

Three years after a Lower East Side match that seemed made in heaven, Manhattan’s historic but struggling Sixth Street Community Synagogue and popular Chabad rabbi Simon Jacobson have divorced amid acrimony to rival that of a bad marriage from an Isaac Bashevis Singer tale.

Public School Students Celebrate Judaism at Winter Camp

New York City public school students take part in a ski trip during a winter camp run by the National Committee for the Furtherance of Jewish Education’s Released Time Program.

Jewish students enrolled in the New York City public school system are participating in a winter camp run by the popular Chabad-Lubavitch run Released Time Program.

Final Preps Underway for Highly Anticipated Teen Shabbaton

Chabad House Compass Express

Excitement is building for the National Teen Shabbaton to begin this Friday in Brooklyn, NY. CTeen’s headquarters in Merkos Suite 302 high atop 770 is a hub of activity as staffers rush to finish the final preparations for the big event.

Will The Know-Your-Rights Seminar Facilitate Better Police-Community Relations?

by Eliyahu Federman

On January 30, 2011, at 1 pm, at Synagogue Beis Shmuel in Crown Heights, constitutional lawyers Norman Siegel and Earl Ward along with 57th District Assemblyman Hakeem Jeffries and Senator Eric Adams will be coming together to help educate citizens about their rights and responsibilities when stopped, questioned, arrested, ticketed or searched by the police.