In this week’s “Mishpacha” Magazine an article was published about the organization and some of its history. You can click on the image of the article to get a larger and clearer view. The rest of it is in the Extended Article.
A “spectacular find” unearthed this past summer by a Pittsburgh archeologist is the most concrete evidence of written education in Israel in the 10th century B.C.
The discovery — an inscription of a complete alphabet on a tablet dated to the 10th century B.C. — is expected to feed a hot debate between biblical skeptics and proponents, who disagree on the extent to which the Bible represents historical truth.
On the final Sunday before the election, the New York City mayoral candidates made competing last-minute appeals to voters on the need for change versus the need to stay the course, and both sides made urgent appeals to their supporters to turn out tomorrow despite polls predicting a lopsided victory for the incumbent.
With just three days left in the contest, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and his Democratic challenger, Fernando Ferrer, concentrated on rallying voters in areas containing their most faithful supporters as their organizations began a final blizzard of phone calls and door-to-door canvassing aimed at getting supporters to vote tomorrow.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg may be a Republican, but he’s campaigning heavily in Democratic rich areas, and he’s finding it’s not so hostile territory.
The Republican incumbent didn’t spend Friday on Staten Island or other Republican rich areas like Middle Village, Queens – he went straight into Democratic territory. In order to win, he’ll need them to cross party lines come Tuesday.
At subway stops, he pressed the flesh in Crown Heights and Park Slope with Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz. Then he appeared at a senior center in Bushwick with his Latino supporters, salsa star Willie Colon and City Councilwoman Margarita Lopez.
Jews poised to become the mayor’s biggest ethnic bloc, while Ferrer faces uphill battle.
It should have been no surprise that Mayor Michael Bloomberg chose to make his first campaign appearance with his predecessor, Rudolph Giuliani, at a breakfast to which more than 1,000 Jews had been invited at the Hyatt last Friday.
By packing the room with Jews, a great number of them Orthodox, Bloomberg was assured a hearty and enthusiastic response from a crowd that was enamored of him and his fellow Republican and erstwhile chief executive.
Aspiring millionaires crammed gas stations and convenience stores in 27 states yesterday after the jackpot for the Powerball lottery game shot up to an all-time high of $340 million.
Residents of New York and New Jersey, where the game isn’t offered, flocked across state lines after Saturday’s drawing failed to produce a jackpot winner, automatically boosting Wednesday’s pot o’ gold.
Brooklyn truck driver Joe Losh [A member of our community and Gabai in 770], 55, drove to the Putnam Shell gas station in Greenwich, Conn., with $300 in his pocket — enough to buy tickets for 300 friends and relatives.
After speaking to some people about the recent ticket blitz in Crown Heights, someone told me that there was a quota of 100 tickets that the police had to meet and the 770 intersection. While someone else with influential connections to the police dept. claims he has had the officers camping out in front of 770 dismissed from that location.
But this cant be right, people were being pulled over all over the neighborhood not just in front of 770. And for some strange reason most of the “violators” were Frum Jew’s.
And I have heard that the reason there was a quota on that intersection is that there is a lot of accidents there. Now I ask can someone please tell me if they remember a serious accident there in recent history?! Well I can tell you this much if you look at this Sunday’s news you will see a MAJOR accident with INJURIES down at the Troy Ave. and Empire Blvd. intersection, then go 2 more weeks back and you will see another serious accident that took the police THIRTY MINUTES to respond to and FDNY took 15 minutes while there was an injured motorist lying on the street waiting for help.
I can go on and on about “preferential treatment” that the black’s are claiming we are getting over them. Is this one of them? Or is it the reverse?
The longtime leader of the influential but weakening Brooklyn Democratic Party was convicted Tuesday of mishandling campaign contributions in the first of four cases stemming from a wide-ranging probe of judicial corruption.
After a nearly two-week trial, jurors convicted Assemblyman Clarence Norman Jr. of two felony counts of violating election law by taking excessive campaign donations, and two counts of falsifying business records.
The felony convictions force Norman out of his assembly seat and party position.
I was traveling in China when pictures of the looters in New Orleans began to appear on CNN. They were black of course. Looting and raping and burning are what blacks do when the lid loosens. Yes, I could phrase this more cautiously: These things are what some blacks, etc. or, more cutely, not all blacks are looters, but all looters….blah blah.
Yet it happens time and again. There was Los Angeles, burned in 1992. There have been Cincinnati, Miami, Seattle, Washington DC, Chicago, Detroit, Crown Heights, Watts, Newark, on and on and on. When the law loses its grip, the looting begins.
We have come to expect it. Members of my tour group in China to whom I spoke assumed that the looters were black before watching. They had seen it before. I knew it before I saw the pictures. The looters are always black except when, occasionally, they are Latino. If they were looting for food it would be understandable. But that isn’t what is happening. Few of us eat television sets. Nike’s running shoes are not particularly digestible.
Former Soviet Jews affirm their faith with late-life ritual
Valeriy Kozlov did the unthinkable: He went under the knife for religious reasons.
Kozlov, a Belarus native, followed the example of his friend Leonid Marder, a Russian emigre who was circumcised at age 66. Both resettled in Reisterstown, Md., a city near Baltimore that is home to many Jews from the former Soviet Union.
“As with any operation, a person is afraid of blood — of being cut,” Kozlov said. “But when a person becomes more spiritual, he understands that physical pain is less significant.”
At some point, many Jewish parents have been confronted with a child begging to sit on Santa`s lap — asking for secret presents — or longing to search for eggs with the Easter bunny. The Jewish Children`s Museum has dealt a blow to Jewish Christmas-tree envy by rescuing symbols, icons and toys from a cerebral, textual Judaism. While artists, critics and academics debate the role of Jewish art and Jewish museums, Chabad-Lubavitch built a $31 million children`s wonderland in the heart of Crown Heights.
The Jewish Children`s Museum is the brainchild of Chabad`s youth movement, “Tzivos HaShem,” which is otherwise known for its traveling matzah, Torah and shofar factories. This museum combines the perspectives of the amusement park, the art museum and the museum of ethnography. While the Disney model of mass entertainment may capture the hearts of the young and young at heart, the Jewish Children`s Museum still adheres to the traditional Jewish museum principles: ritual, life cycle and calendar year. Groups of public school children are escorted through the exhibits and offered an opportunity to get a sense of their Jewish neighbors` history and culture. Because the guides, librarians and gift shop and cafeteria workers are all Chabadniks, viewers also enjoy the added benefit of a live ethnographic display. The trip to the museum provides the bonus of a tour of Crown Heights, a crash-course in Lubavitch dress, food and customs.
Just as I had predicted, here is the first article I found
Lubavitch’s Open Wound At 770
Destroyed plaque honoring rebbe points to new round in battle over messianism and control of movement.
Pro-messianist forces are believed to have destroyed plaque honoring Lubavitcher rebbe early Tuesday morning. Michael Datikash
If ever an architectural feature of a building’s exterior stood as a symbol for the life within, then the defaced plaque honoring the late Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson at Lubavitch headquarters in Crown Heigh ts is it.
Like the jagged fault line that eventually brings down the mansion in the famous Edgar Allan Poe story “Fall of the House of Usher,” the cornerstone — which has been vandalized many times over the past few months and was violently ripped out this week — has come to represent a movement bitterly split by those who believe Rabbi Schneerson is the messiah and those who do not.
A row house undergoing renovations in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, collapsed yesterday in a cascade of bricks, cinder blocks, mortar and scaffolding. At least two construction workers buried beneath the rubble were among the 11 people who were injured, one critically, the authorities said.
The collapse occurred about 1:15 p.m. at 103 Meserole Street on a residential block just east of Williamsburg’s enclave of Hasidic Jews.
Firefighters, who were on the scene in less than five minutes, encountered a score of shaken, dust-covered workers who had escaped the wreckage, and who feared that others, buried under debris on the building’s second floor, had been killed.
“I started calling their names, and no one answered,” said Benitas Joseph, 36, one of the workers who escaped serious harm and immediately scrambled through the piles of debris in search of those who were trapped. “I was frightened,” he said. “I thought everybody was dead.”
Fourteen tumultuous years have done little to heal the hurt of Fay Rosenbaum, whose son Yankel was stabbed to death in a 1991 race riot that came to symbolize a dark and angry period in the city’s history.
Rosenbaum’s family, including the 71-year-old matriarch, is back in the city from Australia, once again seeking justice in the Hasidic scholar’s death. This time, they want to show that Yankel Rosenbaum got shoddy treatment from city doctors after Lemrick Nelson left him dying on a Crown Heights street.
“I don’t forgive and I don’t forget,” Fay, 71, told the Daily News in an exclusive interview Wednesday, just before the Brooklyn Supreme Court judge hearing the family’s civil case against the city issued a gag order.
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