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Talmudic Course to Provide Decision Tools
Community Press & Recorder - OH, Thursday, May 08, 2008 |
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Talmudic Ethics tackles big issues like abortion, euthanasia, freedom of expression and fair business practice. Students will learn how the best Jewish minds struggled with hard choices, and trace their search for satisfying resolutions. And they will discover how Judaism offers a moral compass to help them find direction through the maze of life... |
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Remembering The Horror
Jewish Times - NY, Thursday, May 08, 2008 |
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Zisman was a 13-year-old redhead when he arrived at Auschwitz-Birkenau on Tishah B’Av of 1944. Born in Kovno, Lithuania, he had been imprisoned in the ghetto before eventually reaching Auschwitz along with 137 other young teens from his hometown. Only five would survive. Zisman received a blessing from the previous Lubavitcher Rebbe and says, “I believe strongly that his blessing carried me through all I experienced.” |
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Passover Represents 'Spring Cleaning' for the Soul
Post Tribune - IN, Thursday, May 08, 2008 |
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For Zalmanov and other traditional Jews worldwide, the arrival of spring and Passover are synonymous. For some, spring means a thorough cleaning of the home; but Passover symbolizes freedom and the full potential of good that a soul can reach. Zalmanov said a true cleaning also must include the spiritual home. |
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Horry County Chess Champions
Myrtle Beach Sun News - SC, Thursday, May 08, 2008 |
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Joey Scalf (left) and Shlomo Naparstek battle it out during the Horry County Chess Championship held April 6 at Chabad Academy in Myrtle Beach. Naparstek and fellow Chabad Academy student Dovid Ginsburg placed first and second... In the all-girls division, Christian Academy student Effie Lamrinos won first, while Chabad Academy students Sora Lebowitz and Pessi Naparstek placed second and third, respectively. |
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Joining the Friendship Circle is a 'win-win-win'
The Advance - PA, Wednesday, May 07, 2008 |
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Established by Rabbi Yehuda Shemtov of Lubavitch of Bucks County, Newtown, and his wife Miriam Shemtov, The Friendship Circle started with three special needs teens and six volunteers. Just five years later, the group has ballooned into helping over 120 families around the region... |
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Susie Fishbein to Demonstrate Art of Jewish Cooking
Jewish Press - NE, Wednesday, May 07, 2008 |
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Kelli Kirk was born and raised in Omaha and has been involved with Chabad for approximately three years. During that time, she has taken numerous adult education classes, chaired many events, assisted with holidays, organized cooking and craft clubs, spearheaded the recent pickle-making event, assisted with the recent Gala and helped run the Chabad Gift Shop. Currently, she is working to bring renowned cookbook author Susie Fishbein to Omaha for a cooking demonstration. |
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Parents of Student who Died Laud SDSU Efforts
San Diego Union Tribune - CA, Wednesday, May 07, 2008 |
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The Poliakoff family also hopes to draw attention to fundraising efforts in Jenny's name. Her brother Nathan, as well as a member of Alpha Phi sorority, of which Jenny was a member, organized a 5K walk at SDSU on Sunday that raised more than $104,000 for the Friendship Circle. Jenny became involved with the organization, which pairs teens with special-needs students, as part of her senior project at Poway High School. |
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SDSU Drug Victim’s Brother: Most Parents ‘Unaware’
MSNBC Today - USA, Wednesday, May 07, 2008 |
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After Jenny’s death, her sorority searched for a way to preserve her memory and decided to hold a walkathon, Jenny’s Walk, to raise funds for the San Diego Friendship Circle, the charity she had become involved with as a senior in high school.“It pairs kids with special needs such as autism and Down syndrome with local teens in the community — play dates essentially during the week,” Poliakoff said. “They do homework; hang out. They also have Sunday Fun Days at the Friendship Circle headquarters, where they have carnivals and social events that help mainstream the kids into society and things of that nature.” |
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Cabbie Loses Faith in System
The Gazette - Montreal, Canada, Wednesday, May 07, 2008 |
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A veteran Montreal cabbie who has been fined a total of $764 for having photos of his daughter and the founder of the Chabad Lubavitch movement, two religious symbols and a Remembrance Day poppy in his car is going to court with a special request... |
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Jewish Center in Greenacres Starts Writing New Torah Scroll
Sun-Sentinel - FL, Tuesday, May 06, 2008 |
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"If you have one letter missing in the Torah, it makes the whole Torah not kosher," said Rabbi Mendy Rosenfeld of Chabad Jewish Center in Greenacres. "Even if there is a cracked letter, it's not kosher and you can't read from that Torah scroll."... When the Rosenfelds moved to the area in 2006 to found the Chabad Jewish Center, they didn't know anyone. Today, the congregation has 100 to 150 families.The center has been borrowing Torahs from nearby schools and community members, the rabbi said. They are blessed now to have not only their own Torah, but one they all helped write. |
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Preschoolers at Jewish Center Grow with Reggio Emilia Program
South Florida Sun Sentinal, Monday, May 05, 2008 |
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At the Jewish Early Childhood Center, on the Chabad Lubavitch of Greater Boynton campus, teachers see their job as encouraging ideas and problem-solving. They help the children explore long-term projects such as the preschool garden... Cooper said Chabad's school is one of only two Reggio Emilia-inspired preschools in Palm Beach County |
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Miami Beach Synagogue's Lost Torah to be Replaced
Miami Herald - FL, Monday, May 05, 2008 |
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A young New York rabbi Sunday began writing the words of the Hebrew Bible on parchment, the first step in a long rehabilitation for Orthodox Jews whose synagogue burned down last month in a suspicious fire... As Katz watched Klein write down the letters and words being sponsored by congregants, he noted the outpouring of good that is arising from a tragedy that has baffled him and others. |
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The Spirit Lives In Us
Dayton Jewish Observer - OH, Sunday, May 04, 2008 |
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Just recently, I was reflecting on Twain’s words as I traveled Israel with the Land and the Spirit Tour of Chabad’s Jewish Learning Institute. Three hundred Jews from the United States, Canada, Australia, Europe and South America joined to discover and experience the spirituality that is embedded in our land, a living holiness that inspires people today just as it has Jews of all the generations before us. |
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Making Friends, Helping Families
The Philadelphia Inquirer -PA, Sunday, May 04, 2008 |
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The Friendship Circle pairs special-needs students with teens who become their pals. The goal is to provide special-needs youngsters who can be isolated and ostracized with the kind of buddy relationship that sometimes eludes them."The families go through so much having to fight for everything, whether it's schooling or specialists," said Miriam Shemtov, Yehuda's wife and co-director of the program. "They are so stressed. When someone comes and says, 'We're just here to play,' they're grateful." |
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Course Examines Moral Issues
Calgary Herald - Canada, Saturday, May 03, 2008 |
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What do timeless Jewish laws captured in the Talmud have to say about such contemporary issues as abortion, euthanasia and business conduct? You might be surprised, says Rabbi Mordecai Groner, who will be leading a six-week course in Talmudic ethics in Calgary starting mid-May. "You don't need a background in law to find this course both interesting and valuable," says Groner, a rabbi with the Chabad Lubavitch of Alberta in southwest Calgary. |
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Vandalism at Parkland Synagogue Repulsive to Entire Community
South Florida Sun-Sentinel, Saturday, May 03, 2008 |
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You don't have to be a member of the Chabad of Parkland synagogue, or even Jewish, to be repulsed by the anti-Semitic hate crime that took place there this week. You just need to be a caring, concerned member of the South Florida community to understand the extent of the hatred that went into this crime, and the hurt that it caused. |
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May Devoted to Mezuzah Awareness
Pocono Record - PA, Saturday, May 03, 2008 |
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Chabad Lubavitch of the Poconos, the local branch of the international Chabad Jewish outreach movement, is dedicating the month of May to the promotion of the mezuzah to the Poconos Jewish community. |
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Concentration Camp Survivors from Holocaust Part of Sylvania Ceremony
Toledo Blade - OH, Friday, May 02, 2008 |
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At the Toledo Holocaust Memorial in Sylvania to help remember the 6 million victims of the Nazi Holocaust... In the audience was Rabbi Yossi Shemtov of Toledo's Chabad House-Lubavitch."The message is: We're here," Rabbi Shemtov said. "They have hurt us, but with mighty God's protection, we're here." |
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Miri Schneerson
Haaretz - Israel, Thursday, May 01, 2008 |
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I was raised with this understanding. I'm Miri Schneerson because I'm a mother, a grandmother and the wife of my husband, and not because for 10 years I was a CEO and led a revolution in children's clothing in the Haredi sector. I guess that if I were secular I would have had a different attitude toward the sale of the company [last] week. The Jewish woman is the leadership of the Jewish world." |
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Librescu Jewish Center Opens
WSLS 10 - VA, Thursday, May 01, 2008 |
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The Librescu Jewish Student Center opened on April 19. With plenty of space, right down the road from campus and surrounded by nature it’s a “home away from home.” Rabbi Bloom and his wife, Rivkah, were selected to run the center. They say students can expect holiday programs and social events. “That’s something that a lot of students miss coming to college is they miss their home so having a really, warm, welcoming family is something in itself, door is always open here.” |
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Rabbi's New Role
Wentworth Courier - Sydney, Australia, Wednesday, April 30, 2008 |
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For Rabbi Kastel, the desire to guide people through their difficulties is a strong one. A natural networker, he thinks that being a fourth-generation rabbi has instilled these characteristics in him. "My father was an outreach rabbi who was always organising programs. As a child, I helped him organise events and I also did visits to hospital patients." |
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Spotted: at the Chabad Jewish Center of Clark County
The Columbian - WA, Wednesday, April 30, 2008 |
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The traveling Model Matzah Bakery came to town April 13, allowing some 45 participants at the Chabad Jewish Center of Clark County to make their own Passover matzah. |
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