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Shluchim to Establish Home Inside New Chabad House

Changes have once again been made to the plan for the Aspen, Colorado Chabad Jewish Community Center, which now includes a 3,500-square-foot home on the Main Street property.The plan once called for a 4,500-square-foot social hall next to a 10,550-square-foot building that will house a synagogue and preschool classrooms. But that has been changed, and a new land-use application was ...

Shluchim Prep for Peak Giving Season

With the end of the fiscal year quickly approaching, people are hurrying to make their final donations of 2012, and many shluchim are looking to be the lucky receivers.Fun facts:· 41% of all giving occurs in the last few weeks of the year.· 33% of December donations occur on December 31.· The peak giving time on December 31 is between ...

Shluchim in the Mountain Time States

The Jerusalem Post featured the story of 4 Shluchim and their families who live in the ‘mountain time’ states and are among few Jews and face many challenges.Raizy Mendelsohn, who codirects the Chabad of Jackson Hole, Wyoming, with her husband, Rabbi Zalman Mendelsohn. Jackson Hole is far from the thriving Jewish communities in Toronto and Ramat Beit Shemesh where she ...

Shliach to Serve as Chaplain at London Olympics

Redbridge rabbis will have a significant presence as chaplains at the Olympic Games, after it was confirmed four will be providing first-hand support to athletes and visitors. Among them Shliach Rabbi Moshe Muller the assistant director of Chabad Lubavitch Ilford Center.The four that will be in the Olympic Village during the Olympic and Paralympic Games include Rev Gary Newman, of ...

Shliach Delivers Prayer at Military Gathering

At the conclusion of last week, Rabbi Berel Zaklikofsky, Director of Chabad of Goodyear, AZ was invited by Lieutenant Colonel Chaplain Ted Wilson to be honored with delivering the “Jewish prayer” at the National Prayer Breakfast at Arizona’s Luke Air Force Base, located in West Phoenix.It was attended by 200 Men and Woman from the Base, who look forward all ...

Shliach Defends Chabad in Jewish Week

In an article published about two weeks ago, Francine Klagbrun of the Jewish Week published an opinion column where, after complimenting Chabad for their genuine outreach to every Jew, regardless of financial means, offers a laundry list of old complaints about Chabad. Rabbi Tuvia Teldon, Director of Chabad in Long Island, wrote the following letter in response:Francine Klagbrun’s opinion column ...

Shliach 5th Most Followed Rabbi on Twitter

A list released by social media blog Pluggio of the top five Rabbis using Twitter reveals that Rabbi Yisrael Pinson, Shliach in West Bloomfield, MI popularly known as ‘The Recovery Rabbi,’ is the fifth most followed rabbi on the social network, with 4,289 followers.Rabbi Yisrael Pinson is the Director of the Daniel B. Sobel Friendship House and a rabbi and ...

Shimon Peres Pardons Yosef Banda, 1 of 3 Bochurim Arrested in Japan

Three years after the three Bochurim were arrested in Japan on charges of smuggling of dangerous substances, Enlightening News Spread across the Charedi World when one Yosef Banda was released yesterday after serving his sentence the last year in Israel, all made possible by Israeli President Shimon Peres at the recommendation of Justice Minister Yaakov Neeman,who signed an order – a pardon, in coordination with law ...

Sheldon Adelson Sues Wall Street Journal Reporter Kate O’Keeffe for Libel

Jewish-American casino magnate Sheldon Adelson sued a Wall Street Journal reporter last week for libel for calling him “foul-mouthed.”The lawsuit filed on February 22 seeks “damages, including aggravated, exemplary and special damages,” for a December 5 article co-written by Kate O’Keeffe. Only O’Keeffe is named in the suit, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday.In their December article, “Fired Executive Rankles ...

Sheldon Adelson Again Donates $500K to Super PAC Supporting Rabbi Boteach

Casino magnate Sheldon Adelson and his wife for a second time have given $500,000 to a Super PAC supporting Rabbi Shmuley Boteach’s bid for Congress.The Adelsons gave the money to the Patriot Prosperity PAC, The Wall Street Journal reported, citing people with knowledge of the gift, after having given the same amount earlier this year. They also gave $10,000 directly ...

Shechita in England Under Threat Once Again

A major supplier of kosher meat to England has shut down. McDonald’s denies it issued a “shut down your kosher plant or else” ultimatum. Slaney Foods in County Wexford, Ireland, which supplies kosher meat for the London Board for Shechita (LBS), announced this past week that “We have made the decision not to have religious slaughter.”The London-based Jewish Chronicle reports ...

Shas’s Torah Sages publish letter slamming Amsalem

A letter written by Rabbi Ovadia Yosef slamming MK Haim Amsalem for his “strange and heretical opinions” and calling for him to return his mandate to Shas appeared in the party’s newspaper From Day to Day on Thursday.“The Council of Torah Sages met with great sorrow [to discuss] the words of Haim Amsalem, who opened his mouth about our dear ...