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AllJewishLinks.com Newsletter Issue # 55 – November 7, 2012
Volunteers from the Rabbinical College of America Chabad Headquarters of New Jersey together with its new division Rutgers Jewish Outreach headed into the evacuated and powerless city of New Brunswick and handed out free self heating Kosher meals to all the students stuck without electricity or food.Previous commentaries have queried which of the two major protagonists of the akeda or the ...
Read MoreAllJewishLinks.com Newsletter Issue # 72 – March 21, 2013
Pope Francis reaches out to Rome’s Jewish community at the very start of his pontificate, pledging to continue to strengthen the increasingly close ties between Catholics and Jews. Just hours after he was elected the first Latin American pope in history, Francis sent a letter to Rome’s chief Rabbi Riccardo di Segni, saying he hoped to contribute to the progress that ...
Read MoreAllJewishLinks.com Newsletter Issue # 71 – March 14, 2013
Park Slope has not been home to a kosher restaurant, that changed when owners of a popular authentic French Bistro decided to make changes. Along with a new name, a French chef and Kosher certification. Formerly known as Belleville, is now called Chagall and according to the owners Dan and Sonia Halimi the inspiration for the new name comes from the Jewish ...
Read MoreAllJewishLinks.com Newsletter Issue # 78 – May 23, 2013
Polish officials have honored Irena Sendler, a Polish woman credited for saving 2,500 Jewish children from the Holocaust, by naming a walkway in a symbolically important spot after her. The walkway is in the former Warsaw Ghetto between a monument to the Jews who fought in the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto uprising and the new Museum of the History of Polish Jews.Should we ...
Read MoreAllJewishLinks.com Newsletter Issue # 77 – May 15, 2013
A Jewish burial plot in the island state of Cape Verde was rededicated with help from the king of Morocco. About 100 people attended the rededication ceremony last week. The support of King Mohammed VI to this project is representative of Morocco’s attachment to the preservation of its patrimony whether Arab, Jewish or Berber, Andre Azoulay, the king’s Jewish advisor, said in ...
Read MoreAllJewishLinks.com Newsletter Issue # 79 – May 29, 2013
25,000 people of all ages are expected to attend the upcoming 20th Annual Israel Day Concert in Central Park. The Carl Freyer z”l Tribute and Dr. Manfred Lehmann Memorial event will be held at Central Park’s Bandshell on Sunday, June 2nd, the 46th anniversary of the miracle of the Six Day War and the reunification of Jerusalem, from 2:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m., ...
Read MoreAllJewishLinks.com Newsletter Issue # 81 – June 19, 2013
Five years ago, Rabbi Moshe Kotlarsky and Rabbi Yerachmiel Benjaminson joined forces and Chayolei Tzivos Hashem, a thoughtfully designed educational and motivational system geared specifically for Lubavitcher children. Chayolei Tzivos Hashem has become a household word for its 4,832 members spanning 232 cities in 29 countries. Building on that success, Merkos L’Inyonei Chinuch and Tzivos Hashem have come together once again, this ...
Read MoreAllJewishLinks.com Newsletter Issue # 80 – June 12, 2013
Shoppers have been outraged over the discovery of an Amazon seller’s newest line of baby apparel: Jewish baby bibs. The bibs may be in possible violation of the online giant’s policy prohibiting products that glorify hatred, violence, racial, sexual or religious intolerance. Following the criticism, Amazon pulled several variations of the products.Two years since Chabad launched a centre in the lower ...
Read MoreAllJewishLinks.com Newsletter Issue # 82 – June 26, 2013
Catherine Afarian calls herself a “love child of the ‘70s.” Her mother discovered that she was pregnant after she had broken off a relationship of less than a year. Afarian has never met her biological father, but her mother always said he came from a big Italian family. In late 2010, though, Afarian learned that a big part of her identity ...
Read MoreAllJewishLinks.com Newsletter Issue # 83 – July 4, 2013
A Dutch court on ordered one Anne Frank charity to give the Frank family archive back to another charity in Switzerland, following an uncomfortable public dispute over the Jewish teenager’s legacy.The Amsterdam District Court ruled the Anne Frank Foundation in Amsterdam must give the archive back to the Anne Frank Fund in Basel, Switzerland.Major American Jewish organizations roundly praised the US Supreme ...
Read MoreAllJewishLinks.com Newsletter Issue # 84 – July 10, 2013
Most people immigrate to Israel for spiritual, religious or familial reasons, and medical care doesn’t usually factor into the equation. In the case of Iris Kowen’s family, that was not the case. Living in the Holy Land was always the ideal, but it was the issue of medial necessity, and special needs potential that prompted the family to consider it seriously. Kowen’s ...
Read MoreAllJewishLinks.com Newsletter Issue # 85 July 17, 2013
For 15 years now, Chabad of the East Valley in Arizona, one of the fastest-growing states in America has been searching for a permanent home. They have based operations in such varied locations as a rented apartment, hotel rooms, boardrooms, the living room of a house, a local storefront, and the nearby Jewish Community Center and synagogue. None of these, however, ...
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