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| Shliach in the News
Offering Vibrant Jewish Life |  | For the bearded, energetic Novack, 32, who is now the rabbi at the Rohr Center for Jewish Life, a branch of Chabad on Campus that serves Washington University and surrounding communities throughout the region, spiritual leadership was a calling that came over time. Novack says that the idea grew on him as he grew older ■ more
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| Chabad of Tri-Valley
New Home for Torah |  | | Photograph: Dolores Fox Ciardelli | These words were written in Hebrew on parchment in February in Pleasanton to inaugurate the new Torah Scroll for the Chabad of the Tri-Valley. After the first three lines were penned by members of the community with a scribe, the scroll was sent to Israel for completion. Now the Torah has been returned and is ready for dedication Sunday ■ more 
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| Opinion
Why the Opposition? |  | | Chabad Shoreline Festival | Photograph: Chabad Shoreline | There is a debate between a few select opponents and the Chabad of the Shoreline about a synagogue at 181 Goose Lane in Guilford ■ The Chabad of the Shoreline would welcome anyone and everyone to any event at this deserving and needed organization ■ more
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| Op-Ed
Boiler Room Peace |  | I haven’t been around for that long, yet I experienced a distinct déjà vu feeling this week when I saw the headline announcing that peace talks are back on the agenda for Israelis and Palestinian Arabs ■ more
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| A Birthday Hachloto
The Daily (Digital) Chitas |  | "Listening to Rabbi Gordon is like hearing your father or grandfather tell you a fairy tale," German Zeidner, who grew up in Tel Aviv, Israel, and never studied Torah formally, told Chabad-Lubavitch in the news release. "He uses modern terminology, examples from every day, so you can really absorb what he is saying ■ more
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| Merkos Shlichus:
Divine in Providence |  | We began with a "Shalom" and a shofar, the kids mimicking the sounds in preparation for the blowing. Then with a hush, as the Hebrew-school kids finished calling out everything they knew about Rosh HaShanah, the shofar rang out for all to hear ■ more
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| Opinion
Justice Denied: Too Many Foul Balls |  | Seventy-five years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court stated: "The United States Attorney is the representative not of an ordinary party to a controversy, but of a sovereignty whose obligation to govern impartially is as compelling as its obligation to govern at all; and whose interest, therefore, in a criminal prosecution is not that it shall win a case, but that justice shall be done ■ more
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| Merkos Shlichus:
How the Tanya Was Printed in Egypt |  | It seems like we have something going with the ambassadors. As you may have read a few days ago, we met with the Swiss Ambassador to S. Korea. And now we met the Israeli Ambassador, Mr. Tuvia Israeli. We presented him with a book, and he asked if it was a Tanya ■ read on
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| Isrealinks
Students Inspired in Eretz HaKodesh |  | | Photograph: Berele Scheiner/ Chabad.edu | “What Israelinks does is give them a stronger sense of commitment to Jewish practice, pushes them to the next level,” echoed Rabbi Eli Silberstein, director of the Roitman Chabad Center at Cornell University. “They’re no longer observers, but leaders ■ more
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| Miracles in Cape Town? |  | In truth however, it's the second more integrated approach that has a deeper and more long lasting effect. When there aren't miracles to inspire us we have to find that faith within. We need to initiate, to explore, to study and appreciate what our relationship with G-d really mean ■ more | | | |
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| Yagdil Torah
Kovetz for Chof Av Released |  | Thanks to their perseverance we have Toras Levi Yitzchak, and learning it will most assuredly give nachas to his Neshama. To this end Yagdil Torah has compiled a short booklet
to be learned on his yahrtzeit ■ more
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| From the Press
What About Chabad? |  | However, since Rosenblatt acknowledges (albeit not till halfway through the article) that Chabad has successfully pioneered this very model at universities around the world, and that Hillel is now applying Chabad’s example to their own efforts, it seems that the column implies something deeper ■ more
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| Nathan Lewin
One Standard of Justice? |  | | Photograph: Shturem Archives | Rubashkin, unlike Anagnostou and Cheng, did have a procedure in which applicants for jobs were screened to weed out illegal aliens. In fact, immigration officials acknowledged in a sworn affidavit that an undercover federal agent was rejected twice for a job at Agriprocessors because his documentation was inadequate ■ more
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| Shluchei Adoneinu
Shluchim in Hostile Lands |  | | Photograph: Ynet | The Mossad representative was forced to travel to New York to meet with the Rebbe. "As long as there are Jews there," the Rebbe said, "I cannot order the Hasidim to immigrate to Israel ■ read on
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| Rabbi Asher Deren
Parshas V'Eschanan: Give Me Freedom... |  | Shabbos is freedom? Huh? What's so free about no television? Fire? Ok, that works Shabbat candles are always a nice romantic touch to Friday night dinner. Reason? Oh no... Nothing sensible in 2010 about shutting off your blackberry and walking to Shul in the rain ■ more
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| Bar Mitzvah in the Driveway
"I Knew G-d Sent You to Me" |  | | Merkos Shluchim in Action | Photograph: Shturem | Amongst the communities where we spent some time was Green Cove Springs, a place – we were told – had once been under the strong influence and control of the KKK, we found that to be particularly providential. We exhausted our list of contacts, save for two names ■ more
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| Chabad Reading
Shluchim Host Recovering Addicts |  | What began 10 years ago as an informal visit to a Jewish patient at the nearby Caron Treatment Center, who randomly had called Rabbi Yosef Lipsker looking for help, has turned into a decade of connections to hundreds of Jewish people in recovery ■ more
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| Rabbi Pinchas Lipschutz
Hashem, Please. Never Again |  | We are currently marking days of aveilus for the churbanos and tragedies our nation has endured, and we pray that they won’t ever happen again. We have had enough pain and enough tzaros. We have been victimized by enough courts and plead for Eliyahu Hanovi to come and tell us that the geulah is here ■ more
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| Op-Ed
Unfair and Truly Absurd |  | | Photograph: Shturem Archives | Rubashkin is a first-time offender who was convicted late last year of a number of white-collar offenses stemming from his management of a large kosher slaughterhouse and meat packing plant. For this, he received what amounts to a life sentence ■ more
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| Nathan Lewin & Guy Cook
Postville Prosecution Truth |  | Several U.S. attorneys rejected Immigration and Customs Enforcement's raid requests while they were in office. Her office was asked in a formal lawyer's letter to enter the Postville plant peacefully and remove those they found to be illegal aliens, as had been done in Texas. This peaceful proposal was rejected ■ more
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| Rabbinical Centre of Europe
" Sentence Disproportionate and Sinister |  | “Already at the bail stage we saw an outrageous bias against Rubashkin because he was a religious Jew,” added Rabbi Yitzchak Schochet, Rabbi of the Mill Hill Synagogue in London. “This sentence merely compounds our earlier fears and smacks of sinister intent ■ more
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