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They had hoped to attract hundreds to protest attempts by leaders of Rabbi Aaron Teitelbaum's congregation to close a dissident synagogue. But whether from fear or lack of interest, only a few men stood in solidarity beside Forest Road on Friday morning as Rabbi Alter Moshe Goldberger raised a megaphone and began railing against Teitelbaum, the spiritual leader of Kiryas Joel's majority faction. For nearly three weeks, a group calling itself the Committee for the Victims in Kiryas Joel had pressed vil  

A few months after Hurricane Ike hit Galveston, Texas, in September 2008, Yeshiva University student David Eckstein went to the devastated area with 32 other students to help rebuild homes. "The doors hadn't been opened since the hurricane. We took the house apart and started rebuilding it, trying to rebuild someone's life," said Eckstein, 23, of West Hempstead, N.Y. "When you picture something on the news, it's hard to imagine it, but when you go in person to see the damage that was done and the lives

The doors hadn’t been opened since the hurricane. We took the house apart and started rebuilding it, trying to rebuild someone’s life   -David Eckstein

 

'cursed be he that keepeth back his sword from blood'. TEL AVIV - The Israel Defense Forces' chief rabbi told students in a pre-army yeshiva program recently that soldiers who "show mercy" toward the enemy in wartime will be "damned", Haaretz, reported. Brig. Gen. Avichai Rontzki also told the students that religious people make better combat troops.

In times of war, whoever doesn't fight with all his heart and soul is damned - if he keeps his sword from bloodshed, if he shows mercy toward his enemy when no mercy should be shown   -Avichai Rontzki

 

The threat received from Lashkar-e-Tayyeba (LeT) about a possible attack on Jewish religious places coupled with LeT terror suspect David Coleman Headley's visit to Pune has triggered panic at the Koregaon park-based Chabad House, a Jewish centre. Following the reports that during his visit to Pune, Headley had visited the Chabad House posing as a Jew and also conducted a recce for identifying spots for terrorist attack in the city, policemen have been deployed outside the Jewish centre keeping a strict  

Unfortunately, the health system has not implemented the passive-euthanasia hospital committees advocated by the 2006 Steinberg Commission. Representing the full range of the ideological spectrum, this 59-member group attempted to form a halachicly defensible national consensus over these life-and-death issues. In the absence of its implementation, this assisted-suicide bill was recently proposed, which, as far as I can tell, does not meet the standards of any Jewish denomination.  

It's just another street in another residential neighborhood of London. From the outside at least, the semidetached house on the right looks like just any other home, set apart by little else than the coat of bright yellow paint covering the walls. The tropical foliage of the large banana tree fighting for space in the front garden temporarily disrupts the uniformity of the identical deciduous trees lining the street, not to mention looking a little out of place beneath the gray British summer skies.  

A rabbi gave children another perspective on religion at a Catholic school. Rabbi Douglas Charing talked to pupils at Holy Rood Catholic Junior School about Jewish celebrations, including Passover and Hanukkah. The school has dedicated this week to learning about Judaism and also had a visit from Martin Vandervelde, the president of the Swindon Jewish Community.  

Chabad of Southeast Morris County covering East Hanover will once again provide Thanksgiving dinners free of charge to individuals throughout Morris County who are alone or homebound during the holiday. The catered dinners will be delivered by volunteers to the homes of those in need on Thanksgiving morning. "Due to the current economic slowdown, we are doubling our efforts to reach every homebound individual during the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday," said Rabbi Shalom Lubin, who is coordinating this  

The agreements reached this week between Intel and the Committee of Rabbis for the Sanctity of Shabbat will not guarantee a calm Saturday around the factory on Har Hotzvim in Jerusalem. Unlike the mainstream ultra-Orthodox factions, the extremist elements in the Haredi community began preparations Thursday to resume demonstrations near the Intel facility because of the company's intentions to run the factory seven days a week. There were no reports last night that the Haredi leader, Rabbi Yosef Shalom  

Kosher supervision via video camera, automation of the production line and the use of non-Jewish workers are some of the creative solutions being weighed that would allow Intel Corp. computer chip plant in Jerusalem to remain open 24/7 without desecrating the Shabbat. "We are discussing a number of options," Rabbi Amir Krispel, a representative of Shas spiritual mentor Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, said on Thursday. "The Institute for Halacha and Science has suggested working together with Intel's haredi employ