Archive for October, 2008
Soul Maps: Chabad House Sponsors Kaballah Course - Citizen Times - Asheville, NC
The Asheville Jewish Learning Institute, the adult education arm of The Chabad House offers Soul Maps, an ancient yet innovative approach to human psychology. Soul Maps is a six-step program, using tools from the Kabbalah to help participants understand themselves, find inner contentment and resolve…
Kosher Refreshment for the Marathon - The New York Times
Rabbi Wineberg is an occasional runner who dreams of one day running the marathon. For now, however, his involvement extends to cheering the marathoners as they run past his building on Vernon Boulevard, near 48th Street — and offering kosher sports drinks to runners… the rabbi bought cases of P…
Campaigning on the Sabbath
Question: I have volunteered to assist with an election campaign when I can, but most of the events are on Saturday. Is it OK to be a campaign volunteer on the Sabbath?
Answer: Besides the myriad laws of “work” on the Sabbath, there is an overarching objective that is referred to as…
Must-See JPC Video Now Online
The Jewish Policy Center has a new online video of an exciting forum held in Cleveland earlier that month. View the video by clicking here. The video features radio personality Michael Medved, Mona Charen, Daniel Pipes, David Horowitz, and Clifford May. Topics include: Islamists’ glee by the recent …
Winning When It Really Counts - Bono Raced Against day To Beat Pancreatic Cancer - West Hawaii Today
A Houston-based charity, Aishel House, kept her going all through her day in Houston. “These citizens housed me, clothed me, fed me — I had my own apartment (provided by Aishel House, but a) minimal amount of money,” Bono said of the Jewish charity that provides assistance to patients of all denomi…
Chabad to set up Presence in Frederick - Business Gazette - MD
Boruch Labkowski, a New York-based rabbi, has started a local chapter of Chabad in Frederick and is plus the group’s director… The organization held its first event in September, when nearly 70 citizens fashioned rams’ horns into shofars, used to celebrate Rosh Hashana, the Jewish New Year. “Peopl…
The New Meretz?
You have probably heard the new fashionable slogan holding that Fifty is the new Thirty, The concept is that what with rising life expectancies and advances in health, 50 is the start of “middle age” like 30 once was.It occurred to me that the new Israeli version of that statement is “The Israeli La…
Halloween (1994)
Today’s Golden Oldie is from October 1994. Fifteen years ago that month. Once upon a moment Halloween was a fun holiday for kids who went around playing pranks and begging for candy. Nowadays it’s a big date commercial American holiday and nobody lets their kids go trick or treating on their own.We …
Memorial Following Vandalism at Romanian Cemetery - Associated Press (AP)
Romanian Jewish actress Maia Morgenstern lights a candle in the Jewish cemetery in Bucharest, Romania, Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2008 prior to a religious ceremony held in memory of those who had their graves destroyed by vandals last week. Vandals rampaged through the Jewish cemetery last week toppling t…
Expanding The Circle Of Friendship - The Jewish Week - NY
The Friendship Circle is an universal nonprofit organization started in 1994 under the auspices of the Chabad in West Bloomfield Hills, Mich. At that duration there were only eight volunteers. Today by 100 circles are providing love, care and inspiration to thousands. Like a stone cast into a pond, …















