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| | | | Stop sending your money..! ...and your letters to our old addresses. You CAN begin sending your contributions, donations, and fan mail to our new address! In Lancaster - 620 Race Avenue, Lancaster, PA 17603. In York, 615 Colonial Avenue, York, PA 17403. Any other addresses you may have on record are not valid effective immediately. Take a look at your opportunities below. See what you can afford. In today's economy every little bit helps. | | | | Post Operation Report Divi, our 4 year old, is doing fine after her surgery. Many of you reached out to me and expressed sympathy and empathy for what Shira and I were going through as parents. Some people who I didn't know so well also reached out to us. Thank you all! I was touched and humbled by how many of you care. Shira and I feel privileged to be part of your lives. The Doc says that Divi is near perfect which is ... near perfect. He is happy. We are happy and Divi is happy. At the Doc's office she got to choose a doll. She chose an owl. (Class of 97). On the way down, in the elevator, she informed me that after the next surgery she is going to choose a giraffe. She was a little bit sad when I told her that hopefully we won't need another surgery. Kids! Lancaster Community ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Open House for our New House
Yes! We moved. Closer to F&M, there is room for a sukkah, a little more heimish. Stay tuned for exact dates, but it should be the last week of August. Email me if you are interested in attending and I will be sure to let you know personally.
Rosh Hashana Service and Dinner
We are thinking of doing a RH Service and Dinner at a near by hotel the first night of Rosh Hashana. Are you interested in attending? Let me know so we can gauge interest.
York Community ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Make your weekend into Shabbat! This Friday night service at 7:15pm, followed by dinner at 8:00pm. You can come when you like; RSVP at rabbi@jewishenrichment.com Camp Gan Israel – starts in about 2 weeks. Not registered? You can at www.jewishenrichment.com/camp PLease help us spread the word about the most amazing Jewish experience your kids will have this summer. For testimonials about the camp please call Fran Chock. Talmudic Ethics Class – It looks like we are starting up in a few weeks; this is a fascinating class dealing with issues such as abortion, end of life, copyright issues, choice to live, and other topics that are sure to keep you thinking. You are Guaranteed satisfaction or your money is cheerfully refunded no questions asked. Email me for details. | | |  | Sponsorship Opportunities (Lancaster & York) |  |  | | | One issue of the Susquehanna Valley Jewish News (In honor or memory of a loved one.) $1,200
32 Page Jewish Art Calendar listing the customs and local candlelighting times $3,000
One month of the calendar - $400.00
Mortgage Angels (Sponsor one month of our mortgage) Lancaster - $1800 * York - $2000
Shabbat Dinner (Lancaster) $500.00
Plaque in the Chabad House (Lancaster or York) - Start from $5,000 and up.
Please consider giving what you can when Rabbi Green calls you. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Worldwide Jewish News you may have missed! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ McCain may pick Jewish Congressman as running mate
A report by The Associated Press said that "John McCain's campaign has asked Virginia Rep. Eric Cantor for personal documents as the Republican presidential candidate steps up his search for a running mate."
The 45-year-old Cantor, the chief deputy minority whip in the House, is Jewish and according to the AP report is among Israel's most avid congressional supporters and has been mentioned among several Republicans as a possible running mate for McCain.
In June 2004 American Friends of Lubavitch presented Cantor with the Leadership Award @ their annual dinner and in December 2003 Cantor lit the Menorah on Chanukah at an event for Chabad of the Virginias. Jews are welcome at the Olympics
BEJING, China — Kosher food awaits the Jewish athletes, their families and fans who will descend on Beijing for the 29th Summer Olympics beginning next month.
According to Rabbi Shimon Freundlich, co-director of Chabad-Lubavitch of Beijing, some 400 people are expected to keep kosher at the Olympic Village.
"We are helping provide the kosher food for the athletes, coaches and journalists at the village," says Freundlich, who has been coordinating food shipments for the occasion.
Care packages, including a fruit basket and snacks will be delivered to Jews staying in Beijing for the games "so they have something to nosh on during the day," adds the rabbi.
In addition, Dini's Kosher Restaurant, an establishment under Freundlich's supervision outside of the Olympic grounds, will be open 24 hours a day, six days a week, during the games. It's menu boasts everything from Chinese and Japanese cuisine to New York deli sandwiches.
In anticipation of the increase in demand, Rabbi Chaim Klein, a ritual slaughterer from South Africa, has visited Beijing every three months to prepare more than 7.5 tons of beef and nine tons of chicken.
Chabad Rabbi Meets Wife of Presidential Hopeful
Chabad Rabbi to Southwest Florida Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz Meets Michelle Obama, wife of presumptive Democratic Presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama In Fort Myers, FL This morning.
Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz Spoke with Michelle Obama about her husband's Democratic Presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama Trip to Israel, They also spoke about Speaking the Truth & Standing up for the Truth. Michelle Obama told Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz that we need more Truth in the world.
What Obama Wrote by the Western Wall An Israeli newspaper's disclosure of the note Sen. Barack Obama left at Jerusalem's Western Wall this week is the equivalent of reading someone's diary — a gross violation of privacy — several Long Island rabbis said Friday.
"I think it's a terrible, terrible act," said Rabbi Steven Moss of the B'nai Israel Reform Temple in Oakdale. "Those notes are private messages between the person writing the note and God."
Moss described someone reading Obama's Wailing Wall note was bad enough. But for a newspaper to publish it was like "obtaining a diary and publishing it," he said.
Rabbi Tuvia Teldon, director of Chabad Lubavitch of Long Island in Commack, agreed.
"It's an infringement on his privacy," Teldon said. "Someone wants to have a private conversation with God and it's invaded."
Obama asked God to guide him and guard his family in the note left at Judaism's holiest site.
Maariv, the Israeli newspaper, ran a photograph of the note on its front page Friday. It said the note was removed from the wall by a Jewish seminary student immediately after Obama left.
"I think it's a sad fact that it was revealed," said Rabbi Perry Raphael Rank, of Midway Jewish Center in Syosset. "It's like peering into someone's soul." To see a copy of the note, click here. JLI Course 'Scares' Muslim Groups
JERUSALEM, Israel [INN] — A brief Chabad-sponsored course on the Temple, to be held in Israel this week and the next, has angered Islamic organizations, who call it a threat to the Al-Aksa Mosque compound.
"We view this as a serious and drastic move toward the fruition of extremist organizations to establish a temple in place of al-Aksa Mosque," said Zahi Nujidat of the Islamic Movement. "This represents a real danger to al-Aksa." The Aksa Foundation issued a similar statement.
The course, offered at roughly 200 locations throughout Israel, comes during the two weeks leading up to Tisha B'Av, the fast day that commemorates the destruction of both the First and the Second Temple.
According to Chabad Lubavitch spokesman Rabbi Menachem Brod, the Muslim groups are cynically pointing to the short courses as proof that the Israeli establishment wants to destroy the mosque.
"This is a pure provocation by an organization that is exploiting any opportunity to incite the Arab public to violence against Israel," said Brod. "Every time they are looking for some other excuse to incite, and now they found it in the course."
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