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SDSU Drug Victim’s Brother: Most Parents ‘Unaware’ - MSNBC Today - USAAfter Jenny’s death, her sorority searched for a way to preserve her memory and decided to hold a walkathon, Jenny’s Walk, to raise funds for the San Diego Friendship Circle, the charity she had become involved with as a senior in high school.“It pairs kids with special needs such as autism and Down syndrome with local teens in the community — play dates essentially during the week,” Poliakoff said. “They do homework; hang out. They also have Sunday Fun Days at the Friendship Circle headquarters, where they have carnivals and social events that help mainstream the kids into society and things of that nature.” |
Cabbie Loses Faith in System - The Gazette - Montreal, CanadaA veteran Montreal cabbie who has been fined a total of $764 for having photos of his daughter and the founder of the Chabad Lubavitch movement, two religious symbols and a Remembrance Day poppy in his car is going to court with a special request... |
Miami Beach Synagogue's Lost Torah to be Replaced - Miami Herald - FLA young New York rabbi Sunday began writing the words of the Hebrew Bible on parchment, the first step in a long rehabilitation for Orthodox Jews whose synagogue burned down last month in a suspicious fire... As Katz watched Klein write down the letters and words being sponsored by congregants, he noted the outpouring of good that is arising from a tragedy that has baffled him and others. |
The Spirit Lives In Us - Dayton Jewish Observer - OHJust recently, I was reflecting on Twain’s words as I traveled Israel with the Land and the Spirit Tour of Chabad’s Jewish Learning Institute. Three hundred Jews from the United States, Canada, Australia, Europe and South America joined to discover and experience the spirituality that is embedded in our land, a living holiness that inspires people today just as it has Jews of all the generations before us. |
Making Friends, Helping Families - The Philadelphia Inquirer -PAThe Friendship Circle pairs special-needs students with teens who become their pals. The goal is to provide special-needs youngsters who can be isolated and ostracized with the kind of buddy relationship that sometimes eludes them."The families go through so much having to fight for everything, whether it's schooling or specialists," said Miriam Shemtov, Yehuda's wife and co-director of the program. "They are so stressed. When someone comes and says, 'We're just here to play,' they're grateful." |
Course Examines Moral Issues - Calgary Herald - CanadaWhat do timeless Jewish laws captured in the Talmud have to say about such contemporary issues as abortion, euthanasia and business conduct? You might be surprised, says Rabbi Mordecai Groner, who will be leading a six-week course in Talmudic ethics in Calgary starting mid-May. "You don't need a background in law to find this course both interesting and valuable," says Groner, a rabbi with the Chabad Lubavitch of Alberta in southwest Calgary. |
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