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A look into Jewish American vacations Nearly 100 years ago, the Jewish Agricultural Society helped Morris and Belle Fidelman purchase a fruit orchard in South Haven, Michigan, and the barber and his wife soon moved their young family to 80 acres in the country. Yet friends and family members they left behind in Chicago often visited in the summer, contributing money for seeds and equipment. The hospitality business soon proved more profitable than the fruit. By 1930, the farmhouse was replaced with a building that could accommodate 150 guests, and Fidelman's became one of the many Jewish resorts that drew thousands every year to South Haven, known as "The Catskills of the Midwest." The story of Fidelman's — and similar resorts and hotels in Atlantic City, Miami Beach and the Catskills — is told in "The Other Promised Land: Vacationing, Identity and the Jewish-American Dream," an exhibit making its debut at the Spertus Museum in Chicago. "Our logo was 80...

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Which University enrolls the largest number of Jewish students? YU? NYU! Washington Square News February 23, 2006 NYU enrolls the largest number of Jewish students of any public or private university in the nation, according to a recent study by the Hillel Foundation for Jewish Campus Life. With an estimated undergraduate Jewish population of 6,500, NYU has about 1,100 more than the subsequent ranking public universities, the University of Maryland at College Park and the University of Florida at Gainesville, and about 2,500 more than the subsequent ranking private university, Boston University, according to the survey released on Feb. 16. Hillel also estimated that NYU has approximately 6,000 Jewish graduate students, making the university total 12,500 Jewish students — almost one third of the entire student population. “It’s not surprising,” said Aviva Levine, program director at the Bronfman Center for Jewish Student Life. “New York is a natural location for young Jewish students to...

Batiya Miryam Epstein - niece and 2nd wife of the Netziv of Volohzin & Mother of Meir Bar-Ilan Batiya Miryam, the Rabbi's wife, named in Litvak Yiddish "The Rebetzin Bashe Mirl", was the second spouse of HANAZIV. She was a vital and powerful woman in her nature, character and energy. She stood by her husband's side and was of most significant assistance both in his private life as well as in the Rabbi's public activities, for more than twenty years. Long before her ascendance to the Volozhin Rabbinical sphere she was already a remarkable person. As a young girl she was very unusual and unlike most young women, she possessed an intense enthusiasm and devotion to the Torah, thoughtful outlook on life and extra ordinary energy. Bashe Mirl was born in Bobruysk to her father; Yekhiel Mikhael Haleyvi Epstein, the prodigious Rabbi. She was brought up in Novozikow, where her father became the town’s Rabbi. When she arrived to the age of matrimony, several young Jewish...

1929 Video of Rabbi YY Schneerson - 6th Rebbe of Lubavitch

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Jim Joseph Foundation To Become One of the Largest Jewish Philanthropies February 15, 2006 Foundation for Jewish Youth Gets Founder's $500 Million The Jim Joseph Foundation is poised to become one of the biggest Jewish philanthropies in the country with the addition of more than $500 million in assets, all directed toward Jewish education and youth programs. The money will significantly increase the foundation's expenditures, which have averaged about $550,000 a year over the last several years. The foundation will now direct about $25 million a year toward causes and programs for Jewish youths. Mr. Joseph, a West Coast real estate investor and developer, "felt he wanted to try to touch every Jewish child in this country, and his thinking was that by developing programs for youth and children, it would in the future strengthen the Jewish community in the United States," said Alvin T. Levitt, a lawyer and longtime confidant of Mr. Joseph, who will become the president ...

Mazel Tov Wedding of Rachel Kaufmann & Mendy Traxler. Shadchun - Katrina

'Art' Photo Is Not Subject to Privacy Law, Judge Finds Nussenzweig v. diCorcia, 108446.05 Not all artists need be starving, a Manhattan judge has ruled. A dispute between a top photographer and the Orthodox Jew whose picture he surreptitiously took at Times Square -- then sold 10 prints of at $20,000 to $30,000 each -- turned on the question of whether the photograph constitutes commerce or art. As commerce, the picture would be subject to the restrictions set forth in New York's right-to-privacy laws; as art, it would not. The disputed photograph, Supreme Court Justice Judith J. Gische has ruled, is art. "New York has been fairly liberal in its protection of what constitutes art," Justice Gische held in Nussenzweig v. diCorcia, 108446.05. New York courts have "recognized that art can be sold, at least in limited editions, and still retain its artistic character," Gische noted. "This analysis recognizes that first amendment protection of art is not ...

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Reb Chaim Brisker & Einstein Dr. Jakob Grommer was a student of Reb Chaim Brisker(Soloveichik) He was also a student and assistant to Albert Einstein. [ Making of a Godol - page 738] Dr. Grommer correspondence - Albert Einstein Archives

R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr.: Cartoon nonsense WASHINGTON (Creators Syndicate) -- Contemplate this: A Danish newspaper in September publishes some cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad. Four months later Muslims, mostly Arab, get wind of this event and riot, burning Danish flags and attacking embassies, mostly Danish, but thus far also an Austrian Embassy. Apparently geography is one of the many subjects not studied very attentively in Arab schools. At any rate, as the riots intensify local governments can apparently do nothing. Most of these governments, for instance the Syrian, are famously repressive. Yet in this instance they are impotent against the dirty-necked galoots burning flags and howling in the streets of their cities. Some of the governments issue diplomatic demands to the Danish government. Now here is the kicker. From Tehran comes word that Iran's best-selling newspaper, Hamshahri, has announced a cartoon competition. The cartoon competition will endeavor to find the best carto...

An interesting Jewish photoblog . http://jewishnation.blogspot.com/

Reb Yisroel Salanter's son Lipman Lipkin

Chasam Sofer used as a marketing tool for travel industry in Slovakia Chasam Sofer Website

Film: Jewish Life in Krakow - 1939 People going about their everyday lives 6 months before the start of the war. Click and watch

Rabbi Dr. Abraham J. Twerski - Alcohol, Drugs, and Morality Among Orthodox Teens 42:24 minutes Click and Listen

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Steep price drop for the original Making of a Godol Making of a Godol - Original Edition Making of a Godol - Improved Edition

News Report of pogrom of 1905 in the Guardian-UK Days of terror Barbarous massacre in Odessa Jews wiped out Monday November 6, 1905 The events in the suburbs of Moldavanka, Slobodka, and Bugaieoka last night were of a most terrible nature. Immense bands of ruffians, accompanied by policemen, invaded all the Jewish houses and mercilessly slaughtered the occupants. Men and women were barbarously felled and decapitated with axes. Children were torn limb from limb and their brains dashed out against the walls. The streets were littered with the corpses which were hurled out of the windows. The houses of the murdered Jews were then systematically destroyed, not the smallest piece of furniture being left intact. In this way the Jewish population of the district was wiped out. In the poorest quarter of the town the inhabitants began to massacre the students. The newly formed citizen militia offered some resistance and saved the lives of many of the students. The police, however, appeared on t...