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Its 10 years later. Looking back, have we learned the necessary lessons? Have we learned anything at all?
For most of us, 9/11 was our first first-hand exposure to pure evil. We got to see from up close what our brothers and sisters in Israel have experienced for decades: pure, unadulterated evil, in the form of human monsters who have absolutely no regard for human life.
Have we grown from the experience?
Have we gained clarity on the importance of stamping out evil (read: Islamic terror), or have we reverted back to our old ways of apologizing for our foes?
Have we as a society gained the courage to stand up proudly in the correctness of our cause, or has fighting evildoers become a matter of opinion and your particular political point of view?
Are we passionately pursuing our G‑d given mandate to make the world a place where goodness prevails, or are we too preoccupied with how we'll be viewed by the bad guys and their sympathizers?
These are not, in my view, political questions. They're moral ones. Are we a moral people who clearly know right from wrong, or do we continue to equivocate?
It's Rosh Hashana time, time for an honest look at ourselves. The macro is a reflection of the micro. Perhaps if we introduced more moral clarity into our personal lives we'd have the requisite resolve to defeat the enemies of goodness on a global level.
The Creator granted us free choice in all our moral choices. Fighting evil is a moral choice.
The Torah spells it out in two simple words:
Choose life!
Shabbat Shalom,
Rabbi Shalom M Paltiel
P.S. Join me at shul this Shabbat as we commemorate 9/11 and reflect on the above lessons and others, while praying for the departed souls and the wellbeing of the countless widows, orphans, parents and siblings they left behind. |
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Registration is now open for Chabad Hebrew School 2011-2012.
Is your child signed up yet for Hebrew School? Don't miss out! Hebrew School starts on Sunday, September 18 and registration is in full swing. Sign up today by visiting www.FunHebrewSchool.org.
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WELCOME NEW MEMBERS!
Our MEMBERSHIP CAMPAIGN is UNDERWAY! Our goal is to reach 180 families by the end of this High Holiday season. (We currently have 162 member families). Please help us by signing up yourself or inviting friends to consider joining. Click here for a list of all our MEMBERSHIP perks and for an online sign up. Or email [email protected] and request a Membership Pakcage be mailed to you for your consideration.
We welcome two new families who have joined:
Andy & Julie Kramer
Edie & Alex Rothschild
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Chabad's Adam Katz Athletic Center to offer GIRLS and BOYS Basketball
Classes are filling up for Island Garden Basketball at Chabad Super League.
Click here for info and to sign up.
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High Holidays with Chabad
Rosh Hashana, September 28-30
Yom Kippur, October 7-8
Join Chabad of Port Washington for a meaningful and uplifting High Holidays service. All High Holiday Services will take place at the Chabad of Port Washington located at 80 Shore Road, Port Washington, NY 11050.
Click here for more full High Holiday schedule and more info.
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Mommy & Me with Yoga
Mondays | 9:45 -10:45 am
Michelle Lublin, of Om Sweet Om together with Sara Paltiel, director of Chabad of Port Washington, invite you to to join us for a spectacular Mommy and Me with Yoga. Yoga, Music & Movement in a Preschool setting.
Click here for more info and to register online.
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The King in the Field
During the month of Elul, G‑d is like a "King in the field" - He goes out from his lofty palace to find each and every Jew, wherever they may be. He greets them with a smiling countenance and eagerly hears their requests.
Click here to watch a 5-minute clip.
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The Kosher Pig
By: Rabbi Aron Moss | Sydney, AU
Question: I am so embarrassed I don't know what to say. I bought a tomato sauce in the supermarket last week that I thought was kosher. I always buy this brand, but this time it seems I chose a different flavor than usual. After cooking with it and feeding my family, I read the ingredients, and to my horror, the sauce wasn't kosher! When I say not kosher, I mean as not kosher as you can get. It contained... ham! I will do whatever I need to make my kitchen kosher again, I know that can be fixed. But what devastates me is, what can I do about what I ate, and fed my family?
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Board of Directors
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Adam Katz, Esq., President
Frank Arnold
Bert Brodsky
Martin H. Brownstein, M.D.
Howard Fensterman, Esq.
M. Allan Hyman, Esq.
Sara E. Paltiel
Rabbi Shalom M. Paltiel
Alan Rosenzweig
Alan Salzbank
Michael Samuel
Felix Sater
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CONDOLENCES
Condolences to Robert & Carol Brenner on the tragic death of Bob's grandson.
BIRTHDAYS
Deborah Kagan 9/9
Ashley Shurka 9/9
Abigail Kagan 9/12
Samuel James Podolsky 9/12
Brooke Cenname 9/14
Ariella Sater 9/15
YARTZEITS
Samuel David Katz,
9/10/2011 | Elul 11, 5771
observed by Adam & Diane Katz
Chabad President Adam & Diane Katz
Pincus Iseson,
9/12/2011 | Elul 13, 5771
observed by Jonathan D Iseson
Mordechai Yaron,
(Mordechai ben Avraham)
9/12/2011 | Elul 13, 5771
observed by Glen & Tami Ruben
Glen & Tami Ruben
Milton Kaplan, (Moshe ben Chanoch)
9/14/2011 | Elul 15, 5771
observed by Danny & Carol Kaplan
Jimmy Burman,
9/15/2011 | Elul 16, 5771
observed by Ross & Audrey Burman
Russ and Audrey Burman
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Daily Thought
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Inner Anxiety
Often, anxiety takes root because a person's external character is incompatible with his or her inner self. The anxiety may dwell upon other issues and obsessions-but none of these are the true underlying cause.
Most souls can tolerate a few inconsistencies. But others are sensitive to every nuance. As soon as some aspect of their lifestyle is not attuned to the purity of the essential self, the entire person is thrown off balance.
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 What Is Kabbalah?
If this is a secret wisdom, why are we teaching it?
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 Getting to G‑dliness
There comes a day when the prophet hears with his ears the voice that brings all into being. But that is not yet G‑dliness . . .
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| Mitzvah Minute |
 Thank G‑d for the Moon!
Once a month, as the soft, mellow light of the moon waxes in the sky, we recite a special blessing called Kiddush Levanah...
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| Parshah Potpourri |
 Parshah in a Nutshell
The hungry employee and a dead brother's wife, how to get married, when to get divorced-and sixty-eight other mitzvahs.
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Chabad-Lubavitch News from Around the World |
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 Scotland's Sole Kosher Restaurant Celebrates Fifth
Having eaten in kosher restaurants in America, London, and Manchester, Garry Mann has a basis for comparison when he's sitting down for one of his regular meals at L'Chaim's Restaurant in Glasgow.
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 Hundreds Party at the Beach During Atlantic City's Jewish Summer Fest
More than 800 people took the Jersey Shore south of Atlantic City for the seventh-annual Jewish Summer Fest, turning out on a Labor Day Weekend just one week after Hurricane Irene forced massed evacuations.
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 Thousands Walk on Behalf of Children With Special Needs
Upwards of 5,000 people from across Michigan descended on the grounds of the Meer Family Friendship Circle in West Bloomfield, sending a river of purple-clad walkers on a five kilometer trek to the local Jewish Community Center.
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 9/11Commemorations Focus on Adding Light to Troubled World
Chabad-Lubavitch centers across the United States are planning a plethora of events commemorating the 10-year anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon that claimed the lives of more than 3,000 people.
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Parshat Ki Teitzei
Seventy-four of the Torah's 613 commandments ( mitzvot) are in the Parshah of Ki Teitzei. These include the laws of the beautiful captive, the inheritance rights of the first-born, the wayward and rebellious son, burial and dignity of the dead, returning a lost object, sending away the mother bird before taking her young, the duty to erect a safety fence around the roof of one's home, and the various forms of kilayim (forbidden plant and animal hybrids).
Also recounted are the judicial procedures and penalties for adultery, for the rape or seduction of an unmarried girl, and for a husband who falsely accuses his wife of infidelity. The following cannot marry a person of Jewish lineage: a bastard; a male of Moabite or Ammonite descent; a first- or second-generation Edomite or Egyptian.
Our Parshah also includes laws governing the purity of the military camp; the prohibition against turning in an escaped slave; the duty to pay a worker on time and to allow anyone working for you - man or animal - to " eat on the job"; the proper treatment of a debtor and the prohibition against charging interest on a loan; the laws of divorce (from which are also derived many of the laws of marriage); the penalty of 39 lashes for transgression of a Torah prohibition; and the procedures for yibbum (" levirate marriage") of the wife of a deceased childless brother or chalitzah ("removing of the shoe") in the case that the brother-in-law does not wish to marry her.
Ki Teitzei concludes with the obligation to remember "what Amalek did to you on the road, on your way out of Egypt." |
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