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Young Isreal of Kew Garden Hills and Yeshiva Tiferes Miriam Presents Ohad, Shlomie Gertner, Shalsheles Junior and Michoel Pruzansky Motzei Shabbos Chanukah December 8th 2007 8:30pm at Kupferg (colden) Center at Queens College L.I.E at kissena Blvd

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by Rabbi Tzvi Shapiro

Q: I am wondering what is the approach of Judaism to the observance of Thanksgiving holiday. Is it observed or recognized; if yes why, if no why?
Thanks
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An Orthodox Jewish police officer who is suing the Metropolitan Police Department for religious discrimination received permission to grow back his beard, an essential aspect of his faith, until his federal case is resolved.

Las Vegas police detective Steve Riback, left, wearing a black yarmulke on his head, talks to American Civil Liberties Union of Nevada representatives Allen Lichtenstein, center, and Gary Peck at the ACLU offices in Las Vegas in this photo from Aug. 29.

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When David Isler and his wife, Esther, were looking to move from their home in Kew Gardens, Queens, to a house on Long Island, they sought out small Orthodox communities where “everybody knows everybody and is warm and friendly.”
And the $25,000 cash incentive one of them offered didn’t hurt. (more…)

The FBI warned the Rev. Al Sharpton that an inmate at an upstate New York prison was talking about sending a “dangerous substance” in the mail to his New York City offices, Sharpton’s attorney and a law enforcement official said Wednesday. (more…)

A major scandal in Israel Police: Five policemen are being indicted today on charges that they tried to bomb a criminal’s car in Nahariya, in return for his attacks on police.
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Shalsheles began as a group in 1999. The group consists of the composer Yitzchok Rosenthal, Baruch Aryeh, Chaim Block, and Simcha Sussman. After 3 hit albums finally comes the long awaited Volume IV.

UPDATE:

The album is now available in stores.

A couple who after not being able to have children for 23 years finally was blessed with a baby boy. The bris was today. (more…)

A couple has sought divorce just on the fourth day after their wedding. (more…)

Wearing blue camouflage fatigues and crooning about Islamic holy war, the five members of Hamas’s Protectors of the Homeland police band are trying to boost morale in Gaza with an arsenal of anti-Israel numbers.

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A Manhattan restaurant that unveiled a record-breaking $25,000 dessert last week has been forced to shut its doors temporarily due to an infestation of mice and cockroaches.

Dessert: The Frrrozen Haute Chocolate | Description: A slushy mix of cocoas, milk, edible gold and truffle shavings with a gold spoon and gold goblet with diamonds | From: Serendipity-3 restaurant in New York | Cost: $25,000 (more…)

Three Spring Valley police officers will be presented today with certificates from the Tel-Aviv-based Global Anti-Terrorism School. The officers and Legislator David Fried, D-Spring Valley, traveled to Israel last month for anti-terrorism training. The trip, Fried said, was funded by community donations. The presentation of the certificates will take place at 7:30 p.m. in the Legislature chambers. The Legislature meeting will follow at 8 p.m. and will include a hearing on the 2008 proposed budget. (more…)

A Russian doomsday cult leader whose followers have holed up in an underground hideout will be brought to the site in an effort to win the release of several children, a government official said Tuesday.

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On Monday afternoon, around 2:30pm a middle aged Jewish woman was knocked down to the ground on President and Albany and her purse was stolen by two black teenage thugs. (more…)

The Thanksgiving travel week got off to a rocky start Monday as bad weather and equipment problems triggered airport delays that are expected to worsen when a rain and snowstorm hits the center of the USA on Wednesday. (more…)

The 14-year-old Orthodox Jewish boy attacked in Lakewood this weekend in what police have termed a bias crime has told police most of his assailants were white, not black, authorities said yesterday. (more…)

Israel signed an agreement with Liberia on Tuesday to extract diamonds from the African nation, seven months after sanctions barring Liberia from exporting the gems were lifted. (more…)

This week, Nechamie Silberberg, Chabad-Lubavitch representative at the University of Western Ontario will be serving somewhere between 175 to 250 ravenous college students. Down south at Emory University, Miriam Lipskier is prepping Shabbat dinner for the usual 130 guests. Rivkah Slonim of SUNY Binghamton’s will set Shabbat tables for hundreds, too. Chana Sara Darow at Leeds University in England just started; her “small crowd” is 37 guests this Friday night.

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The Israeli-Arab Balad party will hold an assembly this Saturday in Shfaram to vote on whether to accept Israel as a Jewish state. Separately, members will vote on whether to oppose the upcoming Middle East Peace Summit in Annapolis.

According to a statement released by Balad on Monday, the party’s objections to the summit are based on its failure to focus on the “right of return” for Palestinian refugees, the evacuation of settlements in the West Bank and the founding of a sovereign Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital.

The statement also said that the demand on the part of Israel for recognition as a Jewish state is meant to push the issue of Palestinian refugees aside and to give legitimacy to the “second-class standing” of Israeli-Arabs.

The party maintains that the Annapolis summit will be used by the U.S., Israel and the Palestinian Authority to push aside legitimate Palestinian concerns in favor of superficial gestures.

The statement closed with a call to the Palestinian Authority to resist U.S. and Israeli pressure to abandon fundamental Palestinian demands.

source: haaretz

Observing Shabbat but have to call your grandmother? Have to have a cup of coffee when you come back from weekend services? The halachic institute for science and technology has just the thing for you. (more…)

Reb Nachman’s grave in Uman is a cultural site and cannot be sold, the Ukrainian government said. (more…)

A bitter court battle that has divided the Satmar Hasidim of Kiryas Joel and Brooklyn for six years has once again been decided in favor of the faction that now holds power in Brooklyn. The Court of Appeals released a decision this morning upholding lower court decisions in favor of supporters of Rabbi Zalmen Teitelbaum, one of two brothers with rival claims to leadership of the 100,000-strong religious sect. (more…)

Ido Zoldan, 29 and a father of two, was murdered in a terrorist shooting attack in Samaria around 11:00 pm Monday night. (more…)

More than 3,000 people arrested in Pakistan under emergency rule have been released, the country’s interior ministry said today. (more…)