Chabad News Online » Op-Ed http://www.chabadnewsonline.com Best of Chabad News Online Fri, 09 Sep 2011 18:31:28 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Op-Ed: Our Son Was Turned Away http://www.crownheights.info/index.php?itemid=37510 http://www.crownheights.info/index.php?itemid=37510#comments Tue, 06 Sep 2011 18:55:00 +0000 CrownHeights.info image
The following is a letter sent by distraught parents to a regional Chabad Yeshiva after trying, unsuccessfully, to enroll their son for another year of learning. The Yeshiva ignored the parents' pleas, and so the parents decided to publicize the letter in order to bring a major community problem out from under the rug, and into the public's conscience.]]> http://www.chabadnewsonline.com/2011/09/op-ed-our-son-was-turned-away/feed/ 0 Op-Ed: “An Open Letter” http://www.crownheights.info/index.php?itemid=37356 http://www.crownheights.info/index.php?itemid=37356#comments Tue, 30 Aug 2011 17:55:12 +0000 CrownHeights.info image
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To the woman who I met a few days ago on Eastern Parkway, a good ten-minute walk from Crown Heights, where you live:

Thank you for taking the time to talk to me. It was an absolute pleasure meeting you. While I was on my cell phone busy dealing with issues you only hear about on the news, while simultaneously trying to walk my baby to sleep in her stroller, you had the consideration and the time to stop me and have a little chat.]]> http://www.chabadnewsonline.com/2011/08/op-ed-an-open-letter/feed/ 0 Op-Ed: In The Box http://www.crownheights.info/index.php?itemid=37323 http://www.crownheights.info/index.php?itemid=37323#comments Mon, 29 Aug 2011 19:04:00 +0000 CrownHeights.info by R.B
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A box. What is it? Four sides. A top. A bottom. All square and straight and rigid.

Lots of things can go inside a box. Presents come in boxes. Hardware devices. Kitchen appliances. Furniture. Gifts. Jewelry.

People come in boxes. Oh, they don’t?]]> http://www.chabadnewsonline.com/2011/08/op-ed-in-the-box/feed/ 0 Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: Time for the Jewish Community to End the Sharpton Wars http://www.crownheights.info/index.php?itemid=37307 http://www.crownheights.info/index.php?itemid=37307#comments Mon, 29 Aug 2011 12:56:00 +0000 CrownHeights.info Huffington Post
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Twenty years ago, race riots erupted in Crown Heights and an innocent Jewish student was murdered in response to the accidental killing of an African-American child. After the murder, the Rev. Al Sharpton came to Crown Heights and further whipped up an already incensed crowd, leaving some in the Jewish community to demand twenty years later that Sharpton be forever shunned by Jewry and criticizing my friend Rabbi Marc Schneier for inviting him to the Hampton Synagogue.]]> http://www.chabadnewsonline.com/2011/08/rabbi-shmuley-boteach-time-for-the-jewish-community-to-end-the-sharpton-wars/feed/ 0 Op-Ed: The Crown Heights Riots http://www.crownheights.info/index.php?itemid=37152 http://www.crownheights.info/index.php?itemid=37152#comments Mon, 22 Aug 2011 18:09:00 +0000 CrownHeights.info by Eliyahu Federman
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Healing racial tensions between the black and Jewish community of Crown Heights is imperative for the two groups to co-exist. No one disputes that. I certainly don't. In fact, after the 1991 Crown Heights riots the Lubavitcher Rebbe, in looking toward the future, told Mayor Dinkins that the black and Jewish communities are “one side, one people, living in one city.” ]]> http://www.chabadnewsonline.com/2011/08/op-ed-the-crown-heights-riots/feed/ 0 Op-Ed: Leadership Helped Bring Crown Heights Back from the Brink http://www.crownheights.info/index.php?itemid=37023 http://www.crownheights.info/index.php?itemid=37023#comments Wed, 17 Aug 2011 19:04:00 +0000 CrownHeights.info by Shea Hecht - Forward
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Living Together?: There’s always been some friction between Jews and blacks in Crown Heights. Leadership helped steer both sides away from confrontation.

August marks the 20th anniversary of the worst anti-Semitic attack in American history: a three-day nightmare that historians and journalists call the “Crown Heights riots” and that many members of the Jewish community have called a “pogrom.”]]> http://www.chabadnewsonline.com/2011/08/op-ed-leadership-helped-bring-crown-heights-back-from-the-brink/feed/ 0 Op-Ed: America’s Pogrom http://www.crownheights.info/index.php?itemid=36974 http://www.crownheights.info/index.php?itemid=36974#comments Tue, 16 Aug 2011 03:02:00 +0000 CrownHeights.info by Rabbi David Eliezrie - L.A. Jewish Journal
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It was tense conversation. The editor at NPR (clearly Jewish) was defending the reporting about violence in Brooklyn. Twenty years ago black mobs had taken to the streets after a car accident that took the life of a black child. Jews huddled in their homes in fear. Cars were torched, Jews beaten, Norman Rosenbaum, a Jewish student from Australia lay dead, killed by the mob. Police were held back by an incompetent mayor. The media whose job was to report the facts were creating a fantasy, claiming, “there are conflicts between blacks and Jews. Tensions are high as ethnic groups clash.” I told the editor she had the story wrong. There were no attacks by Jews, it was a one way battle. Finally in exasperation I yelled at her, “Jews are dying and you are lying.”]]> http://www.chabadnewsonline.com/2011/08/op-ed-americas-pogrom/feed/ 0 Op-Ed: From Mourning to Morning http://www.crownheights.info/index.php?itemid=36981 http://www.crownheights.info/index.php?itemid=36981#comments Mon, 15 Aug 2011 19:48:02 +0000 CrownHeights.info by Yochanan Gordon
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Let’s just say we are all happy that the three weeks and nine-days are finally over. Superficially, while it seems that this happiness expresses itself on various levels in a cross-section of people – the truth is, at its core we are all rejoicing for the same reason – that is, our ability at this time to achieve through kindness and compassion what we have attempted to do through sadness and grief. But just as the seasons change, this joyous season too will pass on by unless we can effect true and lasting change; change that we have been pursuing for thousands of years and until now has been so illusive. ]]> http://www.chabadnewsonline.com/2011/08/op-ed-from-mourning-to-morning/feed/ 0 Op-Ed: Counselors, Please Stop Scar(r)ing Our Kids http://www.crownheights.info/index.php?itemid=36715 http://www.crownheights.info/index.php?itemid=36715#comments Thu, 04 Aug 2011 11:15:00 +0000 CrownHeights.info image
First of all, I would like to genuinely thank all the staff that have helped my son grow tremendously in Gashmiyos and especially in Ruchniyos over the first part of the summer. My son has really gained a lot and has noticably excelled and matured of the short four weeks he spent at camp. There is one thing however I would like to address:]]> http://www.chabadnewsonline.com/2011/08/op-ed-counselors-please-stop-scarring-our-kids/feed/ 0 When I Joined the “High Society” Synagogue http://www.crownheights.info/index.php?itemid=36545 http://www.crownheights.info/index.php?itemid=36545#comments Fri, 29 Jul 2011 10:53:00 +0000 CrownHeights.info by Dovid Zaklikowski - Chabad.org
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I admit I am intolerant. At times I am bigoted towards others. I judge people by the way they look, the way they walk, the way they talk, and an immeasurable amount of other calculated imagery I build up in my mind about them.]]> http://www.chabadnewsonline.com/2011/07/when-i-joined-the-%e2%80%9chigh-society%e2%80%9d-synagogue/feed/ 0