How many Jews are in the DACA program?
=Tevfik Arif=
Although he is not Jewish, he is one of the largest donors to the Chabad of Port Washington
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tevfik_Arif
Felix Sater
Felix Sater speaks at the Chabad of Port Washington in Port Washington, New York, in 2014.
https://www.thenation.com/article/who-is-felix-sater-and-why-is-donald-trump-so-afraid-of-him/
Michael Cohen
Michael Cohen grew up in the Five Towns area of Long Island, New York, a heavily Jewish enclave.
But to understand how Michael Cohen arrived in those precincts, you need to venture across New York City’s East River. There, in a Queens warehouse district in the shadows of an elevated No. 7 subway line, is a taxi garage that used to house his law practice. The office area in the front is painted a garish taxicab-yellow, with posters of hockey players on the wall and a framed photo of the late Hasidic rabbi Menachem Schneerson. Cohen practiced law there and invested in the once-lucrative medallions that grant New York cabs the right to operate.
Jared Kushner
vanka Trump and Jared Kushner have found a house in Washington D.C., and, more importantly, they seem to have found a synagogue as well. After weeks of house-hunting and “shul shopping,” the first daughter and son-in-law are now ready to settle down in Washington’s Kalorama neighborhood and will attend the nearby Chabad synagogue
Biden is not in the white house anymore..
But Kushner is, and his connection to the Chabad should be researched, and questioned.
Chabad is not orthodox, it's Jewish mysticism and magic…creepy shit.
Occupy Judaism!
The new buzz word these days seems to be "occupy" - occupy Wall St, Occupy Chicago, Occupy Oakland, Occupy Manorhaven… the list goes on. There's even an "Occupy Judaism" movement.
Amongst all our endeavors, our occupation tends to "preoccupy" much of our time and attention.
"Occupy yourself in Torah and Mitzvot" says the Talmud.
It's one thing to study Torah and observe Judaism's precepts. It's another thing entirely when being Jewish becomes ones "occupation." It's far more meaningful and enjoyable when I make Judaism "my business."
Let's get with the times - Occupy Judaism!
Shabbat Shalom,
https://www.chabadpw.org/templates/articlecco_cdo/aid/1664746/jewish/10-28-11.htm
Menachem Mendel Schneerson was born on April 18, 1902 (OS) (11 Nissan, 5662) in the Black Sea port of Nikolaev in the Russian Empire (now Mykolaiv in Ukraine).[23] His father was rabbi Levi Yitzchak Schneerson, a renowned Talmudic scholar and authority on Kabbalah and Jewish law.[24] His mother was Rebbetzin Chana Schneerson (née Yanovski). He was named after the third Chabad rebbe, the Tzemach Tzedek, from whom he was a direct patrilineal descendent.
Shills, shills, everywhere there's shills..
Twenty years ago on Tuesday, I awoke early in Oxford because I was taking a non-Jewish student president of our L’Chaim Society named Cory Booker to Israel for the first time. I was packed and getting dressed when the phone rang. It was my father calling from Jerusalem.
When I made Cory the president of the L’Chaim Society at Oxford University and included thousands of non-Jewish members at our activities, it famously cost me my job as head of Chabad at Oxford. Today, of course, various Chabad rabbis to whom I introduced Cory compete to publicly proclaim their influence on the Senator and their inclusion at our prayers at the Rebbe’s grave. But outreach to non-Jews who are not public officials remains highly controversial.
https://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columnists/No-hold-barred-Inconvenient-truths-about-the-Rebbe-361145
Russia, Russia, Russia..
Who was Rabbi Schneerson?
Schneerson lived from 1902 to 1994 and oversaw the growth of what is now the largest Jewish organization in the world. The religious movement he led is known as “Chabad-Lubavitch,” (sometimes just called “Lubavitch” or “Chabad,” the name of its organizational arm). Schneerson was the seventh and final Lubavitcher “Rebbe” (sacred leader). He is often simply called “the Rebbe.”
Founded in the late 1700s and originally based in the Polish-Russian town of Lubavitch, it is the largest of about a dozen forms of “Hasidism,” a version of Orthodox Judaism connected to mysticism, characterized by devotion to a dynastic leader, and whose adherents often wear distinctive clothing. (Spellings of these terms can vary; Hasid is also written as Hassid, Chasid, etc.)
https://www.counterpunch.org/2014/04/07/why-is-the-us-honoring-a-racist-rabbi/
Diangelo grows quiet as we approach a nondescript brownstone building: a synagogue.
"See the Hebrew sign?" he says, pointing. "You go downstairs, and that's where the mikvah is."
The mikvah is a bathhouse usually used by women for ritual cleansing. But in some Hasidic communities, like this one, fathers bring their young sons on Friday afternoons before Shabbat begins. Twenty-one years ago, when he was 7, Diangelo recalls going to the mikvah with his father to find the place packed with naked men and boys.
"And I was in the tub, and I had my back turned, and somebody raped me while I was in the water," he says. He takes a shaky breath. "And I didn't know what happened. I couldn't make sense of it, really."
https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=99913807