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A 19-year-old Lakewood man has been identified as the suspect sought by authorities in an armed robbery at Reich Jewelers, where two employees were held at gunpoint and forced to fill duffel bags with jewelry.

Law enforcement agencies are searching for fugitive Avraham Rotenberg, 19, of Birch Street, Lakewood, in connection with the Feb. 17 robbery.

Rotenberg is wanted on charges of first-degree armed robbery, theft and possession of a weapon — a shotgun — for an unlawful purpose, according to the arrest warrant, Howell police Detective Eileen Dodd said.

Some of the jewelry was recovered after a Lakewood rabbi received a mysterious call at about 4:30 a.m. March 6 telling him to look outside his door for packages, police said. The rabbi called Lakewood police and reported the call.

Lakewood police responded and found two bags of jewelry outside the home of Rabbi Michael Rottenberg on Heathwood Avenue. The bags contained some of the proceeds from the Reich Jewelry store robbery.

Dodd said Reich Jewelers was robbed about 11:35 a.m. Feb. 17 by Rotenberg, who then fled the store with bags of jewelry.

During the robbery, Rotenberg kept the shotgun trained on the employees while demanding that they fill two duffel bags with jewelry from the display cases and the safe.

There were two employees and two customers in the store at the time of the robbery, which is located in the Grebow Shopping Center on Route 9, Dodd said. The robber fled in a 2004 Acura TSX with New York tags, and was found abandoned by Lakewood police off Miller Road in Lakewood the day after the robbery.

http://www.app.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2008803280417

-iprayeveryday

Mark Altman

Artistic Director

New Worlds Theatre Project

presents a

WORLD PREMIERE

Staged Reading of

SIN

by

Nobel Prize winner

Isaac Bashevis Singer

adapted by Mark Altman

Ever since Eve ate the apple sin has had a bad reputation.
But now, with the help of an older couple who've lost that certain
spark in their marriage, the Devil thinks he can turn that all around.

Directed by Robert Kalfin

Wednesday, April 23 at 2pm

at

78^th St. Theatre Lab mainstage

236 W. 78^th St., NYC

Since this is the first time SIN is being presented in

front of an audience we want to hear what you think so there

will be no admission charge and as it's only a 60-seat theater

we advise you to reserve early by emailing 240west@gmail.com.

There will be a discussion following the reading with director,

Robert Kalfin and author, Mark Altman.

…along side ignorance which can be found in a wonderful land called the blogophere.

Anonymous said…

first of all i was at the jewish musium thursday night and saw the fashion show. I was expecting a regular fashion show but i was dismayed to see the line of which Levi had taken. He says he gets his inspiration from when he was a child (Yiddishkeit) all his designes have to do with jewish themes.
If he would not have the jewish themes he would have zero talent he would not be able to come up with any original ideas. I dont think he will make it as a fashion desigher because no one would buy the stuff that he makes. Not one buyer from the stores was their, unfortunatly most of the people at this show were quote on quote frum or lost souls off the derech. I was crying for klal Yisroel with some of the things that i saw. I left pretty early most of these people went on to the so called chulent party so you can just imagine who these people are.
We have to be mechasek these lost souls so that they should come back and relize what beauty lies in our lives instead of the emptyness that they live in.
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The above is footage of Rebbetzin [Rabbanit] Bruriah Keren, resident of Ramat Bet Shemesh Bet, recently arrested and accused of physically (and perhaps sexually) abusing her children, of which she has 12. How many of the 12 that were abused is not so clear. Her children range in age from 8 - 33. Most were not living at home.

This comes straight after another couple, immigrants (olim) from the US, were arrested for similar accusations.

This news is hitting Israel hard; this Rabanit has been blogged about quite a bit recently and has been dubbed names such as the 'Burqa babe' and the like. Reason for this is the way she chooses to garb herself– if you thought the Palestinian women were strict, forget it– in her 'hyper-tznius', she wears multiple layers of clothing, keeps her hands face completely covered, and will not even speak if there is a man present. Women in the RBS Bet community who look up to her and follow her ways hold her in very high regard.

In court, she would not speak, and had only her eyes visible to the judge after he refused to allow the court to be in session unless she revealed herself.

Among the charges for abuse are tying up her children for multiple hours at a time as 'punishment', forcing them to urinate and defecate on themselves; hitting them with belts and electric cables; and other signs of abuse.

Recently it has been reported that her children were as well involved in acts of incest. A 24-year old son was also taken into custody for committing incest with one or more of his siblings.

A list of articles and links can be found here at the Awareness Center.

And all this in the name of tznius…

I dont care how frum you want to think you are. Makes me sick.

She sheltered her kids from reality, making them want it more. They found it and acted up; she hit them. They were probably told all these terrible things about sex and attraction, which only led to them finding out about it amongst each other.

I wonder if the children of this psycho will ever heal? And what was her husband doing?? Running around in the US raising money for his 'needy' family…
-iprayeveryday

Gone now the baby's nurse,
a lioness who ruled the roost
and made the Mother cry.
She used to tie
gobbets of porkrind to bowknots of gauze—
three months they hung like soggy toast
on our eight foot magnolia tree,
and helped the English sparrows
weather a Boston winter.

Three months, three months!
Is Richard now himself again?
Dimpled with exaltation,
my daughter holds her levee in the tub.
Our noses rub,
each of us pats a stringy lock of hair—
they tell me nothing's gone.
Though I am forty-one,
not fourty now, the time I put away
was child's play. After thirteen weeks
my child still dabs her cheeks
to start me shaving. When
we dress her in her sky-blue corduroy,
she changes to a boy,
and floats my shaving brush
and washcloth in the flush…
Dearest I cannot loiter here
in lather like a polar bear.

Recuperating, I neither spin nor toil.
Three stories down below,
a choreman tends our coffin length of soil,
and seven horizontal tulips blow.
Just twelve months ago,
these flowers were pedigreed
imported Dutchmen, now no one need
distunguish them from weed.
Bushed by the late spring snow,
they cannot meet
another year's snowballing enervation.

I keep no rank nor station.
Cured, I am frizzled, stale and small."

 - Robert Lowell

1. The Earth will Complete its 5,200 year Mayan Cycle on Dec 21st 2012.

2. The Great Planetary Alignment (Venus transit) will occur in 2012.

3. The Earth’s Poles are due to flip and the Earth is showing signs of the flip approaching

from  B flowers

Dear Rabbi Jacobson,

You are perhaps the only Rabbi that I feel I can write to about the following painful subject.

I grew up in a very secular home, with no faith and no G-d. My parents were both highly intelligent, cultured individuals. My father amassed a fortune as a shrewd and successful businessman, while my mother was a professional in her own right. But despite my family’s stature, we grew up in a loveless home. Our parents were not there for us, nor were they there for each other. My parents were not loyal to each other and ultimately divorced, leaving my siblings and me adrift.

I was always conscious of being Jewish, though I knew nothing about it. As I suffered through my un-nurturing home life, I began a spiritual search that ultimately led me to the Jewish community. There I found a warmth and love that I had never before experienced. The power of Jewish tradition – Shabbat, prayer, even kosher – resonated with me. Not that commitment came easily to me. But I appreciated the power of commitment – something I had never really experienced. My life was all about shifting loyalties, broken promises, dashed dreams – all creating profound distrust and insecurity. But now I discovered something new: Committed people to each other, to family, to community and to a higher calling. It was quite compelling. I also sensed a simplicity and even rejection of the high culture I grew up in. Most of the religious Jews I met were not open to other ideas and to a free-spirited perspective. But I reckoned that perhaps the trade-off was worth it: Sacrificing some of the beauty of art and literature, but without a rudder, for a life of trust, love and commitment, with very strong sense of purpose.

I was seduced by the observant lifestyle,…. (more…)

Translated from Yitzchok Alfasi’s Ha-Chasidis:

1. Adle, daughter of the Baal Shem Tov
2. Eidle, daughter of R. Shalom Roke’ach of Belz. She accepted kvitlach and pidyonos and her father said about her “Eidel is lacking only a shtraimel.” She was the wife of R. Yitzchok Rubin of Sukalov.
3. Chana Brocha, daughter of R. Chaim Shmuel of Chintshin. Renowned scholar. She wore tzitzis and many Hasidim came to receive her blessing.
4. Chana Chava, daughter of R. Mordecha Twersky of Chernobyl. Her father said about her “She has ru’ach ha-kodesh from womb and birth.” Rebbes and Hasidim would converse with her on matters of hasidus and she would give over words of hasidus along with parables. She received kvitlach.
5. Chaya Moskovitz of Shatz, daughter of R. Meir of Premishlan and wife of R. Yoel Moskovitz of Shatz. She was famous for her piety and many Hasidim would give her kvitlach too. She was in possession of the cane of R. Meir to which were attributed many miracles and she instructed that it be buried with her.
6. Chana Rachel Verbermacher was born in 1792. She became known as the Virgin of Ludmer and many thousands used to travel to her to be blessed by her. She would wrap herself in a talis and pray with great passion. A wondrous scholar, she would give over words of torah from within her room. Under pressure from R. Mordecha of Chernobyl she married someone and her influence waned. She later divorced and went up to the holy land. She died in 1815.
7. Yenta the Prophetess, the daughter of a simple Jew from Galicia. After she met the Besht she began to act with great holiness and asceticism. The Besht proclaimed about her “She has seeing eyes and hearing ears” and also called her Yenta the Prophetess. She was also known for her miracles.
8. Malka, daughter of R. Avrohom of Trisk. Was famous for her scholarship and knowledge. Twice a day she would receive kvitlach and pidyonos.
9. Mirush, daughter of R. Elimelech of Lizensk was known for her scholarship, knowledge and piety. Many came to hear her speak torah and hasidus.
   1. Nechama, daughter of R. Chaim of Tzanz wife of R. Yitzchok Tovya Rubin of Tzanz. She lived long and died at a very old age. Many came to received help and advice from her including rabbis and rebbes. She died (21 Sivan) 1935; on her gravestone is engraved “Many benefited from her help and advice.”
10. Fega, daughter of R. Nachman of Breslov.
11. Perele Shapiro, daughter of R. Yisrael the Koznitzer rebbe. As a child, R. Elimelech of Lizensk said about her “The shechina rests upon her.” She wore tzitzis and during prayer a talis and gartle. Her son was the Seraph of Meglenitza.
12. Freida, daughter of R. Shneur Zalman the rabbi of Liadi. She was highly respected among chabad Hasidim. She would give over things to her brother, the Miteler Rebbe, in the name of her father.
13. Rachel Ashkenazi, daughter of R. Avrohom Yehoshua Heschel of Apta. Her father said about her “She has a spark of holiness.” People would come for advice to her too.
    1. Rivele the Fanatic (di fruma Rivele), wife of R. Tzvi of Kamink and mother of R. Yitzchok and R. Yosef of Kamink – all of the Besht’s fraternity. The Besht saw upon her a light. The author of the Shivche Ha-Besht speaks about her with deep respect.
14. Sarele, daughter of R. Yehoshua Heschel Teumim-Frankel was born in 1838 and died in1937 in Tarnopol. She was orphaned as a child and raised in the home of her foster father R. Yosef of Baruch of Neishtot. After she married R. Chaim Shmuel of Chintshin she began behaving as a rebbe and after his death also received kvitlach.
15. Sara Shlomtzi, daughter of R. Mendele of Zidichov. A scholar, she would give over words of torah from within her room. She wore tzitzis and received kvitlach. She died in Jerusalem in 1947 at 83.

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dervishes are traveling mendicants who take ascetic vows, and do not solicit, but accept donations for redistribution among the poor.

The Nur Ashki Jerrahi is the American branch of the Halveti Jerrahi kloiz, which is based in Turkey.

www.nurashkijerrahi.org/

They engage in social, educational and cultural relief. Their Tarika is based on Love of god and serving its creations with love.

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