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In honor of the forthcoming convention of Chabad-Lubavitch shluchim, we herewith offer 3 items related to Chabad which you may have missed:

1) The September edition of New Voices, which they title "The Lubavitch Issue." Our very own Anarchist Rabbi Captain Sholom Keller is featured on the cover with an extensive interview:

2) Tanya in the comix (in the pocket of a Rubashkin yet!), by the talented Eli Valley(http://www.evcomics.com/). See the bottom right frame:

3) A Rubashkin-related story you may not have heard of : A shliach arrested on alleged sex abuse charges with a 13 year old boy:

May Chabad continue with their glorious work until giluy Melech haMoshiach, AMEN!

PS: To the Rebbe-philic cows out there - this is about Chabad, NOT the Rebbe (this time), so do not delete. Unless you consider "Chabad" as synonymous with cyanide & exposure to it (spiritual) suicide…

Our very own Jimmy Justice is sticking it up to NY's finest. Check out this Fox News clip. (hat-tip: Vos Iz Naies):

http://www.vosizneias.com/22642/2008/11/17/new-york-man-video-taping-illegally-parked-city-government-vehicles-raise-controversy-video/

Now if only he would cover this week's Shluchim convention in Crown Heights, when they block traffic on Eastern Parkway this Sunday to take their class photo…

In today's NYT: 

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/16/fashion/16playgirl.html?_r=1&ref=todayspaper&oref=slogin

"They aspired to bring Playgirl back to its roots, back to a time when the magazine covered issues like abortion and equal rights, interspersing sexy shots of men with work from writers like Raymond Carver and Joyce Carol Oates."

 "The women’s dreams crashed when Blue Horizon Media, which also puts out hard-core magazines, announced it was shutting Playgirl. The last issue, dated January/February 2009, recently arrived on newsstands."

 " Playgirl’s passing certainly will not be lamented as would the death of a more respected, or even a mildly respected, magazine. Yet for its writers and fans, something tangible has been lost in its closure."

“It was almost a way to get back at Playboy,” said Pamela Des Barres, the famed former rock groupie, who wrote a music column for Playgirl. “It was a great idea, and it could have been done better. It did offer women a way to see some gorgeous hot, young, sexy guys, and nothing’s wrong with that.”

“I think a different kind of porn is very degrading to women, but the kind of stuff we were peddling was about what women wanted,” said Ms. Caldwell, who is 26. “For better or worse, this was a real blow for feminism. We were the only magazine that offered naked men to women.”

It would be funny if it weren't true:

"Baptism of a Jewish Holocaust victim and then merely removing that name from the database is just not acceptable," said Michel, whose parents died at Auschwitz. He spoke on the 70th anniversary of Kristallnacht, the Nazi-incited riots against Jews.

"We ask you to respect us and our Judaism just as we respect your religion," Michel said in a statement released ahead of the news conference. "We ask you to leave our six million Jews, all victims of the Holocaust, alone, they suffered enough."

Read the rest on CNN.

Comment by me on frummies acted like mindless beasts in this election

oy shit.

it’s really put us in a weird place, those of us who are ortho progressives… yeesh.
at least a buttload of jews voted for him but, no joke, the mental health section of stern college had a big table set up today in case… well…

the only time a teacher mentioned the win was when a teacher said “how’s everyone doing on obama, is everybody ok?”

i got into a huge fight with a girl who not only said that obama was a terrorist who won’t let israel defend itself ( mindreader!)
first i tried to point out the loshan hara, then she said it’s ok to speak loshan hara about non jews!! she said that these are her views, but refused to provide any evidence to support her claim because, well, obviously…
she then opened up and told me that this is just another piece of the pre gog u magog picture (what is she referring to? leaders will be like dogs?! i hope not!)
of course i tried to remind her that as a matter of principle, prophecy in the torah is seen as a challenge for us to rectify the world, a warning of what will happen if we don’t.
i’m desperate, i feel like i’m drowning in a sea of hate and it’s all these jews who are supposed to know better for so many reasons.

the thing is, i really care… and it hurt my feelings during the campaign when Barack Obama was villified and his face was put next to dictators and tyrants. i’m sure someone is going to respond to this who (is a shithead) doesn’t feel so honky dory about the president elect, but jeez, get over it. the people voted. your distopian fantasies won’t happen as our utopian visions won’t, and at the end of the day we’re just all a bunch of human beings trying to make the best of what we’re given to the best of our abilities, Obama included.
it’d be nice if all the haters made aliyah right now, they could have 1 fucked up country instead of 2, making life just that much more palatable.

to witnes the throes of their defeat check out the comments at

Vosizneias

theAntiTzemach

Crownheights.info (which at least has some sane voices in the medieval wilderness)

They did something similar to Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan, those snags involved in what purports to be the English charedi publishing world.

They did not give the Kaplan family any money from any of the books, even those that were in manuscript form The only money the Kaplan family made was from a secular Jewish publishing house…

Now Rabbi Dovid Goldwasser, who took a poor Russian Shochet's story, edited out what the author had written and which did not jive with Goldwasser's weltanschauung.

Then he had the chutzpah of inflating his involvement in the story after just having met the author twice.

The author's protests have fallen on deaf ears, for Goldwasser is a hot-shot Rabbi with a column in the Jewish Press.

This has gone to Bes Din but Goldwasser did not show. I am assuming they will now take this to the N.Y. State Court

Just got this text from a Chabad Shliach: Oib m'davent MCCEIN efsher PAYLIN az der Aibeshter zol nisht BIDEN der president far A'BHAIMA…!!!!  

In the name of R. Gedaliah of Linitz who said in the name of his master the Mokhi’ah [of Polonoya] that the messiah will instruct good merit (melamed zekhut tov) upon all of Israel even upon the wicked, [saying] that they are all righteous, that they are correct (yid. “az zey zenen gerecht”). And because of the merit that he will instruct merit upon them they will return in repentance, and through this they will be redeemed, for in repentance one is redeemed.

And he would say - a little tzadik loves little resha’im, a great tzadik loves great resha’im, but the messiah will love and instruct merit even upon complete resha’im. And anyone who instructs merit upon all creatures is of the aspect of the messiah…   

(Sefer Baal Shem Tov, 61, note 100 in the name of Midrash Pinhas Ha-Hadash)

Maybe this applies to oneself as well. You are the messiah to the extent that you have redeemed yourself through the sweetening of Judgments…

In the final analysis we are all a priori vindicated – the messiah is just the one who takes it all the way…    

-atgate231

-hat tip to mccainisreallyold.com  via allahuechad