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    A KosherWorld story has been in our top-5 reads for 9 of the past 11 days (excluding Saturdays). Its durability is due to a Rabbi chirping fellow Shtetlers. Today there are 4 new chirps & the story is still on top. READ THE RABBI & OTHER USERS

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    You must read our new tech blogger on phones. Hebrew support: "I like putting the occasional מזל טוב or שבת שלום in my messages." Which phone is the best: "An iPhone with HTC keyboard, Windows Mobile’s email & BB Messenger."

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    Shtetlers' comments and chirps abound after we published the head of Chabad.org’s "Ask The Rabbi" team, Rabbi Tzvi Freeman's answers a question from a site-user in India. The article is a wonderful read - the comments are just as enjoyable.

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2010 FIFA World Cup

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    The AmaJuda Makaraba was sent to high-level politicians & journalists and created so much interest that the Board’s Wendy Kahn & Charisse Ziefert had to give public talks about it. Read about the success of the Jewish2010 website.

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    “We are on a natural high at the moment,” Rabbi Masinter said of SA’s pride on Chabad.org. “So why not use this energy to better our own lives as well as the lives of others, particularly the youth?” he told the website's huge international audience.

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    Long before the World Cup, Cape Town Stadium hosted a match between the local Ikapa Sporting Football Club took on a team of Chabad-Lubavitch rabbis. Judging from the video (click headline) in our attached story, it appears the rabbis won.

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    International Journalists are “inundating” the SAJBD for feedback from us about our experiences of the World Cup. The Board’s Wendy Kahn is asking for your words and pics to be used to provide input for the international media.

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    US blogger YoYenta, whose hubby is fixated on the World Cup, says she is “about to book a midnight flight to South Africa just so I can grab up all those GAWDAMN PLASTIC HORNS AND SHOVE THEM WHERE THE SUN DON’T SHINE.”
    "Kill the soccer Shofars now!" she pleads.

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