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Daily Archives: July 18, 2007

Shomrim Apprehends Shoplifter

Shomrim at the scene of an incident in the past at the Kingston Bargain Center. Illustration Photo.

Crown Heights, Brooklyn — At around 6:30 this evening the Shomrim hotline received a call from a worker at the Kingston Bargain Center located on Kingston between Crown and Carroll about a woman who just ran out of the store with items in her purse.

A large number of members responded and began spreading out in the area and spotted the perpetrator more then 4 blocks away from the store on Crown St and Schenectady Ave, upon approaching the woman she immediately admitted to the theft and police were called.

More in the Extended Article!

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New Engagement!

Ari Bastomski (Los Angeles, CA) to Mimi Palace (Crown Heights) L’Chaim: Tuesday, Nov. 5th, 8:30pm at Lubavitcher Yeshiva Crown Street
New Engagement!

Uziel Leiter (Efrat, EY) to Stera Goldschmidt (Dallas, TX) L’Chaim: Tonight, Monday, 8:00pm at The Arches 1394 S. Johns Pl
New Engagement!

Mendel Goldberg (Crown Heights) to Chana Brackman (Oxford, UK) L’Chaim: Monday, Nov. 4th, 8:00pm at Lubavitcher Yeshiva Crown Street
New Engagement!

Mutik Schusterman (Atlanta, GA) to Shaina Gurary (Montreal, Canada) L’Chaim: Tonight, Sunday, 8:00pm at Lubavitcher Yeshiva Crown Street
New Engagement!

Yosef Emunah (Baltimore, MD) to Pessy Greenstein (Crown Heights)
Baby Boy!

Avremy and Mushka (nee Hecht) Scheinfeld from Crown Heights had a baby boy!
New Engagemeent!

Zalman Jaffe (Whitefield, UK) to Musia Lustig (New Haven, CT)
New Engagemeent!

Sholom Butman (Crown Heights) to Bella Diament (Montreal, Canada)
Baby Boy!

Eli and Dina (nee Moses) Bharier from London, UK had a baby boy!
Baby Boy!

Chaim and Chani (nee Gorelick) Hershkop from Crown Heights had a baby boy!
New Engagement!

Memke Azoulay (Montreal, Quebec) to Leeba Farkash (Issaquah, WA) L’Chaim: Monday, Oct. 28th, 8:00pm at Lubavitcher Yeshiav Crown St.
Baby Boy!

Yossi and Chava (nee Hershkop) Altein from Lauderhill, FL had a baby boy!
Baby Girl!

Mendel and Ayelet Bercovice from Cleveland, OH had a baby girl!
Baby Boy!

Mendel and Sheina (nee Danow) Konikov from Crown Heights had a baby boy!
New Engagement!

Shmuel Shapiro (Crown Heights) to Amber Brocha Firestein (Buckhurst Hill, UK)

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New Engagement!

Mendel Green (Crown Heights) to Sarale Aber (Crown Heights)
New Engagement!

Mendel Telsner (Crown Heights) and Tonia Minkowicz (Crown Heights)

Camp Machne Mamosh Celebrate Charlie Buttons Day!

Campers at camp Machne Mamosh, Lubavitch Yeshivah Day Camp, celebrate Buttons Charlie Day.

Ever imagine what the world would be like with more than one Charlie around? Well that’s what it was last Friday at Machne Mamosh Day Camp. Campers of all ages came to camp dressed up as “Charlie” all competing for the best Charlie award and in celebration of Charlie Day.

More pictures and a video in the Extended Article!

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The intersection where the mugging took place.

Crown Heights, Brooklyn — A boy walking home from the day camp he attends, ‘Gan Menachem’ earlier this afternoon was accosted by two Black males on the corner of Eastern Parkway and Brooklyn Avenue who demanded his money, all the boy had on him was a single quarter which he handed to them.

More in the Extended Article.

Boy Mugged for 25 Cents on Eastern Parkway

The intersection where the mugging took place.

Crown Heights, Brooklyn — A boy walking home from the day camp he attends, ‘Gan Menachem’ earlier this afternoon was accosted by two Black males on the corner of Eastern Parkway and Brooklyn Avenue who demanded his money, all the boy had on him was a single quarter which he handed to them.

More in the Extended Article.

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Paul Hackbarth - Jewish Light Online
Baruch Davidson and Mordy Dinerman,
two rabbinic interns from New York
visited the St. Charles area recently to
help rekindle Jewish connections.
St. Louis, MO — Just as many students took John F. Kennedy's challenge to serve their country by assisting people from developing countries in the Peace Corps, two Jewish student rabbis were on a similar mission in St. Charles for the Jewish Peace Corps.

Mordy Dinerman and Baruch Davidson, both 23, are rabbinic interns from New York who have been helping rekindle Jewish connections in the St. Charles area for the past two-and-a-half weeks.

The two students are part of a summer visitation program with the Jewish Peace Corps and Chabad of Greater St. Louis.

Merkos Shluchim ‘Revive Jewish sparks’

Paul Hackbarth – Jewish Light Online
Baruch Davidson and Mordy Dinerman,
two rabbinic interns from New York
visited the St. Charles area recently to
help rekindle Jewish connections.

St. Louis, MO — Just as many students took John F. Kennedy’s challenge to serve their country by assisting people from developing countries in the Peace Corps, two Jewish student rabbis were on a similar mission in St. Charles for the Jewish Peace Corps.

Mordy Dinerman and Baruch Davidson, both 23, are rabbinic interns from New York who have been helping rekindle Jewish connections in the St. Charles area for the past two-and-a-half weeks.

The two students are part of a summer visitation program with the Jewish Peace Corps and Chabad of Greater St. Louis.

Posted to Merkos Shlichus on
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Sara Trappler-Spielman - Chabad.org
The new gallery’s decidedly Jewish-themed offerings are developing a following.

Dumbo, Brooklyn — A short walk from the East River, through cobblestone streets shadowed beneath skyscrapers and the Manhattan Bridge, sits an art gallery right above the hub of a quaint bar in the up-and-coming Brooklyn neighborhood of Dumbo.

New Chassidic Art Gallery Opens in Dumbo

Sara Trappler-Spielman – Chabad.org
The new gallery’s decidedly Jewish-themed offerings are developing a following.

Dumbo, Brooklyn — A short walk from the East River, through cobblestone streets shadowed beneath skyscrapers and the Manhattan Bridge, sits an art gallery right above the hub of a quaint bar in the up-and-coming Brooklyn neighborhood of Dumbo.

Posted to Chabad News on
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FJC.ru
Mogilev, Belarus – In Belarus, the 'Gan Israel' Camp operating in the city of Mogilev has drawn to a close for the season. This fun and educational three week retreat was organized by the Jewish community of Mogilev, a member of the Association of Jewish Communities of Belarus and Chabad Lubavitch.

Jewish Camp Wraps Up in Mogilev

FJC.ru

Mogilev, Belarus – In Belarus, the ‘Gan Israel’ Camp operating in the city of Mogilev has drawn to a close for the season. This fun and educational three week retreat was organized by the Jewish community of Mogilev, a member of the Association of Jewish Communities of Belarus and Chabad Lubavitch.

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Misti Crane - The Columbus Dispatch
A Thermometer jammed in a Chicken - Illustration Photo

Columbus, OH — The tension between the Chabad Torah Center and the Columbus Public Health Department began when inspectors showed up in December and jammed a nonkosher thermometer into a chicken, Steven Keller said.

Chabad Kosher Catering Service Shut Down

Misti Crane – The Columbus Dispatch
A Thermometer jammed in a Chicken – Illustration Photo

Columbus, OH — The tension between the Chabad Torah Center and the Columbus Public Health Department began when inspectors showed up in December and jammed a nonkosher thermometer into a chicken, Steven Keller said.

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Lubavitch Library Exhibit Reveals New Facts about Rebbe

Dovid Zaklikowski -Chabad.org
A view of the showcases at the Agudas Chassidei Chabad Library in Brooklyn, N.Y.

New York, NY — A new exhibit in the central Chabad-Lubavitch library in New York displays priceless manuscripts and handwritten notations by the successive Lubavitcher Rebbes and provides a rare public glimpse into some unknown aspects of the life of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, of righteous memory.

Posted to Chabad News on
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FJC.ru
Volgograd, Russia – This week in Russia's Volga Region, the Jewish community of Volgograd hosted the international seminar 'Jewish WorldView '. The event involved 33 youth from 13 different settlements across Russia and Ukraine, some of whom attended such an event for the first time. Many others were glad to meet up with friends they made at last year's gathering.

Jewish Youth Seminar Wraps Up in Volgograd

FJC.ru

Volgograd, Russia – This week in Russia’s Volga Region, the Jewish community of Volgograd hosted the international seminar ‘Jewish WorldView ‘. The event involved 33 youth from 13 different settlements across Russia and Ukraine, some of whom attended such an event for the first time. Many others were glad to meet up with friends they made at last year’s gathering.

Posted to Shlichus on
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Rabbi Chaim Hershkowitz
Brooklyn, NY — Rabbi Chaim Hershkowitz has been appointed Director of the International Moshiach Campaign by the Moshiach Vaad of the International Kinus HaShluchim, under Merkos L’Inyonei Chinuch and a division of the Shluchim Office. In making the announcement Vaad Hakinus Chairman, Rabbi Moshe Wilansky stated, “We are very excited to have Rabbi Hershkowitz involved with the International Moshiach Campaign. We feel that he will help us build on all that we have accomplished to date, and take this office to the next level, ‘l’havei l’yimos ha’Moshiach’.”

Moshiach Campaign Hires New Director

Rabbi Chaim Hershkowitz

Brooklyn, NY — Rabbi Chaim Hershkowitz has been appointed Director of the International Moshiach Campaign by the Moshiach Vaad of the International Kinus HaShluchim, under Merkos L’Inyonei Chinuch and a division of the Shluchim Office. In making the announcement Vaad Hakinus Chairman, Rabbi Moshe Wilansky stated, “We are very excited to have Rabbi Hershkowitz involved with the International Moshiach Campaign. We feel that he will help us build on all that we have accomplished to date, and take this office to the next level, ‘l’havei l’yimos ha’Moshiach’.”

Posted to Chabad News on
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A steam pipe explosion beneath a street near Grand Central Terminal yesterday propelled a giant scalding jet of brownish steam toward the sky, sending commuters who had been heading home stampeding to safety.

Officials said that one person died and more than 30 were hurt, two of them critically. The city said that three firefighters and one police officer were among the injured.

Steam Pipe Explosion Jolts Midtown

A steam pipe explosion beneath a street near Grand Central Terminal yesterday propelled a giant scalding jet of brownish steam toward the sky, sending commuters who had been heading home stampeding to safety.

Officials said that one person died and more than 30 were hurt, two of them critically. The city said that three firefighters and one police officer were among the injured.

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