Photo Gallery: Darchai Menachem Chinese Auction

The list of winners of the Chinese Auction:

Split the Pot – Breindy Tarshish
Jackpot1 – Breindy Tarshish
Jackpot2 – Brummel
Lucky Scratch – Meir Gurkov
1. Dream Vacation – Chaya Shapiro
2. Home Office – Chana Charitonow
3. Jewelry – Esty Shneerson

More pictures and the rest of the winners list in the Extended Article! (71 Pictures)

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Illinois Knowledge Bowl Tests Teams From Local Chabad Houses

Tamar Runyan – Chabad.org

Rabbi Yossi Brackman, right, and his team from Chabad-Lubavitch at the University of Chicago placed second at this week’s Knowledge Bowl hosted by the city’s F.R.E.E. Chabad House.

CHICAGO, IL — A recent trivia competition between six Illinois Chabad-Lubavitch centers pitted some of the Jewish community’s brightest minds against each other in a fun-filled display of wit and camaraderie.

The Exhilaration of Intention

by: Michael Gerber

Michael Gerber speaking at the West Coast Kinus HaShuchim

I just had an amazing realization during a keynote address I gave to the Chabad of California annual rabbis’ conference.

The realization was, and is, that I am here in this world for a Purpose. A Purpose I have never understood. But a Purpose which, as I spoke to the Chabad Schluchum (rabbis), became as clear to me as anything I have ever felt or experienced.

Rabbi Paltiel Gives Shiur in 770

CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — Thursday night, approximately 150 members of anansh participated in a Shiur by Rabbi Yosef Yitzchok Paltiel on the Ma’amor “Veatah Tetzaveh”, which the Rebbe distributed on Purim Katan 5752. The Shiur was organized by the Iggud Avreichim, a group of yungeleit in Crown Heights.

Erase Disgrace – D.A. Office Tapes over Cop-Slay Statement

NY Post

Slain Officer Russell Timoshenko

A bungling techie in the Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office accidentally erased an audiotape recording of a statement by one of the men charged in the death of NYPD Officer Russel Timoshenko, The Post has learned.

There were no other copies of the cassette, made July 12 by detectives as they grilled Robert Ellis at the state police barracks in Swiftwater, Pa., said sources familiar with the case.

It’s the second major snafu associated with the high-profile case and the latest in a laundry list of legal lapses for DA Charles Hynes in the past year.

Smashing Adar Rishon at YNS

TZFAS, Israel [CHI] — The month started off with a Siyum on Gemora on Rosh Codesh by Hatomim Chaim Shimon Dubov and Hatomim HaShliach Shlomo Yager. It was very inspiring to hear Rabbi ‘O’rimland, Rosh HaYeshiva, speak about a bochur who came to the yeshiva saying I can’t, I can’t, I can’t!!! Today, besides the siyum he is also finishing Basar V’Cholov.

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