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Daily Archives: March 17, 2008


DENVER, CO — Since September 2003 the Chabad Jewish Center serving the Jewish community of South Metro Denver, has been a beacon at the crossroads serving the religious, educational, social and pastoral needs of hundreds of Jews. The Jewish Center has provided hundreds of Jewish families with a vibrant, inclusive community in which they are unequivocally accepted and embraced.

New Chabad House in Colorado for 1.7 Million

DENVER, CO — Since September 2003 the Chabad Jewish Center serving the Jewish community of South Metro Denver, has been a beacon at the crossroads serving the religious, educational, social and pastoral needs of hundreds of Jews. The Jewish Center has provided hundreds of Jewish families with a vibrant, inclusive community in which they are unequivocally accepted and embraced.

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New Engagement!

Levi Yaffe (Longmeadow, MA) to Devorah Gindi (Brooklyn, NY)
Baby Boy!

Chezki and Ahuva Coates from Chicago, IL had a baby boy!
New Engagement!

Yaakov David Gordon (Melbourne, Australia) to Rivka Pink (Solihull, England)
New Engagement!

Mendel New (Crown Heights) to Sara Silverman (Marietta, GA) L’Chaim: Tonight, Wednesday, 8:00pm at Lubavitcher Yeshiva Crown Street
New Engagement!

Sholom Ber Gurary (Buffalo, NY) to Mussie Baumgarten (Rockaway, NJ) L’Chaim: Tuesday, May 7th, 8:00pm at the JCM Lower Level
New Engagement!

Binyomin Wilhelm (Zhitomir, Ukraine) to Chaya Sosonkin (Brooklyn, NY)
Twins!

Two girls were born to Zalman and Chaya (nee Slonim) Phillips from East Flatbush!
New Engagement!

Levi Deitsch (Perm, Russia) to Tehilah Holtzberg (Pomona, NY)
New Engagement!

Menachem Mendel Amer (Moshave Mivtachim, EY) to Feiga Leah Norton (Los Angeles, CA) L’Chaim: Tonight, Sunday, 8:00pm at The Shull 481 Albany Ave
Baby Girl!

Mendy and Chana Genya Goodman had a baby girl!
New Engagement!

Moshe Cunin (Reno, NV) to Doba Brikman (Crown Heights) L’Chaim: L’Chaim: Sunday, April 14th, 8:00pm at the JCM
Baby Boy!

Bezalel and Devory Broh from Remsen Village had a baby boy! Shalom Zachor: 63 E. 91st Street between E. New York Ave and Rutland Road
New Engagement!

Reuben Greenberg (Crown Heights) to Sara Brown (Liverpool, UK) L’Chaim: Sunday, April 14th, 8:00pm at the JCM Downstairs
New Engagement!

Daniel Namdar (Crown Heights) to Sossie Shain (Tenefly, NJ)
New Engagement!

Ari Levitin (Los Angeles, CA) to Frayda Flint (Crown Heights) L’Chaim: Tonight, Thursday, 8:0pm at Lubavitcher Yeshiva Crown Street
New Engagement!

Avremy Wolosh (Morristown) to Avigial Sacks (Chicago, IL)

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New Engagement!

Aryeh Wells (New York, NY) to Chana Laber (Rensselaer, NY) L’Chaim: Tuesday, April 9th, 7:30pm at Ulam Chana

CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — A boy walking to his home on Lincoln Place, from school this afternoon, Monday at around 2:15pm was attacked by a group of four Black males on Eastern Parkway close to the Troy Avenue inetsection. The group appeared to the victim to be around his own age around 12 to 15 years old.

One of the group shoved the boy to the ground and told him to empty his pockets and hand it to him, which he did, producing just some scraps of paper and nothing of value. The group then fled, apparently because someone saw them and scared them off.

More in the Extended Article.

Boy Attacked in Broad Daylight on Eastern Parkway

CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — A boy walking to his home on Lincoln Place, from school this afternoon, Monday at around 2:15pm was attacked by a group of four Black males on Eastern Parkway close to the Troy Avenue inetsection. The group appeared to the victim to be around his own age around 12 to 15 years old.

One of the group shoved the boy to the ground and told him to empty his pockets and hand it to him, which he did, producing just some scraps of paper and nothing of value. The group then fled, apparently because someone saw them and scared them off.

More in the Extended Article.

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NY Newsday

Chief Judge Judith Kaye administers the oath of office to Gov. David Paterson at right is Paterson's son, Alexander (Newsday, J. Conrad Williams Jr.)

ALBANY, NY — David A. Paterson, minutes after being sworn in as New York's 55th governor, sought yesterday to woo lawmakers with humor, inspiring words about public service and a call for compromise in the face of a potential economic meltdown.

More pictures and videos of the speeches in the Extended Article!

Paterson Sworn in as State’s First Black Gov.

NY Newsday

Chief Judge Judith Kaye administers the oath of office to Gov. David Paterson at right is Paterson’s son, Alexander (Newsday, J. Conrad Williams Jr.)

ALBANY, NY — David A. Paterson, minutes after being sworn in as New York’s 55th governor, sought yesterday to woo lawmakers with humor, inspiring words about public service and a call for compromise in the face of a potential economic meltdown.

More pictures and videos of the speeches in the Extended Article!

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Bochurim Help Raise the Spirits in Sderot

SDEROT, Israel [CHI] — This past Shabbos five bochurim, Talmidai Hatmimim from Yeshivas Ohr Yehudah went to be “Mechazek and Mesameach” the people of the city of Sderot, Hatomim Avrohom Binyomin, Mendy Benshimon, Mendy Halperin, and Dovid Nochum Kaye from Sydney Australia.

More pictures in the Extended Article!

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The Schapiro family is sitting Shiva after the passing of Mrs. Chana Schapiro OBM at 553 Montgomery Street between New York and Brooklyn Avenues.

Davening times are as follows:
Shacharis: 7:00am, 8:30am then two more Minyanim at 9:30am
Mincha: 3:15pm and the rest Bizmana
Maariv: Bizmana

Phone: (718) 774-1840
Fax: (718) 735-6825
Email: schapirofamily@yahoo.com

Hamokom Yenachem Eschem Besoch Shaar Avaylay Tzion VeYerushalayim.

Info to be Menachem Avel the Schapiro Family

The Schapiro family is sitting Shiva after the passing of Mrs. Chana Schapiro OBM at 553 Montgomery Street between New York and Brooklyn Avenues.

Davening times are as follows:
Shacharis: 7:00am, 8:30am then two more Minyanim at 9:30am
Mincha: 3:15pm and the rest Bizmana
Maariv: Bizmana

Phone: (718) 774-1840
Fax: (718) 735-6825
Email: schapirofamily@yahoo.com

Hamokom Yenachem Eschem Besoch Shaar Avaylay Tzion VeYerushalayim.

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Jewish Community of Perm Welcomes New Torah

FJC.ru

PERM, Russia — Jews of Perm have celebrated a major happening in the life of the local community, with the welcoming of their new Torah scroll. This was presented as a gift by community members “in honor and memory of the Lubavitcher Rebbe Menachem Mendel Schneerson of righteous memory”. It has been over a century now that local Jews have not experienced such an event.

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Yehuda L. Ceitlin

Bassie Shemtov, left, co-founder of the Friendship Circle, talks with teenage volunteer leaders from across the country. (Photos: Angie Baan)

By all accounts, this Saturday night will be a long one. That's when the Meer Family Friendship Center in West Bloomfield, Mich., will operate overtime to accommodate a group of teenage girls who will stay up chatting, noshing, playing and singing in its animated large rooms.

Friendship Circle Shines Spotlight on Volunteers in Events Nationwide

Yehuda L. Ceitlin

Bassie Shemtov, left, co-founder of the Friendship Circle, talks with teenage volunteer leaders from across the country. (Photos: Angie Baan)

By all accounts, this Saturday night will be a long one. That’s when the Meer Family Friendship Center in West Bloomfield, Mich., will operate overtime to accommodate a group of teenage girls who will stay up chatting, noshing, playing and singing in its animated large rooms.

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Boruch Dayan Haemes – Mrs. Chana Schapiro OBM

With sadness we inform you of the passing of Mrs. Chana Schapiro, daughter of the Rebbe’s Melamed Rabbi Shneur Zalman Vilenkin and the wife of one of the eldest Chassidim Yibadel Lechaim Tovim Rabbi Lipe Schapiro, at the age of 94.

She is survived by her children: Rabbi Sholom Ber Schapiro (Crown Heights), Mrs. Raizel Goldberg (Crown Heights), Rabbi Yehuda Leib Schapiro (Florida), Rabbi Gavriel Schapiro (Crown Heights) and Rabbi Nochum Schapiro (Crown Heights).

The Levaya will take place today, Monday and will be leaving from the Shomrei Hadas Chapel at around 12:00pm and will be passing by 770 at around 12:30pm

Hamokom Yenachem Eschem Besoch Shaar Avaylay Tzion VeYerushalayim.

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“She also confided in us her anxiousness and worries over her son's health, since the Rebbe was always so tired and busy” The following is a conversation that the Rebbe's mother, Rebbetzin Chana Schneerson had with Rebbetzin Sima Ralbag from Yerushalayim in the early 1960's. It's an excerpt from the new book on the Rebbe “The Rebbe Inspiring a Generation” to see more information on the book see www.inspiringageneration.com

Rebbetzin Ralbag Relates:

"In 1960, to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the Rebbe's leadership, I traveled to New York. Upon my arrival Rabbi Chodakov, the Rebbe's secretary, asked me to address the annual Chabad Women's (N'shei Chabad) convention, which coincided with my visit.

The Rebbe was always so tired and busy

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“She also confided in us her anxiousness and worries over her son’s health, since the Rebbe was always so tired and busy” The following is a conversation that the Rebbe’s mother, Rebbetzin Chana Schneerson had with Rebbetzin Sima Ralbag from Yerushalayim in the early 1960’s. It’s an excerpt from the new book on the Rebbe “The Rebbe Inspiring a Generation” to see more information on the book see www.inspiringageneration.com

Rebbetzin Ralbag Relates:

“In 1960, to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the Rebbe’s leadership, I traveled to New York. Upon my arrival Rabbi Chodakov, the Rebbe’s secretary, asked me to address the annual Chabad Women’s (N’shei Chabad) convention, which coincided with my visit.

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Suspected Drunk Driver Causes Mayhem on Eastern Parkway

CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — At around 10:00 this evening a serious accident involving three cars took place on Eastern Parkway between New York and Nostrand Avenues. One vehicle struck two other cars traveling in the opposite direction then came to rest when it collided with a pole at the intersection of Nostrand and Eastern Parkway.

More pictures and a video in the Extended Article.

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Dvora Lakein - Lubavitch.com

Israelis and their children at the the Chabad Israeli Center in Atlanta, GA.

ATLANTA, GA — As the Israeli government launches a dynamic campaign to lure expatriates back, many are conflicted as to which country they wish to call home. With a goal of 10,000 returnees by Israel's 60th anniversary this May, and double that each year hence, Israel is tempting its wayward citizens with tax breaks, loans, and job offers.

Israeli Expats Strengthen Jewish Identity in Diaspora

Dvora Lakein – Lubavitch.com

Israelis and their children at the the Chabad Israeli Center in Atlanta, GA.

ATLANTA, GA — As the Israeli government launches a dynamic campaign to lure expatriates back, many are conflicted as to which country they wish to call home. With a goal of 10,000 returnees by Israel’s 60th anniversary this May, and double that each year hence, Israel is tempting its wayward citizens with tax breaks, loans, and job offers.

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Rabbi Shimy and his wife Devorah Leah (nee Rodal) Heidingsfeld of Los Angeles, CA have just moved on Shlichus to Moorpark, CA where they will be establishing a new Chabad House serving the needs of the local Jewish residents as well as the Jewish students at Moorpark College.

The new Shluchim were appointed by Rabbi Shlomo Cunin, head Shliach of California.

CrownHeights.info would like to wish the new Shluchim Hatzlocha Rabba on their Shlichus!

New Shluchim To California

Rabbi Shimy and his wife Devorah Leah (nee Rodal) Heidingsfeld of Los Angeles, CA have just moved on Shlichus to Moorpark, CA where they will be establishing a new Chabad House serving the needs of the local Jewish residents as well as the Jewish students at Moorpark College.

The new Shluchim were appointed by Rabbi Shlomo Cunin, head Shliach of California.

CrownHeights.info would like to wish the new Shluchim Hatzlocha Rabba on their Shlichus!

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By Joseph Lieberman

A student from the preschool operated by
Chabad-Lubavitch of Greater Boynton
Beach, FL, presents a charity box to
Connecticut Sen. Joseph Lieberman.
Editor's Note: This article is based on a speech Sen. Joseph Lieberman (I-Conn.) gave at Chabad-Lubavitch of Greater Boynton Beach in Florida back in January. The four-term senator, who received a charity box from the congregation, told the more than 300 people gathered in the sanctuary about guidance he received from the Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, of righteous memory.

We are an extraordinarily lucky generation of Jews, and a particularly blessed generation of Jewish Americans. We live in this country that has given us more opportunity, freedom, respect and success than anywhere in the six millennia of Jewish history outside the State of Israel. And we live at a time when the state of Israel is reborn; it's quite a remarkable and fortunate time to be alive.

Globetrotting Senator Tells of Worldwide Organization

By Joseph Lieberman

A student from the preschool operated by
Chabad-Lubavitch of Greater Boynton
Beach, FL, presents a charity box to
Connecticut Sen. Joseph Lieberman.

Editor’s Note: This article is based on a speech Sen. Joseph Lieberman (I-Conn.) gave at Chabad-Lubavitch of Greater Boynton Beach in Florida back in January. The four-term senator, who received a charity box from the congregation, told the more than 300 people gathered in the sanctuary about guidance he received from the Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, of righteous memory.

We are an extraordinarily lucky generation of Jews, and a particularly blessed generation of Jewish Americans. We live in this country that has given us more opportunity, freedom, respect and success than anywhere in the six millennia of Jewish history outside the State of Israel. And we live at a time when the state of Israel is reborn; it’s quite a remarkable and fortunate time to be alive.

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