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Daily Archives: November 9, 2008


CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — A drunk bochur, described as a “Tzfati”, pushed an 83-year-old man down a staircases in 770 on Motzai Shabbos. The incident began inside 770 at around 8:00pm when the drunken Tzfati, who was missing his shirt, grabbed the elderly man and shoved him down a flight of stairs.

More in the Extended Article.

83 Year Old Man Shoved down Stairs in 770

CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — A drunk bochur, described as a “Tzfati”, pushed an 83-year-old man down a staircases in 770 on Motzai Shabbos. The incident began inside 770 at around 8:00pm when the drunken Tzfati, who was missing his shirt, grabbed the elderly man and shoved him down a flight of stairs.

More in the Extended Article.

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New Engagement!

Levi Yitshak Scholte (Yerres, France) to Sosha Bentolila (Kinshasa, Congo)
New Engagement!

Mendel Benjaminson (Glenview, IL) to Chana Levertov (Austin, TX) L’Chaim: Tonight, Monday, 8:30pm at Ulam Chana 556 Crown Street
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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Judy Ferguson - News Miner
FAIRBANKS, AK — Jewish connections with Alaska from its beginning were critical. In a series focusing on Jewish Alaskan history, Perry Green, Master Furrier of Alaska (September 2nd 2007), Meta Bloom Buttnick (June 29th, 2008), Judge Andrew Kleinfeld (September 28th, 2008) and Professor Judith Kleinfeld (October 5th, 2008) have been presented. The story of Rabbi Greenberg of the Orthodox Chabad-Lubavitch Center/Alaska Jewish Museum in Anchorage concludes the series.

Alaska has never had a permanent traditional Jewish rabbi. Today, Rabbi Yosef Greenberg and his wife, Esther (Estie), of the Anchorage Lubavitch Jewish center have pledged themselves to Alaska’s people, and to the memorializing of Alaska Jewish history as preserved in a proposed museum.

Rabbi Yosef Greenberg shares Alaska’s rich Jewish heritage

Judy Ferguson – News Miner

FAIRBANKS, AK — Jewish connections with Alaska from its beginning were critical. In a series focusing on Jewish Alaskan history, Perry Green, Master Furrier of Alaska (September 2nd 2007), Meta Bloom Buttnick (June 29th, 2008), Judge Andrew Kleinfeld (September 28th, 2008) and Professor Judith Kleinfeld (October 5th, 2008) have been presented. The story of Rabbi Greenberg of the Orthodox Chabad-Lubavitch Center/Alaska Jewish Museum in Anchorage concludes the series.

Alaska has never had a permanent traditional Jewish rabbi. Today, Rabbi Yosef Greenberg and his wife, Esther (Estie), of the Anchorage Lubavitch Jewish center have pledged themselves to Alaska’s people, and to the memorializing of Alaska Jewish history as preserved in a proposed museum.

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JTA
Auschwitz documents touted as a sensational find by a German newspaper have been known to historians for years, an expert told JTA.

Historian Robert Jan van Pelt, an expert on Auschwitz, said he had checked the “so-called ‘new’ material” on the Web site of Bild, a high-circulation daily, and found that “the drawings that are on their site are all old material, perfectly known” and published by himself and others in the 1990s.

Auschwitz Documents not New, Experts Say

JTA

Auschwitz documents touted as a sensational find by a German newspaper have been known to historians for years, an expert told JTA.

Historian Robert Jan van Pelt, an expert on Auschwitz, said he had checked the “so-called ‘new’ material” on the Web site of Bild, a high-circulation daily, and found that “the drawings that are on their site are all old material, perfectly known” and published by himself and others in the 1990s.

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Rabbi Mendel Silberstein - Larchmont Gazette

LARCHMONT, NY — Teens for the Community, a volunteer group for Larchmont and Mamaroneck teens, has more than doubled in size. Begun last year with only fifteen teens, it now has 40 who attend weekly meetings.

Teens For the Community Doubles Its Reach

Rabbi Mendel Silberstein – Larchmont Gazette

LARCHMONT, NY — Teens for the Community, a volunteer group for Larchmont and Mamaroneck teens, has more than doubled in size. Begun last year with only fifteen teens, it now has 40 who attend weekly meetings.

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Sam Roberts - The New York Times

Residents formed a long line at Public School 375 in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, to cast votes in the election on Tuesday.

NEW YORK, NY — More New York City residents voted for Barack Obama on Tuesday than for John Kerry in 2004 and for Al Gore in 2000. But an analysis suggests that overall turnout increased only slightly from four years ago.

History and Buzz Aside, Voter Turnout in City Barely Topped 2004 Figure

Sam Roberts – The New York Times

Residents formed a long line at Public School 375 in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, to cast votes in the election on Tuesday.

NEW YORK, NY — More New York City residents voted for Barack Obama on Tuesday than for John Kerry in 2004 and for Al Gore in 2000. But an analysis suggests that overall turnout increased only slightly from four years ago.

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Chabad on Campus Shabbaton’s Melava Malka

CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — After a Shabbos jam-packed with Farbrengen’s and inspiration the students were treated to a Melava Malka with a live and lively performance by ‘YOOD Power Rock Trio’ kept everyone on their feet and danced into the night to hyper charged Nigunim and Jewish music.

Many more pictures and a video in the Extended Article!

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NEW BALTIMORE, NY [CHI] — A Jewish bus service from New York to Montreal was involved in a serious accident early Sunday morning on the New York State Thruway. The incident happened in Greene County at mile marker 127.5 in the town of New Baltimore.

More pictures in the Extended Article.

Heimans Bus Involved in a Serious Early Morning Accident

NEW BALTIMORE, NY [CHI] — A Jewish bus service from New York to Montreal was involved in a serious accident early Sunday morning on the New York State Thruway. The incident happened in Greene County at mile marker 127.5 in the town of New Baltimore.

More pictures in the Extended Article.

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Germany Marks 70th Anniversary of Kristallnacht

In this June 19, 1938 file picture, the word Jude (jew) is smeared to the windows of a shop in Berlin run by Jews. On Nov. 9, 1938 Nazi-incited mass riots left more than 91 jews dead, damaged more than 1,000 synagogues and left some 7,500 Jewish businesses ransacked and looted.

BERLIN, Germany [AP] — Chancellor Angela Merkel has called on Germans to stand together against racism and anti-Semitism as the nation marks the 70th anniversary of the Nazi pogrom known as “Kristallnacht” or “Night of Broken Glass.”

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