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Daily Archives: February 17, 2011

Ignoring Alcohol Abuse in Yeshiva Won’t Make it go Away

Rabbi Dr Pinny Young speaking to the crowd.

BUFFALO, NY, [CHI] — Recent studies have determined that alcohol ranks “most harmful” among a list of 20 drugs, according to an article on the study released by The Lancet Journal last November. Yet in many yeshivos Adar ushers in a month of fabrengens and of course L’chaim! Many young bochurim will be exposed to tremendous peer pressure to take a sip, and unwittingly start on the road to a terrible addiction. In Buffalo, Mesivta Menachem has taken preemptive action.

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Baby Boy!

Yossi and Leah Moscowitz from Wimbeldon, England had a baby boy!
New Engagement!

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

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

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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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by Malina Saval - Chabda.org

After the completion of a nine-month construction project, the Chabad-Lubavitch Chai Center of Dix Hills, N.Y., which will break ground on March 13, will double in size to 24,000 square feet.

Set to break ground March 13, a Long Island Jewish center is undertaking a massive expansion project, doubling the size of its current location to better serve a vibrant and rapidly-growing Jewish community.

After Groundbreaking, LI Center to Double in Size

by Malina Saval – Chabda.org

After the completion of a nine-month construction project, the Chabad-Lubavitch Chai Center of Dix Hills, N.Y., which will break ground on March 13, will double in size to 24,000 square feet.

Set to break ground March 13, a Long Island Jewish center is undertaking a massive expansion project, doubling the size of its current location to better serve a vibrant and rapidly-growing Jewish community.

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Another day and a new character shows up at 770. A reader sent us in this video, taken with his mobile phone, of the latest one to show up and preach his new message – the end of the Talmud. Police got involved and sent the man, who was dressed in a blue robe and cotton tzitzis, on his way after a crowd gathered and got loud.

Video: Deranged Man Entertains Crowd by 770

Another day and a new character shows up at 770. A reader sent us in this video, taken with his mobile phone, of the latest one to show up and preach his new message – the end of the Talmud. Police got involved and sent the man, who was dressed in a blue robe and cotton tzitzis, on his way after a crowd gathered and got loud.

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‘Trailblazing’ Chaplain Leaves his Mark on Canadian Armed Forces

by Haskell Nussbaum – Jewish Tribune

Outgoing Canadian Armed Forces chaplain Rabbi Chaim Mendelsohn shakes hands with former chaplain Gen. Stan Johnstone.

OTTAWA – A rabbi, a minister and an imam walk into a barracks… The Canadian Armed Forces had hundreds of Christian chaplains, the Maltese Cross in its symbol, and “Onward Christian Soldiers” as the official March Past, but in 2007, after Chabad-Lubavitch Rabbi Chaim Mendelsohn became the first rabbi to serve as a chaplain since World War II, things began to change.

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N. MIAMI BEACH, FL — With badges, Blackberries, uniforms and yamulkes, at any given night a group of beefed-up crime-watchers called the Shmira Patrol has a handful of volunteers cruising the streets in North Miami Beach.

Neighborhood Crime Watch Goes To Extremes

WPLG

N. MIAMI BEACH, FL — With badges, Blackberries, uniforms and yamulkes, at any given night a group of beefed-up crime-watchers called the Shmira Patrol has a handful of volunteers cruising the streets in North Miami Beach.

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The Globe and Mail

Arieh Perecowicz received six tickets for a total of $1,400 from the Bureau du taxi, a municipal agency whose inspectors ordered the cabbie to remove the items. ‘In 43 years, no one has said they were offended or opened the door to take another taxi,’ he says.

A Montreal cabbie learned on Thursday that his taxi isn't a vehicle for freedom of expression and religion. Arieh Perecowicz lost his court challenge against Montreal taxi authorities who fined him for filling his cab with an assortment of personal and religious objects.

Cabbie Fined for Decorating Cab with Personal, Religious Items

The Globe and Mail

Arieh Perecowicz received six tickets for a total of $1,400 from the Bureau du taxi, a municipal agency whose inspectors ordered the cabbie to remove the items. ‘In 43 years, no one has said they were offended or opened the door to take another taxi,’ he says.

A Montreal cabbie learned on Thursday that his taxi isn’t a vehicle for freedom of expression and religion. Arieh Perecowicz lost his court challenge against Montreal taxi authorities who fined him for filling his cab with an assortment of personal and religious objects.

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Baltimore Sun

As supporters and protesters chanted outside, Avi and Eliyahu Werdesheim, members of a Park Heights citizens patrol, pleaded not guilty Wednesday in Baltimore Circuit Court to beating a black teenager last fall as he walked through their neighborhood.

Baltimore Community Rallies Behind its Shomrim Volunteers

Baltimore Sun

As supporters and protesters chanted outside, Avi and Eliyahu Werdesheim, members of a Park Heights citizens patrol, pleaded not guilty Wednesday in Baltimore Circuit Court to beating a black teenager last fall as he walked through their neighborhood.

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77th Precinct Probed for Manipulating Crime Statistics

NY Daily News

The 77th Precinct in Brooklyn covers Crown Heights and Prospect Heights.

A Brooklyn police precinct is under scrutiny after cops told investigators their bosses manipulated crime statistics, sources said. The 77th Precinct, covering Crown Heights and Prospect Heights, first raised a red flag with unusually high numbers of unfounded cases – where cops respond to a report of crime and determine none was committed, sources said.

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Mikvah Chaya Mushka Canberra Inaugurated

AUSTRALIA — Under the guidance of Rabbi Aharon Serebryanski and in the presence of communal leaders and diplomats, the US Ambassador to Australia, His Excellency Jeffery Bleich, officially opened Mikvah Chaya Mushka Canberra on Tuesday 15th Febrary 2011, corresponding to 11 Adar 1 5771 in the Hebrew calendar.

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