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Woman Apprehended for Stealing at a L’Chaim

Brooklyn, NY –- Monday night amidst a L’chaim taking place in the Jewish Childrens Museum a few of the participants noticed they were missing some of their personal belongings, and after a quick search they found it to be in the possession of a Jewish woman who was attending the event herself but was not related to any of the families.

Police were called and the woman quickly admitted to what she had done and offered to return the items, which she did. Police asked the victims if they wanted to press charges against the woman to which they all refused but requested she be escorted from the building. Other participants who witnessed the incident said that this woman was known for such incidents in the past and that she has a compulsive stealing problem (also known as Kleptomania).

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New Engagement!

Shmayah Schechter (Miami Beach, FL) to Bella Kimball (West Hartford, CT) L’Chaim: Tonight, Wednesday, 7:30pm at Chabad of Greater Hartford 2352 Albany Ave, West Hartford, CT, 06117
Baby Girl!

Shneur and Sara (nee Heber) polter from Crown Heights had a baby girl!
New Engagement!

Yonah Galili (Toronto, Canada) to Ora Zuckerman (Crown Heights) L’Chaim: Monday, July 7th, 8:00pm at Bais Avraham Yitzchak 305 Remsen Ave
Baby Boy!

Dovid and Baila (nee Spielman) Vogel from Crown Heights had a baby boy!
New Engagement!

Yechezkel Markovitch (Kiev, Ukraine) to Layah Carlbach (Montreal, Canada)
New Engagement!

Meir Manssouri (Los Angeles, CA) to Raizy Altschul (Chicago, IL)
New Engagement!

Ari Drizin (New Haven, CT) to Batsheva Lisbon (San Diego, CA) L’Chaim: Tonight, Monday, 8:00pm at The Arches 1394 S. Johns Pl
New Engagement!

Berel Laufer (Providence, RI) to Batya Deitsch (Columbus, OH) L’Chaim: Tonight, Monday, 8:00pm at Albany Manor 641 Rutland Rd
New Engagement!

Mendel Stolik (Lantana, FL) to Mussie Chanin (Har Shmuel, EY) L’Chaim: Tonight, Monday, 8:00pm at Lubavitcher Yeshiva
New Engagement!

Yossi Brownstein (Davis, CA) to Chayale Klasner (Toronto, Canada)
New Engagement!

Meir Simcha Silberberg (Chicago, IL) to Yehudis Korf (Miami Beach, FL)
New Engagement!

Mendel Bluming (Chapel Hill, NC) to Mushka Lifshitz (Boise, Idaho) L’Chaim: Tonight, Wednesday, 8:30pm at Lubavitcher Yeshiva
New Engagement!

Leib Telsner (Crown Heights) to Sarale Scheiner (Oak Park, MI) L’Chaim: Tonight, Wednesday, 8:30pm at Lubavitcher Yeshiva
New Engagement!

Zushi Rivkin (Tampa, FL) to Shifra Weinstein (New Hempstead, NY) L’Chaim: Tonight, Wednesday, 8:00pm at The Garden House 1386 S. Johns Pl
Baby Girl!

Mendel and Bracha Eizenbach from Crown Heights had a baby girl!
New Engagement!

Melly Chein (Crown Heights) to Sara Rivkah Duchman (Surfside, FL) L’Chaim: Tonight, Tuesday, 8:00pm at The Arches
New Engagement!

Betzalel Schanowitz (Chicago, IL) to Chaya Mushka Gurary (Simi Valley, CA)

Yeshiva High School of the Twin Cities packs Shalach Manos

Twin Cities, MN — The Purim season has begun, and the bochurim at My Yeshiva jumped right in! The bochurim have been going to the Lubavitch House in West S. Paul to help with one of the biggest and oldest Shalach Manos operations in the country. Lubavitch of Minnesota, under the leadership of Rabbi Moshe Feller, sends out more than 10,000 shalach manos packages to Jewish people all across the state of Minnesota.

Rabbi Mayer Rubinfeld, the program director for Lubavitch in Minnesota, ran the project and directed the bochurim. The boys packed brochures, cookies, candies, and tzedaka into the packages, and then sealed them, addressed them and mailed them.

More pictures and a Video clip in the Extended Article!

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Birthday of Rosh Yeshiva at Tiferes Bochurim

Morristown, NJ — In the middle of afternoon seder on the 8th of Adar, Rabbi Dubinsky, Rosh Yeshiva of Tiferes Bochurim, threw a surprise farbrengan in honor of his birthday and the upcoming Tes Adar which celebrates the arriving of the previous Lubavitcher Rebbe to America. When the Freideker Rebbe (the previous Rebbe and father-in-law to our Rebbe) came to the United States, the outreach of Chabad Chassidim vastly enhanced. Their mission stemmed back to the Alter Rebbe who claimed that spreading Chassidus in America is a necessary goal in bringing Moshiach. The kelipot that was inhibiting the Yiddishkeit of American Jews caused them to feel that America was a country where religious Judaism had no place (certainly in the public eye). Unfortunately this misconception plagued religious and non-religious Jews alike.

More in the Extended Article!

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This Wednesday Yud Adar is the 7th yartzeit of Habochor Hatomim Shlomo Sholom Brashevitzky a“h. Please join us on Tuesday night for a farbrengen in honor of Sholom's Yartzeit at 9:00pm at his brother's house 432 Brooklyn Ave, [between Montogomery St and Empire Blvd].

We, his siblings would like to put together a booklet of storys and memorys of Sholom's a”h years. We would greatly apprectiate if his classmates, friends, students that were with him in Tzfas that year, or anyone that knew him to please send in your storys and memorys to sholombresh@yahoo.com.

We should only hear good news and the ultimate news with the coming of moshiach tzidkeinu and once again we should see Sholom here in a guf gashmi bekorov mamash. Thank you very much his siblings.

7th Yartzeit of Hatomim Sholom Brashevitzky A”H

This Wednesday Yud Adar is the 7th yartzeit of Habochor Hatomim Shlomo Sholom Brashevitzky a“h. Please join us on Tuesday night for a farbrengen in honor of Sholom’s Yartzeit at 9:00pm at his brother’s house 432 Brooklyn Ave, [between Montogomery St and Empire Blvd].

We, his siblings would like to put together a booklet of storys and memorys of Sholom’s a”h years. We would greatly apprectiate if his classmates, friends, students that were with him in Tzfas that year, or anyone that knew him to please send in your storys and memorys to sholombresh@yahoo.com.

We should only hear good news and the ultimate news with the coming of moshiach tzidkeinu and once again we should see Sholom here in a guf gashmi bekorov mamash. Thank you very much his siblings.

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Mayanot and Birthright Expecting a Busy Summer

Jon Gold – Chabad.edu

For years, Taglit-birthright israel trips have provided students and young professionals the chance to go to Israel for free during the summer and winter. Starting in 1999, the programs have gradually expanded into serving thousands annually. All told so far, more than 120,000 have taken part in the guided tours.

But this year, even those closest to the program are surprised by the response to the summer trip registration, which opened on Feb. 15.

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The New York Times
Lubavitcher Shmuel Tennenhaus in the New York Times

Mr. Tennenhaus, an aspiring comedy writer who gained a modest following on YouTube for his droll question-and-answer clips and other spots featuring his grandmother “Bubby,” is being wooed by the site’s competitors, including Metacafe, ManiaTV and others, with promises of guaranteed exposure, a share of advertising money, or both.

New Hot Properties: YouTube Celebrities

The New York Times
Lubavitcher Shmuel Tennenhaus in the New York Times

Mr. Tennenhaus, an aspiring comedy writer who gained a modest following on YouTube for his droll question-and-answer clips and other spots featuring his grandmother “Bubby,” is being wooed by the site’s competitors, including Metacafe, ManiaTV and others, with promises of guaranteed exposure, a share of advertising money, or both.

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JTA - News
Anti-Semitic slogans scrawled on the school's walls - Photo: EJ News

Berlin, Germany — Vandals sprayed neo-Nazi graffiti on a Jewish kindergarten in Berlin and attempted to set fire to the building.

The incident marks a new level in attacks on Jews in Germany, according to Stephan Kramer, general secretary of the Central Council of Jews in Germany.

Vandals attack Chabad run Kindergarten

JTA – News
Anti-Semitic slogans scrawled on the school’s walls – Photo: EJ News

Berlin, Germany — Vandals sprayed neo-Nazi graffiti on a Jewish kindergarten in Berlin and attempted to set fire to the building.

The incident marks a new level in attacks on Jews in Germany, according to Stephan Kramer, general secretary of the Central Council of Jews in Germany.

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South Florida Sun-Sentinel
West Boynton — Dozens of Jewish congregants observing the Sabbath and worshipping daily gather in a two-story home less than a half-mile from the mammoth Chabad Lubavitch of Greater Boynton synagogue.

But neighbors want them to stop.

The irritated residents say they want no more daily religious services conducted in the cream-and-champagne-colored home in the 6200 block of Madras Circle in the Indian Wells subdivision.

Home used for Worship draws Neighbors’ Gripes

South Florida Sun-Sentinel

West Boynton — Dozens of Jewish congregants observing the Sabbath and worshipping daily gather in a two-story home less than a half-mile from the mammoth Chabad Lubavitch of Greater Boynton synagogue.

But neighbors want them to stop.

The irritated residents say they want no more daily religious services conducted in the cream-and-champagne-colored home in the 6200 block of Madras Circle in the Indian Wells subdivision.

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Agents of Change: Community Leaders and their Special Needs Children

R. C. Berman – Lubavitch.com
Gitti Perman gives a speech using her special voice output device.

Toronto, Canada — They are teachers, principals, administrators and community leaders. They are also mothers, often with large families. Sometimes, they are mothers of special needs children. How does a Chabad Shlucha [f. representative] reconcile the altogether consuming demands that come with being a mother of a special needs child, and those of being a community leader?

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Family, friends, and acquaintances, men, women and children, are all invited to join us on Motzei Shabbos Parshas Titzaveh, Purim eve 5767, for a Siyum Sefer Torah in honor of the Yartzeit of the Chossid, Reb Yitzchok Ganzburg, OBM.

It will take place at 55 Broad Street (opposite the N.Y. Stock Exchange), 2nd floor, New York, N.Y.

Buses will leave 1367 President Street (Machon Chana) at 7:15 and at 7:45 PM.

Siyum and Hachnosas Sefer Torah in Memory of Rabbi Gansburg OBM

Family, friends, and acquaintances, men, women and children, are all invited to join us on Motzei Shabbos Parshas Titzaveh, Purim eve 5767, for a Siyum Sefer Torah in honor of the Yartzeit of the Chossid, Reb Yitzchok Ganzburg, OBM.

It will take place at 55 Broad Street (opposite the N.Y. Stock Exchange), 2nd floor, New York, N.Y.

Buses will leave 1367 President Street (Machon Chana) at 7:15 and at 7:45 PM.

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Motzei Shabbas Farbrengan with Tiferes Bochurim

“One with very bad vision does not leave their bedside without their glasses, else they would be blind and bump into walls, practically not being able to live. Similarly, today we are mostly spiritually blind. Just as a person who is legally blind goes no where without their glasses, so too is a Jew unable to take a step each morning without contemplating Hashem’s greatness or daven without first studying Chassidus.”

These words prevailed at Yeshiva Tiferes Bochurim where Rabbi Ginsberg, a Shliach in Boro Park, and Reb Leib Segal, a Tiferes graduate, came to Farbreng Motzei Shabbas. With Purim coming soon, the Bochurim have been enhancing their studies, outreach, and Chassidishe Farbrengens to prepare for the yom tov.

More in the Extended Article!

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A Farbrengen With the Rebbe

It has become a tradition in Lubavitcher Yeshivos world-wide, that on special days, the Yeshivah gathers to watch a ‘Farbrengen’. This means an hour-and-a-half length video, a portion of one of the Rebbe’s Farbrengens on that day. The Sichos are studied, discussed and Farbrenged about, thereby giving bochurim the opportunity to learn from the Rebbe himself.

In connection with the upcoming Yom-Tov of Purim, ‘Vaad Talmidei Hatmimim’ has released a special DVD.

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Lubavitch.com
Miami, FL — The Chabad Jewish Student Center at Florida International University, known to students as ChabadFIU, will be celebrating the dedication of their new student center near the FIU University Park campus, on Sunday, March 11, beginning at 11:00 am.

ChabadFIU opened its doors in August of 2004 and quickly outgrew the townhouse they rented just west of the University Park campus. The purchase of the spacious new center, at 10031 SW 15 Terrace, a short walk from the campus dormitories, will enable the Jewish Student Center to accommodate more students at their programs, and will be more accessible to the Jewish student population.

New Student Center To Be Dedicated at Florida International University

Lubavitch.com

Miami, FL — The Chabad Jewish Student Center at Florida International University, known to students as ChabadFIU, will be celebrating the dedication of their new student center near the FIU University Park campus, on Sunday, March 11, beginning at 11:00 am.

ChabadFIU opened its doors in August of 2004 and quickly outgrew the townhouse they rented just west of the University Park campus. The purchase of the spacious new center, at 10031 SW 15 Terrace, a short walk from the campus dormitories, will enable the Jewish Student Center to accommodate more students at their programs, and will be more accessible to the Jewish student population.

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Zevi S. talks about the Red Heifers’ big win, about the question of sports and bitul torah, and his gratitude to the CH Softball sponsors.

CrownHeights.info: As commissioner of Crown Heights’ only organized sports league tell me a little bit about how you got started.
Zevi S.: I was previously part of a secular league in Bayridge.We were about twelve guys who used to play twice a week. Then we saw how many people in Crown Heights were searching for this kind of recreation and we – Danny Cole and me - decided to start our own league here.

Exclusive interview with the Commissioner of the Crown Heights Softball League

Zevi S. talks about the Red Heifers’ big win, about the question of sports and bitul torah, and his gratitude to the CH Softball sponsors.

CrownHeights.info: As commissioner of Crown Heights’ only organized sports league tell me a little bit about how you got started.
Zevi S.: I was previously part of a secular league in Bayridge.We were about twelve guys who used to play twice a week. Then we saw how many people in Crown Heights were searching for this kind of recreation and we – Danny Cole and me – decided to start our own league here.

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Rabbi Berel Bell of Montreal and Rabbi Markowitz of Monsey in the last Shiur

Anash.com presents a discussion panel with Rabbi Markowitz in Monsey & Rabbi Bell in Montreal 8:35pm part of the series titled ‘How to raise children to be proud of’

The program will begin 8:00pm with Rabbi Bell learning one of the principles from ‘principles of education and guidance’ from the Frierdiker Rebbe. Rabbi Markowitz will broadcast live from Monsey & Rabbi Bell from Montreal participating via Live 2 way face2face interactive video conference.

The program is scheduled to begin @ 8:00pm EST, sharp.

Click Here to watch the program (If you enter now you will see last weeks program)

LIVE TONIGHT! ‘How to Raise Children to be Proud of’

Rabbi Berel Bell of Montreal and Rabbi Markowitz of Monsey in the last Shiur

Anash.com presents a discussion panel with Rabbi Markowitz in Monsey & Rabbi Bell in Montreal 8:35pm part of the series titled ‘How to raise children to be proud of’

The program will begin 8:00pm with Rabbi Bell learning one of the principles from ‘principles of education and guidance’ from the Frierdiker Rebbe. Rabbi Markowitz will broadcast live from Monsey & Rabbi Bell from Montreal participating via Live 2 way face2face interactive video conference.

The program is scheduled to begin @ 8:00pm EST, sharp.

Click Here to watch the program (If you enter now you will see last weeks program)

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