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Sunday evening at around 10:30pm Shomrim received a call from an alert resident that had observed a young white male in their backyard inside a car. The incident had taken place on Eastern Pkwy between Troy and Albany.

Numerous Shomrim members responded and surrounded the area and called police, many officers of the 77th Precinct responded and arrived on scene with the youth still inside the vehicle. Police arrested the youth and when questioned as to why he was in the car he answered that ‘he was being chased and was scared so he was hiding in the car’.

Shomrim Apprehend Alleged Car Thief

Sunday evening at around 10:30pm Shomrim received a call from an alert resident that had observed a young white male in their backyard inside a car. The incident had taken place on Eastern Pkwy between Troy and Albany.

Numerous Shomrim members responded and surrounded the area and called police, many officers of the 77th Precinct responded and arrived on scene with the youth still inside the vehicle. Police arrested the youth and when questioned as to why he was in the car he answered that ‘he was being chased and was scared so he was hiding in the car’.

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New Engagement!

Eitan Hershkop (Crown Heights) to Chana Belfer (Melbourne, Australia) L’Chaim: Tonight, Thursday, 8:00pm at Bass and Bourbon
New Engagement!

Levi Meer (Morristown, NJ) to Sara Gershovitz (Crown Heights) L’Chaim: Thursday, June 12th, 8:00pm at 1349 President Street Upstairs
New Engagement!

Yosef Chaim Bercovice (Chicago, IL) to Leah Eisenbach (New York)
New Engagement!

Pesach Bercovice (Chicago, IL) to Tzipporah Yasmine Holloway (Orlando, FL)
New Engagement!

Mendel Saaks (Chicago, IL) to Leeba Grossbaum (Paramus, NJ)
New Engagement!

Yisrolik Keselman (London, UK) to Shaina Keller (Crown Heights)

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New Engagement!

Ya’akov Silverman (Tysons Corner, VA) to Chaya Raizel Michaelson (Glastonbury, CT)
New Engagement!

Yitzchak Minkowitz (Fort Myers, FL) to Shani Silver (Mequon, WI)
New Engagement!

Avremel Weingarten (Flint, MI) to Chana Potash (Noe Valley, SF, CA)
New Engagement!

Yaya Kagan (Los Angeles, CA) to Hadas Malamud (Brooklyn, NY) L’Chaim: Tonight, Thursday, 7:30pm at the Oholei Torah Ballroom
Baby Boy!

Meyer and Chaya (nee Engelberg) Shushan from Crown Heights had a baby boy!
Baby Girl!

Boruch and Adeli Zimmerman from Oro Valley, AZ had a baby girl!

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New Engagement!

Dovi Vogel (Wilmington, DE) to Chanie Rapoport (Atlantic City, NJ)
New Engagement!

Yitzy Bernstein (Freehold, NJ) to Brocha Gleyzer (Monsey, NY)
Baby Boy!

Mendy and Sarah (nee Glick) Korf from Crown Heights had a baby boy!
New Engagement!

Levi Labor (Chicago, IL) to Etti Krinsky (Crown Heights)
New Engagement!

Moti Kulski (Paris, France) to Sharona Kuperman (Moscow, Russia)

At around 1:30 early Monday morning a black Lexus LS400 lost control on the wet streets and drove up onto the sidewalk completely uprooting a stand pipe and folding its two protective poles and finally coming to rest on a tree.

The incident took place on Eastern Pkwy between Kingston and Albany, FDNY EMS responded to the scene and removed the driver to a local hospital. There were no Yidden involved in this incident.

More pictures in the Extended Article.

Car Runs into Tree

At around 1:30 early Monday morning a black Lexus LS400 lost control on the wet streets and drove up onto the sidewalk completely uprooting a stand pipe and folding its two protective poles and finally coming to rest on a tree.

The incident took place on Eastern Pkwy between Kingston and Albany, FDNY EMS responded to the scene and removed the driver to a local hospital. There were no Yidden involved in this incident.

More pictures in the Extended Article.

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From the Inbox
I am having a hard year with my son at school. The class is large and although he is bright, he gets easily distracted.

I feel like the Rebbe's are calling me every other day complaining about my son. “He’s not doing his homework”, “He seems so disinterested, and as a result disturbing my teaching”

I am just so frustrated! I have other children, B”H my other sons are doing well in this school, but its not working for this son. I work full time to pay the cost of tuition and my son is not getting his education.

A Mothers Cry For Help

From the Inbox

I am having a hard year with my son at school. The class is large and although he is bright, he gets easily distracted.

I feel like the Rebbe’s are calling me every other day complaining about my son. “He’s not doing his homework”, “He seems so disinterested, and as a result disturbing my teaching”

I am just so frustrated! I have other children, B”H my other sons are doing well in this school, but its not working for this son. I work full time to pay the cost of tuition and my son is not getting his education.

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Here is the list of the winners at the ULY Auction.

Grand Prize - Toby Perl
Split the Pot - Aisenbach, Montreal
Jack Pot - Nava Borisute
Door Prize from REA Alternatives - T. Danzinger

Click the Extended Article for the rest of the list

The List Of Winners At The ULY Auction

Here is the list of the winners at the ULY Auction.

Grand Prize – Toby Perl
Split the Pot – Aisenbach, Montreal
Jack Pot – Nava Borisute
Door Prize from REA Alternatives – T. Danzinger

Click the Extended Article for the rest of the list

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New Chabad House for the Palisades

Shturem.net

Tenafly, NJ — Construction of the new Chabad House for Palisades will begin soon on the same plot of land the previous Chabad House was on. The new Chabad House will be three times bigger then the one its replacing.

This is the project of Rabbi Mordechai and Malka Shain shluchim in Tenafly with the help of shliach Rabbi Chaim and Yocheved Boyarsk.

More pictures in the Extended Article!

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Newsday

Brooklyn, NY — Dovid Taub has learned a lot since hand-sewing his first puppet four years ago to entertain a bunch of young summer campers.

“It looked very bad. It was five feet tall and cumbersome to use,” Taub, now 25, recalled.

Today, the Brooklyn rabbinical student makes 30-inch puppets that are featured in a video program he produces for www.chabad.org, the Web site of the international Chabad Lubavitch Movement headquartered in Brooklyn's Crown Heights section.

UPDATE: Newspaper clipping in the Extended Article!

Judaism Lessons from Puppets

Newsday

Brooklyn, NY — Dovid Taub has learned a lot since hand-sewing his first puppet four years ago to entertain a bunch of young summer campers.

“It looked very bad. It was five feet tall and cumbersome to use,” Taub, now 25, recalled.

Today, the Brooklyn rabbinical student makes 30-inch puppets that are featured in a video program he produces for www.chabad.org, the Web site of the international Chabad Lubavitch Movement headquartered in Brooklyn’s Crown Heights section.

UPDATE: Newspaper clipping in the Extended Article!

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Defying Her Tormentors: A Survivor’s Legacy

B. Olidort – lubavitch.com
Five generations: seated at right, the grand matriarch, Maryasha, top right. Top row, right to left: her daughter, granddaughter, great granddaughter and great-great-grandson.

Brooklyn, NY — The passing of 106-year old Maryasha Garelik was reported in news outlets internationally. Survivor of Czarist, Soviet and Nazi persecution, Maryasha was an exemplar of the Chasidic spirit, and leaves four generations of descendants, numbering around 1000, many of whom are serving in leadership positions in Jewish communities worldwide. In Brazil, Australia, China, England, Canada, and in numerous cities in the United States, her grandchildren carry the torch of Chasidic devotion she kept aflame. The following is from a photo essay under the title, Keeper of the Flame, published 12 years ago, in the Wellsprings journal.

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Rebecca Rosenthal - Lubavitch.com
Instead of the beaches, South Americans hit the texts at the Rabbinical College in New Jersey.

Morristown, NJ — Adult education assumes a significant place in the outreach activities of Chabad centers around the world. But it’s not quite the same as the total immersion yeshiva variety, which many have never experienced. Towards that end, the Rabbinical College of America developed a six-week steeped-in-the-texts program that gave South American Jews a taste of the experience.

From South America to New Jersey for An Authentic Yeshiva Experience

Rebecca Rosenthal – Lubavitch.com
Instead of the beaches, South Americans hit the texts at the Rabbinical College in New Jersey.

Morristown, NJ — Adult education assumes a significant place in the outreach activities of Chabad centers around the world. But it’s not quite the same as the total immersion yeshiva variety, which many have never experienced. Towards that end, the Rabbinical College of America developed a six-week steeped-in-the-texts program that gave South American Jews a taste of the experience.

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A 30 Year Old Story with a Stone

30 Years ago today, a Mitzvah Tank full with 13 Bochurim were on their way home from doing Mivtzoim in Manhattan, they crossed the Williamsburg Bridge and headed back to Crown Heights through Lee Avenue, when they reached Rodney Street. They were attacked my a large mob of Chassidishe Jews, their tires were slashed, and they were barred from making their way home, all the while getting yelled at and cursed, in the middle of which a massive stone came through the windshield of the Mitzvah Tank and landed very close to one of the Bochurim.

Then, after asking two Rabonim they were told that they need to Bentch Gomel, since they were in great danger. Ever since that a Farbrengen takes place on this day in R. Mordechai Nagel’s house.

The original article of the story was printed in the Algemainer Journal in Yiddish. You can see the article in the Extended Article, along with a rough translation, and pictures of the Farbrengen.

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Chof Daled Teves – The Passing of the Alter Rebbe

Chabad.org

The founder of Chabad Chassidism, Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi (1745-1812), passed away on the eve of the 24th of Tevet, at approximately 10:30 pm, shortly after reciting the Havdalah prayer marking the end of the Shabbat. The Rebbe was in the village of Peyena, fleeing Napoleon’s armies, which had swept through the Rebbe’s hometown of Liadi three months earlier in their advance towards Moscow. He was in his 68th year at the time of his passing, and was succeeded by his son, Rabbi DovBer of Lubavitch.

A brief biography in the Extended Article.

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Atlanta, GA — The first test for students of the Atlanta Semicha Program took place last week at Chabad of Georgia headquarters, in Atlanta, Georgia. The students were tested on laws of milk and meat by Rabbi Dovid Schochet, President of the Toronto Rabbinical Council, and a member of Vaad Rabbonei Lubavitch. Rabbi Schochet is world renowned for his genius Torah knowledge and his great depth in Torah learning, and is the ordaining Rabbi for the bochrim in the program.

Semicha Students of Georgia Tested by Rabbi Shochet

COL.org.il

Atlanta, GA — The first test for students of the Atlanta Semicha Program took place last week at Chabad of Georgia headquarters, in Atlanta, Georgia. The students were tested on laws of milk and meat by Rabbi Dovid Schochet, President of the Toronto Rabbinical Council, and a member of Vaad Rabbonei Lubavitch. Rabbi Schochet is world renowned for his genius Torah knowledge and his great depth in Torah learning, and is the ordaining Rabbi for the bochrim in the program.

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Australian Jewish News
Sydney, Australia — In just one week, Sydney Jews have had to face the brutal reality of a grisly murder and an alleged assault – with both victims in the heart of the bagel belt. Although there is no proof yet that either was racially motivated, Jewish officials are nonetheless concerned.

Wednesday afternoon, December 27, 2006: An elderly lady feels unwell, calls her doctor at around 3.30pm, and returns to bed.

That evening, at around 7.15pm, Katherine Schweitzer, an 81-year-old Holocaust survivor, is found dead, murdered, strangled to death.

Her body is dumped in a wheelie bin and left on the fifth floor of her Bellevue Hill apartment block.

One Week, Two Incidents and No Suspects

Australian Jewish News

Sydney, Australia — In just one week, Sydney Jews have had to face the brutal reality of a grisly murder and an alleged assault – with both victims in the heart of the bagel belt. Although there is no proof yet that either was racially motivated, Jewish officials are nonetheless concerned.

Wednesday afternoon, December 27, 2006: An elderly lady feels unwell, calls her doctor at around 3.30pm, and returns to bed.

That evening, at around 7.15pm, Katherine Schweitzer, an 81-year-old Holocaust survivor, is found dead, murdered, strangled to death.

Her body is dumped in a wheelie bin and left on the fifth floor of her Bellevue Hill apartment block.

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With great sadness we report the passing of HaRav HaChossid, Rabbi Moshe Ashkenazi, one of the prominent elderly Chabad Rabbis, Rabbi of the Chabad community of Tel Aviv, and member of “Agudas Chassidei Chabad” of Israel.

Rabbi Ashkenazi passed away at the age of 86 at 3:00 PM in the Rivkah Ziv hospital in Tsfat with a severe case of pneumonia. His condition deteriorated in the past week when he had a heart attack which rendered him unconscious.

Rabbi Ashkenazi was born in Vladivostok, Russia and made Aliya to Israel when he was a bochur.

He is survived by four children: Rabbi Nosson Ashkenazi A"H and Yibadu L'Chaim Tovim: Rabbi Mordechai Shmuel Ashkenazi (Rov of Kfar Chabad), Rabbi Chaim Ashkenazi (Lod), Mrs. Malka Wilschanski (Tsfat) and Mrs. Esther Twersky (Crown Heights).

Boruch Dayan HaEmes – Rabbi Moshe Ashkenazy OB”M

With great sadness we report the passing of HaRav HaChossid, Rabbi Moshe Ashkenazi, one of the prominent elderly Chabad Rabbis, Rabbi of the Chabad community of Tel Aviv, and member of “Agudas Chassidei Chabad” of Israel.

Rabbi Ashkenazi passed away at the age of 86 at 3:00 PM in the Rivkah Ziv hospital in Tsfat with a severe case of pneumonia. His condition deteriorated in the past week when he had a heart attack which rendered him unconscious.

Rabbi Ashkenazi was born in Vladivostok, Russia and made Aliya to Israel when he was a bochur.

He is survived by four children: Rabbi Nosson Ashkenazi A”H and Yibadu L’Chaim Tovim: Rabbi Mordechai Shmuel Ashkenazi (Rov of Kfar Chabad), Rabbi Chaim Ashkenazi (Lod), Mrs. Malka Wilschanski (Tsfat) and Mrs. Esther Twersky (Crown Heights).

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Gan Temimim and The Rambam

Today, Chof Teves, the Rambam’s Yahrtzeit, the young Temimim on Lubavitcher Yeshiva – Crown Heights learned about the Rambam’s many accomplishments. The Kinderlach learned that the Rambam wrote the many Seforim, amongst them, Sefer Mishne Torah, which the Rebbe want everyone to learn – even Kinderlach.

More in the Extended Article!

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Rivka Chaya Berman - Lubavitch.com

As a young generation of Russian-American Jews grows up, one organization makes changes in the way it reaches out.

As 30 Jewish teens, all first and second generation Russian immigrants, snapped their boot bindings into their skis and leapt aboard Hunter Mountain’s lift, they were continuing a tradition of Jewish education begun by Friends of Refugees of Eastern Europe (F.R.E.E.) in 1969. Back in the 70s and early 80s, when Soviet Jews arrived with few or no possessions but a passion for religious freedom, F.R.E.E. served as benefactor, offering practical necessities – dishes and clothing – and spiritual growth opportunities with a yeshiva, Jewish camp, and brit milah services. All still exist: F.R.E.E. recently performed its 13,200th circumcision; its Brooklyn day camp attracted 150 kids last summer; the F.R.E.E. high school is still open on Ocean Parkway. But the organization’s focus has evolved with the changing needs of the Russian-Jewish community.

Keeping Pace With A New Generation of Russian Jewry

Rivka Chaya Berman – Lubavitch.com

As a young generation of Russian-American Jews grows up, one organization makes changes in the way it reaches out.

As 30 Jewish teens, all first and second generation Russian immigrants, snapped their boot bindings into their skis and leapt aboard Hunter Mountain’s lift, they were continuing a tradition of Jewish education begun by Friends of Refugees of Eastern Europe (F.R.E.E.) in 1969. Back in the 70s and early 80s, when Soviet Jews arrived with few or no possessions but a passion for religious freedom, F.R.E.E. served as benefactor, offering practical necessities – dishes and clothing – and spiritual growth opportunities with a yeshiva, Jewish camp, and brit milah services. All still exist: F.R.E.E. recently performed its 13,200th circumcision; its Brooklyn day camp attracted 150 kids last summer; the F.R.E.E. high school is still open on Ocean Parkway. But the organization’s focus has evolved with the changing needs of the Russian-Jewish community.

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