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Rivka Chaya Berman - Lubavitch.com
Jewish teens make joyful associations with their identity.

Munich, Germany — When Sandra Habermann fished for a topic for her senior thesis, she hit upon a subject that she was sure no one in her Munich gymnasium, public high school, would select: “Neshama – The Journey of the Jewish Soul.”

For Young Jews in Germany, Jewish Identity Is Joyful

Rivka Chaya Berman – Lubavitch.com
Jewish teens make joyful associations with their identity.

Munich, Germany — When Sandra Habermann fished for a topic for her senior thesis, she hit upon a subject that she was sure no one in her Munich gymnasium, public high school, would select: “Neshama – The Journey of the Jewish Soul.”

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New Engagement!

Pesach Chaim Newman (Crown Heights) to Bluma Raizel Lewis (Old Tappan, NJ)
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)
Canada.com
Hanna Tennenhaus looks at family pictures at home.
She has 16 grandchildren and 32 great-grandchildren.
Montreal, Canada — Montreal grandmother Hanna Tennenhaus doesn't own a computer and until recently had never heard of the popular everyman video-broadcast website YouTube.

Doesn't matter. In the last 48 hours, Tennenhaus has become the toast of the website thanks to a New Year's greeting she recorded for her family.

It's an impressive family that includes four children, 16 grandchildren and 32 great-grandchildren (with three more on the way.)

“YouTube? Does that have something to do with U-boats?” Tennenhaus, 83, asked with a laugh when reached by telephone yesterday.

Grandmother surfs to YouTube stardom

Canada.com
Hanna Tennenhaus looks at family pictures at home.
She has 16 grandchildren and 32 great-grandchildren.

Montreal, Canada — Montreal grandmother Hanna Tennenhaus doesn’t own a computer and until recently had never heard of the popular everyman video-broadcast website YouTube.

Doesn’t matter. In the last 48 hours, Tennenhaus has become the toast of the website thanks to a New Year’s greeting she recorded for her family.

It’s an impressive family that includes four children, 16 grandchildren and 32 great-grandchildren (with three more on the way.)

“YouTube? Does that have something to do with U-boats?” Tennenhaus, 83, asked with a laugh when reached by telephone yesterday.

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Record Online
Monroe, NY — You might have seen them recently leading menorah-lighting Hanukkah ceremonies and shepherding kids around Orange County in stretch Hummer limousines with menorahs lashed to the roof.

Rabbi Pesach Burston and his wife, Chana, run an Orange County chapter of Chabad, the Brooklyn-based Hasidic organization that runs education and outreach programs for all kinds of Jews around the world.

Having gotten by with various rented spaces and homes since starting up in 2004, the Burstons are now polishing plans for a 22,000-square-foot center in downtown Monroe that would gather their programs under one roof and provide their first synagogue.

Chabad plans Jewish center for Monroe

Record Online

Monroe, NY — You might have seen them recently leading menorah-lighting Hanukkah ceremonies and shepherding kids around Orange County in stretch Hummer limousines with menorahs lashed to the roof.

Rabbi Pesach Burston and his wife, Chana, run an Orange County chapter of Chabad, the Brooklyn-based Hasidic organization that runs education and outreach programs for all kinds of Jews around the world.

Having gotten by with various rented spaces and homes since starting up in 2004, the Burstons are now polishing plans for a 22,000-square-foot center in downtown Monroe that would gather their programs under one roof and provide their first synagogue.

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Shmais.com
Rabbi and Mrs. Mordchai Groner will IYH be moving on Shlichus to Calgary, Alberta, Canada, where they will head the Calgary JLI - Jewish Learning Institute.

The Groners were appointed by Rabbi Menachem Matusof, Executive Director of Chabad Lubavitch of Alberta, and are from the first group of Shluchim to have been approved for the recently launched Shluchei Torah Grant from the Rohr Family Foundation.

Hatzlocha Rabba!

The new Shluchim can be reached via e-mail at maig770@hotmail.com

A special Yasher Koach to Rabbi Efraim Mintz and Rabbi Yoni Katz for helping the Shluchim find the Shliach Oiseh Shliach, and to Rabbi Moshe Kotlarsky for arranging the Rohr Grant.

New Shluchim to Calagary, Alberta

Shmais.com

Rabbi and Mrs. Mordchai Groner will IYH be moving on Shlichus to Calgary, Alberta, Canada, where they will head the Calgary JLI – Jewish Learning Institute.

The Groners were appointed by Rabbi Menachem Matusof, Executive Director of Chabad Lubavitch of Alberta, and are from the first group of Shluchim to have been approved for the recently launched Shluchei Torah Grant from the Rohr Family Foundation.

Hatzlocha Rabba!

The new Shluchim can be reached via e-mail at maig770@hotmail.com

A special Yasher Koach to Rabbi Efraim Mintz and Rabbi Yoni Katz for helping the Shluchim find the Shliach Oiseh Shliach, and to Rabbi Moshe Kotlarsky for arranging the Rohr Grant.

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This Thursday, January 4th, the 14th of Tevet, there will be a rally at the Ohel for all chidren agen 5 to 12.

Busses will leave from 770 at 5:00 and will return at 7:45 ($3.00)

For more information please call (718) 773 1688

Full flyer in the Extended Article!

This Thursday – Rally at the Ohel

This Thursday, January 4th, the 14th of Tevet, there will be a rally at the Ohel for all chidren agen 5 to 12.

Busses will leave from 770 at 5:00 and will return at 7:45 ($3.00)

For more information please call (718) 773 1688

Full flyer in the Extended Article!

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Ofri Ilani - Haaretz

At the world center of Chabad Hasidism in Brooklyn, New York, the afternoon service is about to begin. Like many other events held at ultra-Orthodox venues these days, someone there photographed the worshipers with his cellular telephone's video camera.

Internet? There’s no such thing

Ofri Ilani – Haaretz

At the world center of Chabad Hasidism in Brooklyn, New York, the afternoon service is about to begin. Like many other events held at ultra-Orthodox venues these days, someone there photographed the worshipers with his cellular telephone’s video camera.

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(Left to right) Rabbi Levi Silman and Rabbi Daniel Rabin

Rabbi Daniel and his wife Sara Rabin will be moving to Johannessburg, South Africa on Shlichus along with their 3 month old son sometime within the next few weeks.

They were appointed by Rav David Masinter, Shliach to South Africa.

Also, Rabbi Levi and Leah Silman have begun a new shlichus in Milnerton a suburb Cape Town, South Africa, where he will be rabbi of the local minyan in the Milnerton suburb of Cape Town, the will also be responsible for all Chabad activities in Milnerton.

They were appointed by Rabbi Popack, head shliach to Cape Town.

May The New Shluchim “be successful in all their endeavors”.

Hatzlacha Rabba!!

Two New Shluchim To South Africa

(Left to right) Rabbi Levi Silman and Rabbi Daniel Rabin

Rabbi Daniel and his wife Sara Rabin will be moving to Johannessburg, South Africa on Shlichus along with their 3 month old son sometime within the next few weeks.

They were appointed by Rav David Masinter, Shliach to South Africa.

Also, Rabbi Levi and Leah Silman have begun a new shlichus in Milnerton a suburb Cape Town, South Africa, where he will be rabbi of the local minyan in the Milnerton suburb of Cape Town, the will also be responsible for all Chabad activities in Milnerton.

They were appointed by Rabbi Popack, head shliach to Cape Town.

May The New Shluchim “be successful in all their endeavors”.

Hatzlacha Rabba!!

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The NY Post
Harlem is bleeding - the murder rate doubled there this year.

Slayings spiked at least 100 percent in each of the neighborhood's three police precincts, jumping to 40 this year from a total of 19 last year.

The increase in Harlem - the biggest among any adjoining precincts in the city - fueled this year's 35 percent surge in homicides in Manhattan above 59th Street, police statistics through last Sunday show.

Murders Up City Wide

The NY Post

Harlem is bleeding – the murder rate doubled there this year.

Slayings spiked at least 100 percent in each of the neighborhood’s three police precincts, jumping to 40 this year from a total of 19 last year.

The increase in Harlem – the biggest among any adjoining precincts in the city – fueled this year’s 35 percent surge in homicides in Manhattan above 59th Street, police statistics through last Sunday show.

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Kinus for Talmidim in 770

col.org.il

Hundreds of Bochurim gathered Sunday for a Kinus of Awakening and Strengthening after two weeks had passed since the terrible tragedy that claimed the lives of three Bochurim on their way to do Chanukah Mivtzoim.

The gathering was emceed by R. Kalman Wienfeld, Rosh Yeshiva of Lubavitcher Yeshiva Chovevai Torah and the featured speaker was R. Yossi Jacobson who spoke about the terrible tragedy and emphasized the point that the Rebbe wanted that Bochurim involve themselves in learning.

More pictures in the Extended Article.

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Lubavitch.com

Within Chabad-Lubavitch communities internationally, shock and grief over the deaths of three young Chabad students two weeks ago have now given way to a more introspective focus. Many have issued calls for a concerted effort towards greater achdut, or unity among Chabad chasidim, as they reflect on a tragedy that struck deeply, affecting every segment of the community.

In the Wake of Tragedy, A Call for Unity

Lubavitch.com
The scene of the accident. Click here for the original article

Within Chabad-Lubavitch communities internationally, shock and grief over the deaths of three young Chabad students two weeks ago have now given way to a more introspective focus. Many have issued calls for a concerted effort towards greater achdut, or unity among Chabad chasidim, as they reflect on a tragedy that struck deeply, affecting every segment of the community.

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This Sunday concluded a week long overnight camping experience that will never be forgotten. The 8-day winter camp, located in the heart of the Catskill Mountains , was sponsored by Friends of Refugees of Eastern Europe ( F.R.E.E.) directed by Rabbis Meir & Hirshel Okunov.

The camp, headed by Rabbi Mendel Okunov and Rabbi Dan Dashevsky, was specifically geared for public-school boys from Russian immigrant families, with little or no religious background.

UPDATE: More pictures in the Extended Article!

Camp FREE Winter Experience – Yet Another Amazing Camp Season

This Sunday concluded a week long overnight camping experience that will never be forgotten. The 8-day winter camp, located in the heart of the Catskill Mountains , was sponsored by Friends of Refugees of Eastern Europe ( F.R.E.E.) directed by Rabbis Meir & Hirshel Okunov.

The camp, headed by Rabbi Mendel Okunov and Rabbi Dan Dashevsky, was specifically geared for public-school boys from Russian immigrant families, with little or no religious background.

UPDATE: More pictures in the Extended Article!

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Reminder: Alternate Side Parking Rules Suspended Saturday, December 30 through Monday, January 1

Alternate side parking regulations are suspended on Saturday, December 30 through Monday, January 1 for holiday observance. Parking meter regulations are in effect on Saturday, December 30 but are suspended on Sunday, December 31. Because New Year’s Day is a major legal holiday, parking meter regulations are also suspended on Monday, January 1. On major legal holidays, stopping, standing, and parking are permitted, except in areas where stopping, standing, and parking rules are in effect 7 days a week (for example, “No Standing Anytime”).

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Chabad of Stamford gets New Facility

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With gratitude to Hashem for His incredible kindnesses, Chabad of Stamford announces that at 3:40 PM Friday afternoon the 8th of Teves (December 29) the City of Stamford granted a Certificate of Occupancy for our new Center at 770 High Ridge Road.

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The crowd at last years event. Inset: MBD.

5th Annual concert fundraiser to benefit Crown Heights children with special needs will be held on February 24, 2007.

Crown Heights, NY, December 31, 2006: Mordechai Ben David, the legendary Chassidic singer, will be the star performer at the annual concert fundraiser to take place on February 24, 2007, at the George Wingate Auditorium, 600 Kingston Avenue, Brooklyn, NY at 8:30 P.M.

MBD will be in concert for the first time in Crown Heights. The Neshoma orchestra, under the musical direction of the incomparable Yaron Gershovsky, will provide the perfect accompaniment for this wonderful event.

Chasdei Zahavi Announces that Mordechai Ben David To Headline Soul II Soul 5767!

The crowd at last years event. Inset: MBD.

5th Annual concert fundraiser to benefit Crown Heights children with special needs will be held on February 24, 2007.

Crown Heights, NY, December 31, 2006: Mordechai Ben David, the legendary Chassidic singer, will be the star performer at the annual concert fundraiser to take place on February 24, 2007, at the George Wingate Auditorium, 600 Kingston Avenue, Brooklyn, NY at 8:30 P.M.

MBD will be in concert for the first time in Crown Heights. The Neshoma orchestra, under the musical direction of the incomparable Yaron Gershovsky, will provide the perfect accompaniment for this wonderful event.

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The NY Daily News
An NYPD sergeant charged with pummeling a suspected car thief in Brooklyn while off-duty defended himself yesterday, telling the Daily News the assault charges against him are baseless.

“The truth will come out,” Sgt. Greg Abrahams said after being held for 15 hours in the alleged beating of an ex-con who police say was trying to steal the sergeant's Ford Mustang. “This is so bogus. It's really just being blown out of proportion.”

Abrahams was agitated outside his Nassau County home yesterday as he removed parts of the dashboard, allegedly damaged by Gaspar Alcalde, 48.

Cop Denies Beating Thug After Car Theft Try

The NY Daily News

An NYPD sergeant charged with pummeling a suspected car thief in Brooklyn while off-duty defended himself yesterday, telling the Daily News the assault charges against him are baseless.

“The truth will come out,” Sgt. Greg Abrahams said after being held for 15 hours in the alleged beating of an ex-con who police say was trying to steal the sergeant’s Ford Mustang. “This is so bogus. It’s really just being blown out of proportion.”

Abrahams was agitated outside his Nassau County home yesterday as he removed parts of the dashboard, allegedly damaged by Gaspar Alcalde, 48.

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The fast begins at 5:51am and ends at 5:16pm (Crown Heights specific)
Chabad.org
On the 10th of Tevet of the year 3336 from Creation (425 BCE), the armies of the Babylonian emperor Nebuchadnezzar laid siege to Jerusalem. Thirty months later — on Tammuz 9, 3338 — the city walls were breached, and on Av 9th of that year, the Holy Temple was destroyed. The Jewish people were exiled to Babylonia for 70 years.

Tevet 10 is observed as a day of fasting, mourning and repentance, in remembrance of the siege of Jerusalem (see “Today in Jewish History”). We refrain from food and drink from daybreak to nightfall, and add the Selichot and other special supplements to our prayers. (More recently, Tevet 10 was chosen to also serve as a “general kaddish day” for the victims of the Holocaust, many of whose day of martyrdom is unknown.)

More in the Extended Article.

Tenth of Tevet – the Siege of Jerusalem

The fast begins at 5:51am and ends at 5:16pm (Crown Heights specific)

Chabad.org

On the 10th of Tevet of the year 3336 from Creation (425 BCE), the armies of the Babylonian emperor Nebuchadnezzar laid siege to Jerusalem. Thirty months later — on Tammuz 9, 3338 — the city walls were breached, and on Av 9th of that year, the Holy Temple was destroyed. The Jewish people were exiled to Babylonia for 70 years.

Tevet 10 is observed as a day of fasting, mourning and repentance, in remembrance of the siege of Jerusalem (see “Today in Jewish History”). We refrain from food and drink from daybreak to nightfall, and add the Selichot and other special supplements to our prayers. (More recently, Tevet 10 was chosen to also serve as a “general kaddish day” for the victims of the Holocaust, many of whose day of martyrdom is unknown.)

More in the Extended Article.

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