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Group photo from the Kinus two years ago.

As in previous years, the Vaad-Talmidei-Hatmimim announced that they will organize conventions for Talmidim-Hashluchim. The central Kinus will take place in Miami, Florida. Additional Kinusim will follow across the globe in Israel, Russia etc.

The decision was announced last week by the Vaad, on a conference-call with participants from twenty Yeshivos around North America.

More in the Extended Article!

Talmidim-Shluchim convention to be held in Miami Yeshivah

Group photo from the Kinus two years ago.

As in previous years, the Vaad-Talmidei-Hatmimim announced that they will organize conventions for Talmidim-Hashluchim. The central Kinus will take place in Miami, Florida. Additional Kinusim will follow across the globe in Israel, Russia etc.

The decision was announced last week by the Vaad, on a conference-call with participants from twenty Yeshivos around North America.

More in the Extended Article!

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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)
The New York Times
Three off-duty police officers were arrested and charged with assault yesterday after they attacked a man who had broken into a car belonging to one of them, officials said.

The man accused of breaking into the car, Alcado Gasper, 47, of Park Slope, Brooklyn, suffered minor injuries in the attack, which took place in Park Slope, and received medical treatment after he was arrested and taken to the 78th Precinct station house, officials said.

Officers Greg Abrahams, 33; Mark Zajac, 25; and Chris Kirch, 27, were all charged with third-degree assault and are under investigation by the department’s Internal Affairs Bureau, the police said.

3 Off-Duty Officers Accused of Assault

The New York Times

Three off-duty police officers were arrested and charged with assault yesterday after they attacked a man who had broken into a car belonging to one of them, officials said.

The man accused of breaking into the car, Alcado Gasper, 47, of Park Slope, Brooklyn, suffered minor injuries in the attack, which took place in Park Slope, and received medical treatment after he was arrested and taken to the 78th Precinct station house, officials said.

Officers Greg Abrahams, 33; Mark Zajac, 25; and Chris Kirch, 27, were all charged with third-degree assault and are under investigation by the department’s Internal Affairs Bureau, the police said.

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Boy Falls into Open Basement

At around 1:20pm on Friday, Erev Shabbos, a 12 year old boy fell through an open set of metal doors which leads to the basement of a store on Kingston Avenue. The incident took place on the corner of Kingston and Crown where a few boys were playing and one of the boys took the nearly 10 foot plunge backwards down the stairs into the basement.

Hatzalah was called and treated the boy then transported him along with his mother to Kings County Hospital for further checkups and observation.

More pictures in the Extended Article.

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Oracle, AZ — Ten action-packed and exciting days come to a close for one hundred and fifty children of Shluchim basking in an Avir of Shlichus in Camp Gan Israel, Tzerei Hashluchim, Boys and Girls Divisions in beautiful Oracle Arizona. The children experienced true Achdus and camaraderie among their fellow Shluchim.

More pictures in the Extended Article!

Camp Gan Israel – Tzeirei Hashluchim 5767

Oracle, AZ — Ten action-packed and exciting days come to a close for one hundred and fifty children of Shluchim basking in an Avir of Shlichus in Camp Gan Israel, Tzerei Hashluchim, Boys and Girls Divisions in beautiful Oracle Arizona. The children experienced true Achdus and camaraderie among their fellow Shluchim.

More pictures in the Extended Article!

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The NY Post
Brooklyn, NY — A devious cabal that included a pedophile rabbi stole a half-million-dollar home from a cancer-stricken woman, using a forged power of attorney to sell it and pocket the profits, Brooklyn prosecutors charged yesterday.

According to investigators, Margaret Franklin's Crown Heights home was stolen in August 2004 after Nathen Farkas, 31, forged a power of attorney, signing Franklin's name, that effectively handed control of her assets to co-defendant Russell Pitt.

B’klyn House ‘Theft’

The NY Post

Brooklyn, NY — A devious cabal that included a pedophile rabbi stole a half-million-dollar home from a cancer-stricken woman, using a forged power of attorney to sell it and pocket the profits, Brooklyn prosecutors charged yesterday.

According to investigators, Margaret Franklin’s Crown Heights home was stolen in August 2004 after Nathen Farkas, 31, forged a power of attorney, signing Franklin’s name, that effectively handed control of her assets to co-defendant Russell Pitt.

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Only 3 days Left for Free Announcements

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Israir Welcomes the Sky-Torah

Amidst great joy and celebration, hundreds of people gathered at JFK International Airport in New York today to welcome a new Torah scroll.

Israir’s new Torah, called the Sky-Torah, was greeted under a “Chuppah”- a traditional Jewish wedding canopy, and was carried amidst throngs of children joyously dancing to live music. Children and adults alike were delighted to touch and kiss the new Sefer Torah, as it was lovingly transported on its way to Israel.

More pictures in the Extended Article!

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The Rebbe says:

1. Towards the end of this week’s Parshah the Torah tells us about Ya’akov Avinu (our father) traveling down to Egypt to see his son Yoseph.

Before Ya’akov Avinu went down to Egypt he sent his son Yehuda ahead of him. Rashi (Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki) tells us- in the name of the Medrash- that the reason Ya’akov Avinu sent his son Yehuda ahead of him was so that Yehuda could set up a Yeshiva (a study-hall to learn Torah in) there first. Ya’akov Avinu did not want to go to a land that did not have a Yeshiva ready. (See Rashi to Verse 28, Chapter 46).

The Weekly Sedra – Parshas Vayigash

The Rebbe says:

1. Towards the end of this week’s Parshah the Torah tells us about Ya’akov Avinu (our father) traveling down to Egypt to see his son Yoseph.

Before Ya’akov Avinu went down to Egypt he sent his son Yehuda ahead of him. Rashi (Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki) tells us- in the name of the Medrash- that the reason Ya’akov Avinu sent his son Yehuda ahead of him was so that Yehuda could set up a Yeshiva (a study-hall to learn Torah in) there first. Ya’akov Avinu did not want to go to a land that did not have a Yeshiva ready. (See Rashi to Verse 28, Chapter 46).

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Josh Lipowsky - Jewish Standard
From left Shneur Garb, Rabbi
Simon, and Josh Lipowsky
Teaneck, NJ — You get strange looks walking into Pizza Crave with a big fuzzy blue menorah on your head. Traveling through New York’s Greenwich Village, though, you’re lucky if people even look at you.

This year’s Chanukah was the busiest I have ever had, and I owe it all to my new festive hat. The hijinks started even before Chanukah, when I received invitations to two Chabad parties; the world’s tallest menorah made out of cans was supposedly going to be built at each. “How big will it really be?” I asked Rabbi Ephraim Simon of the Teaneck Chabad house. It was the first night, Shabbat. “It’s going to be huge!” he said. During his announcements after services, he played up the superior size of the planned Teaneck canorah, the biggest darn canorah in the world! It almost felt like gang rivalry. Sorry, Rabbi Dov. Next year in Woodcliff Lake.

It’s all in the Headgear

Josh Lipowsky – Jewish Standard
From left Shneur Garb, Rabbi
Simon, and Josh Lipowsky

Teaneck, NJ — You get strange looks walking into Pizza Crave with a big fuzzy blue menorah on your head. Traveling through New York’s Greenwich Village, though, you’re lucky if people even look at you.

This year’s Chanukah was the busiest I have ever had, and I owe it all to my new festive hat. The hijinks started even before Chanukah, when I received invitations to two Chabad parties; the world’s tallest menorah made out of cans was supposedly going to be built at each. “How big will it really be?” I asked Rabbi Ephraim Simon of the Teaneck Chabad house. It was the first night, Shabbat. “It’s going to be huge!” he said. During his announcements after services, he played up the superior size of the planned Teaneck canorah, the biggest darn canorah in the world! It almost felt like gang rivalry. Sorry, Rabbi Dov. Next year in Woodcliff Lake.

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Rabbi Yossi Kahanov Shliach to Jacksonville, FL
“Now, I pledged myself to my father as a guarantee for the lad, saying: 'If I don't bring him back to you, I will have sinned against my father forever' . . . For how could I go back to my father if the youth is not with me?” – Genesis 44:32-34

Yehuda's conduct contains an everlasting lesson for every Jew: The Holy One, Blessed Be He, endowed him with the responsibility to give his soul for the wellbeing of even a single child – that he shall not part from the walls of Judaism – Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson
This week's Parsha; Vayigash, opens with the fateful confrontation between Yosef and Yehuda. In light of the elaborate buildup to this dramatic face off – as depicted in the narrative of the preceding several Sedros – coupled by the subsequent historical prominence of these two legendary rivals (as discussed in this week's Haftorah), one cannot help but share a sense of awe and imagination as to the deep significance of this pivotal encounter.

The Weekly Sedra – Parshas Vayigash – Fateful Encounter

Rabbi Yossi Kahanov Shliach to Jacksonville, FL

“Now, I pledged myself to my father as a guarantee for the lad, saying: ‘If I don’t bring him back to you, I will have sinned against my father forever’ . . . For how could I go back to my father if the youth is not with me?” – Genesis 44:32-34

Yehuda’s conduct contains an everlasting lesson for every Jew: The Holy One, Blessed Be He, endowed him with the responsibility to give his soul for the wellbeing of even a single child – that he shall not part from the walls of Judaism – Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson

This week’s Parsha; Vayigash, opens with the fateful confrontation between Yosef and Yehuda. In light of the elaborate buildup to this dramatic face off – as depicted in the narrative of the preceding several Sedros – coupled by the subsequent historical prominence of these two legendary rivals (as discussed in this week’s Haftorah), one cannot help but share a sense of awe and imagination as to the deep significance of this pivotal encounter.

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Rabbi Akiva Wagner, Rosh Yeshiva (Mashpia) of Yeshivas Lubavitch in Toronto came to Mesivta Menachem of Amherst (Buffalo) for a special Hey Teves Farbrengen. The Farbrengen, arranged by the Shluchim, began at 8pm with Rabbi Munitz sharing his personal experiences of that special day. Rabbi Wagner continued on farbrenging about the importance of learning Tanya Ba’al Peh and how Tanya must play an essential role in a Bachur’s life. “All problems, questions, confusions can be solved by opening up a Tanya…why waste $150 on a psychiatrist.”

The emotional farbrengen, which included a heartfelt talk of how to respond to three Bachurim tragically losing their lives while on Mivtzoim, lasted well past 2am. The bochurim were very involved asking Rabbi Wagner questions and were duly inspired by his answers.

Hei Teves Farbrengen with Rabbi Wagner

Rabbi Akiva Wagner, Rosh Yeshiva (Mashpia) of Yeshivas Lubavitch in Toronto came to Mesivta Menachem of Amherst (Buffalo) for a special Hey Teves Farbrengen. The Farbrengen, arranged by the Shluchim, began at 8pm with Rabbi Munitz sharing his personal experiences of that special day. Rabbi Wagner continued on farbrenging about the importance of learning Tanya Ba’al Peh and how Tanya must play an essential role in a Bachur’s life. “All problems, questions, confusions can be solved by opening up a Tanya…why waste $150 on a psychiatrist.”

The emotional farbrengen, which included a heartfelt talk of how to respond to three Bachurim tragically losing their lives while on Mivtzoim, lasted well past 2am. The bochurim were very involved asking Rabbi Wagner questions and were duly inspired by his answers.

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Some time between 11:00am and 2:00pm on Wednesday a basement on Union between Troy and Schenectady where a few Bochurim stay was broken into and robbed.

Similar to the incident that took place on Friday night the point of entry was not immediately clear, the thief possibly picked the lock, and went for small items of value in this case it included an expensive camera and laptop, cash and other electronics.

Another House Burglarized on Union Street

Some time between 11:00am and 2:00pm on Wednesday a basement on Union between Troy and Schenectady where a few Bochurim stay was broken into and robbed.

Similar to the incident that took place on Friday night the point of entry was not immediately clear, the thief possibly picked the lock, and went for small items of value in this case it included an expensive camera and laptop, cash and other electronics.

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At around 8:45pm police began pursuing a Lincoln Town Car after they had observed the car driving recklessly and running red lights. During the pursuit the Lincoln made a turn onto Montgomery Street and sped down the wrong way with police right behind him, upon reaching the intersection of Kingston it collided with a minivan that was driving up Kingston.

The Lincoln was occupied by two male blacks both of which were still in the vehicle as police officers exited their vehicle with their guns drawn screaming ‘show us your hands’, the perps exited their vehicle with their hands up, at this point large numbers of backup arrived on scene and placed both of the perps in handcuffs.

More in the Extended Article.

Chase Followed by a Crash on Montgomery and Kingston

At around 8:45pm police began pursuing a Lincoln Town Car after they had observed the car driving recklessly and running red lights. During the pursuit the Lincoln made a turn onto Montgomery Street and sped down the wrong way with police right behind him, upon reaching the intersection of Kingston it collided with a minivan that was driving up Kingston.

The Lincoln was occupied by two male blacks both of which were still in the vehicle as police officers exited their vehicle with their guns drawn screaming ‘show us your hands’, the perps exited their vehicle with their hands up, at this point large numbers of backup arrived on scene and placed both of the perps in handcuffs.

More in the Extended Article.

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By Steve Gorman - Reuters
Los Angeles, CA - Gerald Ford, whose brief U.S. presidency is remembered mainly for his controversial pardon of Richard Nixon, was honored on Wednesday as a man who tried to heal a divided country.

The oldest living president at 93, Ford died on Tuesday of undisclosed causes at his home in California.

Ford was the only U.S. president not elected to either the presidency or vice presidency. He was appointed vice president in 1973 after Nixon's vice president, Spiro Agnew, resigned to avoid prosecution on corruption charges.

Ex-president Gerald Ford dies

By Steve Gorman – Reuters

Los Angeles, CA – Gerald Ford, whose brief U.S. presidency is remembered mainly for his controversial pardon of Richard Nixon, was honored on Wednesday as a man who tried to heal a divided country.

The oldest living president at 93, Ford died on Tuesday of undisclosed causes at his home in California.

Ford was the only U.S. president not elected to either the presidency or vice presidency. He was appointed vice president in 1973 after Nixon’s vice president, Spiro Agnew, resigned to avoid prosecution on corruption charges.

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EJ Tansky - Lubavitch.com
The knife and note as they were found by Rabbi Marozov outside the Chabad House.

Ulyanovsk, Russia — At twilight on December 26, unidentified thugs plunged a swastika-engraved dagger through a note that threatened: “We should kill the Jews or teach our children to kill them” into a tree just outside the Chabad house in Ulyanovsk, Russia. Chabad representative to this Russian city situated about 500 miles east of Moscow, Rabbi Yossi Marozov discovered the note when he ventured outside to investigate after a bottle filled with gasoline that crashed through the synagogue’s front window.

Chabad House in Russia Target of Anti-Semitic Threats

EJ Tansky – Lubavitch.com
The knife and note as they were found by Rabbi Marozov outside the Chabad House.

Ulyanovsk, Russia — At twilight on December 26, unidentified thugs plunged a swastika-engraved dagger through a note that threatened: “We should kill the Jews or teach our children to kill them” into a tree just outside the Chabad house in Ulyanovsk, Russia. Chabad representative to this Russian city situated about 500 miles east of Moscow, Rabbi Yossi Marozov discovered the note when he ventured outside to investigate after a bottle filled with gasoline that crashed through the synagogue’s front window.

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Local Kinus HaShluchim in Sydney, Australia

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Yesterday, the 5th of Tevet very successful local Kinus Hashluchim took place with the participation of 25 Shluchim. The attendees took part in listening to lectures and Shiurim from Other Shluchim and Rabonim. Among the topics that were discussed was forming a Vaad Harbabbonim & a Vaad Menahalei Botei Chabad.

More pictures in the Extended Article.

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All About Seforim and More in Oholei Torah!

Organized by the PTA of Oholei Torah the kids were introduced to host of activities relating to Hey Tevet and Seforim. There was a book binding workshop, a lesson in Safrus where kids each got their own quill and piece of parchment, they learnt about various book authors, said Lechaim and danced to music played by Yehuda Piamenta!

A big fair was setup in the lunch room where kids were able to buy books and participate in a Chinese Auction on everything from seforim to an Ipod Nano preloaded with loads of Niggunim, Seforim Shelves and a Shtender. The kids were also shown old Seforim, some as old as 300 years old.

A beautiful gallery in the Extended Article!

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