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Shturem.net
Rabbi Michoel Lipsker and Rabbi Marozov discussing what to do with bochurim who break into the kitchen

In this picture we see two unforgettable staff members of 770 who have both passed away: the mashgiach in Bes Midrash Rabbi Sholom Marozov and the mashgiach in the kitchen Rabbi Michoel Lipskar as they are discussing what to do with bochurim who break into the pantry to take food without permission.

Bring in a Detective….

Shturem.net
Rabbi Michoel Lipsker and Rabbi Marozov discussing what to do with bochurim who break into the kitchen

In this picture we see two unforgettable staff members of 770 who have both passed away: the mashgiach in Bes Midrash Rabbi Sholom Marozov and the mashgiach in the kitchen Rabbi Michoel Lipskar as they are discussing what to do with bochurim who break into the pantry to take food without permission.

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Baby Boy!

Zev and Chaya Mushka Shusterman from Coral Springs, FL had a baby boy!
New Engagement!

Mendel Vardi (Yerushalayim, EY) to Sara Namdar (Gothenburg, Sweden) L’Chaim: Tuesday, the 4th of Av, 8:30pm at The Garden House 1386 S. Johns Pl
Baby Girl!

Sholom and Chaya Mushka (nee Rosenfeld) Katz from Lauderhill, FL had a baby girl!
Baby Girl!

Ari and Chanie Greenwald from Crown Heights had a baby girl!
New Engagement!

Israel Guetta (Netanya ,Israel) to Sterna Benmoussa (Paris ,France )
New Engagement!

Avremel Rapoport(Clarks Summit, PA) to Faigy Liberow (London, UK) L’Chaim: Tonight, Tuesday, 8:00pm at Lubavitcher Yeshiva Crown Street
New Engagement!

Menny Leitner (Monsey, NY) to Bracha Goldberg (Monsey, NY) L’Chaim: Sunday, July 20th, 7:30pm at Bais Yosef Meir Simcha Hall 19 Olympia Ln, Monsey
New Engagement!

Mendy Sulami (Los Angeles, CA) to Aidel Spielman (Crown Heights)
New Engagement!

Tsvi Feygin  (Teaneck, NJ) to Faigy Kahn (London, UK)
New Engagement!

Shmuel Gurary (Buffalo, NY) to Esther Leeba Eidelman (Manchester, UK) L’Chaim: Tonight, Thursday, 8:00pm at Rubashkin’s Downstairs
Baby Boy!

Sendy and Mali (nee New) Labkowsky from Crown Heights had a baby boy!
Baby Boy!

Yehuda and Raizel Marrus from Davie, FL, had a baby boy!
New Engagement!

Shalom Alon (Kfar Gidon, EY) to Bluma Potash (Noe Valley, SF, CA)
New Engagement!

Jack Abramson (NW4, London, UK) to Shayna Ash (Johannesburg, South Africa)
Baby Boy!

Mendel and Soro (nee Brennan) Manne from Penn Wynne, PA had a baby boy!
New Engagement!

Yisrolik Chein (Toulouse, France) to Chanale Greenberg (Shanghai, China) L’Chaim: Tonight, Thursday, 8:00pm at 695 East New York Ave
New Engagement!

Schneur Motchkin (Crown Heights) to Sarah Schmukler (Crown Heights) L’Chaim: Tonight, Thursday, 8:00pm at Lubavitcher Yeshiva

Car Vandalized

Sometime Motzoi Shabbos a Lubavitcher’s Car that was parked in front of 770 Empire Blvd (between Troy and Schenectady) was vandalized. All of the tires were slashed and the front windshield was smashed.

Police were called, and handled the situation very professionally. A police report was filed.

More pictures in the Extended Article.

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CIS

Vladivostok, Russia - Swastikas, anti-Semitic slogans and the words “Jews, get away to Israel” were discovered on the walls of the synagogue in Vladivostok, the Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia reported.

Israel Silberstein, rabbi of the Russian seaport on the Pacific, did not rule out the possibility that the incident was connected to a rally held last week by local radical nationalists and neo-Nazi skinheads. The incident was the third in recent weeks in which vandals targeted Russian synagogues. Previously, synagogues in Astrakhan in southern Russia and in Khabarovsk, also in the Russian Far East, were vandalized.

Synagogue in Russia Vandalized

CIS

Vladivostok, Russia – Swastikas, anti-Semitic slogans and the words “Jews, get away to Israel” were discovered on the walls of the synagogue in Vladivostok, the Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia reported.

Israel Silberstein, rabbi of the Russian seaport on the Pacific, did not rule out the possibility that the incident was connected to a rally held last week by local radical nationalists and neo-Nazi skinheads. The incident was the third in recent weeks in which vandals targeted Russian synagogues. Previously, synagogues in Astrakhan in southern Russia and in Khabarovsk, also in the Russian Far East, were vandalized.

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LA Daily News
Santa Clarita, CA - The Israeli fencing champ dreamed of snagging a medal at the 1972 Munich Olympics for his prowess, but was lucky to escape with his life after terrorists stormed Olympic Village, killing 11 of his teammates.

Dan Alon, 61, started fencing at 12, but never hoisted another blade or spoke of the trauma after that day - until now.

The popularity of Steven Spielberg's 2005 film “Munich” has prompted him to speak out, to tell his story.

1972 Olympic Munich Massacre Talk’s Topic at Chabad

LA Daily News

Santa Clarita, CA – The Israeli fencing champ dreamed of snagging a medal at the 1972 Munich Olympics for his prowess, but was lucky to escape with his life after terrorists stormed Olympic Village, killing 11 of his teammates.

Dan Alon, 61, started fencing at 12, but never hoisted another blade or spoke of the trauma after that day – until now.

The popularity of Steven Spielberg’s 2005 film “Munich” has prompted him to speak out, to tell his story.

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“Maccabees!” to Debut at the Jewish Children’s Museum

by Shlomo Abraham

The Jewish Children’s Museum announced the debut of its brand new Show, Maccabees! The live Chanukah adventure set to open on November 26 to the public. Maccabees is a fully-immersive interactive experience in which visitors of all ages “tour” ancient Judea and learn about the miracle of Chanukah.

According to Dovid Weinbaum project coordinator of Maccabees, the show uses a vast array of special effects and lots of humor to engage visitors in the gripping narrative. Maccabees explores each pivotal moment of the Chanukah story.

Flyer and Pictures in the Extended Article!

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Chabad joins JLI to offer ‘You Be the Judge,’ other classes

Kansas City Jewish Chronicle

Kansas City, MO – The Chabad House Center of Kansas City is becoming one of nearly 200 sites affiliated with the Rohr Jewish Learning Institute by offering its first course this fall.

“You Be the Judge” is open to anyone interested in law and Talmud.
However, lawyers who attend all six sessions (it will be offered on either consecutive Tuesdays or Wednesdays, Nov. 7-Dec. 13) can receive Continuing Legal Education credit in both Kansas and Missouri, according to Rabbi Mendy Wineberg, who will teach the class.

JLI is a program of Merkos L’Inyonei Chinuch, the educational arm of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement, and Rabbi Wineberg said it has “promulgated some beautiful courses.” The fall course on law will be followed by a winter session, “The Kabbalah of Character,” and a spring class, “Flashbacks in Jewish History.” For more information about JLI, visit www.myjli.com. To sign up for “You Be the Judge,” call Rabbi Wineberg, (913) 205-9524, or e-mail RabbiMendy@ChabadKC.org.

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Chief Sephardic Rabbi of Israel Visits Cheder in LA

This Thursday 4 Cheshvan – October 26, the Rishon Letzion, the Sephardic Chief Rabbi, Rabbi Shlomo Amar, visited the Chabad boys school “Cheder Menachem” in Los Angeles. At the Cheder, he was met by Rabbi Menachem Mendel Greenbaum principal of the school and met with the staff & students. Rabbi Greenbaum escorted the Rabbi and translated as Rabbi Amar tested the eighth grade students of Cheder Menachem in Gemara and discussed words of Torah with them. Rabbi Amar also met with the students of 5th thru -8th grade in the synagogue.

Rabbi Amar encouraged the students of the Cheder to continue their study of the Torah with enthusiasm and diligence. He told the children that since they are privileged to study in an institution which is named for the Rebbe, they must follow the Rebbe’s directive to learn Torah with added effort and to spread the wellsprings of Chassidus outward.

More in the Extended Article!

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Jewish Standard
A hospital is one of the loneliest places to be on a Jewish holiday, Shabbat, or a simcha.

It’s not just the patient who feels isolated and frustrated, as Devora Hosseinof of Teaneck discovered when her 15-month-old daughter, who had salmonella poisoning, was admitted to Englewood Hospital erev Pesach last year.

The holiday began on Friday night, forcing a worst-case scenario for the Orthodox mother — who spent three days and nights sleeping on a chair in her daughter’s room. Her husband, Josh, had stayed home with the other children, and people at the local synagogue couldn’t know she was right across the street because there was no way to let them know — she had no appropriate food for Pesach and limited access to a kosher pantry.

Network Aims to Make Hospitals Haimish

Jewish Standard

A hospital is one of the loneliest places to be on a Jewish holiday, Shabbat, or a simcha.

It’s not just the patient who feels isolated and frustrated, as Devora Hosseinof of Teaneck discovered when her 15-month-old daughter, who had salmonella poisoning, was admitted to Englewood Hospital erev Pesach last year.

The holiday began on Friday night, forcing a worst-case scenario for the Orthodox mother — who spent three days and nights sleeping on a chair in her daughter’s room. Her husband, Josh, had stayed home with the other children, and people at the local synagogue couldn’t know she was right across the street because there was no way to let them know — she had no appropriate food for Pesach and limited access to a kosher pantry.

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NBC
Murder in New York City is not as prevalent as it once was, especially when compared to the height of high crime 15 years ago, but recently, it seems that certain neighborhoods have reported more killings.

In 1990, there were more than 2,200 murders in New York. In 2006, the city is on pace for 540 murders, NewsChannel 4 reported. This year is the fifth straight year below 600, a rate so low that one would have to go back to the 1960s to match it. But some wonder if crime has gone as low as it can go in a city so large.

A man was charged with fatally stabbing a woman and beating two men to death on Monday in the Bronx. The crime brought the total for the 41st Precinct to 13 murders in 2006, up from six murders in 2005.

Murder Rate In NYC Slightly Up From Last Year

NBC

Murder in New York City is not as prevalent as it once was, especially when compared to the height of high crime 15 years ago, but recently, it seems that certain neighborhoods have reported more killings.

In 1990, there were more than 2,200 murders in New York. In 2006, the city is on pace for 540 murders, NewsChannel 4 reported. This year is the fifth straight year below 600, a rate so low that one would have to go back to the 1960s to match it. But some wonder if crime has gone as low as it can go in a city so large.

A man was charged with fatally stabbing a woman and beating two men to death on Monday in the Bronx. The crime brought the total for the 41st Precinct to 13 murders in 2006, up from six murders in 2005.

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Assemblyman Karim Camara Tours Crown Heights

Assemblyman Karim Camara who was born raised in Crown Heights, took a tour of the Jewish community with his chief of staff Thursday. The tour given was led by Rabbi Beryl Epstein of Chassidic Discovery Center. The Assemblyman who has a Lubavitcher working in his office, said that he was inspired and amazed by all he had learned about Lubavitch during his tour and he would do all he can to help our community.

More pictures in the Extended Article.

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Baltimore Jewish Times

It's hip-hop with a Jewish beat, and it's straight out of Baltimore. Well, it's actually out of a beit midrash, or study hall, in Morristown, N.J., but Menachem Shapiro — aka “White Mike” — is your typical American homeboy graduate of Franklin High School in Reisterstown. He went to Adat Chaim Synagogue and wore a chai around his neck, but never got into the Jewish thing.

Meet Rapper “’White Mike’”

Baltimore Jewish Times

It’s hip-hop with a Jewish beat, and it’s straight out of Baltimore. Well, it’s actually out of a beit midrash, or study hall, in Morristown, N.J., but Menachem Shapiro — aka “White Mike” — is your typical American homeboy graduate of Franklin High School in Reisterstown. He went to Adat Chaim Synagogue and wore a chai around his neck, but never got into the Jewish thing.

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Rabbi Yossi Kahanov Shliach to Jacksonville, FL
Two nations are in your womb. Two governments will separate from inside you; the upper hand will go from one government to the other.
– Genesis 25:23

The Holy One, blessed be He, created two impulses, one good and the other evil.
– Talmud Berochot 61a

Like it or not, we are each engaged in a battle against our own set of mean genes. They are wily opponents too. Masters of the visceral, they control through satisfaction, pain, and pleasure.
– Dr.'s Terry Burnham and Jay Phelan Mean Genes

Destroy man's desire to sin, our sages tell us, and you would destroy the world.
Not that anyone needs to sin. But one who lacks the desire to sin is not a citizen of this world. And without citizens, who will effect lasting change?
– Tzvi Freeman

The Weekly Sedra – Noach – A Tale of Two Souls

Rabbi Yossi Kahanov Shliach to Jacksonville, FL

Two nations are in your womb. Two governments will separate from inside you; the upper hand will go from one government to the other.

– Genesis 25:23

The Holy One, blessed be He, created two impulses, one good and the other evil.

– Talmud Berochot 61a

Like it or not, we are each engaged in a battle against our own set of mean genes. They are wily opponents too. Masters of the visceral, they control through satisfaction, pain, and pleasure.

– Dr.’s Terry Burnham and Jay Phelan Mean Genes

Destroy man’s desire to sin, our sages tell us, and you would destroy the world.
Not that anyone needs to sin. But one who lacks the desire to sin is not a citizen of this world. And without citizens, who will effect lasting change?

– Tzvi Freeman
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After Disquiet and Doubt, A Jewish Community Grows Again

Rivka Chaya Berman – Lubavitch.com

Capetown, South Africa – Today six children engage in the hard work of learning through play and exploration at Chabad of Table View’s new Jewish Montessori preschool. Their next lesson: learning to share. At the beginning of next term, in January, seventeen new children will join the school.

Come January, Chabad of Cape Town’s executive director Rabbi Mendel Popack will complete Chabad’s 30th year in the seaside city by adding another young couple to the staff. While the world Jewish community wrote off Cape Town as an upcoming Diaspora ghost town, a victim of political change and mass emigration, Chabad of Cape Town focused on the future. Newest signs of growth: Rabbi Pini and Chani Hecht, who have been running JLI and educational programs from headquarters in Sea Point, and Rabbi Asher and Zeesy Deren, who are reaching out to the 500 Jewish families in Table View for the past two years.

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Jewish Standard
Woodcliff Lake, NJ - Chabad of the Pascack Valley had such a full house during Rosh HaShanah and Yom Kippur that it relocated to the Woodcliff Lake Hilton. With 150 to 200 people per month attending Chabad events and more than 50 children, other programs have been spread between the Chabad house and other area homes that can accommodate larger crowds.

After six years in a house on Overlook Road in Woodcliff Lake, the group is looking to buy a 3.8-acre property so it can move all of its programs to one address.

“For six years now Chabad has offered all this wonderful programming,” said Rabbi Dov Drizin, director of Valley Chabad, who lives in the Overlook Road facility with his wife Hindy and five children. “We’ve been all over the place and it’s been scattered. Now there’ll be one place people can go for programs. It’s a Jewish discovery center that I believe will serve the entire Jewish community.”

Chabad Thinks Big in Pascack Valley

Jewish Standard

Woodcliff Lake, NJ – Chabad of the Pascack Valley had such a full house during Rosh HaShanah and Yom Kippur that it relocated to the Woodcliff Lake Hilton. With 150 to 200 people per month attending Chabad events and more than 50 children, other programs have been spread between the Chabad house and other area homes that can accommodate larger crowds.

After six years in a house on Overlook Road in Woodcliff Lake, the group is looking to buy a 3.8-acre property so it can move all of its programs to one address.

“For six years now Chabad has offered all this wonderful programming,” said Rabbi Dov Drizin, director of Valley Chabad, who lives in the Overlook Road facility with his wife Hindy and five children. “We’ve been all over the place and it’s been scattered. Now there’ll be one place people can go for programs. It’s a Jewish discovery center that I believe will serve the entire Jewish community.”

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NY1
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In a unanimous vote the Taxi and Limousine Commission approved a fare hike Wednesday that will double the rate passengers pay for sitting in traffic.

“Drivers deserve as living, but right now, it's a terrible struggle,” said William Lindauer of the Taxi Workers Alliance.

TLC Gives Taxi Fare Increase Green Light

NY1

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In a unanimous vote the Taxi and Limousine Commission approved a fare hike Wednesday that will double the rate passengers pay for sitting in traffic.

“Drivers deserve as living, but right now, it’s a terrible struggle,” said William Lindauer of the Taxi Workers Alliance.

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by Elazar Kohen
Disclaimer: readers of the following parsha article, may find the material interestingly different and possibly entertaining. That’s ok.

Face it – you’ve got problems. Who doesn’t? (Unless you really don’t. Then I apologize.) And it’s ok. Most normal breathing, walking, talking, yoga doing, karaoke singing people type persons constantly find themselves in situations that call for a couple less margaritas than usual.

Much of the time, your woefully woeful woes may not even be within your ability to control; what can you do about the sad fact that your pet moth has contracted severe cervical dysthymia? Not much.

Water, Water Everywhere… So Drink Up!

by Elazar Kohen

Disclaimer: readers of the following parsha article, may find the material interestingly different and possibly entertaining. That’s ok.

Face it – you’ve got problems. Who doesn’t? (Unless you really don’t. Then I apologize.) And it’s ok. Most normal breathing, walking, talking, yoga doing, karaoke singing people type persons constantly find themselves in situations that call for a couple less margaritas than usual.

Much of the time, your woefully woeful woes may not even be within your ability to control; what can you do about the sad fact that your pet moth has contracted severe cervical dysthymia? Not much.

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