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Pittsburgh Day Schools: You Can’t Put a Price on Jewish Education

by Malina Saval

The Chabad-Lubavitch run Yeshiva Schools is one of three Pittsburgh, Pa., institutions offering free tuition to students not currently enrolled in a Jewish day school.

Pittsburgh Jewish Day Schools – a consortium representing the Pennsylvania city’s Community Day School, Hillel Academy and the Chabad-Lubavitch run Yeshiva Schools – announced an unprecedented initiative to attract new students: Tuition for the first year’s on them.

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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)

Sunday night, 21 Adar Sheni, Chabad of Weston hosted a Gala Dinner celebrating its 15th anniversary. 250 guests enjoyed a very elegant, festive evening with Guest speaker Rabbi Yossi Jacobson and Yisroel Amar who entertained the crowd with his gifted voice. Tears were brought to many eyes as he sang such beautiful heartfelt songs that moved the heart and stirred emotions.

Chabad of Weston Celebrates 15 Years at a Gala Dinner

Sunday night, 21 Adar Sheni, Chabad of Weston hosted a Gala Dinner celebrating its 15th anniversary. 250 guests enjoyed a very elegant, festive evening with Guest speaker Rabbi Yossi Jacobson and Yisroel Amar who entertained the crowd with his gifted voice. Tears were brought to many eyes as he sang such beautiful heartfelt songs that moved the heart and stirred emotions.

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At AHA, Students Do a Mitzvah for a Friend

by Mendy Rimler – Lubavitch.com

Zachary Shporer, 18, from Charlotte, NC, was diagnosed with leukemia on March 1. Two weeks later, all one hundred and fifty students and faculty of the American Hebrew Academy in Greensboro, where Zachary is a student, did a mitzvah in his honor.

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by Rabbi Yosef Kahanov, Jax, FL
Until you can see the good within a person, you are incapable of helping him. (Tzvi Freeman, Bringing Heaven Down To Earth)

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Rabbi Yosef Yitzchok of Lubavitch was imprisoned in 1927 for perpetuating Jewish life within the vast boarders of the Soviet Union. The incarceration and physical abuse took its toll; leaving the Rebbe in a deteriorated state of health, for which he eventually sought treatment at various European sanatoriums. The Rebbe wrote the following letter to one of his sons-in-law in the winter of 1935:

Merciful Discipline – Accessing The Kohen Within

by Rabbi Yosef Kahanov, Jax, FL

Until you can see the good within a person, you are incapable of helping him. (Tzvi Freeman, Bringing Heaven Down To Earth)

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Rabbi Yosef Yitzchok of Lubavitch was imprisoned in 1927 for perpetuating Jewish life within the vast boarders of the Soviet Union. The incarceration and physical abuse took its toll; leaving the Rebbe in a deteriorated state of health, for which he eventually sought treatment at various European sanatoriums. The Rebbe wrote the following letter to one of his sons-in-law in the winter of 1935:

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Where Every Bouquet Tells a Story

NY Times

Chani Frankel, co-owner of Mimulo Flowers in Crown Heights, Brooklyn.

On Friday afternoons, the headquarters of the Chabad sect of Orthodox Judaism comes alive as men in black jackets and hats stream like worker bees in and out of the subterranean entrance on Eastern Parkway in Brooklyn. Those exiting scatter across Crown Heights to prepare for the coming Sabbath — Shabbos in Yiddish — many drawn a block east by the overpowering smell of lilies and the ebullient welcome of Chani Frankel to Mimulo, a flower shop on Albany Avenue.

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Itamar’s Mayor Shares Tragic Testimony

Rabbi Moshe Goldsmith, mayor of Itamar, share his personal account of the Fogel family tragedy.

Speaking to a crowd of hundreds in Yeshiva University’s Lamport Auditorium, the mayor of Itamar, Rabbi Moshe Goldsmith, described the impact of five brutal murders on his small, close-knit community.

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Maor Gallery Shines Jewish Light on Miami Art World

by Reuvena Leah Grodnitzky – Chabad.org

Many faces can be found at the opening of the Maor Gallery’s “Stones of Sensation” exhibition.

Rabbi Shmuel Gopin isn’t your typical rabbi. On any given Sabbath, he can be found presiding over synagogue services, but on the second Saturday night of each month, he’s right next door at an art gallery, welcoming Jewish visitors to one of Miami’s newest hotspots.

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Time Magazine

On the storied ivy-laden, well-manicured grounds of Yale University in New Haven, Conn., something secretive is going on. Granted, this cradle of American intellectualism has long been the keeper of secrets. Since 1832, when the now infamous Skull and Bones society was formed, the best and brightest students of one of the best and brightest institutions in the world have shown that, if nothing else, they know how to keep mum.

Time Mag Profiles Secret Jewish Society at Yale

Time Magazine

On the storied ivy-laden, well-manicured grounds of Yale University in New Haven, Conn., something secretive is going on. Granted, this cradle of American intellectualism has long been the keeper of secrets. Since 1832, when the now infamous Skull and Bones society was formed, the best and brightest students of one of the best and brightest institutions in the world have shown that, if nothing else, they know how to keep mum.

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Budding Synagogue Celebrates Its Own Torah

Lubavitch.com

US Congressman Ted Deutch (D-Boca Raton) inscribed a letter in a Torah scroll dedicated last Sunday, March 27th at the Chabad Synagogue in Coral Springs. A first for the Senator, he was moved, he told Rabbi Hershy Bronstein to be part of a spiritual event so meaningful to the Jewish community.

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