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Steven P. Jobs introduced the iPhone 4 in San Francisco in 2010.

Steven P. Jobs, the visionary co-founder of Apple who helped usher in the era of personal computers and then led a cultural transformation in the way music, movies and mobile communications were experienced in the digital age, died Wednesday. He was 56.

Steve Jobs, Apple’s Visionary, Dies at 56

NY Times

Steven P. Jobs introduced the iPhone 4 in San Francisco in 2010.

Steven P. Jobs, the visionary co-founder of Apple who helped usher in the era of personal computers and then led a cultural transformation in the way music, movies and mobile communications were experienced in the digital age, died Wednesday. He was 56.

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New Engagement!

Mendel Ohonov (Brighton Beach, Brooklyn) to Mushkie Kivman (Mansfield, MA) L’Chaim: Tonight, Tuesday, 8:00pm at Lubavitcher Yeshiva Crown Street
New Engagement!

Shlomo Helfen (Northampton, MA) to Sarah Cohen (Pittsburgh, PA) L’Chaim: Sunday, Jan. 18th, 8:00pm at Chevra Ahavas Yisroel
Baby Boy!

Pinchos and Chaiky Sudak from Crown Heights had a baby boy!
New Engagement!

Menachem Wagner (Toronto, Canada) to Mussia Glick (Crown Heights)
New Engagement!

Betsalel Abend (The Valley, CA) to Batsheva Gansburg (Crown Heights) L’Chaim: Tonight, Monday, 8:00pm at the Arches 1394 S. Johns Pl
New Engagement!

Levi Shmotkin (Stamford, CT) to Chaya Mushka Sudak (Stanmore, UK) L’Chaim: Tonight, Monday, 8:00pm at F.R.E.E.
New Engagement!

Meir Twersky (Chicago, IL) to Miriam Lipskeir (Crown Heights) L’Chaim: Tonight, Monday, 8:15pm at Lubavitcher Yeshiva Crown Street
New Engagement!

Yisroel Tzvi Kesselman (Los Angeles, CA) to Zeldy Eichorn (Crown Heights)

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Baby Girl!

Yossi and Rivky Shain from Brooklyn, NY had a baby girl!
New Engagement!

Chaki Vogel (London, UK) to Shayna Brod (Stockton, CA) L’Chaim: Sunday, Jan. 11th, 7:30pm at The Arches 1394 S. Johns Pl
New Engagement!

Matty Baitelman (Los Angeles, CA) to Fraidy Silver (Brooklyn, NY) L’Chaim: Tonight, Thursday, 8:30pm at Lubavitcher Yeshiva Crown Street
New Engagement!

Mendel Holzman (Crown Heights) to Tammy Goldsobel (London, UK) L’Chaim: Sunday, Jan. 11th, 6:00pm at Ulam Chana
New Engagement!

Yisroel Sheiner (Kfar Chabad, EY) to Itta Chutaretzky (Brooklyn, NY) L’Chaim: Tonight, Thursday, 8:30pm at 1349 President Street
New Engagement!

Yehuda Brown (Dallas, TX) to Kaylee Andrusier (Bal Harbour, FL)
New Engagement!

Yisroel Levin (Palo Alto, CA) to Gittel Stein (Southfield, MI) L’Chaim: Tonight, Tuesday, 8:30pm at the JCM Lower Level
New Engagement!

Itav Estrin (Vancouver, Canada) to Binah Zhornitsky (Vancouver, Canada)
Baby Girl!

Effy and Shayna Mushka Block from Melbourne, Australia had a baby girl!
Gothamist

An ad in Times Square erected by the activists to recruit protesters.

Rosh Hashanah is here which means Yom Kipur is around the corner and you know what that means? Time for the annual protests of the annual chicken swinging ritual known as kapparot. The generally fatal chicken “swinging” and slaughtering most often performed on the day before Yom Kippur (but can be held anytime between Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur) and has some very vocal adversaries. Opponents, who this year advertised briefly in Times Square, aren't against the ritual so much as they're against the chicken killing.

Animal Rights Activists Plan Kapporos Protest in CH

Gothamist

An ad in Times Square erected by the activists to recruit protesters.

Rosh Hashanah is here which means Yom Kipur is around the corner and you know what that means? Time for the annual protests of the annual chicken swinging ritual known as kapparot. The generally fatal chicken “swinging” and slaughtering most often performed on the day before Yom Kippur (but can be held anytime between Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur) and has some very vocal adversaries. Opponents, who this year advertised briefly in Times Square, aren’t against the ritual so much as they’re against the chicken killing.

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NYC Restaurateurs: Having to Pay Our Workers is Destroying Us

Gawker.com

Let’s take a moment from our busy Sundays to remember the plight of New York City’s fancy restaurant owners, who—because of “draconian state regulations” passed earlier this year—have become increasingly vulnerable to lawsuits filed by employees seeking back pay and tips. Why can’t those workers just enjoy the privilege of working and “being seen” in popular restaurants?

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The Ultimate Rebellion

by Rucheli Manville

The Anniversary Banquet at Mayanot

There was once a young man. He was raised in a good home filled with positive influences. He had the best education in a great community. His parents set him on a straight path towards success, but he had his own ideas of what he wanted from life. And so the downward spiral began. He started indulging in the “pleasures” of life… He demanded meat; he started drinking more wine than normal. His parents tried to curb his newly-formed habits and give him life advice, but to no avail. He declined to listen to them, and worse, he demanded that they fund his selfish habits! No matter what his parents did, he refused to turn his life back around. Left with no other choice, his parents are instructed by the Torah to bring him before the Beis Din (Jewish court) to have him sentenced to death. A tragic ending to what could have been such a promising life…

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Crown Heights [CHI] — Reports are flooding in about an ongoing hostage situation on the corner of Montgomery St. and Troy Ave., where a stabbing occured. It appears the suspect fled into the corner building - 840 Montgomery - and holed himself up in one of the apartments.

BREAKING: Hostage Situation at 840 Mongomery St., Corner of Troy. UPDATE: Suspect Apprehended

Crown Heights [CHI] — Reports are flooding in about an ongoing hostage situation on the corner of Montgomery St. and Troy Ave., where a stabbing occured. It appears the suspect fled into the corner building – 840 Montgomery – and holed himself up in one of the apartments.

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AP, BBC

The full measure of Hurricane Irene’s fury came into focus Monday as the death toll jumped to 40, New England towns battled epic floods and millions faced the dispiriting prospect of several days without electricity.

Was Irene Really Over-Hyped After All?

AP, BBC

The full measure of Hurricane Irene’s fury came into focus Monday as the death toll jumped to 40, New England towns battled epic floods and millions faced the dispiriting prospect of several days without electricity.

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My Time at a Hasidic Boys’ Camp

by Perry J. Greenbaum

The boys and their counselors gather in front of “770” for a memorial service called Gimmel Tammuz: As the Chabad-Lubavitch website puts it: “The anniversary of passing of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson of righteous memory.

For the better part of July, my wife and I and our two youngest children were at a Hasidic camp for boys. My wife was employed there for the month as a camp nurse, and our oldest boy, aged nine, was there attending camp for the first time at a sleep-away camp. (I did some writing, working on my novel.) It was a good trial to see if he would like it. Actually, we weren’t far from him, but he was still in a bunk with other boys his own age. We were curious and slightly nervous how well he would fit in with the other boys, who were outwardly more religiously observant than our family was.

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