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Shimshon receiving dollars from the Rebbe with the famous box.

Today, Purim Koton, marks the first Yahrtzeit of Shimshon Hakohen Stock OBM, founder of Chevra Simchas Shabbos V'Yom Tov.

We ask that anyone who knows of a family in Crown Heights that is in need of help should please contact us at: 718-774-5270 or c.s.s.y.593@gmail.com.

First Yartzeit of Shimshon Hakohen Stock OBM

Shimshon receiving dollars from the Rebbe with the famous box.

Today, Purim Koton, marks the first Yahrtzeit of Shimshon Hakohen Stock OBM, founder of Chevra Simchas Shabbos V’Yom Tov.

We ask that anyone who knows of a family in Crown Heights that is in need of help should please contact us at: 718-774-5270 or c.s.s.y.593@gmail.com.

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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
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)
Tamar Runyan - Chabad.org

Assisted by Rabbi Menachem Kutner, right, of the Chabad Terror Victims Project, Mayor Meir Cohen of Dimona, Israel, writes a letter in a Torah scroll to be dedicated to Israeli victims of terror.

DIMONA, Israel — One week after a suicide bombing in the central Negev desert town of Dimona, Israel, claimed the life a Russian immigrant and seriously injured her husband, Chabad-Lubavitch of Dimona and the municipality held a ceremony near the site of the tragedy.

Dimona Holds Vigil at Site of Suicide Bombing

Tamar Runyan – Chabad.org

Assisted by Rabbi Menachem Kutner, right, of the Chabad Terror Victims Project, Mayor Meir Cohen of Dimona, Israel, writes a letter in a Torah scroll to be dedicated to Israeli victims of terror.

DIMONA, Israel — One week after a suicide bombing in the central Negev desert town of Dimona, Israel, claimed the life a Russian immigrant and seriously injured her husband, Chabad-Lubavitch of Dimona and the municipality held a ceremony near the site of the tragedy.

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Sarah Morrison - Arutz Sheva

TZFAT, Israel — It is said that the spirit of a Jew, a pintele yid, never dies. No matter how disconnected or how construed a Jew's path to Judaism is, his soul still feels a longing to return to Judaism. Tova Mordechai is no exception.

A Minister Finds Her Way to Judaism

Sarah Morrison – Arutz Sheva

TZFAT, Israel — It is said that the spirit of a Jew, a pintele yid, never dies. No matter how disconnected or how construed a Jew’s path to Judaism is, his soul still feels a longing to return to Judaism. Tova Mordechai is no exception.

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Holy Sheep – The Far Reaching Effects of Shlichus

By Lazer Avtzon

Approximately 25 years ago, I, together with another seven Bachurim from Oholei Torah merited to be sent by the Rebbe on Shlichus for two years from Oholei Torah to Casablanca, Morocco.

In addition to our mission of learning in the Yeshiva between ourselves and also with members of the community, our outreach to the community at large was through the activities of Tzivot Hashem under the leadership and guidance of the late Shliach, Reb Yehuda Leib (Leibel) Raskin OBM.

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By Shaina Rosenfeld - Shlucha to Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Editors note After receiving an overwhelming amount of responses to the Op-Ed “The Forgotten Girls” we've chosen to run the following Op-Ed in response.

With personal interest, I read the latest Op-Ed on CrownHeights.info. I myself worked for shluchim in an out-of-the-way city in the USA for two years. On many, if not all, points, I have a hard time identifying with the author of this article. Instead of relating directly to the authors complaints, let's discuss the general issue.

Why do girls go out to work for shluchim, out of all things?

Hopefully, the answer is to join in the Rebbe's shlichus. If it's anything else- to pass the time till they get married, to make some money, to do something fulfilling with their time, to get out of Crown Heights, 'cuz it's the 'in' thing to do.....

Op-Ed: A Shlucha’s reply to “The Forgotten Girls”

By Shaina Rosenfeld – Shlucha to Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Editors note After receiving an overwhelming amount of responses to the Op-Ed “The Forgotten Girls” we’ve chosen to run the following Op-Ed in response.

With personal interest, I read the latest Op-Ed on CrownHeights.info. I myself worked for shluchim in an out-of-the-way city in the USA for two years. On many, if not all, points, I have a hard time identifying with the author of this article. Instead of relating directly to the authors complaints, let’s discuss the general issue.

Why do girls go out to work for shluchim, out of all things?

Hopefully, the answer is to join in the Rebbe’s shlichus. If it’s anything else- to pass the time till they get married, to make some money, to do something fulfilling with their time, to get out of Crown Heights, ‘cuz it’s the ‘in’ thing to do…..

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Elana Kasle Safely Flown To Michigan

The building of the Chaya Aydel Seminary.

HALLANDALE BEACH, FL [CHI] — Thursday 24 Shvat, on the 120th Yahrzeit of Rebbitzen Menuchah Rochel, zy”a, Elana Leah bas Sheindel Rochel Kasle was Boruch Hashem safely flown on an ambulance jet to Michigan, where she is now in a “interim” rehab center in Southfield, Michigan, minutes away from her home.

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FJC.ru
MOSCOW, Russia — Nine adolescents were arrested for drawing swastikas on a Jewish cultural centre in Ulyanovsk - in the Volga region - announced Russia's Jewish community Wednesday.

On Tuesday “youths gathered in front of the centre drew swastikas and shouted anti-Semitic slogans”, said Andrei Glotser, representative of Russia's Chief Rabbi Berl Lazar, according to the Interfax agency.

The nine arrested are aged 14 and 15, he said.

Nine Adolescents Arrested for Drawing Swastikas on Jewish Centre in Russia

FJC.ru

MOSCOW, Russia — Nine adolescents were arrested for drawing swastikas on a Jewish cultural centre in Ulyanovsk – in the Volga region – announced Russia’s Jewish community Wednesday.

On Tuesday “youths gathered in front of the centre drew swastikas and shouted anti-Semitic slogans”, said Andrei Glotser, representative of Russia’s Chief Rabbi Berl Lazar, according to the Interfax agency.

The nine arrested are aged 14 and 15, he said.

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Last Word – From a Student’s Eyes

by Dina Eliezrie

KIEV, Ukraine — Many times in life you may find yourself with opportunities that spark your interest. When a spiritual pilgrimage to Ukraine was presented to our school, the response was filled with enthusiasm and excitement. This trip would include a variety of Lubavitch girls from all corners of the earth and together returning to their Chassidic roots. The trip too, would consist of visits to all the holy Tzadikim from the small city of Haditch, Kiev, and the small town of Mezibush, the resting place and synagogue of Rabbi Israel Baal Shem Tov.

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Reb Avrohom HaRofe – The Rebbe’s Doctor

The following article is being published in honor of the the Yohrtziet of Reb Avrohom HaRofe – Dr. Seligson on the 25th of Shavt (1989-2008).

Reb Avrohom HaRofe – Dr. Seligson Our Sages tell us (Tractate Shekalim chapter 5) that there were people who were responsible for certain daily functions in the Bais Hamikdosh. The Mishna gives us the names of those who held these positions. The Rebbe asks (Likutei Sichos vol.22 pg. 147) how is it possible that for 420 years, over the course of many different generations, all the appointed people had the same personal name? The Rebbe explains that the name they had was actually the title of their specific function.

Continued in the Extended Article!

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Elliot Resnick - Jewish Press

BROWARD COUNTY, FL — Dr. David Lazerson, or Dr. Laz as he is affectionately known, recently won the second Teacher of the Year award of his career – and for good reason. Over the last several years he has brought joy and cheer to scores of profoundly disabled children at The Quest Center in Broward County, Florida, the nation’s sixth largest school district.

Dr. Laz: Hero To The Disabled

Elliot Resnick – Jewish Press

BROWARD COUNTY, FL — Dr. David Lazerson, or Dr. Laz as he is affectionately known, recently won the second Teacher of the Year award of his career – and for good reason. Over the last several years he has brought joy and cheer to scores of profoundly disabled children at The Quest Center in Broward County, Florida, the nation’s sixth largest school district.

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by Rabbi Yossi Refson [Shliach to Charleston, SC] - The Charleston Post and Courier
Today marks the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, the largest of some 15,000 concentration, extermination and forced-labor camps established by the Germans during World War II. It is estimated that, at minimum, 1.3 million people were deported to Auschwitz between 1940 and 1945; of which at least 1.1 million were murdered.

As a rabbi in this community here in Charleston and a grandson of one of those fortunate to have survived the horrors of Auschwitz, much about this dark chapter in human history informs my personal and professional life.

My late Bubby (Grandma) Bluma was 13 when her mother, five older siblings and their children were exterminated under the orders of Josef Mengele, aptly referred to as the “Angel of Death.”

A Tribute to Auschwitz’s ‘Angels of Life’

by Rabbi Yossi Refson [Shliach to Charleston, SC] – The Charleston Post and Courier

Today marks the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, the largest of some 15,000 concentration, extermination and forced-labor camps established by the Germans during World War II. It is estimated that, at minimum, 1.3 million people were deported to Auschwitz between 1940 and 1945; of which at least 1.1 million were murdered.

As a rabbi in this community here in Charleston and a grandson of one of those fortunate to have survived the horrors of Auschwitz, much about this dark chapter in human history informs my personal and professional life.

My late Bubby (Grandma) Bluma was 13 when her mother, five older siblings and their children were exterminated under the orders of Josef Mengele, aptly referred to as the “Angel of Death.”

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CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — Since the racial motivated assault the past Friday night, Crown Heights has seen a major increase in Police presence, in both foot patrols along with police car patrols. Shomrim also beefed up its patrols and in addition to the unmarked patrols, 5 three wheelers were added.

Police and Shomrim Prepare for Shabbos

CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — Since the racial motivated assault the past Friday night, Crown Heights has seen a major increase in Police presence, in both foot patrols along with police car patrols. Shomrim also beefed up its patrols and in addition to the unmarked patrols, 5 three wheelers were added.

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CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — Over 1600 high school girls from throughout the world are expected to gather this weekend in Crown Heights for the annual Chof Beis Shevat Inter-School convention titled “Prepare For Landing.” Bais Rivkah of Crown Heights, the flagship school of the Lubavitch Educational network for girls, is hosting the convention for the over 22 participating schools arriving from locations throughout the world, such as Sydney, Chicago, Worcester, Florida, Canada, London, New Haven, Manchester, Seattle, Los Angeles, Pittsburgh, and many others.

19th Annual Chof Bais Shvat Bais Rivkah High School’s Convention

CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — Over 1600 high school girls from throughout the world are expected to gather this weekend in Crown Heights for the annual Chof Beis Shevat Inter-School convention titled “Prepare For Landing.” Bais Rivkah of Crown Heights, the flagship school of the Lubavitch Educational network for girls, is hosting the convention for the over 22 participating schools arriving from locations throughout the world, such as Sydney, Chicago, Worcester, Florida, Canada, London, New Haven, Manchester, Seattle, Los Angeles, Pittsburgh, and many others.

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30 Days to the Tragic Passing of the Simons’s

CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — Family members, relatives and friends gathered Tuesday evening marking thirty days since the tragic passing of Rabbi Zev Yosef and his wife Rochel Simons OBM with a Shloshim gathering in the Chovevei Torah Hall.

In the gathering the crowd heard from Rabbi Avrohom Osdoba, Rabbi Matisyahu Cantor, Rabbi Yossi Jacobson and Rabbi Mordechai Kirchenbaum. The crowd heard about the couple and their tireless efforts in Chesed and their dedication to the Chinuch of the community.

More pictures in the Extended Article.

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Cheder Lubavitch Morristown Melave Malka

MORRISTOWN, NJ [CHI] — Cheder Lubavitch of Morristown, NJ (Chedermorristown.com) held its annual Melave Malka this past Motzie Shabbos. The gathering attended by parents, teachers, and community members was an evening dedicated to Every Day Miracles, an appreciation of Cheder. The evening was a huge success, with everyone feeling inspired and grateful for having such a wonderful school.

More pictures in the Extended Article!

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