The List Of Winners At The Ten Yad Auction

Here is the list of the winners at the Ten Yad Auction, You can click on the prize name to get a full description.

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Magnet for young Jews

Orthodox boys school in Tucson already attaining a global reach

Among the myriad construction projects going on in the Foothills is a 7,000-square-foot boarding school for Orthodox Jewish boys that already is attracting young men from around the world.

Yeshiva High School of Tucson is a project of Rabbi Joseph “Yossie” Shemtov of the Midtown Orthodox Congregation Chabad Lubavitch/Young Israel, and one of his congregation members, David S. Cutler, an accountant who is the school’s main benefactor. Two other Chabad members, Shalom and Eric Laytin, also have helped with underwriting costs.

Ultra-Orthodox Jews turn New York camera store into big-time business

Every morning except Saturday, the buses stop in front of a bustling corner of Manhattan. Within minutes, a battalion of bearded men dressed in dark suits and felt hats, some clutching prayer books and speaking Yiddish, step onto the sidewalk […]

Nosh-World Robbed!

On Friday night sometime after 3:00am the ice cream store “Nosh World” located [for those of you that don’t know] on Kingston Ave. between Crown St. & Montgomery St., had been broken into by an unknown number of thief or thieves, which was very similar to the robbery at Kol-Tuv in a number of ways.

The thieves cut the gate and then broke the glass door and frame to gain entry to the store, then proceeded to emptying out the 2 cash registers and took a few bags containing money from the Tzedaka Pushkas that are near the registers. The “interesting” part of this robbery was that the phone cards that Nosh World sells, are hidden at night in one of the freezers and the thief knew exactly where that was, as it didn’t seem that he tossed the place searching for valuables, and took that [which in itself is valued at over $500 worth of calling cards] and the contents of the of the cash register [which had not been emptied before Shabbos].

The points of similarity between this robbery and the one at Kol-Tuv was the way the gate was cut, the time it had been broken into, the apparent knowledge of the area and layout of the store and the location of the valuables. The car service next door was not disturbed.

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Off-duty cop shot by armed robber

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The robber saying “you know I have to kill you now,” a gunman robbed an off-duty city police officer and then shot the officer during a struggle Saturday near the cop’s home in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, police and a witness said.

Officer Wiener Philippe, 26, a two-year veteran of the Police Department, was in stable condition at Kings County Hospital, Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said.

Reaching out to Orthodox students

One afternoon in September, Nalini Ibragimov is teaching Torah to nine young women at Brooklyn College. It’s the students’ two-hour free period, which the college gives twice a week to encourage clubs and sports.

Instead of eating a longer lunch or going swimming, these nine modestly-dressed young women are discussing with Ibragimov, their rebbetzin on campus, the finer points of the 39 malachot, or acts of labor forbidden on Shabbat.

Nalini Ibragimov, 28, and her husband, 30-year-old Rabbi Reuven Ibragimov, were sent to Brooklyn College three years ago through the Jewish Learning Initiative on Campus, a program sponsored by the Orthodox Union, Hillel and the Torah Mitzion organization to serve the needs of Orthodox students.

770 Will Reopen in Time For Mincha Erev Shabbos

Today the floor has been completed and was polished in downstairs 770 and life may return to normal and people may have their proper place to Daven once more.

People have complained about the Gaboyims strategy of closing down the whole downstairs 770 rather then doing it in segments, while other say that there was an entire ulterior motive behind this, either way a Shul must look its best and this will certainly help.

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2 Crown Heights Residents Arrested

Today in 2 separate incidents 2 drivers from the neighborhood where arrested after being pulled over for some violation, and when the police officer ran their drivers license it came back suspended and the drivers were immediately arrested.

The first arrest took place on Albany Ave. & Empire Blvd. when the driver was pulled over for allegedly not wearing a seatbelt and the second incident took place on Eastern Pkwy. & Albany Ave. where the driver had been pulled over for allegedly not wearing a seatbelt as well.

After the arrests the offenders usually go straight into lockup and get sent to central booking where they would stay overnight at the least. But thanks to efforts pulled by a few Shomrim members the drivers had been released a lot earlier. During their stay in lockup a Shomrim member had provided them with proper food and drink until they managed to get them out.

Holocaust Victims’ Belongings Unearthed

LUBLIN, Poland — A child’s ring. Twisted reading glasses. A few gold coins: scraps of personal dignity, hurriedly buried in a last act of defiance to keep them from falling into Nazi hands. Israeli archaeologists helped by survivors are writing a new chapter in the terrible history of the German death camp at Majdanek, Poland, by excavating grounds long thought to be empty.

Their findings show how the doomed Jews furiously dug into the grassy ground with their hands to bury what personal possessions they had with them before they were murdered in the camp’s gas chambers.

The objects aren’t worth much financially but “the value as a human story is immeasurable,” said Yaron Svoray, an Israeli journalist who made his name infiltrating neo-Nazi groups some 10 years ago.

Imitating G-d — Creating Something From Nothing

I should have known it was going to be extraordinary — nothing short of miraculous — when a total stranger made out a $100 check to my son`s five-week old Chabad House right in the aisle of the Jet Blue flight headed for Oakland on erev (eve) Rosh Hashana. He was simply inspired by the idea of helping out a newly formed Jewish center in northern California that a typical Jewish mother like me was only too happy to boast about.

My 22-year-old son Elliot, my 17-year-old daughter Gillie and I were on our way to pay our first visit to my children Rabbi Raleigh and Fruma Resnick, the new shluchim (emissaries) of the Tri-Valley in northern California, for their first Gala event — Rosh Hashana.

Former refusenik and Israeli Knesset Minister Natan Sharansky speaks at Tribute Gala for Lubavitch of Bucks County

On November 7, Lubavitch of Bucks County welcomed Natan Sharansky, former Soviet refusenik and Knesset minister, to their Tribute Gala for a dialogue on “Vision, Courage and Leadership.”

At a grand event at the Hyatt at Penn’s Landing in Philadelphia, Lubavitch honored Karin Kasdin and Harold Weinstein, who received the Couple of the Year Award, and Emily Deutsch, recipient of the Future Leadership Youth Award.

Lubavitch’s Glazier Jewish Center is located in the heart of Newtown, and their programs, such as Chanukah Wonderland, have become popular events in Newtown.

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Historian Charged With Denying Holocaust

VIENNA, Austria — British historian David Irving was arrested last week in southern Austria on a warrant accusing him of denying the Holocaust, the Interior Ministry said Thursday. Irving was arrested Nov. 11 in Styria province, said police Maj. Rudolf Golia, an Interior Ministry spokesman. He was transferred to a prison in Graz.

Irving was detained on a warrant issued in 1989 under Austrian laws that make Holocaust denial a crime, Golia said. The accusation stemmed from speeches Irving delivered that year in Vienna and in the southern town of Leoben.

Irving in the past has faced allegations of spreading anti-Semitic and racist ideas. He is the author of nearly 30 books, including “Hitler’s War,” which challenges the extent of the Holocaust.

Chabad Makes Inroads at Parley

Before Eliezer Zalmanov came to Munster, Ind., no Chabad-Lubavitch rabbi had ever been the recipient of the local Jewish federation’s rabbinic award.

There was a Chabad rabbi before Zalmanov. However, Zalmanov, 26, said that when he moved to Munster two years ago, the rest of the community still had suspicions about his ultra-Orthodox Hasidic movement. “They thought I was out to convert everyone to Chabad,” he said.

Zalmanov worked hard to disabuse the people of such notions, cooperating with the city’s four other congregations and enlisting his wife as a Hebrew school teacher at the local Conservative synagogue. He received a stamp of approval this year with the federation’s rabbinic reward.