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Sholom Ber (Berel) Raskin, an iconic Crown Heights fishmonger for the last six decades, passed away on Shabbat, May 25, at the age of 84. (Photo: Israel Bardugo)

Berel Raskin, 84, Chassidic Fishmonger Who Became a Crown Heights Icon

Sholom Ber (Berel) Raskin, the kosher fishmonger who, glinting cleaver in hand, welcomed generations of customers, visitors and journalists into his pungent Crown Heights fish store and the Chassidic neighborhood he called home, passed away suddenly on Shabbat morning, May 25. He was 84, having spent 65 years living in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn, N.Y., to which he arrived as an orphaned survivor of Soviet tyranny and Nazi terror, and where he eventually became an area icon.

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Ari and Chanie Greenwald from Crown Heights had a baby girl!
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Israel Guetta (Netanya ,Israel) to Sterna Benmoussa (Paris ,France )
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Avremel Rapoport(Clarks Summit, PA) to Faigy Liberow (London, UK) L’Chaim: Tonight, Tuesday, 8:00pm at Lubavitcher Yeshiva Crown Street
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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
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Mendy Sulami (Los Angeles, CA) to Aidel Spielman (Crown Heights)
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Tsvi Feygin  (Teaneck, NJ) to Faigy Kahn (London, UK)
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Shmuel Gurary (Buffalo, NY) to Esther Leeba Eidelman (Manchester, UK) L’Chaim: Tonight, Thursday, 8:00pm at Rubashkin’s Downstairs
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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)
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Jack Abramson (NW4, London, UK) to Shayna Ash (Johannesburg, South Africa)
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Mendel and Soro (nee Brennan) Manne from Penn Wynne, PA had a baby boy!
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Yisrolik Chein (Toulouse, France) to Chanale Greenberg (Shanghai, China) L’Chaim: Tonight, Thursday, 8:00pm at 695 East New York Ave
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Schneur Motchkin (Crown Heights) to Sarah Schmukler (Crown Heights) L’Chaim: Tonight, Thursday, 8:00pm at Lubavitcher Yeshiva
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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
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Shneur and Sara (nee Heber) polter from Crown Heights had a baby girl!
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Yonah Galili (Toronto, Canada) to Ora Zuckerman (Crown Heights) L’Chaim: Monday, July 7th, 8:00pm at Bais Avraham Yitzchak 305 Remsen Ave
Among those who lost a business to tornadoes in Ohio were Zeke and Iris Levi, whose car shop was destroyed. Their daughter, Maytal, a reporter at Fox19 in Cincinnati, broadcast live from Harrison Township conveying to viewers what she was seeing on the ground. (Photo: Maytal Levi)

Jewish Neighborhood Hit Hard as Tornadoes Plow Through Dayton, Ohio

by Faygie Levy Holt – chabad.org The sky over Dayton, Ohio, crackled and flashed. Rain and wind, thunder and lightning spread throughout the Greater Dayton region on Monday night, but it was two massive tornadoes that shattered glass, uprooted trees, […]

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Picture of the Day

Stories of Mesiras Nefesh in the Holocaust can be found in books and videos that are your fingertips. But this one story is engraved on the tombstone of a Marine who survived World War Two, and attributes his survival to putting on tefillin and not eating unkosher meat.

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N’shei Chabad Newsletter Writing Contest

How many times have educators wondered: What is going on in the minds of our students? How can we truly help them without understanding them? How many times have students sat in a classroom and pondered: Do our teachers even know us? How can we learn if they don’t know who they’re teaching? In order to spark dialogue between mechanchim and students in our community, and to create useful conversation that will bring clarity to both sides, the N’shei Chabad Newsletter is hosting its first ever writing contest.

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