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With power out at Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida, Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz read from the Torah with community members shining flashlights. Chabad of Southwest Florida, located in Fort Myers, became a shelter and an island of safety from the severe damage wrecked by Hurricane Ian.

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The Chabad House Jewish Center in Milford, Massachusetts run by Rabbi Mendy Kivman hosted a dedication ceremony this past week for their newly renovated Shul and its one of a kind Aron Kodesh. Using age old ideas with modern design, the Aron Kodesh in truly unique.

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New York Assemblyman Brian Cunningham, who represents a majority of Crown Heights, came to Oholei Torah Tuesday to speak about and learn what exactly our schools are all about. Cunningham, who was propelled through the elections with the help of the Crown Heights Jewish community, maintains close ties with the community.

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As part of an incredibly inspiring and adventurous weekend on the “CYP Encounter: Panama” Shabbaton, the Young Professionals took a boat ride to Tapoga Island. Upon discovering that the captain of the boat was Jewish, three of the CYPs decided to share the Mitzvah with the boat’s captain and persuaded him to don Tefillin as well.

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A chance encounter between my a young bochur by the name “Yisroel Shem Tov Ehven”, his last name being Ehven, and the Famous Reb Yisroel Shem Tov of Crown Heights, brought smiles to many faces, including theirs.

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In 1949 Viktor Abakumov, the Soviet Union’s Minister of State Security, received a message reporting that the Frierdiker Rebbe had established an anti-Soviet Center in New York City. The message, sent by KGB agents operating in New York, stated: “The American espionage system established an anti-Soviet center in New York under the cover of a Rabbinic training school, and it is headed by the Jewish tzaddik Schneersohn, who was deported from the USSR in 1928.”

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This photo was taken in the winter of 1942 in the upstairs shul of 770. In the photo you can see Rabbi Yitzchak Arnold, Laibel Groner, Dovid Taub, Yechiel Rotenberg, ?, ?, ?, Moshe Groner, Rabbi Yitzchak Kolodny, Reuven Rapoport, Eliyahu Gross, Berel Gross, Dovid Twersky, ?, Rafael Grossman, ?, and Shlomo Dreilech.

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Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz of Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida participated in a Minyan taking place at the Shar Hakutona at the Entrance to the Har Habayit. This photo is of the doorway found a the end of the entryway tunnel.