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Greenville, South Carolina. Inset: Rabbi Leibel Kesselman.

Rabbi Leibel Kesselman, his wife Musie (nee Posner) and their children, Chana and Mendel, are moving to Greenville, South Carolina on the Rebbe's Shlichus to share the warmth of Yiddishkeit with the Upstate region.

New Shluchim to South Carolina

Greenville, South Carolina. Inset: Rabbi Leibel Kesselman.

Rabbi Leibel Kesselman, his wife Musie (nee Posner) and their children, Chana and Mendel, are moving to Greenville, South Carolina on the Rebbe’s Shlichus to share the warmth of Yiddishkeit with the Upstate region.

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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)

Photos: Young Shliach Says Goodbye to His Curls

Contra Costa Times

Rabbi Raleigh Resnick has his 3-year old son recite the Shema prayer.

Yankele Resnick, 3, of Pleasanton, California, took part in his Upshernish, an ancient Jewish tradition where a boy’s hair is cut for the first time on his third birthday, on Thursday, May 10, 2012.

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“Yiddish-kites” were created and flown at the spectacular Lag Baomer festivities, sponsored by Chabad of Western Monmouth County, NJ, coordinated by Rabbi Avrohom Bernstein, the Chabad Program Director.

Manalapan Residents Enjoy Lag Ba’omer Festivities

“Yiddish-kites” were created and flown at the spectacular Lag Baomer festivities, sponsored by Chabad of Western Monmouth County, NJ, coordinated by Rabbi Avrohom Bernstein, the Chabad Program Director.

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Cornerstone Laid for New 770 in Queens

On Lag Ba’omer, members and supporters of Chabad of Flushing, Queens – under the leadership of Rabbi Shraga Feivish Zalmanov – gathered for the groundbreaking ceremony of the new Chabad House, which will be built to replicate the 770 building on Eastern Parkway.

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Chabad on Campus UK hosted recently a Shabbaton in Oxford for a group of thirty French Jewish students visiting from top engineering schools in Paris, including Ecole Central, Pharmacy Chatenay Malabry, HEC and Polytheqnic - coming less than two months after the brutal killings that shook the Jewish community in Tolouse and worldwide.

French Students Get Boost of Jewish Life in UK

Chabad on Campus UK hosted recently a Shabbaton in Oxford for a group of thirty French Jewish students visiting from top engineering schools in Paris, including Ecole Central, Pharmacy Chatenay Malabry, HEC and Polytheqnic – coming less than two months after the brutal killings that shook the Jewish community in Tolouse and worldwide.

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Tories Overrule Officials to Fund Chabad Project

Canada Globe and Mail

Rabbi Chaim Mendelsohn accompanies Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird during his visit to Israel on Jan. 31, 2012.

The Conservative government overruled federal bureaucrats and gave $1-million to a social hall project submitted by an Ottawa rabbi with close ties to Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird.

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by Tamar Runyan - Chabad.org

Rabbi Chaim Danzinger, Chabad emissary to Rostov-on-Don, Russia, leads a prayer service at the memorial.

For the first time since the municipal government replaced a memorial to the World War II slaughter of 27,000 local Jews with a separate installation that mentioned neither Jews nor the Holocaust, Jewish community officials in Rostov-on-Don joined Russian Chief Rabbi Berel Lazar and Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia president Alexander Barada in persuading regional Gov. Vassily Golubov to erect a more ethnically-sensitive plaque.

Rostov Gov. Considers Revamping Holocaust Memorial

by Tamar Runyan – Chabad.org

Rabbi Chaim Danzinger, Chabad emissary to Rostov-on-Don, Russia, leads a prayer service at the memorial.

For the first time since the municipal government replaced a memorial to the World War II slaughter of 27,000 local Jews with a separate installation that mentioned neither Jews nor the Holocaust, Jewish community officials in Rostov-on-Don joined Russian Chief Rabbi Berel Lazar and Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia president Alexander Barada in persuading regional Gov. Vassily Golubov to erect a more ethnically-sensitive plaque.

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A group of preschoolers at Shaloh House Preschool & Kindergarten welcomed the spring season this year with the help of Mr. Mal Jacobs. The children learned how to properly care for the peach tree in the school's backyard.

Preschoolers Garden and Grow Their Own Snacks

A group of preschoolers at Shaloh House Preschool & Kindergarten welcomed the spring season this year with the help of Mr. Mal Jacobs. The children learned how to properly care for the peach tree in the school’s backyard.

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Students Release Butterflies at Chabad Preschool

Boston.com

Assistant teacher Livi Rubin passes a butterfly to Benji Barnett, 5, of Lexington, Massachusetts.

It was the day everyone’s been waiting for at the Jewish Preschool of Lexington at the Chabad Center. Twenty-two students, ranging in age from 3 to 5, released the butterflies they raised from caterpillars into a flower bush in front of the school.

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New Jewish Russian Learning Center on Staten Island

SI Live

Rabbi Zeev and Esther Kushnirsky

A young rabbi and his wife are starting the Jewish Russian Learning Center of South Beach, located in Rosebank in Staten Island, NY. While open to all, the center is hoping to attract members of the Russian Jewish community, especially young families and professionals who currently aren’t affiliated with a synagogue.

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Friendship Circle Café Helps Special Needs Children

Florida Sun-Sentinel

Volunteer Kate Jacobsen, 18, helps Dina Sheva Waldman, 17, fill a drink order during the Friendship Circle Café event at the Mozart Café in Deerfield Beach.

It is dinner hour on a Wednesday evening and the Mozart Café in Deerfield Beach is filled. Servers scurry around the Israeli-owned kosher dairy restaurant. But on this night the servers are special needs children and teen volunteers from the Chabad of Parkland’s Friendship Circle of North Broward and South Palm Beach.

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Manalapan Sees Overwhelming Turnout for Friendship

In the true spirit of community, nearly 1,300 people of all ages gathered under sunny skies for the fourth annual Walk4Friends on April 29th at Vonage Corporate Center in Holmdel. The goal of the walk was to raise funding and awareness for the Friendship Circle, a program that provides friendship for children with special needs, but, again, it accomplished much more than its primary mission.

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