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8:00pm: Should We Be Taking Sides in This War?

The topics in this week’s 394th episode of the highly acclaimed MyLife: Chassidus Applied series, with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, will include: What Can Purim Teach Us About the War in Ukraine Today? Is It a Sign That Moshiach Is Coming When Nations Are at War? Are There Similarities Between the Jews in Persia and Ukraine? What Did the Rebbe Say in 1983 About Nations in Conflict? How Are We to See These Events in Context of the Rebbe’s Words Over 30 Years Ago About the Bloodless Fall of the Soviet Union? Letter From Kharkiv: How Can We Increase in Joy During the Month of Adar With a War Raging in Our City? Should We Be Taking Sides in This War? Should We Be Pacifying or Fighting the Aggressor? Are Ukrainians Being Punished for Their Crimes?

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Baby Boy!

Aharon Tzvi and Chana (nee Reich) Altman from Crown Heights had a baby boy!
Baby Girl!

Levi and Rochel (nee Wolowik) Engel from Crown Heights had a baby girl!

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Baby Girl!

Eli Nochum and Mushky Baron from Bowie, MD had a baby girl!
Baby Girl!

Yudi and Chana Gerber from Glen Mills, PA had a baby girl!
Baby Girl!

Motty and Raizy (nee Konikov) Rosenfeld from Vero Beach, FL had a baby girl!
New Engagement!

Youval Hezrony (Roosevelt, NJ) to Estie Green (Lancater, PA) L’Chaim: Monday, Oct. 27th, 7:30pm at Ulam Chana 556 Crown Street
New Engagement!

Sruly Rutman (Kyiv, Ukraine) to Chai Henna Friedman (Miami, FL)
Baby Girl!

Daniel and Sara (nee Mahpour) Wasserman from Crown Heights, had a baby girl!
Baby Girl!

Tzemach and Chaya Simon from Miami Gardens, FL had a baby girl!
Baby Girl!

Moshe and Chana Esther (nee Brennan) Lewis from Dallas, TX had a baby girl!
New Engagement!

Mendel Schapiro (Crown Heights) to Shterna Garelik (Crown Heights) L’Chaim: Tonight, Tuesday, 8:00pm at 1468 Union Street
Baby Girl!

Mendel and Sara New from Atlanta/Crown Heights had a baby girl!
New Engagement!

Shneor Zalmen Halperin (Buenos Aires, Argentina) to Blumi Marosov (Midwood, Brooklyn)
New Engagement!

Mendel Eidelman (Brunoy, France) to Sheina Gurary (Antwerp, Belgium) L’Chaim: Tonight, Sunday, 8:30pm at F.R.E.E.

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New Engagement!

Binyomin Plotkin (New Paltz, NY) to Mirel Bryski (Thousand Oaks, CA) L’Chaim: Tonight, Sunday, 7:30pm at The Shul 481 Albany Ave
Baby Boy!

Yossi and Shiffy Rapp from Crown Heights had a baby boy!
Twin Girls!

Yeheil and Chana Bracha Moscowitz from Detroit, MI had twin girls!

Weekly Story: Rebuilding

Being that this Shabbos is Tes Adar Sheini, eighty-two years since the Frierdiker Rebbe first came to America to live and rebuild Judaism, I am posting the draft of a chapter from his upcoming biography on his activities to help rebuild the refugees in the DP camps and elsewhere after WWII.

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8:00pm: Who Should We Support in a War Between Russia and Ukraine?

The topics in this week’s 393rd episode of the highly acclaimed MyLife: Chassidus Applied series, with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, will include: Who Should We Support in a War Between Russia and Ukraine? Does Community Compromise Individuality? Is the Recent New Development Making the Library Manuscripts Available to the Public a Form of “Splurging the Treasures”? Is It Appropriate to Name Someone After an Abuser or a Criminal? By Reading a Book Do We Connect to Its Author as We Do to a Composer Through Listening to His Music? How About Addressing Mental and Other Forms of Abuse?

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8:00pm: Is It Appropriate to Watch the Super Bowl and the Olympics? What Is an Appropriate Relationship Between Cousins of Opposite Gender?

The topics in this week’s 392nd episode of the highly acclaimed MyLife: Chassidus Applied series, with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, will include: Is It Appropriate to Watch the Super Bowl and the Olympics? What Is the Background Behind the Baal Shem Tov’s Siddur? How Do We Navigate Life’s Ups and Downs and Twists and Turns? The Rebbe’s Sicha 30 Years Ago This Week; What Is the Significance of Moshe’s Mask? Is There a Connection Between a Leap Year, Called a “Pregnant” Year And Women Having Children? What Is an Appropriate Relationship Between Cousins of Opposite Gender?

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