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Daily Archives: November 17, 2006

Two Cars Burglarized

Last week on Thursday night, Nov. 6th a Honda Accord parked on Crown St. between Kingston and Brooklyn was broken into and burglarized, the thief made off with the cars 2 airbags and did not take anything else from the car. A yid that was passing by saw the perp and called the police, but they did not apprehend the thief. The owner of the vehicle later followed up with the police and made sure a report had been filed.

Then yesterday another car had been broken into and burglarized over night. The car, also a Honda Accord, was parked on Montgomery St. between Brooklyn and Kingston had been broken into and its airbags and navigation system removed, again with nothing else taken.

More in the Extended Article.

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A Single Father, A Tireless Fellow Shliach, An Unimaginable Struggle

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New Engagement!

Dovid Ezagui (Brooklyn, NY) to Chava Sorkin (Brooklyn, NY)
New Engagement!

Hushi Kot (Tallinn, Estonia) to Chani Wilhelm (Morristown, NJ) L’Chaim: Today, Monday, 8:30pm at F.R.E.E.
New Engagement!

Velvel Reikhtman (Montreal, Canada) to Channah Kagan (Crown Heights) L’Chaim: Tuesday, June 10th, 8:30pm at Ulam Chana 556 Crown Street
Baby Boy!

Shimon and Chanie Alon from Coral Springs, FL had a baby boy!
Baby Boy!

Yitzy and Leeby Smith from Coral Springs, FL had a baby boy!
New Engagement!

Pesach Chaim Newman (Crown Heights) to Bluma Raizel Lewis (Old Tappan, NJ)
New Engagement!

Eitan Hershkop (Crown Heights) to Chana Belfer (Melbourne, Australia) L’Chaim: Tonight, Thursday, 8:00pm at Bass and Bourbon
New Engagement!

Levi Meer (Morristown, NJ) to Sara Gershovitz (Crown Heights) L’Chaim: Thursday, June 12th, 8:00pm at 1349 President Street Upstairs
New Engagement!

Yosef Chaim Bercovice (Chicago, IL) to Leah Eisenbach (New York)
New Engagement!

Pesach Bercovice (Chicago, IL) to Tzipporah Yasmine Holloway (Orlando, FL)
New Engagement!

Mendel Saaks (Chicago, IL) to Leeba Grossbaum (Paramus, NJ)
New Engagement!

Yisrolik Keselman (London, UK) to Shaina Keller (Crown Heights)

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New Engagement!

Ya’akov Silverman (Tysons Corner, VA) to Chaya Raizel Michaelson (Glastonbury, CT)
New Engagement!

Yitzchak Minkowitz (Fort Myers, FL) to Shani Silver (Mequon, WI)
New Engagement!

Avremel Weingarten (Flint, MI) to Chana Potash (Noe Valley, SF, CA)
New Engagement!

Yaya Kagan (Los Angeles, CA) to Hadas Malamud (Brooklyn, NY) L’Chaim: Tonight, Thursday, 7:30pm at the Oholei Torah Ballroom
Baby Boy!

Meyer and Chaya (nee Engelberg) Shushan from Crown Heights had a baby boy!
The Rebbe says:

1. A big part of this week’s Parshah deals with the preparation and actual wedding of our father Yitzchak and our mother Rivkah. This is the first time the Torah clearly tells us about a wedding.

2. To make a long story short:

Avraham Avinu sent his servant Eliezer to find a wife for his son Yitzchak in Aram Naharayim, the land of Avraham Avinu’s birth.
Avraham Avinu promises Eliezer that Hashem will send an angel with him to make sure he is successful in his mission. Avraham Avinu even sent Eliezer with a document stating that all his wealth (which was enormous) was now Yitzchak’s so that people would be willing to send their daughter back with Eliezer.

The Weekly Sedra – Parshas Chayei Sarah

The Rebbe says:

1. A big part of this week’s Parshah deals with the preparation and actual wedding of our father Yitzchak and our mother Rivkah. This is the first time the Torah clearly tells us about a wedding.

2. To make a long story short:

Avraham Avinu sent his servant Eliezer to find a wife for his son Yitzchak in Aram Naharayim, the land of Avraham Avinu’s birth.
Avraham Avinu promises Eliezer that Hashem will send an angel with him to make sure he is successful in his mission. Avraham Avinu even sent Eliezer with a document stating that all his wealth (which was enormous) was now Yitzchak’s so that people would be willing to send their daughter back with Eliezer.

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500 at the Annual Gala Auction of Chabad of Alaska

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An outstanding show of over 500, including prominent leaders business, academia, and elected officials gathered at the Hilton Anchorage for a black tie, auction fundraiser and gala dinner in Anchorage Alaska.

The Jewish community of Alaska, headed by the Shluchim, Rabbi Yosef & Esty Greenberg held and auction incorporated with the grand annual dinner this last Motzie Shabbos. Over 500 items were donated by local companies and community members to raise funds for the future Alaska Jewish Historical Museum and Lubavitch Jewish Center of Alaska.

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Moussie Mandel (left), 2, lights a candle for at the start of Shabbat, as her father Rabbi Yossi Mandel, Chana, 1, and Mendel, 6, watch at their Everett home last week. The Rabbi and his wife Chaya Sara direct the new Chabad Jewish Center.

Everett, WA — Rabbi Yossi Mandel intends to leave no stone unturned in his search for Snohomish County's Jews.

“It's really important that we not miss a single person,” he said.

Mandel and his wife, Chaya Sara, moved with their three children to a south Everett home in August to offer something they say is missing in Snohomish County: Orthodox Jewish teaching.

Orthodox Rabbi Searches for Jews all over County

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Moussie Mandel (left), 2, lights a candle for at the start of Shabbat, as her father Rabbi Yossi Mandel, Chana, 1, and Mendel, 6, watch at their Everett home last week. The Rabbi and his wife Chaya Sara direct the new Chabad Jewish Center.

Everett, WA — Rabbi Yossi Mandel intends to leave no stone unturned in his search for Snohomish County’s Jews.

“It’s really important that we not miss a single person,” he said.

Mandel and his wife, Chaya Sara, moved with their three children to a south Everett home in August to offer something they say is missing in Snohomish County: Orthodox Jewish teaching.

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Not Just a Symbolic Battle – Fights Continue Over Public Menorah Displays

Josh Lipowsky – Jewish Standard

Palisades, NJ — The Chanukah menorah stands as a symbol of Jewish freedom — but is it a universal symbol that should be publicly displayed? That answer is not clear, as evidenced by the debates currently going on in local communities.

As Chabad opens new centers across the world, one staple of its holiday programming is a large menorah display during Chanukah. In Bergen County, menorahs are erected at town halls in Teaneck, Englewood, Tenafly, Hackensack, and in other public areas through the county. Similarly, for the past three years the Chabad Center of Passaic County in Wayne has put up a display at the borough building.

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South Florida Sun-Sentinel
West Boynton, FL — An Orthodox synagogue is about to revive an ancient ritual. If only it rains a little more.

Chabad of Greater Boynton Beach completed its $500,000 mikveh, or Jewish ritual bath, on Nov. 10 and is ready to open it to Jews who seek purification. But the mikveh needs lots of rainwater, combined with tap water, to be considered kosher. It rained for the first time this month on Thursday, contributing a few drops to the more than 380 gallons needed. The congregation chose the driest year in 75 years to open the bath, which some observant Jews consider even more important in a Jewish community than a synagogue.

Rabbi Sholom Ciment is anxious to open the mikveh after months of construction delays. But he knows the weather is out of his control, just as is the birth of his fifth child. His wife, Dina, is nine months pregnant.

Before Purity – Waiting for Rain to Revive Bathing Rite

South Florida Sun-Sentinel

West Boynton, FL — An Orthodox synagogue is about to revive an ancient ritual. If only it rains a little more.

Chabad of Greater Boynton Beach completed its $500,000 mikveh, or Jewish ritual bath, on Nov. 10 and is ready to open it to Jews who seek purification. But the mikveh needs lots of rainwater, combined with tap water, to be considered kosher. It rained for the first time this month on Thursday, contributing a few drops to the more than 380 gallons needed. The congregation chose the driest year in 75 years to open the bath, which some observant Jews consider even more important in a Jewish community than a synagogue.

Rabbi Sholom Ciment is anxious to open the mikveh after months of construction delays. But he knows the weather is out of his control, just as is the birth of his fifth child. His wife, Dina, is nine months pregnant.

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International Conference of Shluchim Convenes

EJ Tansky – Lubavitch.com

They are angels in black coats for the downtrodden and broken. Doctors treating the ills of faded Jewish values. PR men, ice cream scoopers, school directors, tefillin wrappers, psychologists, scholars, Chabad representative are a breed apart. To whom do they turn to for advice, for reassurance, new ideas and insight into the way forward, for strength?

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