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Daily Archives: February 18, 2007

JTA

Kiev, Ukraine — As their Torah scrolls were packed into black plastic garbage bags and carried out of the Jewish school, the students and adults continued to pray, many with tears in their eyes.

Pictures and Video in the Extended Article

Torah Scrolls Confiscated from Ukrainian Community

JTA

Kiev, Ukraine — As their Torah scrolls were packed into black plastic garbage bags and carried out of the Jewish school, the students and adults continued to pray, many with tears in their eyes.

Pictures and Video in the Extended Article

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New Engagement!

Levi Kalmenson (Crown Heights) to Chanale Baitch (Crown Heights) L’Chaim: Monday, April 28th, 8:00pm at Anshei Lubavitch 578 Albany Ave
New Engagement!

Zevi Jacobson (De Moines, IA) to Ita Gurevitch (Crown Heights) L’Chaim: Monday, April 28th, 8:00pm at the JCM
New Engagement!

Sruli Friedman (Coral Springs, FL) to Adina Izgelov (Milwaukee, WI) L’Chaim: Monday, April 28th, 8:00pm at Albany Manor 641 Rutland Rd
New Engagement!

Shlomo Werde (Crown Heights) to Gila Bensusan (London, UK)
Baby Boy!

Chezki and Mushkie Golowinski from Crown Heights had a baby boy! Shalom Zachor: 539 Crown Street
New Engagement!

Avi Baitelman (Los Angeles, CA) to Mindy Neubort (Fair Lawn, NJ) L’Chaim: Tonight, Thursday, 8:00pm at Lubavitch Yeshiva
New Engagement!

Menachem Forer (Toronto, Canada) to Sari Gottlib (Hillside, NJ) L’Chaim: Thursday, April 24th, 8:00pm at Lubavitcher Yeshiva
Baby Boy!

Chaim and Bracha (nee Morozow) Rendler from Crown Heights had a baby boy!
Baby Girl!

Zalmy and Esther (nee Tabari) Hyams from Crown Heights had a baby girl!
Baby Boy!

Shmuly and Chaya (nee Lewin) Stone from Crown Heights had a baby boy!
New Engagement!

Yossi Krinsky (Vilnius, Lithuania) to Rochele Namdar (Gothenburg, Sweden)
Baby Boy!

Yossef and Naomi (nee Malinas) Haddad from Milan, Italy had a baby boy!
New Engagement!

Menachem Forer (Toronto, Canada) to Sari Gottlib (Hillside, NJ) L’Chaim: Thursday, April 24th, at 1349 President Street
New Engagement!

Ariel Poliszuk (Toronto, Canada) to Devorah Leah Weingrow (Chicago, IL)
Baby Girl!

Yisroel and Chana Esther (nee Feldman) Kaczala from Brazil had a baby girl!
New Engagement!

Yosef Yitzchok Marcucci (Chicago, IL) to Devorah Leah Munis (Eretz Yisroel)
New Engagement!

Shmuly Golomb (Crown Heights) to Mushky Steinmetz (Briarwood, NY)

 
Joshua Runyan - Chabad.edu
The name of the game is expansion at several campus Chabad Houses this year, as shluchim and students in New York and Florida prepare to celebrate their new facilities.

Coming on the heels of the Chabad Student Center’s closing last week on the purchase of a new location at the University of California at S. Cruz, the Chabad Houses at the State University of New York at New Paltz and Florida International University in Miami announced high-profile events related to their own capital campaigns.

New Paltz, FIU to Toast New Facilities

Joshua Runyan – Chabad.edu

The name of the game is expansion at several campus Chabad Houses this year, as shluchim and students in New York and Florida prepare to celebrate their new facilities.

Coming on the heels of the Chabad Student Center’s closing last week on the purchase of a new location at the University of California at S. Cruz, the Chabad Houses at the State University of New York at New Paltz and Florida International University in Miami announced high-profile events related to their own capital campaigns.

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Rabbi Berel Bell of Montreal and Rabbi Markowitz of Monsey in the last Shiur

Rabbi Markowitz will be broadcasting live from Monsey with an audience in Montreal and in Toronto participating via live video conference.

The live broadcast over the internet enables Anash worldwide to view Rabbi Markowitz as well as Anash in Montreal and Toronto and participate in a discussion on Chinuch, questions for Rabbi Markowitz can be e-mailed in advance or during the program to shaya@anash.com

The program is scheduled to begin at 8:00pm EST, sharp.

CLICK HERE TO WATCH THE PROGRAM (if you enter now you will see last weeks program)

LIVE TONIGHT: ‘How to raise children to be proud of’, Guest lecturer Rabbi Markowitz

Rabbi Berel Bell of Montreal and Rabbi Markowitz of Monsey in the last Shiur

Rabbi Markowitz will be broadcasting live from Monsey with an audience in Montreal and in Toronto participating via live video conference.

The live broadcast over the internet enables Anash worldwide to view Rabbi Markowitz as well as Anash in Montreal and Toronto and participate in a discussion on Chinuch, questions for Rabbi Markowitz can be e-mailed in advance or during the program to shaya@anash.com

The program is scheduled to begin at 8:00pm EST, sharp.

CLICK HERE TO WATCH THE PROGRAM (if you enter now you will see last weeks program)

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Jewish Children’s Museum to launch iMatza Today

Brooklyn, NY — Today, Sunday, February 18 the Jewish Children’s Museum will launch iMatza, a hands-on matza-baking experience. After exploring the matza’s history and the special way to prepare the Passover staple through a hilarious special-episode of the popular kids’ show Itche Kadoozy, visitors will don baker outfits and jump right into the action, harvesting wheat from a mini field, then threshing and grinding it into flour.

More info and flyer in Extended Article

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Deborah Elovic - Chabad.edu
Chicago, IL — A festive Friday night dinner kicked off Alpha Epsilon Pi’s Midwest conclave in Chicago, held during the last weekend in January. Young men from Texas to Toronto came together for a heartwarming Jewish experience, Chabad style, which included plenty of food, a Stump the Rabbi session and much singing for the 225 attendees.

Different regions of AEPi chapters hold semi-annual regional conclaves each winter, bringing the fraternity’s brothers together for a few days of conferences. According to organizers, the Chicago event represented the first time that a kosher Shabbat dinner was part of the program. “Attendance was twice as high this year,” said Lee Solomon, Midwest Conclave chairman and a student at the University of Chicago, “so we thought it would be nice to have a Shabbat extravaganza as an ice breaker.”

Chabad Plays Host for Fraternity’s Winter Gathering

Deborah Elovic – Chabad.edu

Chicago, IL — A festive Friday night dinner kicked off Alpha Epsilon Pi’s Midwest conclave in Chicago, held during the last weekend in January. Young men from Texas to Toronto came together for a heartwarming Jewish experience, Chabad style, which included plenty of food, a Stump the Rabbi session and much singing for the 225 attendees.

Different regions of AEPi chapters hold semi-annual regional conclaves each winter, bringing the fraternity’s brothers together for a few days of conferences. According to organizers, the Chicago event represented the first time that a kosher Shabbat dinner was part of the program. “Attendance was twice as high this year,” said Lee Solomon, Midwest Conclave chairman and a student at the University of Chicago, “so we thought it would be nice to have a Shabbat extravaganza as an ice breaker.”

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It was last year on this day, the 30th of Shvat, February 28th 2006, when R. Efraim Klein HY”D was murdered in cold blood on the streets of Crown Heights. He had gone out in order to move his minivan to avoid having to move it later for alternate side parking regulations the next day. He was 47 years old.

He was shot through the window of his car, and was later pronounced in Kings County Hospital. His son was set to have his wedding the following week. The investigation by the NYPD has ‘gone cold’ according to a source in Crown Heights’s 71st Pct.

Hashem Yikom Damo – May G-d Avenge His Blood

Click Here for an NBC4 newscast that morning

1 Year since the Murder of R. Efraim Klein HY”D

It was last year on this day, the 30th of Shvat, February 28th 2006, when R. Efraim Klein HY”D was murdered in cold blood on the streets of Crown Heights. He had gone out in order to move his minivan to avoid having to move it later for alternate side parking regulations the next day. He was 47 years old.

He was shot through the window of his car, and was later pronounced in Kings County Hospital. His son was set to have his wedding the following week. The investigation by the NYPD has ‘gone cold’ according to a source in Crown Heights’s 71st Pct.

Hashem Yikom Damo – May G-d Avenge His Blood

Click Here for an NBC4 newscast that morning

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The New York Times
Shoveling snow on Kingston. Photo: Eli Kahan

The Mayor on the John Gambling Show this past Friday

1010WINS: Bloomberg: 'Deal With It', Council Members 'Angry', Mayor's Apology.

Click Here for NY1's newscast of this event

A day after telling New Yorkers to stop “griping” over parking tickets issued to snowbound cars, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg issued a rare apology and promised to waive all tickets handed out today and Thursday for alternate-side-of-the-street parking violations.

“I’m sorry for the inconvenience to people, but you know you have to make decisions and each of these storms is different,” Mr. Bloomberg said in his weekly radio program on WABC-AM.

Bloomberg Backtracks on Parking Tickets

The New York Times
Shoveling snow on Kingston. Photo: Eli Kahan

The Mayor on the John Gambling Show this past Friday

1010WINS: Bloomberg: ‘Deal With It’, Council Members ‘Angry’, Mayor’s Apology.

Click Here for NY1’s newscast of this event

A day after telling New Yorkers to stop “griping” over parking tickets issued to snowbound cars, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg issued a rare apology and promised to waive all tickets handed out today and Thursday for alternate-side-of-the-street parking violations.

“I’m sorry for the inconvenience to people, but you know you have to make decisions and each of these storms is different,” Mr. Bloomberg said in his weekly radio program on WABC-AM.

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Violent Head-On Collision on Eastern Parkway

Crown Heights, Brooklyn — Moments after Shabbos ended and Eastern Parkway filled with residents walking home from Shul an SUV and a Minivan collided head on and both vehicles ended up on two parts of the sidewalk.

The incident took place on Eastern Parkway and Brooklyn Ave where apparently one car attempted to make a turn onto Brooklyn into oncoming traffic. Luckily there was no one walking on the sidewalks where the cars ended up. The driver of the SUV along with passengers were taken by EMS to a local hospital, none had any life threatening injuries.

More pictures in the Extended Article.

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More than 170 Chabad representatives from across the West Coast came together for the group`s annual convention in 2006. Photo: Osher Litzman

Los Angeles, CA — Hundreds of local Chabad representatives and Jewish community leaders from across California and Nevada will gather on February 18 and 19 to participate in the 2007 West Coast Chabad convention. The event at the Glendale Hilton will feature nationally syndicated radio host and best-selling author Michael Medved as its keynote speaker.

Chabad’s convention, or Kinus, is the largest annual gathering of West Coast Jewish leaders, drawing representatives from every major Jewish community in the region. The Kinus brings Chabad emissaries together to attend workshops, hear speakers, and share ideas on serving their local communities.

West Coast Jewish Leaders Gather For Chabad Convention

More than 170 Chabad representatives from across the West Coast came together for the group`s annual convention in 2006. Photo: Osher Litzman

Los Angeles, CA — Hundreds of local Chabad representatives and Jewish community leaders from across California and Nevada will gather on February 18 and 19 to participate in the 2007 West Coast Chabad convention. The event at the Glendale Hilton will feature nationally syndicated radio host and best-selling author Michael Medved as its keynote speaker.

Chabad’s convention, or Kinus, is the largest annual gathering of West Coast Jewish leaders, drawing representatives from every major Jewish community in the region. The Kinus brings Chabad emissaries together to attend workshops, hear speakers, and share ideas on serving their local communities.

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