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Daily Archives: June 11, 2007

Hachnosas Sefer Torah in Memory of Benny Keller

Crown Heights, Brooklyn — Sunday, At about 1PM, the Dedication ceremony began, the Sefer Torah was completed in Ben-Tzion Keller OBM, then the dancing started with the new Torah under the Chupa, the procession passed through the streets of Crown Heights, stopped by 770 and then went to intended destination, the Aliya Center, where there was Hakafot, inaugurating and honoring the new Torah with singing and dancing.

Beautiful Pictures Gallery in the Extended Article!

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New Engagement!

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

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

Boruch and Adeli Zimmerman from Oro Valley, AZ had a baby girl!

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New Engagement!

Dovi Vogel (Wilmington, DE) to Chanie Rapoport (Atlantic City, NJ)
New Engagement!

Yitzy Bernstein (Freehold, NJ) to Brocha Gleyzer (Monsey, NY)
Baby Boy!

Mendy and Sarah (nee Glick) Korf from Crown Heights had a baby boy!
New Engagement!

Levi Labor (Chicago, IL) to Etti Krinsky (Crown Heights)
New Engagement!

Moti Kulski (Paris, France) to Sharona Kuperman (Moscow, Russia)
New Engagement!

Yaakov Hirsch (Coral Springs, FL) to Chani Sulami (Beverly Hills, CA)

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New Engagement!

Mendy Holtzberg (Monterey, CA) to Leah Schmerling (Crown Heights) L’Chaim: Wednesday, May 14th, 8:30pm at the JCM
Baby Boy!

Lippy and Mushky Kosofsky from Crown Heights had a baby boy!
Baby Boy!

Yisroel and Nechama Dina Silberstrom from Remsen Village, Brooklyn had a baby boy.

Another Break-in, this time on Eastern Pkwy

Crown Heights, Brooklyn — Early Sunday morning, at about 4 AM, Shomrim got a call from a homeowner stating that he was just in a scuffle with someone who had broken into his home.

The incident happened on Eastern Parkway between Albany and Troy. A Black male broke the basement window and crawled through the narrow opening, he then made his way upstairs while collecting things around the house.

More in the Extended.

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French Jews Find A Sunny Home in Miami Beach

R.C. Berman – Lubavitch.com

Miami Beach, FL — When French Jews bid au revoir to their country’s laissez faire attitude toward anti-Semitism, where do they go?

Israel and French-sections of Canada are classic choices. But in America, the new address of thousands of French Jews is the Miami-Dade area, a county in Florida where immigrants are welcomed and the weather is just as inviting.

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Detroit Free Press
Richard Bernstein, left, and David Cohen grade papers of students from the class Bernstein teaches at the University of Michigan. At one time, the Birmingham lawyer never thought of being an athlete. But now he's training for an ironman triathlon in August in Hawaii.

Birmingham, MI — About three years ago attorney Richard Bernstein, who was born blind and had never entertained the idea of being an athlete, was introduced to a running group.

Friendship Circle Turns Blind Lawyer into a Marathon Man

Detroit Free Press
Richard Bernstein, left, and David Cohen grade papers of students from the class Bernstein teaches at the University of Michigan. At one time, the Birmingham lawyer never thought of being an athlete. But now he’s training for an ironman triathlon in August in Hawaii.

Birmingham, MI — About three years ago attorney Richard Bernstein, who was born blind and had never entertained the idea of being an athlete, was introduced to a running group.

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FJC.ru
Tomsk, Russia — This week, Israel hosts a visit by a delegation from the Tomsk Region in Russia's western Siberian district. Among the members of this group is Rabbi Lev Kaminetsky, the Chief Rabbi of Tomsk Region and a Chabad emissary.

Headed by the Governor of the Tomsk Region, Victor Kress, the sizeable delegation was met by one of most important and renowned Israeli businessman, FJC President Lev Leviev. They also met with Israel's Minister of Strategic Planning, Avigdor Liebermann.

Delegation from West Siberian Region Visits Israel

FJC.ru

Tomsk, Russia — This week, Israel hosts a visit by a delegation from the Tomsk Region in Russia’s western Siberian district. Among the members of this group is Rabbi Lev Kaminetsky, the Chief Rabbi of Tomsk Region and a Chabad emissary.

Headed by the Governor of the Tomsk Region, Victor Kress, the sizeable delegation was met by one of most important and renowned Israeli businessman, FJC President Lev Leviev. They also met with Israel’s Minister of Strategic Planning, Avigdor Liebermann.

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Rabbi Avraham Levitansky, Chabad’s first West Coast Shliach

The Jewish Journal

Rabbi Avraham Levitansky, one of Chabad’s first West Coast shlichim, or emissaries, died in his home on May 27, following a long, undisclosed illness. He was 67.

Levitansky headed Santa Monica’s Chabad for 23 years. He was the first shliach brought to the West Coast in the mid-1960s by Rabbi Boruch Shlomo Cunin. Cunin, the director of Chabad on the West Coast, was the first person the Lubavitcher Rebbe selected to appoint other emissaries.

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