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Daily Archives: July 16, 2007


A gathering, Seudas Mitzva and a Siyum Mishnayos commemorating the shloshim of HaRav Sholom Ber Veshedsky, of blessed memory, will take place this evening [Monday], Rosh Chodesh, Menachem Av, July 16, beginning at 7 PM at Hadar Hatorah, 824 Eastern Parkway. Men and women invited. The gathering will be broadcast over the internet at virtualyeshiva.com/video.html

Shloshim for HaRav Sholom Ber Veshedsky OBM

A gathering, Seudas Mitzva and a Siyum Mishnayos commemorating the shloshim of HaRav Sholom Ber Veshedsky, of blessed memory, will take place this evening [Monday], Rosh Chodesh, Menachem Av, July 16, beginning at 7 PM at Hadar Hatorah, 824 Eastern Parkway. Men and women invited. The gathering will be broadcast over the internet at virtualyeshiva.com/video.html

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New Engagement!

Chaim Uziel Starik (Vienna, Austria) to Batsheva Spivak (Pembroke Pines, FL)
New Engagement!

Zalman Friedman (Coral Springs, FL) to Lea Dukes (Santiago, Chile) L’Chaim: Monday, May 5th, 7:00pm at 9400 NW 4th Street, Coral Springs, FL
New Engagement!

Yossi Gutnick (Sydney, Australia) to Chaya Eisnebach (Northwest, CT) L’Chaim: Tonight, Thursday, at the Garden House 1386 S. John’s Pl
Baby Boy!

Yaakov and Shevi (nee Katzman) Behrman from Crown Heights had a baby boy!
Baby Boy!

Moishe and Frayda (nee Aber) Scheinfeld from Brooklyn, NY had a baby boy!
Baby Boy!

Yermi and Daniella Liam (nee Pohlman) Kurkus from Lake Lure, NC had a baby boy!
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)
Joshua Runyan and Dovid Zaklikowski - Chabad.edu
State College, PA — In town for the Zeta Beta Tau national convention, more than 100 of the fraternity’s members partnered with the Lubavitch House at the University of Pennsylvania last week to deliver food packages to needy Philadelphians.

According to Noel Johnson, a ZBT brother who hails from New York, the Friday distribution in advance of Shabbat was a huge success. He said that the idea of taking packages of food, grape juice and challah to Russian Jews dove-tailed with the visions of both ZBT and the Chabad on Campus International Foundation.

Fraternity Brothers Reach Out to Less Fortunate

Joshua Runyan and Dovid Zaklikowski – Chabad.edu

State College, PA — In town for the Zeta Beta Tau national convention, more than 100 of the fraternity’s members partnered with the Lubavitch House at the University of Pennsylvania last week to deliver food packages to needy Philadelphians.

According to Noel Johnson, a ZBT brother who hails from New York, the Friday distribution in advance of Shabbat was a huge success. He said that the idea of taking packages of food, grape juice and challah to Russian Jews dove-tailed with the visions of both ZBT and the Chabad on Campus International Foundation.

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Crown Heights, Brooklyn — Last night at around 3:00am a woman walked into her kitchen and was met by a burglar holding a charity box and rummaging around looking for other valuables. The incident took place on Carroll Street between Kingston and Albany. The burglar told the woman not to yell, and then asked if there were more people in the house to which the woman responded that there were many people in the house.

More in the Extended Article.

Woman Finds Burglar in Her Kitchen at 3AM

Crown Heights, Brooklyn — Last night at around 3:00am a woman walked into her kitchen and was met by a burglar holding a charity box and rummaging around looking for other valuables. The incident took place on Carroll Street between Kingston and Albany. The burglar told the woman not to yell, and then asked if there were more people in the house to which the woman responded that there were many people in the house.

More in the Extended Article.

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During the nine days Jews commemorate the destruction of the Holy Temples/Bais Hamikdosh. We mourn the destruction in different ways. We don't celebrate or party, we minimize washing ourselves and our clothing, we don't eat meat etc.

The Lubavitcher Rebbe suggested that during this time of mourning we look for ways to combat the mourning with the permitted joy of Torah learning. Many try to rejoice in Torah every day with the conclusion of a Tractate of Talmud/Siyum.

More than 30 years ago Rabbi Jacob J. Hecht organized Siyumim for the benefit of people who could not make their own by making a Siyum on the radio each night of the nine days.

A complete schedule of the Siyumim that can be heard on air in NYC and Upstate New York can be viewed in the Extended Article.

Siyumim on the Radio

During the nine days Jews commemorate the destruction of the Holy Temples/Bais Hamikdosh. We mourn the destruction in different ways. We don’t celebrate or party, we minimize washing ourselves and our clothing, we don’t eat meat etc.

The Lubavitcher Rebbe suggested that during this time of mourning we look for ways to combat the mourning with the permitted joy of Torah learning. Many try to rejoice in Torah every day with the conclusion of a Tractate of Talmud/Siyum.

More than 30 years ago Rabbi Jacob J. Hecht organized Siyumim for the benefit of people who could not make their own by making a Siyum on the radio each night of the nine days.

A complete schedule of the Siyumim that can be heard on air in NYC and Upstate New York can be viewed in the Extended Article.

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Dvora Lakein - Chabad.org
Campers learn about the this Holy Temple at the Jewish Children's Museum in Brooklyn, N.Y.

Brooklyn, NY — In a darkened room, illuminated only by smiling faces, sit 30 young campers and their staff. They've been waiting eagerly for the beginning of a captivating video now being shown at the Jewish Children's Museum in Brooklyn, N.Y. Finally, the screen lights up to an opening scene featuring charming little Benny Cohen, who is spending an afternoon with his Zaidy.

Temple Exhibit Lets Children See, Hear and Experience

Dvora Lakein – Chabad.org
Campers learn about the this Holy Temple at the Jewish Children’s Museum in Brooklyn, N.Y.

Brooklyn, NY — In a darkened room, illuminated only by smiling faces, sit 30 young campers and their staff. They’ve been waiting eagerly for the beginning of a captivating video now being shown at the Jewish Children’s Museum in Brooklyn, N.Y. Finally, the screen lights up to an opening scene featuring charming little Benny Cohen, who is spending an afternoon with his Zaidy.

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Lisa Z. Segelman - Daily Record
Shoshana Isenberg, center, of Morristown is
surrounded by, clockwise from left, husband
Moshe and children Miriam, Levi, Tzippy and
Chaya Sara. The couple, both raised Jewish,
met at Yale, became more religious and
embraced a Torah observant life.
Morristown, NJ — Say “born again Christian” and people generally know what you're talking about. They know you're referring to people who, while they might have been born into the Christian faith, have since accepted God into their lives in a way they consider both life-altering and life-affirming.

But is there such a thing as a “born again” Jew? Do Jews step back and carefully consider their Jewish practice, life and values? Do they, like many of their Christian neighbors, take the mental, emotional and practical steps to change their lives in search of a deeper meaning and purpose?

The answer is yes, and the term commonly used to describe such Jews is “Baal Teshuva.”

Born again Jews come later in life to Torah observance

Lisa Z. Segelman – Daily Record
Shoshana Isenberg, center, of Morristown is
surrounded by, clockwise from left, husband
Moshe and children Miriam, Levi, Tzippy and
Chaya Sara. The couple, both raised Jewish,
met at Yale, became more religious and
embraced a Torah observant life.

Morristown, NJ — Say “born again Christian” and people generally know what you’re talking about. They know you’re referring to people who, while they might have been born into the Christian faith, have since accepted God into their lives in a way they consider both life-altering and life-affirming.

But is there such a thing as a “born again” Jew? Do Jews step back and carefully consider their Jewish practice, life and values? Do they, like many of their Christian neighbors, take the mental, emotional and practical steps to change their lives in search of a deeper meaning and purpose?

The answer is yes, and the term commonly used to describe such Jews is “Baal Teshuva.”

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Chabad.org
Chabad-Lubavitch Rabbinical student Getzy Markowitz gives a class in Aiya Napa, Cyprus to a group of tourists.

Each summer the educational arm of the Lubavitch movement, Merkos L'inyonei Chinuch, sends pairs of rabbinic students to small Jewish communities around the globe under its Rabbinical Student Visitation Program, which has become colloquially known as the “Jewish Summer Peace Corp.”

Jewish Sparks in the Land of Stone

Chabad.org
Chabad-Lubavitch Rabbinical student Getzy Markowitz gives a class in Aiya Napa, Cyprus to a group of tourists.

Each summer the educational arm of the Lubavitch movement, Merkos L’inyonei Chinuch, sends pairs of rabbinic students to small Jewish communities around the globe under its Rabbinical Student Visitation Program, which has become colloquially known as the “Jewish Summer Peace Corp.”

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