Kharkov, Ukrine — The remains were discovered last year in this western Ukrainian city when construction of a new apartment complex began at the site of the former ghetto. Construction was halted after local Jews protested, and a sample dig turned up the human remains along with what appeared to be a siddur, or prayerbook.
Lugansk, Ukraine — The ‘Gan Israel’ Camp has wrapped up its 2007 season in Ukraine’s Lugansk Region. This is the seventh year in a row that children have had the opportunity to take part in this educational and spiritual health retreat.
Organized at the initiative of the Jewish community of Lugansk and under the leadership of Chief Rabbi of Lugansk Region Shalom Gopin and his wife Chana, the camp has gradually expanded from involving youngsters from this east Ukrainian region to also including kids from communities across the country.
The Rohr JLI has just launched a worldwide marketing campaign for its upcoming course, entitled “The Land and the Spirit: Why We All Care about Israel”, scheduled to run after Tishrei in over 250 cities around the world.
Tzfas, Israel — “What? Rabbi, are you serious that it’s already the banquet! It seems like camp just started and it is already over! Wow! Camp was great! It was the best summer I ever had!”
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Portland, OR — Pairs of rabbinic students and recently ordained rabbis traveling in Oregon are finding so many Jews, that they aren’t covering as much ground as they expected to this summer.
Chabad of Oregon hosted three teams participating in the 60-year-old Rabbinical Student Visitation Program, also known as the “Jewish Summer Peace Corp,” according to local Rabbi Chayim Mishulovin. The educational arm of the Lubavitch movement, Merkos L’inyonei Chinuch, sends pairs of rabbinic students to small Jewish communities around the globe each summer.
Over 250,000 Kids Magazines arrived yesterday to the Jewish Children’s Museum, in Brooklyn, NY. The sea of boxes, featuring the Tishrei Edition, is scheduled to arrive in Shluchims’ hands just in time for the High Holidays. Shipped all over the world, the Kids Magazine features 28 glossy pages of interactive information and fun.
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Please take a moment and say a Kapitel Tehillim for a Refuah Shlaima.
Ilana bas Malka
She is having surgery today.
Chayim Nachman Yosef ben Feiga Yuta
He has a serious head injury and is in intensive care.
Cuzco, Peru — Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries in Peru are working around the clock to locate 150 Israeli backpackers following a devastating 8.0-magnitude earthquake Wednesday night that left more than 450 people dead and at least 1,500 injured.
Princeton, NY — Princeton, Hofstra, Cambridge. At two of these universities, the 2007 Fall semester begins with the Chabad center in a new, larger space. At one, the rabbi will be dressed up like a chicken. Can you guess which one?
Rabbi Shlame and Mrs Miriam Landa of Crown Heights will IYH be moving on Shlichus to Fairfield, CT where they will establish a new Chabad House serving the needs of the local Jewish Community.
The new Shluchim were appointed by Rabbi Yehuda Leib Kantor and Rabbi Yisroel Deren.
The new Shluchim can be reached via e-mail at shlamelanda@gmail.com
CrownHeights.info would like to wish the new Shluchim Hatzlocha Rabba on their Shlichus!
Photo by: Eli Kahan
The Rebbe says:
1. Beginning from Rosh Chodesh Elul (the first day of the Hebrew month of Elul) until Rosh Hashanah (the New Year) [1] we blow the Shofar [2] everyday to arouse us to repent and bring ourselves closer to Hashem (G-d).
More specifically, the Shofar awakens a fear of Hashem in our hearts.
2. The Rebbe now points out the difference between the blowing the Shofar during the month of Elul and on Rosh Hashanah:
Omsk, Russia — This week in Omsk, the ‘Achdut’ Newspaper issued by the local Jewish community held a meeting involving local Jews and 18 of their ‘heroes’. These individuals all seem to be familiar to local residents since these admirable individuals were all featured, one at a time, in the pages of ‘Achdut’ in the section “Interview of the Month” over the past two years.
Crown Heights, Brooklyn — A 16-wheeler struck an 84-year-old widow – crushing her legs – as she crossed a Brooklyn street pushing her shopping cart.
Harriet Evanter, a fixture in her Crown Heights neighborhood, was hit in a crosswalk on Nostrand Ave. about 8:49 a.m. Tuesday, police and witnesses said.
This weeks Living Torah, titled “The Call of the Shofar” (Volume 39, Episode 154).
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Mineola shul inundated in fierce July storm looking ahead even as it buries damaged Torah.
Mineola, NY — The water from the torrential rain that flooded the basement of Congregation Beth Shalom Chabad in Mineola, L.I., last month may have done significant damage to the shul, but its rabbi is looking ahead — even as he laid to rest an irreparably damaged Torah.
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