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Daily Archives: September 4, 2007

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Chaya Andrusier, 14, of North Miami Beach, Fla., says goodbye to father Shumly Andrusier before departing for Kfar Chabad, Israel. Photo: Ray Girard

KFAR CHABAD, Israel — Israel's Elite Academy Program sent 15 girls to the Chabad-Lubavitch Beth Rivkah High School in Kfar Chabad, where they will learn for at least a year. Organizers of the initiative ñ whose affiliated program Naaleh began in 1992 as an effort to bring teenagers from the former Soviet Union for high school study in Israel and this year sponsored some 440 students from Europe, South America and Australia ñ hope the students who are participating in the programs will ultimately finish their educations in Israel.

Girls Begin School Year in Israel as Part of Elite Program

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Chaya Andrusier, 14, of North Miami Beach, Fla., says goodbye to father Shumly Andrusier before departing for Kfar Chabad, Israel. Photo: Ray Girard

KFAR CHABAD, Israel — Israel’s Elite Academy Program sent 15 girls to the Chabad-Lubavitch Beth Rivkah High School in Kfar Chabad, where they will learn for at least a year. Organizers of the initiative ñ whose affiliated program Naaleh began in 1992 as an effort to bring teenagers from the former Soviet Union for high school study in Israel and this year sponsored some 440 students from Europe, South America and Australia ñ hope the students who are participating in the programs will ultimately finish their educations in Israel.

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Eber’s Tishrei Liquor and Wine Sale

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New Engagement!

Mendel Telsner (Crown Heights) and Tonia Minkowicz (Crown Heights)
Baby Girl!

Shmulik and Tzini (nee Hershkop) Brand from Crown Heights had a baby girl!
Baby Girl!

Mendy and Brocha Benhiyoun from Lincoln Park, IL had a baby girl!
New Engagement!

Hirshel Morosow (Crown Heights) to Mushkie Wagner (Toronto, Canada) L’Chaim: Monday, October 14th, 7:00pm-10:00pm at Anshei Lubavitch 578 Albany Ave
Baby Boy!

Motti and Chanee (nee Schanowitz) Yarmush from Philadelphia, PA had a baby boy!
New Engagement!

Menny Hertzel (Crown Heights) to Mushky Liberow (Colorado Springs, CO)
Baby Boy!

Shneur and Shayna Rochel (nee Abramowitz) Bialestock from East Flatbush, Brooklyn had a baby boy!
New Engagement!

Raphael Braham (Yerushalayim, EY) to Emouna Zechkowski (Paris, France)
New Engagement!

Meir Deren (Greenwich, CT) to Mushka Kesselman (Malmo, Sweden) L’Chaim: Tonight, Monday, 8:00pm at the JCM
Baby Girl!

Heshy and Dassy Hoffinger from Crown Heights had a baby girl!

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Baby Boy!

Dovid Abba and Chaya (nee Kulek) Goldstein from Philadelphia, PA had a baby boy!
Baby Girl!

Chaim and Mina Schanowitz from Deerfield, IL had a baby girl.
New Engagement!

Levi Engel (Denver, CO) to Rochel Wolowik (Los Angeles, CA) L’Chaim: Tonight, Monday, 8:30pm at Lubavitcher Yeshiva Crown Street
New Engagement!

Meni Salamon (Sofia, Bulgaria) to Riki Fraenkel (Kfar Chabad, EY)
Baby Girl!

Menachem Mendel and Rivkah (nee Grossbaum) Kotlarsky from Crown Heights had a baby girl!
Baby Girl!

Mendel and Nechama (nee Adelman) Hecht from Courtland, NY had a baby girl!
Baby Girl!

Zalmy and Chaya (nee Inglis) Wolff from Surfside, FL had a baby girl!

Learn about the Jewish High-Holidays and practice the age-old rituals among thousands of Chassidim in the presence of their beloved Rebbe.

As captured by newscasters' cameras and archival films, Tishrei with the Rebbe is masterfully edited into a colorful mosaic. From solemn moments of prayer to the ecstasy of Chassidic celebration, the sights and sounds of tradition come alive in this poignant and illuminating documentary.

Available in Hebrew, French and Russian in the Extended Article.

Tishrei with the Rebbe Vol. 2 – Now on DVD

Learn about the Jewish High-Holidays and practice the age-old rituals among thousands of Chassidim in the presence of their beloved Rebbe.

As captured by newscasters’ cameras and archival films, Tishrei with the Rebbe is masterfully edited into a colorful mosaic. From solemn moments of prayer to the ecstasy of Chassidic celebration, the sights and sounds of tradition come alive in this poignant and illuminating documentary.

Available in Hebrew, French and Russian in the Extended Article.

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CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — What happened at the Jewish Children’s Museum?! Well, fortunately, nothing that required dozens of cops! Police chose the JCM, which is located on Brooklyn’s Museum Row, as their base to gather, debrief, and refresh during Brooklyn’s Annual West Indian Day Parade this monday.

More pictures in the Extended Article!

Picture of the Day – Police at the JCM?

CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — What happened at the Jewish Children’s Museum?! Well, fortunately, nothing that required dozens of cops! Police chose the JCM, which is located on Brooklyn’s Museum Row, as their base to gather, debrief, and refresh during Brooklyn’s Annual West Indian Day Parade this monday.

More pictures in the Extended Article!

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Chabad of Stamford Kicks Off Youth Programs

STAMFORD, CT [CHI] — Several Hundred people of all ages marked the beginning of a New Year of Youth Activities at Chabad Stamford which is under the directorship of Rabbi Yisrael Deren and his wife Mrs. Shifra Aviva Deren, with a concert featuring Shooby Dooby Shloimy and a barbecue picnic this past Sunday the 20th of Elul at the Chabad Center in Stamford.

More pictures in the Extended Article!

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Israeli soldiers celebrate the completion of the new unity Torah, which was sponsored by the Chabad Youth Organization in Israel.

JERUSALEM, Israel — A new Torah dedicated to worldwide Jewish unity was completed yesterday, six years after the Chabad Youth Organization in Israel embarked on the project. Following a celebration Monday night in Jerusalem, a bustling crowd welcomed the Torah scroll to its new home in the Western Wall synagogue.

Western Wall Synagogue Gets Newly Completed Unity Torah

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Israeli soldiers celebrate the completion of the new unity Torah, which was sponsored by the Chabad Youth Organization in Israel.

JERUSALEM, Israel — A new Torah dedicated to worldwide Jewish unity was completed yesterday, six years after the Chabad Youth Organization in Israel embarked on the project. Following a celebration Monday night in Jerusalem, a bustling crowd welcomed the Torah scroll to its new home in the Western Wall synagogue.

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JACKSONVILLE, FL [CHI] — Just a short year after first opening its doors, Chabad of Southside in Jacksonville, Florida welcomed a brand new Torah Scroll at a lively inauguration ceremony attended by members of the Jewish Community. Significantly the Torah ceremony took place 10 days before the High Holidays when many Jewish people from all levels of observance will attend services and participate in the Torah reading.

New Torah Dedication for Chabad of Southside

JACKSONVILLE, FL [CHI] — Just a short year after first opening its doors, Chabad of Southside in Jacksonville, Florida welcomed a brand new Torah Scroll at a lively inauguration ceremony attended by members of the Jewish Community. Significantly the Torah ceremony took place 10 days before the High Holidays when many Jewish people from all levels of observance will attend services and participate in the Torah reading.

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Shofar Sounded for the first time since 1942!

(AP Photo/Srdjan Ilic)

NOVI SAD, Serbia [CHI] –- Novi Sad is the second largest city in Serbia, the former Yugoslavia. In 1942 the holocaust devastated the Jewish community there, killing all of its 800 members. Now for the first time in over 55 years Rabbis Motti Seligson and Saadya Notik both from New York blew the Shofar in front of the synagogue in Novi Sad.

Motti and Saadya were sent out on Merkos Shlichus by Merkos Linyonai Chinuch where they have been visiting countries of the former Yugoslavia as well Bosnia and Hungry as a part of Chabad-Lubavitch’s global Jewish enrichment program.

More pictures in the Extended Article!

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Oliver Bradley - Chabad.org
Rabbi Yehuda Tiechtel, left, Rabbi Israel Meir Lau, Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Senator of Interior Erhart Koerting and Rabbi Moshe Kotlarsky cut the ceremonial ribbon to officially open the new headquarters of Chabad-Lubavitch of Berlin. Photo: Meir Dahan

BERLIN, Germany — Dozens of prominent political and religious figures, along with some 2,000 other people, descended on a Berlin building Sunday to take part in the official opening of Germany's first privately-funded Jewish center in more than 60 years.

Berlin’s New Chabad House Opens With an Eye to the Future

Oliver Bradley – Chabad.org
Rabbi Yehuda Tiechtel, left, Rabbi Israel Meir Lau, Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Senator of Interior Erhart Koerting and Rabbi Moshe Kotlarsky cut the ceremonial ribbon to officially open the new headquarters of Chabad-Lubavitch of Berlin. Photo: Meir Dahan

BERLIN, Germany — Dozens of prominent political and religious figures, along with some 2,000 other people, descended on a Berlin building Sunday to take part in the official opening of Germany’s first privately-funded Jewish center in more than 60 years.

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