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Daily Archives: October 18, 2007

Jessica Freiman - Jerusalem Post

BROOKLYN, NY — At this summer's Brooklyn Best outdoor fashion show, organized by Borough President Marty Markowitz to feature the dress and culture of all of Brooklyn's local ethnicities, nobody had volunteered to represent the hassidim.

On the Catwalk with Chabad

Jessica Freiman – Jerusalem Post

BROOKLYN, NY — At this summer’s Brooklyn Best outdoor fashion show, organized by Borough President Marty Markowitz to feature the dress and culture of all of Brooklyn’s local ethnicities, nobody had volunteered to represent the hassidim.

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Baby Boy!

Zalmy and Shevy Tauby from Toronto, Canada had a baby boy!
Baby Girl!

Kovi and Rivky (nee Danzinger) Raksin from Hollywood Florida had a baby girl!
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!
The York Daily Record

Pittsburgh native Rabbi Elazar Green, 30, is the local emissary of Chabad-Lubavitch, a small branch of Hasidic Judaism. His organization, Chabad Jewish Enrichment Center of Lancaster & York, has purchased a house in Spring Garden Township near York College that will serve as an outreach center of sorts.

LANCASTER, PA — Rabbi Elazar Green believes the most important building in the Jewish faith isn't the synagogue. It's the home.

“It's where people can come and experience and live Judaism,” he said.

Chabad to Open Jewish Outreach Center

The York Daily Record

Pittsburgh native Rabbi Elazar Green, 30, is the local emissary of Chabad-Lubavitch, a small branch of Hasidic Judaism. His organization, Chabad Jewish Enrichment Center of Lancaster & York, has purchased a house in Spring Garden Township near York College that will serve as an outreach center of sorts.

LANCASTER, PA — Rabbi Elazar Green believes the most important building in the Jewish faith isn’t the synagogue. It’s the home.

“It’s where people can come and experience and live Judaism,” he said.

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The Rebbe says:

1. Our Sages tell us that Avraham Avinu (Abraham our father) had ten tests.

The first test clearly stated in the Torah is in this weeks Torah portion ;
“Vayomer Hashem El Avram Lech Licha May’artzecha Oo’me’mo’laditecha Oo’me’bais Avicha El Ha’aretz Asher Areka - Hashem said to Avram ‘Go (further) away- for your (own benefit)- from your land, your birthplace and your father’s house, to the land which I will show you’ ”.

2. The Rebbe now points out something interesting:

The Weekly Sedra – Parshas Lech Lecha

The Rebbe says:

1. Our Sages tell us that Avraham Avinu (Abraham our father) had ten tests.

The first test clearly stated in the Torah is in this weeks Torah portion ;
“Vayomer Hashem El Avram Lech Licha May’artzecha Oo’me’mo’laditecha Oo’me’bais Avicha El Ha’aretz Asher Areka – Hashem said to Avram ‘Go (further) away- for your (own benefit)- from your land, your birthplace and your father’s house, to the land which I will show you’ ”.

2. The Rebbe now points out something interesting:

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This weeks Living Torah, titled “On Faith, Part 1” (Volume 41, Episode 162).

Living Torah is a member supported project Become a member today at LivingTorah.org

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

Video of the Day – the Weekly Living Torah Clip

This weeks Living Torah, titled “On Faith, Part 1” (Volume 41, Episode 162).

Living Torah is a member supported project Become a member today at LivingTorah.org

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

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Ray Kestenbaum - Russian Jewry

Reb Dovid as a student in the Lubavitch
underground Yeshiva 1920's
BROOKLYN, NY — October 16th marked the 28th yahrzeit of Rabbi Dovid Okunov, who was brutally gunned down at the age of 68 on his way to the morning shacharit service on Montgomery Street. On Thursday, October 25, 1979 (Daled Cheshvan) at 7 a.m., Reb Dovid, as he was affectionately known, was shot in the head with one bullet. A much beloved Torah teacher and community worker, Reb Dovid died at the scene. The entire Lubavitch community and Jews in New York were in a state of shock when the murder story appeared in the New York Times and Daily News.

Over 3,000 Lubavitch chassidim attended his funeral later on that day, and he was laid to rest at the Old Montefiore Cemetery in Queens not far from the resting place of the 6th Lubavitcher Rebbe.

More pictures in the Extended Article!

A 28th Commemoration: The Murder of Rabbi Dovid Okunov Leads to the Establishment of FREE’s Yeshivat Ohel Dovid

Ray Kestenbaum – Russian Jewry

Reb Dovid as a student in the Lubavitch
underground Yeshiva 1920’s

BROOKLYN, NY — October 16th marked the 28th yahrzeit of Rabbi Dovid Okunov, who was brutally gunned down at the age of 68 on his way to the morning shacharit service on Montgomery Street. On Thursday, October 25, 1979 (Daled Cheshvan) at 7 a.m., Reb Dovid, as he was affectionately known, was shot in the head with one bullet. A much beloved Torah teacher and community worker, Reb Dovid died at the scene. The entire Lubavitch community and Jews in New York were in a state of shock when the murder story appeared in the New York Times and Daily News.

Over 3,000 Lubavitch chassidim attended his funeral later on that day, and he was laid to rest at the Old Montefiore Cemetery in Queens not far from the resting place of the 6th Lubavitcher Rebbe.

More pictures in the Extended Article!

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Over 500 Attend Education & Parenting Seminar

CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — Over 500 men and women gathered on Wednesday evening at Oholei Torah’s Grand Ballroom to attend a community-wide lecture on education and parenting delivered by renowned psychologist Dr. Norman Blumenthal. A project of Iggud Menahalei Hayeshivos, the evening was coordinated by the Mintz family and was dedicated to the memory of their father, the noted Mechanech Rabbi Isaac Mintz on his 14th Yahrtzeit. Rabbi Yossi Simpson, principal of Lubavitch yeshiva Crown St. chaired the event.

More pictures in the Extended Article!

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