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Daily Archives: April 7, 2008

Marie Wilson - Daily Illini

CHAMPAIGN, IL — Two weeks before Passover, students from 12 universities gathered at the Chabad Center for Jewish Life for the first Midwest Jewish Student Leadership Weekend, an event meant to unite Jewish students for a time of leadership and celebration.

The dates chosen for the weekend, April 4-6, placed the conclusion of the event only two weeks before Passover.

Jewish Leadership Weekend Starts Tradition

Marie Wilson – Daily Illini

CHAMPAIGN, IL — Two weeks before Passover, students from 12 universities gathered at the Chabad Center for Jewish Life for the first Midwest Jewish Student Leadership Weekend, an event meant to unite Jewish students for a time of leadership and celebration.

The dates chosen for the weekend, April 4-6, placed the conclusion of the event only two weeks before Passover.

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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)
Baby Boy!

Yossef and Naomi (nee Malinas) Haddad from Milan, Italy had a baby boy!
New Engagement!

Menachem Forer (Toronto, Canada) to Sari Gottlib (Hillside, NJ) L’Chaim: Thursday, April 24th, at 1349 President Street
New Engagement!

Ariel Poliszuk (Toronto, Canada) to Devorah Leah Weingrow (Chicago, IL)
Baby Girl!

Yisroel and Chana Esther (nee Feldman) Kaczala from Brazil had a baby girl!
New Engagement!

Yosef Yitzchok Marcucci (Chicago, IL) to Devorah Leah Munis (Eretz Yisroel)
New Engagement!

Shmuly Golomb (Crown Heights) to Mushky Steinmetz (Briarwood, NY)

 
New Engagement!

Moshe Gordon (Crown Heights) to Chaya’le Movsikov (Crown Heights) L’Chaim: Tonight, Wednesday, 8:00pm at The Simcha Hall 571 Albany Ave
New Engagement!

Mendel Gopin (Miami, FL) to Rochie Gourarie (Toms River, NJ) L’Chaim: Thursday, the 5th of Nissan, 8:30pm at the JCM Lower Level
New Engagement!

Meir Itzinger (Londres, Angleterre) to Pechi Gorodetsky (Paris, France) L’Chaim: Tonight, Tuesday, 8:00pm at Rubashkin’s

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New Engagement!

Shmuli Lesches (Brooklyn, NY) to Chaya Mushka Hodakov (Coral Springs, FL) L’Chaim: Tonight, Tuesday, 8:30pm at F.R.E.E.
Baby Boy!

Elchanan and Shterny (nee Dubov) Lerrer from Lod, Israel had a baby boy!
New Engagement!

Levi Chazan (Manchester, UK) to Chana Junik (Crown Heights) L’Chaim: Tonight, Tuesday, 8:30pm at Lubavitcher Yeshiva
Baby Boy!

Mendel and Perl (nee Faygen) Groner from East Flatbush, Brooklyn had a baby boy!
Baby Girl!

Reuven and Nechama (nee Trappler) Giter from Lauderhill, Florida, had a baby girl!

Fire in a Building on Empire Blvd

CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — A fire broke out earlier today at around 3:00pm in the upper floors of 740 Empire Boulevard, which is on the corner of Troy Avenue, a large building with 96 residential units. 911 received many calls from panicking residents who made their way to the roof to escape the heat and smoke.

More pictures in the Extended Article.

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By Rabbi Nochum Mangel

Some 300 people from across the world participated in the Rohr Jewish Learning Institute's first-ever mission to Israel. (Photos: Yochonon Katz/Rohr JLI)

An early tourist of the Holy Land, Mark Twain, wrote of the Jews:
“The Egyptian, the Babylonian, and the Persian rose, filled the planet with sound and splendor, then faded to dream-stuff and passed away; the Greek and the Roman followed, and made a vast noise, and they are gone; other peoples have sprung up and held their torch high for a time, but it burned out, and they sit in twilight now, or have vanished. The Jew saw them all, beat them all, and is now what he always was. ... All things are mortal but the Jew; all other forces pass, but he remains. What is the secret of his immortality?”

Touring Israel A Window Into Jewish People’s Survival

By Rabbi Nochum Mangel

Some 300 people from across the world participated in the Rohr Jewish Learning Institute’s first-ever mission to Israel. (Photos: Yochonon Katz/Rohr JLI)

An early tourist of the Holy Land, Mark Twain, wrote of the Jews:

“The Egyptian, the Babylonian, and the Persian rose, filled the planet with sound and splendor, then faded to dream-stuff and passed away; the Greek and the Roman followed, and made a vast noise, and they are gone; other peoples have sprung up and held their torch high for a time, but it burned out, and they sit in twilight now, or have vanished. The Jew saw them all, beat them all, and is now what he always was. … All things are mortal but the Jew; all other forces pass, but he remains. What is the secret of his immortality?”

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Many thanks for the beautiful Haggadah “Kol Menachem” which you so kindly sent me. From all the Haggados that I have set my eyes upon I have seen never seen something like this. In terms of content, it includes a fabulous selection from the great Jewish sages, and each reader will find something of personal relevance. Everyone who sees it will be impressed. The centerpiece contains the commentary and thoughts of the Ga’on of our generation, Rabbi Menachem Mendel, the Rebbe of Lubavitch זצקללה"ה, whose influence has spread across the full spectrum of Jewish life, from the very closest of Jews to the most distant, “to call them all in the name of G-d, to serve Him in unity.”

R. Moshe Wolfson: “I have never seen a Haggadah like this” (A)

Many thanks for the beautiful Haggadah “Kol Menachem” which you so kindly sent me. From all the Haggados that I have set my eyes upon I have seen never seen something like this. In terms of content, it includes a fabulous selection from the great Jewish sages, and each reader will find something of personal relevance. Everyone who sees it will be impressed. The centerpiece contains the commentary and thoughts of the Ga’on of our generation, Rabbi Menachem Mendel, the Rebbe of Lubavitch זצקללה”ה, whose influence has spread across the full spectrum of Jewish life, from the very closest of Jews to the most distant, “to call them all in the name of G-d, to serve Him in unity.”

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With sadness we inform you of the passing of HaRav HaChossid Mordechai HaKohen Rivkin OBM at the age of 91. Reb Mordechai was Zoche to big Kiruvim from the Rebbe, he was the Kohen that received Shalach Manot from the Rebbe, and was on the Vaad of Beis Rivkah for around 40 years.

When he was in Russia he worked alongside Reb Mendel Futerfas OBM raising money for the Yeshivos Tomchei Temimim, and was sentenced to death for doing so, but with Chasdei Hashem he managed to flee the country in 5707, and was from the first Chassidim to arrive in New York from Paris.

Reb Mordechai is survived by his wife, Dusya along with his sons and daughters, Mrs. Chana Gurevitch (Crown Heights), Rabbi Yehoshua Zelig HaKohen Rivkin (Shliach to New Orleans, LA), Rabbi Yosef Yitzchok HaKohen Rivkin (Shliach to Carmiel, Israel), Mrs. Rochel Leah Brook (Crown Heights) and Mrs. Sima Karp (Crown Heights).

The Levaya will take place tomorrow, Tuesday, leaving Shomrei Hadas at 9:00am and passing 770 at about 9:30am

Baruch Dayan Hoemes

Baruch Dayan Hoemes – R. Mordechai HaKohen Rivkin OBM

With sadness we inform you of the passing of HaRav HaChossid Mordechai HaKohen Rivkin OBM at the age of 91. Reb Mordechai was Zoche to big Kiruvim from the Rebbe, he was the Kohen that received Shalach Manot from the Rebbe, and was on the Vaad of Beis Rivkah for around 40 years.

When he was in Russia he worked alongside Reb Mendel Futerfas OBM raising money for the Yeshivos Tomchei Temimim, and was sentenced to death for doing so, but with Chasdei Hashem he managed to flee the country in 5707, and was from the first Chassidim to arrive in New York from Paris.

Reb Mordechai is survived by his wife, Dusya along with his sons and daughters, Mrs. Chana Gurevitch (Crown Heights), Rabbi Yehoshua Zelig HaKohen Rivkin (Shliach to New Orleans, LA), Rabbi Yosef Yitzchok HaKohen Rivkin (Shliach to Carmiel, Israel), Mrs. Rochel Leah Brook (Crown Heights) and Mrs. Sima Karp (Crown Heights).

The Levaya will take place tomorrow, Tuesday, leaving Shomrei Hadas at 9:00am and passing 770 at about 9:30am

Baruch Dayan Hoemes

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Reb Avrohom was born in Warsaw and studied in Yeshiva Tomchei Tmimim. Later he was advised by the Previous Rebbe to move to Israel (1926-1931) where he studied in Yeshivas Toras Emes in Chevron and Yerusholayim and received smicha from the Tepniker Rov and dayanus from R. Pesach Tzvi Frank, the then Av Bais Din of Yerushalayim, as well as from R Moshe Lapidus & R Avrohom Kook. He was also the Rav in a Shul in the Shaarei Chesed section of Yerusholayim.

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Rabbi Avrohom Ziskind (1904-1967)

Reb Avrohom was born in Warsaw and studied in Yeshiva Tomchei Tmimim. Later he was advised by the Previous Rebbe to move to Israel (1926-1931) where he studied in Yeshivas Toras Emes in Chevron and Yerusholayim and received smicha from the Tepniker Rov and dayanus from R. Pesach Tzvi Frank, the then Av Bais Din of Yerushalayim, as well as from R Moshe Lapidus & R Avrohom Kook. He was also the Rav in a Shul in the Shaarei Chesed section of Yerusholayim.

Continued in the Extended Article.

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CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — The past two Wednesday nights witnessed many who came to learn about the upcoming Yomtov by an informative Shiur arranged by Yagdil Torah.

Rabbi Shmuel Bluming clearly explained many details in the Halachos of Pesach and answered many challenging questions posed to him.

Anash in Crown Heights Learn Hilchos Pesach

CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — The past two Wednesday nights witnessed many who came to learn about the upcoming Yomtov by an informative Shiur arranged by Yagdil Torah.

Rabbi Shmuel Bluming clearly explained many details in the Halachos of Pesach and answered many challenging questions posed to him.

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By Dovid Zaklikowski

Seoul, where new arrivals Rabbi Osher and Mussia Litzman - Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries to South Korea - plan on ditributing Passover provisions to 250 Jewish residents and visitors.

SEOUL, South Korea — With their year-old daughter in tow, Rabbi Osher and Mussia Litzman arrived in Seoul, South Korea, to establish the nation's first Chabad House.

They spent their first Shabbat in the capital city this past weekend and plan on distributing Passover provisions to some 250 people in the community.

South Korea Welcomes Permanent Jewish Center

By Dovid Zaklikowski

Seoul, where new arrivals Rabbi Osher and Mussia Litzman – Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries to South Korea – plan on ditributing Passover provisions to 250 Jewish residents and visitors.

SEOUL, South Korea — With their year-old daughter in tow, Rabbi Osher and Mussia Litzman arrived in Seoul, South Korea, to establish the nation’s first Chabad House.

They spent their first Shabbat in the capital city this past weekend and plan on distributing Passover provisions to some 250 people in the community.

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From the Chabad.org Calendar

Today is Beis Nissan, the 88th yahrzeit of the Rebbe Rashab. The Rashab wrote and delivered some 2,000 maamarim.

The fifth Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Sholom DovBer Schneersohn (“Rashab”), was born in the White Russian town of Lubavitch in 1860. After the passing of his father, Rabbi Shmuel (in 1882), he assumed the leadership of Chabad-Lubavitch.

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88th Yahrzeit of the Rebbe Rashab

From the Chabad.org Calendar

Today is Beis Nissan, the 88th yahrzeit of the Rebbe Rashab. The Rashab wrote and delivered some 2,000 maamarim.

The fifth Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Sholom DovBer Schneersohn (“Rashab”), was born in the White Russian town of Lubavitch in 1860. After the passing of his father, Rabbi Shmuel (in 1882), he assumed the leadership of Chabad-Lubavitch.

Continued in the Extended Article.

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