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Daily Archives: April 13, 2008


Double your chances to win $25,000 in diamond jewelry for the MyYeshiva Annual Scholarship Raffle!

$100 = 2 Tickets (1 Ticket Regularly)
$360 = 8 Tickets (4 Tickets Regularly)
$540 = 14 Tickets (7 Tickets Regularly)
$1800 = 44 Tickets (22 Tickets Regularly).

Drawing will be held this Wednesday on Yud Alef Nissan!! Hurry!

CLICK HERE to get the special CrownHeights.info EXCLUSIVE offer and help support Jewish Education!

MyYeshiva Raffle SALE! Only 2 Days Left! (A)

Double your chances to win $25,000 in diamond jewelry for the MyYeshiva Annual Scholarship Raffle!

$100 = 2 Tickets (1 Ticket Regularly)
$360 = 8 Tickets (4 Tickets Regularly)
$540 = 14 Tickets (7 Tickets Regularly)
$1800 = 44 Tickets (22 Tickets Regularly).

Drawing will be held this Wednesday on Yud Alef Nissan!! Hurry!

CLICK HERE to get the special CrownHeights.info EXCLUSIVE offer and help support Jewish Education!

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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)

Mayanot Dedicates new Greenbaum Torah Library

JERUSALEM, Israel [CHI] — The Mayanot Institute of Jewish Studies Women’s Program inaugurated its brand new library tonight in a farbrengen led by Rabbi Shmuel Braun. The collection was donated by Reb Yankel and Mrs. Baila Greenbaum of Crown Heights, in memory of his parents Reb Shmuel and Rochel Greenbaum. The inauguration took place tonight the 6th of Nissan coinciding with Mrs. Rochel Greenbaum’s Yahrtzeit.

More pictures in the Extended Article!

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By Joshua Runyan - Chabad.org

Chabad-Lubavitch Rabbis Gershon Grossbaum and Hirshy Minkowitz review the plans for a new mikvah in Alpheretta, Ga.

ALPHERETTA, GA — Building a Jewish ritual bath is no easy feat. Besides the city permits and zoning issues to resolve, not to mention the fundraising - some mikvahs can cost upwards of $200,000 to build - the process is frequently bogged down by unexpected obstacles. In Colorado Springs, Colo., for instance, crews had to anchor 35-foot steel piers into the foundation of Chabad-Lubavitch of Southern Colorado's new mikvah because of the surrounding clay.

Construction of Ritual Bath a Complicated Project

By Joshua Runyan – Chabad.org

Chabad-Lubavitch Rabbis Gershon Grossbaum and Hirshy Minkowitz review the plans for a new mikvah in Alpheretta, Ga.

ALPHERETTA, GA — Building a Jewish ritual bath is no easy feat. Besides the city permits and zoning issues to resolve, not to mention the fundraising – some mikvahs can cost upwards of $200,000 to build – the process is frequently bogged down by unexpected obstacles. In Colorado Springs, Colo., for instance, crews had to anchor 35-foot steel piers into the foundation of Chabad-Lubavitch of Southern Colorado’s new mikvah because of the surrounding clay.

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Pedestrian Killed While Crossing Brooklyn Street

Article by NY1, Photos by Webby

Click Here for a newscast of this incident. (NY1)

An elderly woman was struck and killed by two cars Saturday night while crossing a Brooklyn street.

Police say Nezilia Augustin, 71, was crossing the street shortly before 10 p.m. at Eastern Parkway and Utica Avenue in Weeksville when she was struck by one vehicle then the other as she was crossing the street.

More in the Extended Article.

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A Siddur Party in Crown Heights

CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — With parents, family and friends in attendance, Lubavitcher Yeshiva Crown Heights celebrated their annual Siddur Party on Sunday for the Pre1A classes of Rabbi Katzen and Rabbi Schwartz.

The event was MC’d by Rabbi Nissan Brenenson, father of Reuven in Rabbi Schwartz’s class.

More pictures in the Extended Article!

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Bochurim have been immersed in Limud HaTorah for the past six months. To assist a Bochur in properly maintaining that Yeshiva atmosphere until he returns after Yom-Tov, Vaad Talmidei Hatmimim once again published a beautiful booklet loaded with material in Niglah, Halacha, Chassidus and other Chassidishe materials to be studied over Pesach.

A Yeshivah in Every Home

Bochurim have been immersed in Limud HaTorah for the past six months. To assist a Bochur in properly maintaining that Yeshiva atmosphere until he returns after Yom-Tov, Vaad Talmidei Hatmimim once again published a beautiful booklet loaded with material in Niglah, Halacha, Chassidus and other Chassidishe materials to be studied over Pesach.

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Rebecca Rosenthal - Lubavitch.com

Rabbi Efraim Mintz, JLI executive Director, welcomes mission participants

BROOKLYN, NY — A contingent of 300, from Brazil, Australia, Finland, the US and Canada, who spent months studying Israel’s enduring centrality to Judaism, has just returned from the ultimate field trip.

Like art majors exploring the Louvre, the six buses that filled with graduates of Chabad's Rohr Jewish Learning Institute’s “The Land and the Spirit: Israel – Why We All Care” course arrived for their Israel mission equipped with the background knowledge to savor the sites.

Netanyahu Speaks to JLI’s Mission To Israel

Rebecca Rosenthal – Lubavitch.com

Rabbi Efraim Mintz, JLI executive Director, welcomes mission participants

BROOKLYN, NY — A contingent of 300, from Brazil, Australia, Finland, the US and Canada, who spent months studying Israel’s enduring centrality to Judaism, has just returned from the ultimate field trip.

Like art majors exploring the Louvre, the six buses that filled with graduates of Chabad’s Rohr Jewish Learning Institute’s “The Land and the Spirit: Israel – Why We All Care” course arrived for their Israel mission equipped with the background knowledge to savor the sites.

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Radio Free Europe

Rabbi Aba Dovid Gurevich
TASHKENT, Uzbekistan — The Uzbek Justice Ministry has refused an accreditation request by the country's chief rabbi, Aba Dovid Gurevich. The ministry says Gurevich failed to provide proper documentation, while others say the move represents an attack on religious freedom.

The dwindling population of Jews in Central Asia represents one of the oldest religious communities in the region — established more than 2,000 years ago, even before the predominant Muslim faith.

Though there are only thousands of Jews left in Central Asia, they still have a chief rabbi. But as of April 10, Gurevich has no official right to serve the Jewish community.

Justice Ministry Revokes Accreditation of Shliach

Radio Free Europe

Rabbi Aba Dovid Gurevich

TASHKENT, Uzbekistan — The Uzbek Justice Ministry has refused an accreditation request by the country’s chief rabbi, Aba Dovid Gurevich. The ministry says Gurevich failed to provide proper documentation, while others say the move represents an attack on religious freedom.

The dwindling population of Jews in Central Asia represents one of the oldest religious communities in the region — established more than 2,000 years ago, even before the predominant Muslim faith.

Though there are only thousands of Jews left in Central Asia, they still have a chief rabbi. But as of April 10, Gurevich has no official right to serve the Jewish community.

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Moscow Passover Campaign Benefits 15,000 Needy Persons

FJC.ru

MOSCOW, Russia — In the lead-up to Passover, the recently opened ‘Shaarei Tsedek’ Charity Center is teeming with activity. “It was only just a month ago that we last got a call, telling us that we have the opportunity to pick up another care package,” explained one the Center’s beneficiaries contentedly. “These are really good packages. We each received one for Purim and thank G-d we got the call again”.

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