CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — Sunday, the community celebrated a Siyum Sefer Torah, in memory of Reb Mordechai Zvi and Rebetzin Rochel Charitnow. The Torah was completed at the Dubrawsky’s home on Empire Bvd and then a procession was led through the streets on Crown Heights with the new Torah.
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Boruch Bongart will be sitting Shiva after the passing of his sister Mrs. Raelene Goldman of S. Diego, California, Shabbos morning. At 1488 Carroll St, [between Albany and Troy Ave] 9:00am – 10:00pm all week.
Shacharis: 9:00 AM
Mincha and Maariv: Bizmana
Hamokom Yenachem eschem Besoch Shaar Avaylay Tzion VeYerushalayim.
S. DIEGO, CA — For its first-ever fundraising walk, the Friendship Circle of S. Diego, a Chabad-Lubavitch program that pairs teenagers with children with special needs, is dedicating the project to the memory of local community member Jenny Poliakoff, who passed away last year. The event has been named Jenny’s Walk.
A freshman at S. Diego State University when she died, Poliakoff was one of the Friendship Circle’s first volunteers, as well as its most-vocal. She gave the keynote address at its appreciation dinner two years ago.
DNEPROPETROVSK, Ukraine [CHI] — The 15th annual Tzivos Hashem Pesach camp has ended. The dedicated counsellors who left their families for Pesach are back home in America. The children have returned to the 12 cities where they came from and the pots and pans are back in storage.
Finally everyone has time to reflect on camp and what an amazing and inspiring time everyone had.
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On my recent trip to Ukraine to celebrate the birthday of my father, I met Sasha, a fellow emissary of the Lubavitcher Rebbe and a student of my father. Sasha’s job is to visit Jews in the most remote corners of Ukraine and reconnect them to their roots. He related to me the following story:
“I recently received a strange phone call from a mining company that was digging near Anipoli, a small town in western Ukraine. They claimed to have discovered what appeared to be a mass Jewish grave from the Holocaust. At once, I dropped everything I was doing and contacted the chevra kadisha in Jerusalem, who immediately dispatched a delegation of rabbis to confirm this and help organize a proper burial and monument for these martyrs. A few weeks later, we decided to follow up with a Shabbaton for the relatives, to honour the memory of the martyrs. I brought along with me a group of young yeshiva boys from Kiev, plenty of kosher food and a portable ark with a Torah. It turned out to be a very moving Shabbat indeed, even beyond our wildest dreams.”
BONDI, NSW, Australia [CHI] — Australia’s Prime Minister, the Hon Kevin Rudd MP, visited the Yeshiva Centre – Chabad NSW Headquarters in Bondi, on Friday afternoon. In front of a packed audience of over 600, including Jewish community leaders and more than 40 Rabbis, the Prime Minister was presented with a Menorah (Jewish Candelabra) by the Dean and Spiritual Leader of the Yeshiva Centre, Rabbi Pinchus Feldman OAM.
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BROOKLYN, NY [CHI] –- Around two hours before Shabbos, a call went out across all 4 division of Shomrim and Police, who called a ‘Level 1 Mobilization’. There were two missing girls, ages eleven and twelve, they were missing for over 4 hours.
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