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Daily Archives: May 14, 2008

News 12 Brooklyn
Editors Note: The reason this story was noticed by Brooklyn News 12 is due to your emails that you sent them!

CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn — Many members of the Crown Heights Jewish community say they are still angry about last Monday’s bus attack on President Street.

News 12 Video – School Bus Attacked

News 12 Brooklyn

Editors Note: The reason this story was noticed by Brooklyn News 12 is due to your emails that you sent them!

CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn — Many members of the Crown Heights Jewish community say they are still angry about last Monday’s bus attack on President Street.

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New Engagement!

Mendel Spivak (Pembroke Pines, FL) to Chaya Sarah Koniarski (Crown Heights) L’Chaim: Tonight, Thursday, 8:00pm at The JCM
New Engagement!

Lazer Eichenblatt (Los Angeles, CA) to Batsheva Druin (North Miami Beach, FL) L’Chaim: Sunday, Feb. 2nd, 7:30pm at The Library Shul 1450 S. Robertson Blvd, Los Angeles, CA
Baby Girl!

Shui and Sheva (nee Tennenhaus) Kastel from Hollywood, FL had a baby girl.
Baby Girl!

Tzvi and Mushki Birnhack from Southend, UK had a baby girl!
New Engagement!

Chaim Yaacov Schmalberg (Crown Heights) to Chaya Mushka Greenshtat (S. Paulo, Brazil)
Baby Boy!

Meir and Dini (nee Marmulszteyn) Gewirtz from Crown Heights had a baby boy!

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New Engagement!

Shmuly Springer (Crown Heights) to Meirah Rubins (Toronto, Canada)
New Engagement!

Shmuel Hecht (Coral Springs, FL) to Leba Vcherashansky (New York) L’Chaim: To ight, Thursday, 8:00pm at Ulam Chana 556 Crown Street
New Engagement!

Huda Davis (Crown Heights) to Kraindy Edelkopf (Crown Heights) L’Chaim: Monday, Jan. 27th, 8:00pm at Lubavitcher Yeshiva
New Engagement!

Mayer Friedman (Crown Heights) to Naomi Deitsch (New Haven, CT) L’Chaim: Tonight, Wednesday, 8:00pm at The Arches 1394 S. Johns Pl
New Engagement!

Zalmy Jaworowski (Chicago, IL) to Gitty Krinsky (Needham, MA)
New Engagement!

Ari Sherman (Crown Heights) to Esther Benayon (Panama City, Panama)
New Engagement!

Berel Shmotkin (Stamford, CT) to Devorah Leah Wilansky (Portland, ME) L’Chaim: Tonight, Monday, 8:00pm at F.R.E.E.
New Engagement!

Levi Yitzchak Lebowitz (Yerushalayim) to Tzivia Greenbaum (Melbourne, Australia) L’Chaim: Tuesday, January 21st, 8:00pm at The JCM
New Engagement!

Gedalia Lieberman (Milwaukee, WI) and Shoshana Birnbaum (Northbrook, IL)
New Engagement!

Yossi Vorst (Rotterdam, Netherlands) to Shaina Sasonkin (Crown Heights)
Baby Girl!

Yankel and Mushky Katzman from Crown Heights had a baby girl!

The Chabad Club: Getting Past the Student Activity Hour

By Orit Cohen – Corsair Staff Writer

S. MONICA, CA — On a patch of grass next to the clock tower, Rabbi Eli Levitansky, advisor of the Chabad Club, stands in heated discussion with a few girls.

They argue points of Jewish belief, neither him nor the students letting go, as he gets into it, showing the students that he is passionate in what he stands for.

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VICIOUS MESIRA: Blood Libel Lands Shomrim Member 12 Hours in Prison

CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — Binyomin Lifshitz, a volunteer in Shomrim and the publisher and editor of CrownHeights.info was arrested early yesterday as he and 6 other Shomrim members made an appearance in court following the incident where Shomrim were ambushed and attacked inside 749 Eastern Parkway.

5 months ago, Shomrim were called to 749 Eastern Pkwy because of a dispute over a bed, 3 Shomrim members who responded were ambushed and assaulted in the room by over 20 ‘tzfati’ bochurim and were forced to call for backup and police assistance. Click Here for that story.

Elements of the Shmira leadership along with their lawyer Levi ‘Paul’ Hubner set out on a mission that Motzoai Shabbos, and viciously masserd on as many as 9 Shomrim members, and incurring the arrest of 7 of them along with one member of Anash.

More in the Extended Article.

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By Reuvena Leah Grodnitzky

Rabbi Dov Hillel Klein, co-director of the Tannenbaum Chabad House at Northwestern University and a volunteer chaplain with the local police force, talks with colleagues.

Not every rabbi uses his pastoral skills to counsel highway accident victims or prevent suicides. Fewer still are called upon to perform CPR or fire a weapon. But for Chabad-Lubavitch rabbis who serve their communities as volunteer police chaplains, such activities are a part of the job.

Police Chaplains View “Ministry of Presence” as a Supreme Responsibility

By Reuvena Leah Grodnitzky

Rabbi Dov Hillel Klein, co-director of the Tannenbaum Chabad House at Northwestern University and a volunteer chaplain with the local police force, talks with colleagues.

Not every rabbi uses his pastoral skills to counsel highway accident victims or prevent suicides. Fewer still are called upon to perform CPR or fire a weapon. But for Chabad-Lubavitch rabbis who serve their communities as volunteer police chaplains, such activities are a part of the job.

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Shluchim visit the Satmar Rebbe

MONROE, NY [CHI] — The Rebbe’s Shliach of Princeton,NJ, Rabbi Dovid Dubov, (and his two sons Sholom Ber- age 11 and Motty-age 9) with Rabbi Chaim Schapiro of Morristown, NJ had a visit with the Satmer Rebbe, Rabbi Aron Teitlebaum of Monroe, NY.

The purpose of the visit was to give him the entire set of Yalkut Moshiach Ugeula Al Hatorah- 25 volumes. The visit was very successful, he spoke to the Shluchim for aprox. 40 minutes. Some of the points that was discussed is as follows:

More pictures in the Extended Article!

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Raid Could Make Postville a Ghost Town

Kaal TV Channel 6

POSTVILLE, IA — The immigration raid in Iowa we told you about on Monday is being called one of the largest of its kind in U.S. history.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials arrested 390 people from the Postville Kosher Meatpacking Plant in northeast Iowa.

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Tonight, Wednesday, Tes Iyar Rabbi Yoseph Paltiel will talk on a subject of interest, The innovations of Chassidus. The topic includes: Did Chassidus create, change focus, or both? What makes on a Chossid? How is the learning of a Chossid different?

IYH tonight, Wednesday 9:15pm at Bais Eliyahu Nochum, 672 Lefferts Ave, [between Albany and Troy Ave].

Tonight – Rabbi Yoseph Paltiel on an Incredible Subject

Tonight, Wednesday, Tes Iyar Rabbi Yoseph Paltiel will talk on a subject of interest, The innovations of Chassidus. The topic includes: Did Chassidus create, change focus, or both? What makes on a Chossid? How is the learning of a Chossid different?

IYH tonight, Wednesday 9:15pm at Bais Eliyahu Nochum, 672 Lefferts Ave, [between Albany and Troy Ave].

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EJ Tansky - Lubavitch.com

A traveler in the South Island meets up with Chabad and wraps tefillin.

WELLINGTON, New Zealand — A kosher restaurant in the Christchurch, NZ? You bet, says Chabad’s Rabbi Mendy Goldstein of New Zealand. For Israeli backpackers who tromp the country’s pristine South Island each year, the new restaurant will be a boon.

“It pains us to see people eating non-kosher because they have no other choice,” said Sara Goldstein, co-director of the kiwi Chabad.

Chabad To Open Kosher Restaurant in Christchurch

EJ Tansky – Lubavitch.com

A traveler in the South Island meets up with Chabad and wraps tefillin.

WELLINGTON, New Zealand — A kosher restaurant in the Christchurch, NZ? You bet, says Chabad’s Rabbi Mendy Goldstein of New Zealand. For Israeli backpackers who tromp the country’s pristine South Island each year, the new restaurant will be a boon.

“It pains us to see people eating non-kosher because they have no other choice,” said Sara Goldstein, co-director of the kiwi Chabad.

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Rabbi Eli and Mrs Chaya (nee Ulman) Schlanger of Crown Heights have recently moved on Shlichus to Bondi Beach, Australia, where they will be providing Jewish adult education and community programing for local families.

The Schlangers were appointed by Rabbi Yoram Ulman, director of Friends of Refugees of Eastern Europe in Bondi Beach.

CrownHeights.info would like to wish the new Shluchim Hatzlocha Rabba on their Shlichus!

New Shluchim To Australia

Rabbi Eli and Mrs Chaya (nee Ulman) Schlanger of Crown Heights have recently moved on Shlichus to Bondi Beach, Australia, where they will be providing Jewish adult education and community programing for local families.

The Schlangers were appointed by Rabbi Yoram Ulman, director of Friends of Refugees of Eastern Europe in Bondi Beach.

CrownHeights.info would like to wish the new Shluchim Hatzlocha Rabba on their Shlichus!

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By Joshua Runyan

Chabad-Lubavitch Rabbi Azriel Chaikin, left, chief rabbi of Ukraine, and U.S. Ambassador William Taylor

William Taylor, U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine, pledged that in future dealings with Kiev, he would once again raise the issue of Torah scrolls currently in the hands of Ukraine's archives.

Ambassador Makes Return of Ukrainian Torah Scrolls a Priority

By Joshua Runyan

Chabad-Lubavitch Rabbi Azriel Chaikin, left, chief rabbi of Ukraine, and U.S. Ambassador William Taylor

William Taylor, U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine, pledged that in future dealings with Kiev, he would once again raise the issue of Torah scrolls currently in the hands of Ukraine’s archives.

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So, we all used the comments to vent our anger at police at the community and the community council and we all criticized each other for talking and not doing. So here is your chance to do something!

Attend the precinct council meeting, it takes place in IS 61 located at 400 Empire Blvd on the corner of New York Ave. and it begins at 7:30. Deputy Inspector and Commanding Officer Frank Vega attends each of these meetings, and will be there to listen to suggestions and complaints from residents.

Be there or be nowhere! Your attendance will show our care and support for our community!

Tonight – The Precinct Council Meeting

So, we all used the comments to vent our anger at police at the community and the community council and we all criticized each other for talking and not doing. So here is your chance to do something!

Attend the precinct council meeting, it takes place in IS 61 located at 400 Empire Blvd on the corner of New York Ave. and it begins at 7:30. Deputy Inspector and Commanding Officer Frank Vega attends each of these meetings, and will be there to listen to suggestions and complaints from residents.

Be there or be nowhere! Your attendance will show our care and support for our community!

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Beis Rivka’s Eighth Grade Graduation Trip

WASHINGTON, DC [CHI] — Students in Beis Rivka’s eighth grade class celebrated their graduation recently with a whirlwind tour of the nation’s capital, but before they enjoyed the typical Washington, DC sightseeing they took time to stop and remember the 6,000,000 Jews who perished in the Holocaust at the United States Holocaust Museum.

The girls had studied the Holocaust this year, but still felt chills seeing the railcar, the bunker transported from Aushwitz, and other displays at the museum.

More pictures in the Extended Article!

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By Josh Runyan - JUF.org
FRANKFURT, Germany — The 25 Jewish college students who took part in a historic spring break trip to Berlin overcame financial difficulties and personal fears to make the journey. According to organizers, the city's Jewish community is better off for it.

“This trip demonstrated that yes, there is a future for Jewish life in Germany,” proclaimed Rabbi Dovid Tiechtel, co-director of the Chabad Center for Jewish Student Life serving the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, who coordinated the delegation. The university-based rabbi came up with the idea for the trip after returning from last year's dedication ceremony of the new Rohr Chabad Center, which serves as the headquarters for Chabad-Lubavitch of Berlin, co-directed by Tiechtel's brother and sister-in-law, Rabbi Yehuda and Leah Tiechtel.

Students Spend Spring Break Helping Rebuild Jewish Life in Germany

By Josh Runyan – JUF.org

FRANKFURT, Germany — The 25 Jewish college students who took part in a historic spring break trip to Berlin overcame financial difficulties and personal fears to make the journey. According to organizers, the city’s Jewish community is better off for it.

“This trip demonstrated that yes, there is a future for Jewish life in Germany,” proclaimed Rabbi Dovid Tiechtel, co-director of the Chabad Center for Jewish Student Life serving the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, who coordinated the delegation. The university-based rabbi came up with the idea for the trip after returning from last year’s dedication ceremony of the new Rohr Chabad Center, which serves as the headquarters for Chabad-Lubavitch of Berlin, co-directed by Tiechtel’s brother and sister-in-law, Rabbi Yehuda and Leah Tiechtel.

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