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Daily Archives: June 30, 2008

Orthodox Jewish Group Marks 50 Years of Outreach

Niraj Warikoo – The Detroit Free Press

DETROIT, MI — “Hi, does anyone Jewish work in this office?”

Every Friday, that question is asked by 50 pairs of young men from an Orthodox Jewish group who fan out across metro Detroit to various buildings in a weekly mission to help nonobservant Jews get in touch with their faith. Marking 50 years in Michigan this month, the group — known as Chabad Lubavitch — has grown from just one center in Detroit to 18 institutions across Michigan, several schools and a network of emissaries who have brought alive Judaism in areas without any other Jewish centers such as Novi and Commerce Township.

More pictures in the Extended Article!

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New Engagement!

Hushi Kot (Tallinn, Estonia) to Chani Wilhelm (Morristown, NJ) L’Chaim: Today, Monday, 8:30pm at F.R.E.E.
New Engagement!

Velvel Reikhtman (Montreal, Canada) to Channah Kagan (Crown Heights) L’Chaim: Tuesday, June 10th, 8:30pm at Ulam Chana 556 Crown Street
Baby Boy!

Shimon and Chanie Alon from Coral Springs, FL had a baby boy!
Baby Boy!

Yitzy and Leeby Smith from Coral Springs, FL had a baby boy!
New Engagement!

Pesach Chaim Newman (Crown Heights) to Bluma Raizel Lewis (Old Tappan, NJ)
New Engagement!

Eitan Hershkop (Crown Heights) to Chana Belfer (Melbourne, Australia) L’Chaim: Tonight, Thursday, 8:00pm at Bass and Bourbon
New Engagement!

Levi Meer (Morristown, NJ) to Sara Gershovitz (Crown Heights) L’Chaim: Thursday, June 12th, 8:00pm at 1349 President Street Upstairs
New Engagement!

Yosef Chaim Bercovice (Chicago, IL) to Leah Eisenbach (New York)
New Engagement!

Pesach Bercovice (Chicago, IL) to Tzipporah Yasmine Holloway (Orlando, FL)
New Engagement!

Mendel Saaks (Chicago, IL) to Leeba Grossbaum (Paramus, NJ)
New Engagement!

Yisrolik Keselman (London, UK) to Shaina Keller (Crown Heights)

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New Engagement!

Ya’akov Silverman (Tysons Corner, VA) to Chaya Raizel Michaelson (Glastonbury, CT)
New Engagement!

Yitzchak Minkowitz (Fort Myers, FL) to Shani Silver (Mequon, WI)
New Engagement!

Avremel Weingarten (Flint, MI) to Chana Potash (Noe Valley, SF, CA)
New Engagement!

Yaya Kagan (Los Angeles, CA) to Hadas Malamud (Brooklyn, NY) L’Chaim: Tonight, Thursday, 7:30pm at the Oholei Torah Ballroom
Baby Boy!

Meyer and Chaya (nee Engelberg) Shushan from Crown Heights had a baby boy!
Baby Girl!

Boruch and Adeli Zimmerman from Oro Valley, AZ had a baby girl!

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New Mikvah Inaugurated in Alpharetta, Georgia

ALPHARETTA, GA [CHI] — Since the town was founded the Jewish community has been lacking in something the Talmud says is a necessity: a Mikvah. Yesterday, June 29th, Rabbi Hirshy and Rashi Minkowicz of Chabad of Alpharetta opened their state of the art Mikvah and pool dedicated to the Rebbe and holding the name, “Mei Menachem.”

More Pictures in the Extended Article!

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Is you camp having Moshiach day? Great! Because 'The International Moshiach campaign' has just produced a spectacular curriculum just for Moshiach day! Guaranteed to be fun, exciting and packed with toichen! Moshiach Day includes a learning class, arts and crafts, game, and activity. Best of all, its absolutely FREE!

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Shluchim: Moshiach Day Curriculum


Is you camp having Moshiach day? Great! Because ‘The International Moshiach campaign’ has just produced a spectacular curriculum just for Moshiach day! Guaranteed to be fun, exciting and packed with toichen! Moshiach Day includes a learning class, arts and crafts, game, and activity. Best of all, its absolutely FREE!

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BROOKLYN, NY [CHI] — In time for Gimmel Tammuz, with help from the Rebbe's secretaries, a very special Yechidus (Private audience) has been recovered and carefully transcribed. In the summer of 1959 the Rebbe met with a group of directors from Hillel, the Foundation for Jewish Campus Life, and engaged in a question-and-answer session. What is the Rebbe's role in the world? Why didn't the Previous Rebbe establish Chabad headquarters in Israel, instead of New York?

Great News! Major Yechidus of The Rebbe to be Released Pirsum Rishon This Year Gimmel Tamuz!

BROOKLYN, NY [CHI] — In time for Gimmel Tammuz, with help from the Rebbe’s secretaries, a very special Yechidus (Private audience) has been recovered and carefully transcribed. In the summer of 1959 the Rebbe met with a group of directors from Hillel, the Foundation for Jewish Campus Life, and engaged in a question-and-answer session. What is the Rebbe’s role in the world? Why didn’t the Previous Rebbe establish Chabad headquarters in Israel, instead of New York?

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By Gareth Jones

WARSAW, Poland [Reuters] — Nearly 70 years after most of his family was wiped out in the Holocaust, Shmuel Glitzenstein is proudly fulfilling what he knows they would have wanted.

Glitzenstein and eight other young men have just become the first rabbis ordained in Poland since World War Two, the latest sign of a revival of Jewish culture and spirituality in one of its historic heartlands.

Pride, Hope as Poland Ordains First Postwar Rabbis

By Gareth Jones

WARSAW, Poland [Reuters] — Nearly 70 years after most of his family was wiped out in the Holocaust, Shmuel Glitzenstein is proudly fulfilling what he knows they would have wanted.

Glitzenstein and eight other young men have just become the first rabbis ordained in Poland since World War Two, the latest sign of a revival of Jewish culture and spirituality in one of its historic heartlands.

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