CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — Earlier today, Tuesday a group of Shluchim and Anash began writing the first words of a new Safer Torah which is being arranged by the family and Merkos Linyonai Chinuc and is being written in memory of the Shluchim Rabbi Gavriel and his wife Rivkah Holtzberg HYD.
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CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — What is being called the one stop shop Chesed center has officially inaugurated its food pantry/soup kitchen with the attendance of its supporters.
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CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — A Bochur was attacked Sunday afternoon by a lone perpetrator who pulled a gun and hit the Bochur in the head with it. The perpetrator then grabbed a bag containing valuable electronics and fled, leaving the Bochur injured and bleeding.
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MUMBAI, India [AFP] — A rabbi murdered in Mumbai by Islamic militants who stormed his home was reading a manual on what to do in case of a terrorist attack, the friend who identified his body says.
A Hebrew book entitled “How to Protect Yourself if Terrorists Come to Your House” was found on Gavriel Holtzberg’s bedside table after the siege of the Jewish prayer centre he ran, Dov Goldberg said.
This Thursday, December 11th, the 14th of Kislev there will be a rally at the Ohel for all children ages 5-12. Busses leaving at 5:00 pm and returning 7:30 pm. $3.00 for the bus.
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LOS ANGELES, CA — KYY Diamond Daveners takes inaugurations to next level
Los Angeles—on Sunday of last week, November 30, 2008, about 30 boys from Los Angeles’ Lubavitcher community converged on the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California to install a president of their own.
MUMBAI, India [AFP] — People living close to a Jewish prayer centre besieged by Islamist fanatics who murdered its rabbi and his wife fear that if it reopens their Mumbai neighbourhood could once again become a terror target.
Some residents near Nariman House said they would rather the ultra-orthodox Jewish movement that owns the badly damaged building did not return as planned.
On 14 Kislev 5689 (December 27, 1928), the Rebbe’s marriage to Chaya Mushka, daughter of then Lubavitcher Rebbe Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn, took place in Warsaw, Poland. In honor of this occasion the Avner Institute is happy to release, for the very first time, the original picture of the Rebbe with his father-in-law prior to the Rebbe’s wedding. Special thanks to Jewish Educational Media and Rabbi Goldstein for their efforts in retrieving this picture.
To hear Rabbi Goldstein’s story of the Rebbe’s wedding visit: www.TheLivingSidrah.com
To learn More about the Rebbe Visit: www.portraitofaleader.blogspot.com
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FT. LAUDERDALE, FL — Shattered by the murders in Mumbai, one energy magnate is picking up the pieces by making a significant contribution to a Florida Chabad center.
We are deeply saddened to inform you of the passing of Mrs. Batya (Basha) Reinitz of Crown Heights, early Tuesday morning. Her husband is R Yosef Zeev Reinitz.
The levaya will be today Tuesday at 5:00pm at Shomrei Hadas and passing 770 at 5:30pm, where she will then be flown to Israel for burial on Har Hazetim.
Shiva will be in the home of R’ Shmuel Chaim Reinitz in Emanuel.
Boruch Dayan Haemes.
MORRISTOWN, NJ — If, as its followers sometimes insist, Chabad-Lubavitch is an “army of Hashem,” or God, then the Rabbinical College of America is its West Point.
The Morristown seminary is a main training ground for the Chabad shluchim, or emissaries, who are dispatched around the world to open outreach centers in places ranging from comfortable suburbs to developing cities like Mumbai.
MINEOLA, NY — When a terrorist murdered a teacher and four students in Kfar Chabad, Israel, in 1956, the Lubavitcher rebbe issued a proclamation meant to cut through the depression permeating the close-knit community: “Through building, and galvanizing the community, you will be comforted.”
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