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Daily Archives: March 11, 2009


ROSTOV, Russia [CHI] — Purim in Rostov was celebrated this year with a wide array of programs for all ages. The main event took place in the Shul and was attended by over 300 people. The evening started with opening remarks from the new Shliach Rabbi Chaim Danzinger who arrived in Rostov three weeks ago.

More pictures in the Extended Article!

Purim in Rostov!

ROSTOV, Russia [CHI] — Purim in Rostov was celebrated this year with a wide array of programs for all ages. The main event took place in the Shul and was attended by over 300 people. The evening started with opening remarks from the new Shliach Rabbi Chaim Danzinger who arrived in Rostov three weeks ago.

More pictures in the Extended Article!

Posted to Shlichus on
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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 Engagement!

Dovi Vogel (Wilmington, DE) to Chanie Rapoport (Atlantic City, NJ)
New Engagement!

Yitzy Bernstein (Freehold, NJ) to Brocha Gleyzer (Monsey, NY)
by Getzy Markowitz - Jewish Thought in Simple Words

The distinction of language gets lost in translation. In rendering the biblical holy tongue, much of the original script loses its unique expression. The spring reenactment of liberation called Pesach is turned into Passover. Shavuot, the day on which G-d gave His Torah, is popularly referred to as the festival of weeks, or Pentecost by the church. Autumn's Sukkoth is known as Tabernacles, and even the infamous Tisha B'Av, simply meaning the 9th day of Av, has been classified “the feast of destruction.”

Only the holiday of Purim has retained its original rabbinical designation. What is interesting, however, is that while secularists or other sects have not tagged Purim with a foreign name, the rabbis themselves did. Purim is not a Hebrew-rooted word, but a Persian one, alluding to the “Pur” or “lots” that were cast by Haman to determine the date he would execute his plot of genocidal massacre of the Jews.

Pur Translation

by Getzy Markowitz – Jewish Thought in Simple Words

The distinction of language gets lost in translation. In rendering the biblical holy tongue, much of the original script loses its unique expression. The spring reenactment of liberation called Pesach is turned into Passover. Shavuot, the day on which G-d gave His Torah, is popularly referred to as the festival of weeks, or Pentecost by the church. Autumn’s Sukkoth is known as Tabernacles, and even the infamous Tisha B’Av, simply meaning the 9th day of Av, has been classified “the feast of destruction.”

Only the holiday of Purim has retained its original rabbinical designation. What is interesting, however, is that while secularists or other sects have not tagged Purim with a foreign name, the rabbis themselves did. Purim is not a Hebrew-rooted word, but a Persian one, alluding to the “Pur” or “lots” that were cast by Haman to determine the date he would execute his plot of genocidal massacre of the Jews.

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KHARKOV, Ukraine [CHI] — Over 2500 people took part in an amazing Hakhel Purim program in the Kharkov circus - in the entrance men and boys put on Tefillin , women and girls got Shabbos candles, everyone got Mishloach Manos and hundreds came in Purim costumes - in the true Purim spirit.

More pictures in the Extended Article!

Purim in the Kharkov Circus!

KHARKOV, Ukraine [CHI] — Over 2500 people took part in an amazing Hakhel Purim program in the Kharkov circus – in the entrance men and boys put on Tefillin , women and girls got Shabbos candles, everyone got Mishloach Manos and hundreds came in Purim costumes – in the true Purim spirit.

More pictures in the Extended Article!

Posted to Shlichus on
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by Yaacov Behrman
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Much to my surprise, Prof. David Berger’s recent lecture at Yivo was entertaining, well structured and some of the quotes were even accurate. It amazed me because I had previously heard Prof. Berger speak on the Zev Brenner Show eight years ago, and back then he sounded disoriented, untrained and extremely boring. I guess, after deprecating and insulting Chabad for so many years, he’s actually getting good at it.

The crowd at Yivo that night consisted mostly of middle class Yiddish speaking secular Jews who, based on their applause, seemingly enjoyed hearing Prof. Berger depict Lubavitch as a radical, unbalanced and delusional sect.

Though Berger fabricated statistics and dishonestly described pamphlets like Nekuda Hachabadi, written mostly by young 19 year old Israeli yeshiva students, as a highly regarded textbook in the Chabad Movement. To his credit, he stayed away from attacking the Lubavitcher Rebbe personally. He kept his lecture focused on the alleged beliefs of members of the movement.

David Bergers Renewed Assault on Chabad

by Yaacov Behrman
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Much to my surprise, Prof. David Berger’s recent lecture at Yivo was entertaining, well structured and some of the quotes were even accurate. It amazed me because I had previously heard Prof. Berger speak on the Zev Brenner Show eight years ago, and back then he sounded disoriented, untrained and extremely boring. I guess, after deprecating and insulting Chabad for so many years, he’s actually getting good at it.

The crowd at Yivo that night consisted mostly of middle class Yiddish speaking secular Jews who, based on their applause, seemingly enjoyed hearing Prof. Berger depict Lubavitch as a radical, unbalanced and delusional sect.

Though Berger fabricated statistics and dishonestly described pamphlets like Nekuda Hachabadi, written mostly by young 19 year old Israeli yeshiva students, as a highly regarded textbook in the Chabad Movement. To his credit, he stayed away from attacking the Lubavitcher Rebbe personally. He kept his lecture focused on the alleged beliefs of members of the movement.

Posted to Chabad News on
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Breaking the Fast at Ohel Nosson, a New Shul in CH

CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — After Maariv and Megilla Reading congregation members of Beis Ohel Nosson sat down for a break-fast and Purim Farbrengen.

Ohel Nosson is made up of a diverse group of Yungerlite and Bochurim came together and formed a new Shul in Crown Heights. Ohel Nosson, named after Reb Nosson Nagel A”H, is following in the footsteps of previous such Shuls, and together they are a growing shul, and a community within a community, both B’Ruchniuse and B’Gashmius.

More pictures in the Extended Article!

Posted to Crown Heights News on
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Police Involved in an Accident while Responding to a Call

CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — Wet roads and an emergency contributed to a nasty crash between a taxi and a police car in Crown Heights. The incident took place in the intersection of Lefferts Avenue and Bedford Avenue at around 11:00am, where a police car ‘t-boned’ the taxi, causing multiple injuries to both officers and passengers in the taxi.

More pictures in the Extended Article.

Posted to Accidents on
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CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — Just in the past few years the Crown Heights Jewish Community Council sponsored a Seudas Purim for the entire community in the Oholei Torah ballroom.

More pictures it the Extended Article!

CHJCC Purim Party!

CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — Just in the past few years the Crown Heights Jewish Community Council sponsored a Seudas Purim for the entire community in the Oholei Torah ballroom.

More pictures it the Extended Article!

Posted to Photo Galleries on
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