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Daily Archives: March 24, 2009

By Rebecca Dube for the Forward

CROWN HEIGHTS — Walk through the unmarked black doors of a nondescript brick building in Brooklyn, and you stumble onto a time machine.

Here, at one of the half-dozen or so shmura matzo factories remaining in New York, a bustling team of bakers keeps alive the art of making matzo the old-fashioned way.

Old World Flavor – Visiting Crown Heights Matzah Bakery

By Rebecca Dube for the Forward

CROWN HEIGHTS — Walk through the unmarked black doors of a nondescript brick building in Brooklyn, and you stumble onto a time machine.

Here, at one of the half-dozen or so shmura matzo factories remaining in New York, a bustling team of bakers keeps alive the art of making matzo the old-fashioned way.

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New Engagement!

Yossi Gutnick (Sydney, Australia) to Chaya Eisnebach (Northwest, CT) L’Chaim: Tonight, Thursday, at the Garden House 1386 S. John’s Pl
Baby Boy!

Yaakov and Shevi (nee Katzman) Behrman from Crown Heights had a baby boy!
Baby Boy!

Moishe and Frayda (nee Aber) Scheinfeld from Brooklyn, NY had a baby boy!
Baby Boy!

Yermi and Daniella Liam (nee Pohlman) Kurkus from Lake Lure, NC had a baby boy!
New Engagement!

Levi Kalmenson (Crown Heights) to Chanale Baitch (Crown Heights) L’Chaim: Monday, April 28th, 8:00pm at Anshei Lubavitch 578 Albany Ave
New Engagement!

Zevi Jacobson (De Moines, IA) to Ita Gurevitch (Crown Heights) L’Chaim: Monday, April 28th, 8:00pm at the JCM
New Engagement!

Sruli Friedman (Coral Springs, FL) to Adina Izgelov (Milwaukee, WI) L’Chaim: Monday, April 28th, 8:00pm at Albany Manor 641 Rutland Rd
New Engagement!

Shlomo Werde (Crown Heights) to Gila Bensusan (London, UK)
Baby Boy!

Chezki and Mushkie Golowinski from Crown Heights had a baby boy! Shalom Zachor: 539 Crown Street
New Engagement!

Avi Baitelman (Los Angeles, CA) to Mindy Neubort (Fair Lawn, NJ) L’Chaim: Tonight, Thursday, 8:00pm at Lubavitch Yeshiva
New Engagement!

Menachem Forer (Toronto, Canada) to Sari Gottlib (Hillside, NJ) L’Chaim: Thursday, April 24th, 8:00pm at Lubavitcher Yeshiva
Baby Boy!

Chaim and Bracha (nee Morozow) Rendler from Crown Heights had a baby boy!
Baby Girl!

Zalmy and Esther (nee Tabari) Hyams from Crown Heights had a baby girl!
Baby Boy!

Shmuly and Chaya (nee Lewin) Stone from Crown Heights had a baby boy!
New Engagement!

Yossi Krinsky (Vilnius, Lithuania) to Rochele Namdar (Gothenburg, Sweden)
Baby Boy!

Yossef and Naomi (nee Malinas) Haddad from Milan, Italy had a baby boy!
New Engagement!

Menachem Forer (Toronto, Canada) to Sari Gottlib (Hillside, NJ) L’Chaim: Thursday, April 24th, at 1349 President Street
By Grant Schulte for the Desmoines Register

POSTVILLE IA — Attempts to sell machinery, land and other property from Postville’s debt-riddled kosher meat plant collapsed Tuesday after potential buyers failed to make an offer that satisfied the plant’s two largest creditors.

Agriprocessors Auction Falls Apart

By Grant Schulte for the Desmoines Register

POSTVILLE IA — Attempts to sell machinery, land and other property from Postville’s debt-riddled kosher meat plant collapsed Tuesday after potential buyers failed to make an offer that satisfied the plant’s two largest creditors.

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WASHINGTON [JTA] — Then-candidate Barack Obama and his campaign team spent months debunking smears that he was a closeted Islamic radical. Now his critics, including GOP lawmakers, have given life to an already debunked rumor that the president signed an executive order allowing hundreds of thousands of Palestinian refugees “with ties to Hamas” to resettle in the United States.

Lawmakers Fall for Debunked Anti-Obama Rumor

WASHINGTON [JTA] — Then-candidate Barack Obama and his campaign team spent months debunking smears that he was a closeted Islamic radical. Now his critics, including GOP lawmakers, have given life to an already debunked rumor that the president signed an executive order allowing hundreds of thousands of Palestinian refugees “with ties to Hamas” to resettle in the United States.

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WCBSTV

NEW YORK, NY — A proposed sales tax hike could have you shelling out more almost every time you shop.

News of a possible hike isn't sitting well with consumers.

“Oh no, this is ridiculous,” said Cleonie Sinclair of Manhattan.

Sales Tax Shocker: NYC Staring At 10 Percent

WCBSTV

NEW YORK, NY — A proposed sales tax hike could have you shelling out more almost every time you shop.

News of a possible hike isn’t sitting well with consumers.

“Oh no, this is ridiculous,” said Cleonie Sinclair of Manhattan.

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Israel National News

A new Online Mikvah Calendar created especially for the internet-savvy Jewish woman-of-today is making it easier to observe the complex Jewish laws of family purity.

The website, which was rolled out this week [and is advertised here on CrownHeights.info], is the brainchild of Rebbetzin Rivkah Bloom, who grew up in Charlotte, North Carolina. She was the only Jewish child in her grade, forced at age 14 to leave home for a Jewish school in Pennsylvania, and from there to seminary in Israel. What followed led to software that has the potential to change the lives of millions of women: her years at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where she earned Bachelors and Masters Degrees in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering.

Online Mikvah Calendar Eases Jewish Family Purity Observance

Israel National News

A new Online Mikvah Calendar created especially for the internet-savvy Jewish woman-of-today is making it easier to observe the complex Jewish laws of family purity.

The website, which was rolled out this week [and is advertised here on CrownHeights.info], is the brainchild of Rebbetzin Rivkah Bloom, who grew up in Charlotte, North Carolina. She was the only Jewish child in her grade, forced at age 14 to leave home for a Jewish school in Pennsylvania, and from there to seminary in Israel. What followed led to software that has the potential to change the lives of millions of women: her years at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where she earned Bachelors and Masters Degrees in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering.

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by TRS

Yesterday was the twenty seventh of Adar. There are many Bochurim in Lubavitch who weren't even born. At least I remember when it happened. The question of course is, what does this day mean to us? What does it do to us? And what do we do for it? The answers to these questions are not simple ones. In fact, I don't know if anyone even has the answers. But that doesn't mean we don't have to ask the questions. Because if you don't even have the question, how can you ever expect to work out the answer? Because that's what it's really all about.

Every person has to look inside their heart and say, "Hey, what's up? What have I accomplished? What does 17 years without mean to me? Have I gotten over it, or am I still in mourning? Have the chai, the living, Yiten El Libo, taken it to heart? Or was this generation's Parah Adumah completely wasted? Those are the types of questions we all have to ask ourselves.

Feelings: 17 Years – We Are Orphans, Without A Father

by TRS

Yesterday was the twenty seventh of Adar. There are many Bochurim in Lubavitch who weren’t even born. At least I remember when it happened. The question of course is, what does this day mean to us? What does it do to us? And what do we do for it? The answers to these questions are not simple ones. In fact, I don’t know if anyone even has the answers. But that doesn’t mean we don’t have to ask the questions. Because if you don’t even have the question, how can you ever expect to work out the answer? Because that’s what it’s really all about.

Every person has to look inside their heart and say, “Hey, what’s up? What have I accomplished? What does 17 years without mean to me? Have I gotten over it, or am I still in mourning? Have the chai, the living, Yiten El Libo, taken it to heart? Or was this generation’s Parah Adumah completely wasted? Those are the types of questions we all have to ask ourselves.

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The Iowa Independent

POSTVILLE, IA — When the beleaguered Agriprocessors meatpacking plant first filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, a small glimmer of hope emerged in Postville. There was an opportunity for another company to take over operations at the plant, for production to continue and for the community not to lose its largest employer.

No News from the Agriprocessors Bankruptcy Auction Could be Bad News for Postville

The Iowa Independent

POSTVILLE, IA — When the beleaguered Agriprocessors meatpacking plant first filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, a small glimmer of hope emerged in Postville. There was an opportunity for another company to take over operations at the plant, for production to continue and for the community not to lose its largest employer.

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Rabbi Moshe Meyer Lipszyc with Guma Aguiar, carrying Goldi's Torah under the chuppah canopy.

FT. LAUDERDALE, FL — How do parents of a severely challenged 12 year old girl celebrate their daughter’s bat mitzvah?

The question was poignantly relevant for Rabbi Moshe Meir and Pnina Lipszyc, Chabad representatives to Ft. Lauderdale, who have cultivated a lively Jewish community over nearly two decades while raising their special needs children under extraordinary circumstances.

Chabad of Ft. Lauderdale Celebrates Goldi’s Torah

Rabbi Moshe Meyer Lipszyc with Guma Aguiar, carrying Goldi’s Torah under the chuppah canopy.

FT. LAUDERDALE, FL — How do parents of a severely challenged 12 year old girl celebrate their daughter’s bat mitzvah?

The question was poignantly relevant for Rabbi Moshe Meir and Pnina Lipszyc, Chabad representatives to Ft. Lauderdale, who have cultivated a lively Jewish community over nearly two decades while raising their special needs children under extraordinary circumstances.

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MINEOLA, NY [CHI] — Chabad of Mineola launches the Birkat HaChamah Time Capsule to document today’s Jewish life.

On April 8, 2009, the eve of Passover, Jews around the world will rise early, gaze at the sun and recite the least-frequently-recited blessing in Judaism: Birkat HaChamah, the blessing on the sun.

Chabad ‘Time Capsule’ to be buried at Mineola

MINEOLA, NY [CHI] — Chabad of Mineola launches the Birkat HaChamah Time Capsule to document today’s Jewish life.

On April 8, 2009, the eve of Passover, Jews around the world will rise early, gaze at the sun and recite the least-frequently-recited blessing in Judaism: Birkat HaChamah, the blessing on the sun.

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Des Moines Register

CEDAR RAPIDS, IA — Three holding companies have submitted bids to buy various parts of Postville’s embattled kosher meat plant, a spokesman for the trustee said today.

But none of the bidders asked for the same package of equipment and assets, attorney Dan Childers said at the bankruptcy auction for Agriprocessors, Inc. Bidders are now meeting in groups to revise their proposals.

3 Companies Bid on Agriprocessors at Auction

Des Moines Register

CEDAR RAPIDS, IA — Three holding companies have submitted bids to buy various parts of Postville’s embattled kosher meat plant, a spokesman for the trustee said today.

But none of the bidders asked for the same package of equipment and assets, attorney Dan Childers said at the bankruptcy auction for Agriprocessors, Inc. Bidders are now meeting in groups to revise their proposals.

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