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Daily Archives: March 30, 2009


CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — Efforts were made in the community to organize a large, unified Birchas Hachama ceremony in front of 770 next week, 14 Nissan 5769, April 8, 2009. However the efforts fell through due to the usual Crown Heights politics. “Yechi” or no “Yechi”.

The Rebbe ran the show last time around, some 28 years ago. There was a large, public, unified Birchas Hachama ceremony in front of 770. Eastern Pkwy was closed for traffic and Anash from far and near came with their families, to be with Rebbe at during this once in a generation Mitzvah.

Plan Unifying Community for Birchas Hachama Falls Through

CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — Efforts were made in the community to organize a large, unified Birchas Hachama ceremony in front of 770 next week, 14 Nissan 5769, April 8, 2009. However the efforts fell through due to the usual Crown Heights politics. “Yechi” or no “Yechi”.

The Rebbe ran the show last time around, some 28 years ago. There was a large, public, unified Birchas Hachama ceremony in front of 770. Eastern Pkwy was closed for traffic and Anash from far and near came with their families, to be with Rebbe at during this once in a generation Mitzvah.

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New Engagement!

Chaim Uziel Starik (Vienna, Austria) to Batsheva Spivak (Pembroke Pines, FL)
New Engagement!

Zalman Friedman (Coral Springs, FL) to Lea Dukes (Santiago, Chile) L’Chaim: Monday, May 5th, 7:00pm at 9400 NW 4th Street, Coral Springs, FL
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)

Photos: Shloshim Memorial Service for Levi Wolowik OBM

CEDARHURST, NY [CHI] — This evening, Monday, hundreds of local Five Towns and Far Rockaway residents; as well as many members of the surrounding Jewish communities, including many Shluchim and Anash, gathered at the Young Israel of Lawrence for Shloshim and memorial service in memory Levi Yitzchak Wolowik OBM.

More pictures in the Extended Article

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Bochur Assaulted, Police don’t File Report

Illustration Photo – Police and Shomrim at a scene.

CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — A Bochur was assaulted earlier this afternoon, on St. Johns Place and Brooklyn Avenue. As the Bochur was walking he was attacked from behind, by a Black male who put him in a headlock and broke his glasses.

This bizarre attack was only made stranger, by the fact that the perpetrator didn’t try to take anything from the Bochur. He didn’t demand and anything or even say anything to him, during the entire incident.

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Haviv Rettig-Gur and Allison Hoffman for the Jerusalem Post

BROOKLYN, NY — Chabad is turning to small donors to stave off a financial crisis in its Russian operations, as major donors like diamond and real estate mogul Lev Leviev are pulling back after suffering heavy losses in the global economic recession.

Rabbis told The Jerusalem Post on Monday that new donors were responding to emergency appeals, though critical programs like schools remained at risk for cuts amid a crisis stretching back to the collapse of the US-based Lehman Brothers investment bank in September.

Leviev Losses Force Chabad to use Obama Fund Raising Model

Haviv Rettig-Gur and Allison Hoffman for the Jerusalem Post

BROOKLYN, NY — Chabad is turning to small donors to stave off a financial crisis in its Russian operations, as major donors like diamond and real estate mogul Lev Leviev are pulling back after suffering heavy losses in the global economic recession.

Rabbis told The Jerusalem Post on Monday that new donors were responding to emergency appeals, though critical programs like schools remained at risk for cuts amid a crisis stretching back to the collapse of the US-based Lehman Brothers investment bank in September.

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CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — Today, Monday afternoon, two cars collided on Kingston and Union, after one took a red light. According to eye witnesses; a silver Chrysler driven by a Black man drove through the intersection, when the light was steady red. Then a black BMW driven by a Bochur slammed into him causing the Chrysler to spin around.

More pictures in the Extended Article.

Car Runs Red-light Causing Accident on Kingston Avenue

CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — Today, Monday afternoon, two cars collided on Kingston and Union, after one took a red light. According to eye witnesses; a silver Chrysler driven by a Black man drove through the intersection, when the light was steady red. Then a black BMW driven by a Bochur slammed into him causing the Chrysler to spin around.

More pictures in the Extended Article.

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CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — There is a little store in Crown Heights that is doing more than everyone else. Located on the upper end of Albany Avenue, neighboring a popular string of shops including the Bentzi’s Gourmet and Mimulo Flowers; Mr Greens, popular fresh produce store is preparing for the approaching Passover Holiday in numerous way.

Apart from deliveries of thousands of pounds of romaine lettuce, used during this holiday as bitter herbs, a remembrance of the Hebrews bitter times in Egypt; Mr Greens is preparing to send over a thousand boxes of fresh produce to needy families in the Crown Heights area to alleviate some of the holiday’s financial burden. Mr Shloimie Klein, a partner of Mr Greens believes his shop is doing a small part in easing the financial turmoil that Pesach can bring.

Continued in the Extended Article.

Passover Price-Gouging Tolerated in Crown Heights?

CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — There is a little store in Crown Heights that is doing more than everyone else. Located on the upper end of Albany Avenue, neighboring a popular string of shops including the Bentzi’s Gourmet and Mimulo Flowers; Mr Greens, popular fresh produce store is preparing for the approaching Passover Holiday in numerous way.

Apart from deliveries of thousands of pounds of romaine lettuce, used during this holiday as bitter herbs, a remembrance of the Hebrews bitter times in Egypt; Mr Greens is preparing to send over a thousand boxes of fresh produce to needy families in the Crown Heights area to alleviate some of the holiday’s financial burden. Mr Shloimie Klein, a partner of Mr Greens believes his shop is doing a small part in easing the financial turmoil that Pesach can bring.

Continued in the Extended Article.

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CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — For over an hour Troy Avenue was closed to traffic this morning, thanks to an aggressive and reckless driver who tried to ‘beat’ a sanitation garbage truck, passing it and colliding forcing it to swerve and strike a city bus. the incident took place at around 11:00am on Troy Avenue between Lefferts and Empire.

More pictures in the Extended Article.

3 Vehicle Accident on Troy and Empire

CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — For over an hour Troy Avenue was closed to traffic this morning, thanks to an aggressive and reckless driver who tried to ‘beat’ a sanitation garbage truck, passing it and colliding forcing it to swerve and strike a city bus. the incident took place at around 11:00am on Troy Avenue between Lefferts and Empire.

More pictures in the Extended Article.

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CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — Yesterday, Sunday there was a Siyum and Hachnosas Sefer Torah memory of HaRav HaChossid Reb Mordechai HaKohen Rivkin AH.

Click Here to View a Beautiful Photo Gallery of the Event with close to a hundred pictures!

Video! – Crown Heights Dances with New Sefer Torah!

CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — Yesterday, Sunday there was a Siyum and Hachnosas Sefer Torah memory of HaRav HaChossid Reb Mordechai HaKohen Rivkin AH.

Click Here to View a Beautiful Photo Gallery of the Event with close to a hundred pictures!

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By Omar Carrillo for the Daily Princetonian

Princeton University and Chabad on Campus Rabbi Eitan Webb, Shliach to the University, Inset.

PRINCETON, NJ — The Jewish organization Chabad will begin holding Orthodox services at the University this Saturday, following their dedication of a new Torah last Sunday afternoon.

Though the Center for Jewish Life (CJL) offers a variety of services, the Chabad services will target a different audience, Chabad Rabbi Eitan Webb said in response to concerns of Orthodox students within the CJL that the new services will promote competition between the groups. Webb explained that the Chabad services will aim to provide students who are currently not very involved in Jewish life with an opportunity to learn more about how Orthodox services work.

Chabad on Campus to Offer New Orthodox Services

By Omar Carrillo for the Daily Princetonian

Princeton University and Chabad on Campus Rabbi Eitan Webb, Shliach to the University, Inset.

PRINCETON, NJ — The Jewish organization Chabad will begin holding Orthodox services at the University this Saturday, following their dedication of a new Torah last Sunday afternoon.

Though the Center for Jewish Life (CJL) offers a variety of services, the Chabad services will target a different audience, Chabad Rabbi Eitan Webb said in response to concerns of Orthodox students within the CJL that the new services will promote competition between the groups. Webb explained that the Chabad services will aim to provide students who are currently not very involved in Jewish life with an opportunity to learn more about how Orthodox services work.

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By Edwin Black for the Jerusalem Post

NEW YORK, NY — Adolf Hitler was completely responsible for the Holocaust. But Hitler had help.When zealous Nazis were motivated to wage war against an imaginary generation-to-generation Jewish conspiracy, when Nazis created ghastly extermination plans to help ensure their master race would rule the world, when the German military was enabled to smash across Europe with lightning speed in heavy Blitz trucks, bomb mercilessly from the air in advanced JU-88s and create carnage across the seas with deadly torpedoes, when Josef Mengele saw the scientific need to undertake heinous medical experiments on twins in Auschwitz, when the Reich was enabled to identify the Jews everywhere in Europe and then systematically pauperize and destroy them, when all these terrible things were done, the shape and scope of the horror was pivotally determined by major American industrial giants.

Americans’ Role in The Holocaust

By Edwin Black for the Jerusalem Post

NEW YORK, NY — Adolf Hitler was completely responsible for the Holocaust. But Hitler had help.When zealous Nazis were motivated to wage war against an imaginary generation-to-generation Jewish conspiracy, when Nazis created ghastly extermination plans to help ensure their master race would rule the world, when the German military was enabled to smash across Europe with lightning speed in heavy Blitz trucks, bomb mercilessly from the air in advanced JU-88s and create carnage across the seas with deadly torpedoes, when Josef Mengele saw the scientific need to undertake heinous medical experiments on twins in Auschwitz, when the Reich was enabled to identify the Jews everywhere in Europe and then systematically pauperize and destroy them, when all these terrible things were done, the shape and scope of the horror was pivotally determined by major American industrial giants.

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By Kobi Nahshoni for YNetNews

British rabbi complains of 'foreign presence' in his new house; congregation members say ghost belongs to founder of local synagogue

LONDON, UK — The Rabbinical Centre of Europe tackles complicated halachic questions sent by the rabbis of the continent on a daily basis. But nothing prepared the RCE for a recent query by a London rabbi, who sought the center's help in getting rid of a ghost he said was dwelling in his new residence.

Rabbi Spooked by Ghost Seeks Help

By Kobi Nahshoni for YNetNews

British rabbi complains of ‘foreign presence’ in his new house; congregation members say ghost belongs to founder of local synagogue

LONDON, UK — The Rabbinical Centre of Europe tackles complicated halachic questions sent by the rabbis of the continent on a daily basis. But nothing prepared the RCE for a recent query by a London rabbi, who sought the center’s help in getting rid of a ghost he said was dwelling in his new residence.

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RAMALLAH [AFP] — An Israeli and a group of Palestinians last week set aside their differences in order to carry out an armed bank robbery, Palestinian police said Sunday.

The heist at a bank in the Israeli-occupied West Bank town of Ramallah on Tuesday was carried out by six armed gunmen who made off with some 30,000 dollars, according to security officials.

Israeli and Palestinians Unite to Rob a Bank

RAMALLAH [AFP] — An Israeli and a group of Palestinians last week set aside their differences in order to carry out an armed bank robbery, Palestinian police said Sunday.

The heist at a bank in the Israeli-occupied West Bank town of Ramallah on Tuesday was carried out by six armed gunmen who made off with some 30,000 dollars, according to security officials.

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From the Safer Haminhagim: [Every day from Rosh Chodesh Nissan until the twelfth of the month, usually after Shacharis,] one reads the passage [from Bamidbar 7-8:4] that describes the offering brought on that day by a particular Nasi, or tribal prince, for the dedication of the altar of the Mishkan. [In common parlance, each day's passage itself is often referred to as “the Nasi.”] This daily reading is followed by the prayer which opens with the words yehi ratzon (and which appears in Siddur Torah Or [as well as in Siddur Tehillat HaShem, p. 371]). This prayer is recited even by a Kohen or a Levi [despite its seeming relevance only to tribes other than the Tribe of Levi]. [284]

To see the rest of the text of the Nasi click the Extended Article!

Did you say the ‘Nasi’ Today? (Yom Hey)

From the Safer Haminhagim: [Every day from Rosh Chodesh Nissan until the twelfth of the month, usually after Shacharis,] one reads the passage [from Bamidbar 7-8:4] that describes the offering brought on that day by a particular Nasi, or tribal prince, for the dedication of the altar of the Mishkan. [In common parlance, each day’s passage itself is often referred to as “the Nasi.”] This daily reading is followed by the prayer which opens with the words yehi ratzon (and which appears in Siddur Torah Or [as well as in Siddur Tehillat HaShem, p. 371]). This prayer is recited even by a Kohen or a Levi [despite its seeming relevance only to tribes other than the Tribe of Levi]. [284]

To see the rest of the text of the Nasi click the Extended Article!

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Tonight, Monday, March 30, 2009, at 8:00 pm, Rabbi YY Jacobson will deliver a special global webcast: Here Comes the Sun – Part One, a fascinating journey into a once-in-a-28-year-experience, the blessing for the sun, exploring the scientific, halachik, spiritual and psychological dimensions. Don’t miss this once-in-a-28-year lecture. The class will have an accompanying curriculum which you can download.

To watch, please visit www.TheYeshiva.net
To listen via telephone, please call: 1-616-347-8000. Access code: 1007852#

Tonight! Once-In-a-28-Year Lecture & New Essay!


Tonight, Monday, March 30, 2009, at 8:00 pm, Rabbi YY Jacobson will deliver a special global webcast: Here Comes the Sun – Part One, a fascinating journey into a once-in-a-28-year-experience, the blessing for the sun, exploring the scientific, halachik, spiritual and psychological dimensions. Don’t miss this once-in-a-28-year lecture. The class will have an accompanying curriculum which you can download.

To watch, please visit www.TheYeshiva.net
To listen via telephone, please call: 1-616-347-8000. Access code: 1007852#

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