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Daily Archives: January 14, 2010

By Yaacov Behrman for Lubavitch.com

HAITI — More than two days after Haiti was hit by a devastating earthquake, rescue efforts have yet to begin in earnest.

As many as 50,000 people are feared dead after a 7.0-magnitude quake struck Port-au-Prince, the capital city of this poor Caribbean nation.

Chabad of Dominican Republic Reaches Out To Haiti Volunteers

By Yaacov Behrman for Lubavitch.com

HAITI — More than two days after Haiti was hit by a devastating earthquake, rescue efforts have yet to begin in earnest.

As many as 50,000 people are feared dead after a 7.0-magnitude quake struck Port-au-Prince, the capital city of this poor Caribbean nation.

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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)
J-Wire

Rabbi Tzvi Hirsch Telser

Reports that a breakaway group from Melbourne Yeshiva had been ex-communicated have been denied by the Yeshiva’s Rabbi.

Alex Leonard is a member of Melbourne-based group Honk4Joy which believes that the late Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel who died in 1994, is the Messiah and that the thrid temple “is ready and waiting in heaven”.

Rabbi Denies Melbourne Group is ex-Communicated

J-Wire

Rabbi Tzvi Hirsch Telser

Reports that a breakaway group from Melbourne Yeshiva had been ex-communicated have been denied by the Yeshiva’s Rabbi.

Alex Leonard is a member of Melbourne-based group Honk4Joy which believes that the late Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel who died in 1994, is the Messiah and that the thrid temple “is ready and waiting in heaven”.

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Rabbi Zalman Teitelbaum and Einstein physician Ed Burns opened the Holtzberg Hospitality Home on Tuesday, January 5. Photo by: Walter Pofeldt.

A callous attack in India has inspired Jewish students at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and the Einstein campus Chabad to help families in need.

India Attack Inspires Hospitality Home

Rabbi Zalman Teitelbaum and Einstein physician Ed Burns opened the Holtzberg Hospitality Home on Tuesday, January 5. Photo by: Walter Pofeldt.

A callous attack in India has inspired Jewish students at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and the Einstein campus Chabad to help families in need.

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by Getzy Markowitz

Landslide: Many poorly constructed homes were simply swept away by the magnitude of the quake.
Inset: Getzy Markowitz.

Two headlines this week interested me in that I have been following their development since their posting. The first intrigues me in terms of history, the second triggers my sense of humanity. One sheds light onto the other which is shrouded in disaster and darkness.

The number of fatalities in Haiti's throttling earthquake is still unclear, but as it is expected to exceed one hundred thousand, already the figure confounds the comprehension of man.

Dying to Help – A Human Response to the Haitian Earthquake

by Getzy Markowitz

Landslide: Many poorly constructed homes were simply swept away by the magnitude of the quake.
Inset: Getzy Markowitz.

Two headlines this week interested me in that I have been following their development since their posting. The first intrigues me in terms of history, the second triggers my sense of humanity. One sheds light onto the other which is shrouded in disaster and darkness.

The number of fatalities in Haiti’s throttling earthquake is still unclear, but as it is expected to exceed one hundred thousand, already the figure confounds the comprehension of man.

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CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — No one ever believed that the two fighting factions would ever go before a Beis Din to settle their differences, one side is now saying that all they are doing is “pulling a trick” and are not taking their actions out of court.

”To TRO” or “Not to TRO” – Old Vaad vs. New Vaad

CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — No one ever believed that the two fighting factions would ever go before a Beis Din to settle their differences, one side is now saying that all they are doing is “pulling a trick” and are not taking their actions out of court.

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SAO PAULO, Brazil [CHI] — In what is now a 30-year old tradition, Jewish girls from all over Brazil, closed a fun-filled, lively and spiritually enriching summer at Camp Pardes Chana in the resort town of Nazra Paulista.

Picture of the day – Pardes Chana Brazil 5770

SAO PAULO, Brazil [CHI] — In what is now a 30-year old tradition, Jewish girls from all over Brazil, closed a fun-filled, lively and spiritually enriching summer at Camp Pardes Chana in the resort town of Nazra Paulista.

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