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Daily Archives: January 26, 2011

Chabad Celebrates Ribbon Cutting of New Center & Torah Writing Ceremony

Chana Burston, co-director of Chabad of Orange County, Chabad Board President Gil Goetz, Monroe Village Mayor James Purcell, Board member Lester Pleeter, Rabbi Pesach Burston, Director of Chabad of Orange County, Board members Mitch Wenzel and David Dixler and Rabbi Yisroel Rubin, Regional Director, Chabad Eastern New York State

GOSHEN, NY [CHI — On Sunday, January 23, a large crowd gathered to celebrate the ribbon cutting and grand opening of Chabad’s new Monroe-Chester Center. The celebration also included a ceremony inaugurating the writing of a brand new Torah scroll.

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A Single Father, A Tireless Fellow Shliach, An Unimaginable Struggle

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New Engagement!

Yossi Labkovski (Buffalo, NY) to Chayale Zaltzman (Toronto, Canada) L’Chaim: Tonight, Monday, 8:30pm at Lubavitcher Yeshiva Crown Street
Baby Girl!

Chaim and Rivky (nee Wilansky) Perl from Remsen Village had a baby girl!
New Engagement!

JJ Cohen (Boca Raton, FL) to Nechama Solomon (Montreal, Canada)
New Engagement!

Dovid Ezagui (Brooklyn, NY) to Chava Sorkin (Brooklyn, NY)
New Engagement!

Hushi Kot (Tallinn, Estonia) to Chani Wilhelm (Morristown, NJ) L’Chaim: Today, Monday, 8:30pm at F.R.E.E.
New Engagement!

Velvel Reikhtman (Montreal, Canada) to Channah Kagan (Crown Heights) L’Chaim: Tuesday, June 10th, 8:30pm at Ulam Chana 556 Crown Street
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)

Op-Ed: The Key to Peace in the Crown Heights

by Mottel

A week has gone by since an “Installation Ceremony” crowned Rabbi Yosef Braun as the third member of the Crown Height’s Beis Din. The event, the culmination of months of backroom deals, private negotiations and heated public debate, should have brought an end to the discord and fighting that has plagued our community. Yet all was not as it seemed. Rabbi Osdoba, the senior member of the Beis Din, made a simple request – that Rabbi Braun show the two smichas mentioned in the psak. His request unfulfilled, Rabbi Osdoba was absent from the installation.

What happened, and what does all of this mean to us?

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Kinus Hashluchos 5771: Behind the Scenes

Chabad House Compass Express
Photos by: Bentzi Sasson

It’s 9:00am on a rainy December morning and Rabbi Schneor Nejar is already entering his second meeting of the day. Surrounding the conference table are members of the NYPD Community Affairs Bureau who are there to discuss security precautions for the upcoming Kinus Hashluchos at Lubavitch World Headquarters, which is expecting some 2,800 women from over 70 countries.

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Lone Star Students Put Finishing Touches on Jewish Weekend

by Reuvena Leah Grodnitzky – Chabad.edu

Participants of last year’s Grand Texas Intercollegiate Shabbaton mark the close of the Jewish Sabbath with a musical Havdalah ceremony.

An estimated 200 students from 12 campuses across Texas and neighboring states will be descending on Texas A&M University next month for the third-annual Grand Texas Intercollegiate Shabbaton. Hosted by the Rohr Chabad-Lubavitch Jewish Student Center, the Feb. 18 to 20 weekend gathering is already generating a groundswell of excitement.

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There are no words to describe the recent events our community has been through, amongst them the untimely passing of Hachosson Yossi Kreiman OB”M. In light of this, the bochurim of Yeshiva Ohr Elchonon Chabad have composed a song in his memory, which expresses the troubled times we live in, as well as the positive manner in which we respond to our troubles, as we strive to stay strong through these final darkest days of golus.

A Song for Yossi Kreiman OBM

There are no words to describe the recent events our community has been through, amongst them the untimely passing of Hachosson Yossi Kreiman OB”M. In light of this, the bochurim of Yeshiva Ohr Elchonon Chabad have composed a song in his memory, which expresses the troubled times we live in, as well as the positive manner in which we respond to our troubles, as we strive to stay strong through these final darkest days of golus.

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By Rochel Goldberg

We live in a world that would be unrecognizable to King Achashverosh; but the newly released the Kol Menachem Megillas Esther, Slager Edition, bridges the gap between Achashverosh and Android, between Persia and iPads, between G-dly intervention and Google.

A Megillah For Modern Times

By Rochel Goldberg

We live in a world that would be unrecognizable to King Achashverosh; but the newly released the Kol Menachem Megillas Esther, Slager Edition, bridges the gap between Achashverosh and Android, between Persia and iPads, between G-dly intervention and Google.

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