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Daily Archives: October 10, 2011

FJC Demands Investigation into Moscow Anti-Semitism

Interfax

President of the Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia Alexander Boroda (left) and Chief Rabbi of Russia Berl Lazar (center) meet with Russian President Dimitry Medvedev.

The Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia (FJCR) has expressed outrage over anti-Semitic graffiti painted on buildings in downtown Moscow. The graffiti imitate leaflets one could see in the streets of Kyiv ahead of mass killings of Jews at Babi Yar during the Nazi occupation of the city, FJCR’s press service has told Interfax.

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New Engagement!

Nissim Elbaz (Sarcelles, France) to Dinah Moyal (Geneva, Switzerland)
New Engagement!

Dovi Bensoussan (Paris, France) to Shirel Ayache (St. Maur des Fossés, France)
New Engagement!

Levi Laufer (Crown Heights) to Rochel Mochkin (Rochester, NY) L’Chaim: Sunday, May 3rd, 8:00pm at Lubavitcher Yeshiva Crown Street
New Engagement!

Sholom Ber Schtroks (Cologne, Germany) to Chaya Minzberg (Tzfat, EY)
New Engagement!

Zusha Sandman (London, UK) to Rivkale Kaplan (Oak Park, MI) L’Chaim: Tonight, Thursday,8:30pm at Rubashkin’s 1349 President St. Upstairs
New Engagement!

Menachem Mendel Backman (Crown Heights) to Elka Miriam Ross (Toronto, Canada)
New Engagement!

Moshe Yitzchak Piekarski (S. Paul, MN) to Miriam Leah Libman (Crown Heights) L’Chaim: Tonight, Monday, 8:00pm at F.R.E.E.
New Engagement!

Mendel Zaklikovsky (Monroe, NJ) to Mussie Shemtov (Stamford, CT) L’Chaim: Tonight, Sunday, 8:00pm at Albany Manor 641 Rutland Rd.
New Engagement!

Yosef Gordon (Cincinnati, OH) to Dina Ives (Pomona, NY)
Baby Boy!

Bentzi and Osnas Cousin from Crown Heights had a baby boy! Shalom Zachor: 580 Crown Street Ground Floor, #009 between Albany and Troy Aves
New Engagement!

Tzemach Sanowicz (Crown Heights) to Esther Browd (Jacksonville, FL) L’Chaim: Tonight, Thursday, 8:30pm at Lubavitch Yeshiva Crown Street
New Engagement!

Mendy Wolff (Yerucham, EY) to Chaya Wolf (Chicago, IL)
Baby Boy!

Mendel and Shayna (nee Perl) Konikov from Kingston, PA had a baby boy!
New Engagement!

Zalman Niassof (Crown Heights) Chanie Shapiro (Chicago, IL)
New Engagement!

Mendel Lustig (New Haven, CT) to Basie Zalmanov (Queens, NY) L’Chaim: Tonight, Thursday, 8:30pm at Lubavitcher Yeshiva Crown Street
New Engagement!

Aryeh Wuensch (Crown Heights) to Rochele Liberow (Barranquilla, Colombia) L’Chaim: Tonight, Thursday, 8:00pm at La Sala 1345 President St
Baby Girl!

Sholom Ber and Simi Stiefel from Arcadia, CA had a baby girl!

Large Sukkah Coming to London’s New Street Square

by Joshua Runyan – Chabad.org

Sukkah in New Street Square, London, UK. Photo: Joel Seshold.

A bevy of leading London firms, including Deloitte LLP, Taylor Wessing, Mishcon de Reya, and Speechly Bircham, are partnering with Chabad-Lubavitch UK, to bring a large 48-square meter sukkah to the fast-expanding New Street Square development in The City.

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Wild Deer Are Trying to Repopulate Brooklyn

Courier’s Life

A deer is trapped between the bike path and the Verrazano Narrows.

Two deer died and another was rescued and set free after being pulled from the water near the Brooklyn-side of the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge Wednesday in what experts are calling the first time in 50 years that deer have attempted to colonize the Borough of Kings.

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Grand Sukkos Display in Montreal

The Talmidim of Lubavitch Yeshiva in Montreal took part in a unique and very special Sukkah competition this year. A selection of mishnayos Sukkah presenting various types of kosher and non-kosher sukkos were given to the talmidim and they were required to present models of these sukkos, with explanations of why they are kosher or posul.

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2600 Join Chabad of the Conejo for Yom Kippur

Photo taken immediately after Havdallah at the Hyatt Wetslake Grand Ballroom where close to 2000 people gathered for Neilah and heard a closing Brocho from the elder Chosid Rabbi Mordechai Meir HaKohen Bryski, seen here with his son, grandsons and greatgrandchildren.

Once again, every boardroom, conference room, and ballroom was used to facilitate the overwhelming turnout for Chabad of the Conejo’s Yom Kippur Service at the luxuries Hyatt Westlake Plaza Hotel in Southern California. The huge Grand Ballroom was filled to capacity for Kol Nidre, Yizkor and Neilah with over 1600 adults in attendance over Yom Kippur.

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In tribute to the late CEO of Apple Steve Jobs, Bloomberg Businessweek published various quotes Jobs made during his lifetime, with related or inspirational photos as a backdrop. One such quote was superimposed over a photo of the Rebbe's Shluchim.

Picture of the Day: Jobs’ Wisdom on Shluchim Photo

In tribute to the late CEO of Apple Steve Jobs, Bloomberg Businessweek published various quotes Jobs made during his lifetime, with related or inspirational photos as a backdrop. One such quote was superimposed over a photo of the Rebbe’s Shluchim.

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