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Daily Archives: November 15, 2011

by Atara Beck - Chabad.org

Rabbi Yossi Winner with Chabad at the University of Arizona helps a Jewish student don the prayer boxes known as tefillin.

College students who have considered using the Jewish prayer boxes known as tefillin on a regular basis but were intimidated by the substantial price of the ritual items are being assisted financially through a new campaign launched by Chabad on Campus International Foundation.

Chabad Helps Cash-Strapped Students Buy Tefillin

by Atara Beck – Chabad.org

Rabbi Yossi Winner with Chabad at the University of Arizona helps a Jewish student don the prayer boxes known as tefillin.

College students who have considered using the Jewish prayer boxes known as tefillin on a regular basis but were intimidated by the substantial price of the ritual items are being assisted financially through a new campaign launched by Chabad on Campus International Foundation.

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Baby Boy!

Dov and Chani Misholovin from Miami, FL had a baby boy!
Baby Boy!

Yossi and Leah Moscowitz from Wimbeldon, England had a baby boy!
New Engagement!

Levi Yaffe (Longmeadow, MA) to Devorah Gindi (Brooklyn, NY)
Baby Boy!

Chezki and Ahuva Coates from Chicago, IL had a baby boy!

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New Engagement!

Yaakov David Gordon (Melbourne, Australia) to Rivka Pink (Solihull, England)
New Engagement!

Mendel New (Crown Heights) to Sara Silverman (Marietta, GA) L’Chaim: Tonight, Wednesday, 8:00pm at Lubavitcher Yeshiva Crown Street
New Engagement!

Sholom Ber Gurary (Buffalo, NY) to Mussie Baumgarten (Rockaway, NJ) L’Chaim: Tuesday, May 7th, 8:00pm at the JCM Lower Level
New Engagement!

Binyomin Wilhelm (Zhitomir, Ukraine) to Chaya Sosonkin (Brooklyn, NY)
Twins!

Two girls were born to Zalman and Chaya (nee Slonim) Phillips from East Flatbush!
New Engagement!

Levi Deitsch (Perm, Russia) to Tehilah Holtzberg (Pomona, NY)
New Engagement!

Menachem Mendel Amer (Moshave Mivtachim, EY) to Feiga Leah Norton (Los Angeles, CA) L’Chaim: Tonight, Sunday, 8:00pm at The Shull 481 Albany Ave
Baby Girl!

Mendy and Chana Genya Goodman had a baby girl!
New Engagement!

Moshe Cunin (Reno, NV) to Doba Brikman (Crown Heights) L’Chaim: L’Chaim: Sunday, April 14th, 8:00pm at the JCM
Baby Boy!

Bezalel and Devory Broh from Remsen Village had a baby boy! Shalom Zachor: 63 E. 91st Street between E. New York Ave and Rutland Road
New Engagement!

Reuben Greenberg (Crown Heights) to Sara Brown (Liverpool, UK) L’Chaim: Sunday, April 14th, 8:00pm at the JCM Downstairs
New Engagement!

Daniel Namdar (Crown Heights) to Sossie Shain (Tenefly, NJ)
New Engagement!

Ari Levitin (Los Angeles, CA) to Frayda Flint (Crown Heights) L’Chaim: Tonight, Thursday, 8:0pm at Lubavitcher Yeshiva Crown Street

Rebbetzin Chana’s Memoirs: Reunion in Chi’ili

In this 6th installment of the series, Rebbetzin Chanah describes her perilous travels to, and reunion with, her husband Reb Levik in the wretched little village he was exiled to. The joy of reunion was dampened only by the heartbreak she felt over the morbid conditions her husband was forced to endure. The total change in her husband’s dress, face and even personality ‘bore a hole’ in her heart:

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Photos: Ohel’s Concert of Music We Love

Jewish Music Report

Photos by Ken Brown

The folks at Ohel took a huge gamble when they decided to stage a concert and keep the lineup top secret. Were people really going to spend big bucks to come to a show without knowing who the performers would be? The answer, apparently, was yes, as Mason Hall at the Baruch Performing Arts Center was completely sold out for the annual benefit concert.

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Largest Unique Student Gathering Takes Place

Photos by Bentzi Sasson

This past Shabbos, the Crown Heights community were privileged to host over 850 college students who came together for a Shabbaton filled with achdus, ruach and pride in being Jewish. Arranged and facilitated by the Chabad on Campus International Foundation, the Shabbaton brings together students from the over 165 Chabad Student Centers around the United States, Canada, Europe and the UK for a weekend of speeches, lectures, Shabbos meals and fun activities.

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Yeshiva World News, CHI

A Jewish woman was R”L murdered in Flatbush, on Tuesday morning. The horrific stabbing happened just after 1:00AM on Homecrest Avenue and Avenue U. She was rushed to a local hospital, where she was pronounced dead.

Horror: Jewish Woman Stabbed to Death in Flatbush

Yeshiva World News, CHI

A Jewish woman was R”L murdered in Flatbush, on Tuesday morning. The horrific stabbing happened just after 1:00AM on Homecrest Avenue and Avenue U. She was rushed to a local hospital, where she was pronounced dead.

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NY1

On a street in Crown Heights, Brooklyn nearly four years ago, Andrew Charles was beaten. Then 20 years old, Charles was allegedly maced and bludgeoned with a baton. Yitzchak Shuchat, a member of the Shmira, a Hasidic community patrol in Crown Heights, is charged with the crime.

Hasidic Man To Be Tried For Crown Heights Beating

NY1

On a street in Crown Heights, Brooklyn nearly four years ago, Andrew Charles was beaten. Then 20 years old, Charles was allegedly maced and bludgeoned with a baton. Yitzchak Shuchat, a member of the Shmira, a Hasidic community patrol in Crown Heights, is charged with the crime.

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Chabad.org

PARIS, France — Rebbetzin Bassie Azimov, daughter of the famed Rabbi Bentzion Shemtov and one of the driving forces behind Paris’ Jewish rebirth in the second half of the 20th century, passed away Monday. She was 67.

Community Mourns the Sudden Passing of Beloved Rebbetzin

Chabad.org

Photos: Elie Haouzi – Hassidout.org

PARIS, France — Rebbetzin Bassie Azimov, daughter of the famed Rabbi Bentzion Shemtov and one of the driving forces behind Paris’ Jewish rebirth in the second half of the 20th century, passed away Monday. She was 67.

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