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Daily Archives: July 17, 2012

by Karen Schwartz - Chabad.org

About 50 participants took part in a free Taglit-Birthright Israel tour of the Holy Land for people with special needs and provided by Mayanot.

Jesse Frankel, 21, recently returned from a trip he didn’t want to end. A participant in a Taglit-Birthright Israel project made possible as part of a partnership between trip provider Mayanot and the Friendship Circle – an international network of Chabad-Lubavitch programs that work with children and young adults with special needs – he spent 10 days touring the Holy Land with his peers.

Adaptive Israel Trip Forges Special Bonds

by Karen Schwartz – Chabad.org

About 50 participants took part in a free Taglit-Birthright Israel tour of the Holy Land for people with special needs and provided by Mayanot.

Jesse Frankel, 21, recently returned from a trip he didn’t want to end. A participant in a Taglit-Birthright Israel project made possible as part of a partnership between trip provider Mayanot and the Friendship Circle – an international network of Chabad-Lubavitch programs that work with children and young adults with special needs – he spent 10 days touring the Holy Land with his peers.

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Baby Girl!

Boruch and Adeli Zimmerman from Oro Valley, AZ had a baby girl!
New Engagement!

Dovi Vogel (Wilmington, DE) to Chanie Rapoport (Atlantic City, NJ)
New Engagement!

Yitzy Bernstein (Freehold, NJ) to Brocha Gleyzer (Monsey, NY)
Baby Boy!

Mendy and Sarah (nee Glick) Korf from Crown Heights had a baby boy!
New Engagement!

Levi Labor (Chicago, IL) to Etti Krinsky (Crown Heights)
New Engagement!

Moti Kulski (Paris, France) to Sharona Kuperman (Moscow, Russia)
New Engagement!

Yaakov Hirsch (Coral Springs, FL) to Chani Sulami (Beverly Hills, CA)

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New Engagement!

Mendy Holtzberg (Monterey, CA) to Leah Schmerling (Crown Heights) L’Chaim: Wednesday, May 14th, 8:30pm at the JCM
Baby Boy!

Lippy and Mushky Kosofsky from Crown Heights had a baby boy!
Baby Boy!

Yisroel and Nechama Dina Silberstrom from Remsen Village, Brooklyn had a baby boy.
Baby Boy!

Zalmy and Shevy Tauby from Toronto, Canada had a baby boy!
Baby Girl!

Kovi and Rivky (nee Danzinger) Raksin from Hollywood Florida had a baby girl!
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!

Letter: A Child Needs Your Prayers

Photo: Jews for Judaism.

A young yeshiva boy of 15 by the name of Shneur Chaim Yitzchak Alexander ben Nechama Dina is right now in critical condition with a bacterial infection that is ravaging his body. He needs the heartfelt Tefilos of every child in Klal Yisrael!

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Torah Café

Rabbi Nochem Kaplan, Rabbi Kenneth Brander, Rabbi Dr. Shlomo Riskin, Dr. Marc Kramer and Dr. Leonard Saxe discuss the need for holocaust education at the Yad Vashem museum in Jerusalem on June 19, 2012.

Video: The Need for Holocaust Education (Part 1)

Torah Café

Rabbi Nochem Kaplan, Rabbi Kenneth Brander, Rabbi Dr. Shlomo Riskin, Dr. Marc Kramer and Dr. Leonard Saxe discuss the need for holocaust education at the Yad Vashem museum in Jerusalem on June 19, 2012.

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Op-Ed: What’s Wrong with a Non-Jewish Nanny?

by Anonymous

After reviewing and pondering some of the recent articles and associated comments on this website, I felt that there is a significant problem in the Lubavitch community that must be addressed. The problem is the prevalent practice of Lubavitch families employing non-Jewish (predominantly Hispanic) women to work in their homes assisting with housework and/or child care.

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