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Daily Archives: September 23, 2019

Shehroz Iqbal (Credit: Metropolitan Police); Chabad Lubavitch Synagogue (credit: Google Maps Street View)

Man Pleads Guilty to Pinning Anti-Semitic Posters to Chabad Center

A man who admitted to pinning anti-Jewish posters on Chabad Lubavitch Synagogue in Ilford in 2017 has avoided jail, the Met Police revealed. An eyewitness alerted police after seeing Iqbal, who was dressed in camouflage clothing, tape antisemitic messages to the walls of an underpass near Gants Hill Underground station in East London on an evening in March 2017.

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New Engagement!

Avromi Rendler (Crown Heights) to Sara Levy (Crown Heights)
New Engagement!

Shmuel Moscovici (Montreal, Canada) to Malka Towers (Leeds, UK)
New Engagement!

Yaacov Brooks (Edgware, London, UK) to Rosie Rimler (Pomona, NY)
Baby Boy!

Zevi and Cheved (nee Lew) Greenwald from Pittsburgh, PA had a baby boy!
New Engagement!

Mendel Azimov (South Brunswick, NJ) to Liba Wilowik (Baltimore, MD) L’Chaim: Tonight, Thursday, 8:00pm at Lubavitcher Yeshiva
Baby Girl!

Shmueli and Toby (nee Carciente) Lisbon from Crown Heights had a baby girl!
Baby Boy!

Shmuli and Chana (nee Saacks) Adelman from Kingston, PA had a baby boy!
Baby Girl!

Yossi and Chaya (nee Hirsch) Lebovic from Crown Heights had a baby girl!
New Engagement!

Ariel Stein (Brooklyn, NY) to Tziporah Epelbaum (Buenos Aires, Argentina) L’Chaim: Monday, Nov. 11th, 8:00pm at Lubavitcher Yeshiva
New Engagement!

Schneur Cohen (Buffalo, NY) to Rishi Greenshtat (S Paulo, Brazil)
New Engagement!

Yonason Tamrin (Moscow, Russia) to Rivkah Laufer (Brooklyn, NY) L’Chaim: Tonight, Sunday, 8:30pm at Eshel
Baby Boy!

Yeheil and Chana Bracha Moscowitz from Michigan had a baby boy!
Baby Boy!

Avremy and Mushka Scheinfeld from Crown Heights had a baby boy! Shalom Zachor: 8:30pm at 391 Crown Street
New Engagement!

Yaakov Shalom Lifshitz (Atlanta, GA) to Devorah Leah Yeshayahu (Vancouver, Canada) L’Chaim: Tonight, Wednesday, 8:30pm at the JCM
New Engagement!

Sholom Piekarski (Kensington, Brooklyn) to Mussia Kvin (Miami, FL) L’Chaim: Thursday, Nov. 7th, 8:30pm at Lubavitcher Yeshiva Crown Street
New Engagement!

Mendel Rodal (Crown Heights) to Batsheva Zaltzman (Toronto, Canada) L’Chaim: Tonight, Wednesday, 8:00pm at F.R.E.E.
Baby Boy!

Gershon and Chayale (nee Gluckowsky) Muchnik from Crown Heights had a baby boy!

Video of the Day

With the Drug Preparedness and Awareness event scheduled for this evening, we present a video of Dr Eli Rosen MD speak on the lifesaving drug Narcan. Narcan is drug which can reverse the deadly effects of opiates and give a person enough time for emergency services to arrive.

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Shofar Blown for the First Time in 90 Years

Three months ago I moved with my family to Kaluga, a city that’s about 100 miles southwest of Moscow. As Rosh Hashanah came in, so did the people. Not since 1926 had Jews davened in this shul on Rosh Hashanah. In all these decades, not a kaddish or an Amen, not a single Avinu Malkeinu or a shofar blast on Rosh Hashanah. And now, after 90 years, the shul was bursting at the seams, the voices of the city’s Jews filling its space with traditional prayers.

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Vilnius Gets First Yeshiva Since World War II

A rabbi in Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania, is opening there what he says is the city’s first yeshiva, or Jewish religious seminary, since World War II. The Vilna Yeshiva will have about a dozen students when it opens this fall, Rabbi Sholom Ber Krinsky, the Chabad-Lubavitch movement’s emissary to Vilnius, told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.

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Report: Israel Conducted Nuclear Experiment in 1979

The Foreign Policy magazine reports that Israel conducted a nuclear experiment 40 years ago over the Atlantic Ocean. On September 22, 1979, an American reconnaissance satellite recorded a double flash over the South Atlantic. US military analysts at the Patrick Air Force Base in Florida quickly concluded the flashes were a nuclear detonation.

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