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Joe Davidovitz is a philanthropist and property developer in Johannesburg, South Africa. He was interviewed by JEM’s My Encounter with the Rebbe project in his home in August of 2014.
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Yisroel and Vita (nee Zeiler) New (Jerusalem, Israel)
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Levi (ben Kasriel) Sudak (Crown Heights) and Tzaity (bas Shmuel) Marasow (Crown Heights)
Investigators: Boro Park Explosion May Have Been Intentional
Investigators now say that the Saturday explosion in an apartment building in Borough Park that left two people dead might have been intentional.
Video: Journalist Calls Out Obama Admin. Hypocrisy
At a State Department Briefing with Deputy Spokesperson Mark Toner, an AP journalist called out the Obama Administration for its blatant hypocrisy: Last year, the Administration called Israel’s shelling of a terrorist-harboring school in Gaza “appalling” and “disgraceful,” yet they refused to condemn with similar language an American bombing of an Afghan hospital they accused of harboring Taliban insurgents.
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Mendush and Mushky (nee Wilhelm) Naparstek (Lausanne, Switzerland)
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Children Bid for Shul Honor with Mishnayos Baal Peh
This year, for the second year in a row, Pesichas Haaron for the daytime Hakafos at Empire Shtiebel in Crown Heights was ‘sold’ to the children in exchange for Mishnayos Baal Peh. Unlike last year, when it was sold for a mere 100 Mishnayos shared by 3 boys (33 Mishanyos each), this year the boys kept bidding until it reached the staggering amouint of 1,000 Mishnayos baal Peh!
Rabbi Aaron Eliezer Ceitin. Photo: JEM - My Encounter.
Call Goes Out to Dedicate Farbrengens to Shliach
The Vaad Hashluchim to Eretz Hakodesh has released a statement calling on Chabad Chassidim worldwide to dedicate their Farbrengens this Shabbos Bereishis to one of their veteran members – Rabbi Aaron Eliezer ben Rivkah Tseitlin, who is battling a malignant tumor and is in dire need of a Refuah Sheleimah.
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Benzion and Chaya Mushka (nee Yarmush) Shemtov (Crown Heights)
Day of Terror: Lubavitcher Stabbed in Petach Tikvah
In the third such attack today, a Palestinian terrorist stabbed a 25-year-old Lubavitcher man from Kfar Chabad in the central Israeli city of Petach Tikvah.
Day of Terror in Israel As Attack Follows Attack
A wave of terror has hit Israel today, with four attacks having occurred just by midday – leaving many fearing that a third Palestinian uprising – or ‘Intifada’ – has begun. In one incident, a quick-thinking Chabad boy saved an untold number of civilian lives by shutting an armed terrorist out of his apartment building.
Mayor David Dinkins (center) and Deputy Mayor Bill Lynch (second from left) at the scene of the 1991 Crown Heights riots. De Blasio was Lynch’s pointman during the crisis.
NY Post Blasts De Blasio for Honoring Dinkins
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio’s decision to name the city’s Municipal Building after early 90’s mayor David Dinkins raised some eyebrows over at the New York Post on Friday.
Video: Sukkos Joy in Toronto
A grand Simchas Beis Hashoeva celebration was held at Chabad-Ontario headquarters in the Thornhill area of Toronto, attended by hundreds of revelers who danced joyously until the late hours of the night.
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Shimon Tewel (Crown Heights) and Hadas Horovitz (N. Miami Beach, FL)
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Effie Shaw (Monsey, NY) and Rassy Hott (Monsey, NY)
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Avrumi Engel (Montreal, Canada) and Leah Polter (Monsey, NY)
Today: Rally for Israel at Israeli Consulate
A demonstration will be held today, Wednesday, outside the Israeli Consulate in Manhattan at 4:30pm. The aim of the gathering is to demand action from the Israeli government to protect its people, and to show solidarity with our brothers and sisters in Israel who are suffering under a wave of Palestinian terror attacks.
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