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Yosef and Dina Tzeiger (Boro Park, NY)

Chabad at USC Breaks Ground on New Renovations
Active members of Chabad at USC gathered together for the groundbreaking of the new renovations to the Chabad House. The event featured a home-cooked brunch, a self-guided tour of what changes will be made to the house and speeches by leaders in the Jewish community.

Video: KSCVK Spotlights Young Couple’s Wedding
This past Motzoai Shabbos, Keren Simchas Chosson V’Kallah held their first annual dinner benefiting the organization which helps Kallahs and Chassanim make their weddings. At the dinner a video presentation was played featuring the story of Baruch and Zahava (nee Akinade) Arky, a newly married couple who were helped by KSCVK.
Shluchim and Students Seeking Gracious Hosts
Next weekend, Shabbos Parshas Vayeira (November 2nd), over 800 students and 100 Shluchim and Shluchos will be coming to Crown Heights for the largest Pegisha of its kind. Shluchim are still looking for gracious residents who can host students for the weekend, for sleeping (Friday and Motzoei Shabbos) and/or Friday night Shabbos dinner. If you have any space for either boys or girls please email ndd@chabad.edu or call 718-510-8181. Thank you!

Picnic Honors Park’s Namesake
Oak Park’s Mae Boyar Park celebrated what would have been its namesake’s 99th birthday in a manner in which the philanthropist would have appreciated: having a picnic and feeding the hungry.
With great sadness and deep emotion we announce the passing of Mrs. Sarah (nee Kunavskia) Deitsch, OBM - fondly known as the “Mameh of Oholei Torah.” She was the wife of Reb Dovid Deitsch, OBM, who passed away in 2002.
Mrs. Deitsch was a pillar of support and a true partner in all of Reb Dovid’s endeavors, and showed herself greatly devoted to the Rebbe, encouraging her husband to immediately do what the Rebbe asked of him.
Boruch Dayan Ha’emes: The “Mameh of Oholei Torah”
With great sadness and deep emotion we announce the passing of Mrs. Sarah (nee Kunavskia) Deitsch, OBM – fondly known as the “Mameh of Oholei Torah.” She was the wife of Reb Dovid Deitsch, OBM, who passed away in 2002.
Mrs. Deitsch was a pillar of support and a true partner in all of Reb Dovid’s endeavors, and showed herself greatly devoted to the Rebbe, encouraging her husband to immediately do what the Rebbe asked of him.

Leadership Forum to Connect Communities Worldwide
After nearly two decades of hosting a guest conference alongside the Kinus Hashluchim, the newly renamed and revamped Chabad Leadership Forum will offer new and innovative ways to connect Jewish communities around the world.
In a 1958 letter released this week by Vaad Hanachos B'Lahak, the Rebbe responds to a man who wrote about a proposed Shidduch between a bochur of Sefardi origin and a girl of Ashkenazi origin, and the opposition they were facing from apprehensive family members.
Letter: Rebbe Rejects Discrimination Between Sefardim and Ashkenazim
In a 1958 letter released this week by Vaad Hanachos B’Lahak, the Rebbe responds to a man who wrote about a proposed Shidduch between a bochur of Sefardi origin and a girl of Ashkenazi origin, and the opposition they were facing from apprehensive family members.
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Could Russia’s Crackdown on Foreign Organizations Imperil Jewish Groups Working There?
Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, it didn’t take long for international Jewish groups to rush into Russia and begin rebuilding institutions of Jewish life that had been destroyed under generations of communist repression.
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Yisroel and Nechama Dina (nee Stern) Zilbershtrom (Crown Heights)
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Yaacov and Ita (nee Klar) Leaf (Crown Heights)
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Peretz and Mussie (nee Weingarten) Wolowik (Crown Heights)
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Chabad’s Extended Hand Reaches Pearl of Asia
Twenty-nine-year-old Chabad Rabbi Bentzion Butman often stands in front of the two-story, balcony-laden Jewish Center located at No. 32, Street 28, in Phnom Penh, the capital of the ancient country of Cambodia, thousands of miles away from his hometown of Lod, Israel. At the front gate is a sign that says, “The Jewish Center” followed by the words, “No Jew will be left behind.”
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Picture of the Day: Shliach Affixes Mezuza for JF
The Jewish Federation of Southern Arizona’s Northwest Division celebrated its grand opening on Sunday, Oct. 7. Rabbi Ephraim Zimmerman of Chabad of Oro Valley affixed the Mezuza on the center’s front entrance and spoke a few words of inspiration to those who were gathered.

Jewish Doctor Murdered in Ukraine
A Jewish doctor was murdered on Saturday in his house in Lviv, Ukraine. Dr. Leon Freifeld, 60, was a senior orthopedic surgeon, a university professor and a prominent member of the Lviv community.

Headstones Vandalized at Hartford Jewish Cemetery
Hartford police are trying to find the vandals who overturned nearly 40 gravestones at a Jewish Cemetery. Police say the headstones at the Congregation Ados Beth Israel Cemetery off Tower Avenue and Waverly Street were damaged sometime between Oct. 12 and Oct. 19. The vandalism was discovered by a congregation member who regularly visits his son’s grave.
The iconic River Café on the Brooklyn waterfront in DUMBO — famous for its floating-barge dining room that offers sweeping views of lower Manhattan — discriminates against Jews dressed in religious garb by requiring them to pay a minimum of $25 per person to sit at the bar, according to one current and one former employee.
DUMBO Cafe Discriminates Against Religeous Jews
The iconic River Café on the Brooklyn waterfront in DUMBO — famous for its floating-barge dining room that offers sweeping views of lower Manhattan — discriminates against Jews dressed in religious garb by requiring them to pay a minimum of $25 per person to sit at the bar, according to one current and one former employee.