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Chabad at USC Breaks Ground on New Renovations

Daily Trojan

Students, administrators and supporters of the Rohr Chabad Jewish Student Center at USC gathered Sunday to celebrate the start of construction on a new building.

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.

Shluchim and Students Seeking Gracious Hosts

Havdalah at last year’s Pegisha.

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

Ventura County Star

Children compete in a sack race at the Mae Day community history celebration at Mae Boyar Park in Agoura Hills, CA.

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.

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.

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.

Chabad’s Extended Hand Reaches Pearl of Asia

by Ben G. Frank – Jerusalem Post

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.”

Jewish Doctor Murdered in Ukraine

Ynet

Holocaust Memorial in Lviv, where over 200,000 Jews were killed in the Holocaust.

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

AP

Vandals knocked over gravestones at the Congregation Israel Cemetery in Hartford, Connecticut.

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.

DUMBO Cafe Discriminates Against Religeous Jews

NY Post

River Cafe in DUMBO, Brooklyn.

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.