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Blog: Why Koreans Love Jews

by Julia Bass – Jewish Chronicle

RabbI Osher Litzman, Shliach to Seoul, with South Korean prime minister Han Seung-soo.

I was sipping tea with a South Korean friend of my father’s when he asked: “Do you go to church?” It’s a much more common getting-to-know-you question in Korea than in the north-eastern United States, so I replied: “I actually don’t go to church, I’m Jewish.” When the oohs and ahs from members of the family, who were thrilled to learn I was part of the tribe, had subsided, my father’s friend proclaimed: “I forgot your dad is Jewish! Koreans are the Jews of Asia!”

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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!
Baby Boy!

Yermi and Daniella Liam (nee Pohlman) Kurkus from Lake Lure, NC had a baby boy!
New Engagement!

Levi Kalmenson (Crown Heights) to Chanale Baitch (Crown Heights) L’Chaim: Monday, April 28th, 8:00pm at Anshei Lubavitch 578 Albany Ave
New Engagement!

Zevi Jacobson (De Moines, IA) to Ita Gurevitch (Crown Heights) L’Chaim: Monday, April 28th, 8:00pm at the JCM
New Engagement!

Sruli Friedman (Coral Springs, FL) to Adina Izgelov (Milwaukee, WI) L’Chaim: Monday, April 28th, 8:00pm at Albany Manor 641 Rutland Rd
New Engagement!

Shlomo Werde (Crown Heights) to Gila Bensusan (London, UK)
Baby Boy!

Chezki and Mushkie Golowinski from Crown Heights had a baby boy! Shalom Zachor: 539 Crown Street
New Engagement!

Avi Baitelman (Los Angeles, CA) to Mindy Neubort (Fair Lawn, NJ) L’Chaim: Tonight, Thursday, 8:00pm at Lubavitch Yeshiva
New Engagement!

Menachem Forer (Toronto, Canada) to Sari Gottlib (Hillside, NJ) L’Chaim: Thursday, April 24th, 8:00pm at Lubavitcher Yeshiva
Baby Boy!

Chaim and Bracha (nee Morozow) Rendler from Crown Heights had a baby boy!
Baby Girl!

Zalmy and Esther (nee Tabari) Hyams from Crown Heights had a baby girl!
Baby Boy!

Shmuly and Chaya (nee Lewin) Stone from Crown Heights had a baby boy!
New Engagement!

Yossi Krinsky (Vilnius, Lithuania) to Rochele Namdar (Gothenburg, Sweden)
Baby Boy!

Yossef and Naomi (nee Malinas) Haddad from Milan, Italy had a baby boy!

19-Year-Old Bochur Completes Shas in Three Years

by Joshua Runyan – Chabad.org

Devoting hours of intense study every day to his regular course load, a 19-year-old boy from Toronto has accomplished in the astonishing time of three years what most adults spend their whole lives attempting. But ask Chabad-Lubavitch yeshiva student Shaya Zirkind what secret allowed him to learn the entire Talmud and he’s surprisingly down to earth in his answer: go to bed early, wake up refreshed, and take each day at a time.

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In a report which aired tonight on 60 Minutes, Anderson Cooper makes the case that in some cemeteries, graves were desecrated so more plots could be sold, and that the industry in general is lacking oversight. The program shows footage from inside a lake near a Jewish cemetery in Florida, where tombstones were allegedly thrown, when something interesting comes on the screen. It appears at the 8:24 and 8:50 mark; can you figure out what it is?

Video: Disposed Tombstone?

In a report which aired tonight on 60 Minutes, Anderson Cooper makes the case that in some cemeteries, graves were desecrated so more plots could be sold, and that the industry in general is lacking oversight. The program shows footage from inside a lake near a Jewish cemetery in Florida, where tombstones were allegedly thrown, when something interesting comes on the screen. It appears at the 8:24 and 8:50 mark; can you figure out what it is?

Videos
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Yossel Gutnick Rebuilds Mining Empire

Business Review Weekly

“Diamond Joe” Gutnick has plenty on his agenda this year. His Merlin diamond deposit in the Northern Territory, held by ASX-listed North Australian Diamonds, is coming close to production. He and his sister are merging their precious gem assets. And he is preparing for the listing of Paradise Phosphate on the ASX, a project near Mount Isa in north-west Queensland.

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Yeshiva World News

Even before Rabbonim in the United States decided to hold the kinus in Citi Field tonight, Chabad Rabbonim and mashpi’im in Israel decided to hold a kinus to address the dangers posed by the internet, which will take place this week in the 770 building in the Ramat Shlomo neighborhood of Jerusalem.

Chabad Rabbis in Israel to Address Dangers of Internet

Yeshiva World News

Even before Rabbonim in the United States decided to hold the kinus in Citi Field tonight, Chabad Rabbonim and mashpi’im in Israel decided to hold a kinus to address the dangers posed by the internet, which will take place this week in the 770 building in the Ramat Shlomo neighborhood of Jerusalem.

Chabad News
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Becoming Friends Through the Friendship Circle

Washington Jewish Week

Mrs. Chana Kaplan with Friendship Circle participants.

When Jenna Kress, 16, first met Danielle Orleans, 9, she had to stay on the other side of the room for a visit that lasted about 15 minutes. Fast forward three years later, Jenna continues to visit Danielle, who is high functioning on the Autism spectrum, every single Sunday, staying for hours to read, write, cook and bake with the little girl who has allowed her to not only come close in physical proximity, but in her heart, as well.

Shlichus
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NY Daily News

Illustration Photo

Brooklyn remains the city’s bloodiest borough — accounting for about 38% of last year’s murders, NYPD statistics released Friday show. Of the 515 homicides last year, about 196 occurred in Brooklyn, mostly in a cluster of neighborhoods that include Bedford-Stuyvesant, Crown Heights and East New York.

Crown Heights Area Leads City in Total Murders

NY Daily News

Illustration Photo

Brooklyn remains the city’s bloodiest borough — accounting for about 38% of last year’s murders, NYPD statistics released Friday show. Of the 515 homicides last year, about 196 occurred in Brooklyn, mostly in a cluster of neighborhoods that include Bedford-Stuyvesant, Crown Heights and East New York.

Crown Heights News
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Photo: Chosid Visits Western Wall After Liberation

On today’s date, 28 Iyar, in 1967, Israeli forces liberated Har Habyis in the Miraculous Six-Day War. Masses of Jews thronged to the Western wall, which had been off limits for 19 years. Seen in this photograph is Rabbi Zushe Dvortz, of Kfar Chabad, awaiting his turn to enter the narrow passage that still separated the wall from an adjacent row of houses.

Picture of the Day
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2 Sunday Night L’chaims!

Ron David Hershcopf (Windsor, CT) and Minna Chava Caplan (Crown Heights)
Beis Levi Yitzchok, 556 Crown St. [entrance on Albany Ave] at 8:30 PM

Moshe Aber (Sydney, Australia) and Mushka Wircberg (Crown Heights)
1485 President St. [corner Albany Ave.]

Mazel Tov's

80 students of Yeshivas Ohr Elchonon Chabad in Los Angeles spent an uplifting and inspiring 'Shabbos Achdus' this week at the North County Chabad Center in Yorba Linda, CA. The Shabbos was filled with farbrengens by Rabbi Mendel Shapiro, the yeshiva's mashpia, and Rabbi Dovid Eliezrie, the local Shliach.

Yeshiva Spends Uplifting Shabbos at Chabad House

80 students of Yeshivas Ohr Elchonon Chabad in Los Angeles spent an uplifting and inspiring ‘Shabbos Achdus’ this week at the North County Chabad Center in Yorba Linda, CA. The Shabbos was filled with farbrengens by Rabbi Mendel Shapiro, the yeshiva’s mashpia, and Rabbi Dovid Eliezrie, the local Shliach.

Chabad News
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