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Picture of the Day! Mechanchim Group Photo

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Gathered in Danbury Connecticut, over 150 Mechanchim are taking part in a two day conference aimed at sharpening their teaching skills as well as presenting and discussing new ideas. The conference is organized by the Chinuch Office which is directed by Rabbi Nochum Kaplan.

Foreign Minister Receives Shabbos Needs in Ukraine

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Rabbi Shaul Horowitz gives the Foreign Minister challah and wine for Shabbos.

Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, who is currently on an official visit in the Ukraine, met the local Chabad emissaries on Friday.

JTA Accuses Chabad of Facilitating ‘Kidnapping’

Marianne Grin is interviewed by an Italian media outlet in St. Petersburg, Russia.

About a year ago Marianne Grin, a Jewish woman from Florence, Italy, fled to Russia with her three children to escape a ruling by an Italian court giving full custody of the children to her estranged non-Jewish husband. The husband had successfully portrayed her as ‘mentally unstable’ to the Italian judge, citing the fact that she enrolled her children in a Gan Israel summer camp run by Chabad – which he argued was a ‘radical religious cult.’

New Engagement!

Zalmy Danzinger (Toronto, Canada) and Brochy Levilev (Crown Heights)

L’chaim will be tonight, Sunday at Beis Levi Yitzchok
556 Crown St. [hall entrance on Albany Ave.] at 7:00pm