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Crown Heights residents making their way to the Brooklyn Botanic Gardens this summer will be greeted by a pleasant surprise. On the formerly drab northeast corner of the gardens, on Washington Ave. and Eastern Parkway, a new $28 million state-of-the-art visitor's center will be welcoming all guests.

Video: New Visitor’s Center at Botanic Gardens

Crown Heights residents making their way to the Brooklyn Botanic Gardens this summer will be greeted by a pleasant surprise. On the formerly drab northeast corner of the gardens, on Washington Ave. and Eastern Parkway, a new $28 million state-of-the-art visitor’s center will be welcoming all guests.

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A Single Father, A Tireless Fellow Shliach, An Unimaginable Struggle

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New Engagement!

JJ Cohen (Boca Raton, FL) to Nechama Solomon (Montreal, Canada)
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Dovid Ezagui (Brooklyn, NY) to Chava Sorkin (Brooklyn, NY)
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Hushi Kot (Tallinn, Estonia) to Chani Wilhelm (Morristown, NJ) L’Chaim: Today, Monday, 8:30pm at F.R.E.E.
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Velvel Reikhtman (Montreal, Canada) to Channah Kagan (Crown Heights) L’Chaim: Tuesday, June 10th, 8:30pm at Ulam Chana 556 Crown Street
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Shimon and Chanie Alon from Coral Springs, FL had a baby boy!
Baby Boy!

Yitzy and Leeby Smith from Coral Springs, FL had a baby boy!
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Pesach Chaim Newman (Crown Heights) to Bluma Raizel Lewis (Old Tappan, NJ)
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Eitan Hershkop (Crown Heights) to Chana Belfer (Melbourne, Australia) L’Chaim: Tonight, Thursday, 8:00pm at Bass and Bourbon
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Levi Meer (Morristown, NJ) to Sara Gershovitz (Crown Heights) L’Chaim: Thursday, June 12th, 8:00pm at 1349 President Street Upstairs
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Yosef Chaim Bercovice (Chicago, IL) to Leah Eisenbach (New York)
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Pesach Bercovice (Chicago, IL) to Tzipporah Yasmine Holloway (Orlando, FL)
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Mendel Saaks (Chicago, IL) to Leeba Grossbaum (Paramus, NJ)
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Yisrolik Keselman (London, UK) to Shaina Keller (Crown Heights)

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Ya’akov Silverman (Tysons Corner, VA) to Chaya Raizel Michaelson (Glastonbury, CT)
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Yaya Kagan (Los Angeles, CA) to Hadas Malamud (Brooklyn, NY) L’Chaim: Tonight, Thursday, 7:30pm at the Oholei Torah Ballroom
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Rabbi Benzion Chanowitz shows the empty cabinet where the Torah was stolen from. Inset: Christopher Colvill.

A Liberty man faces three to six years in state prison when sentenced in August on his guilty plea to possession of a stolen Torah from the Landfield Avenue Chabad Synagogue in Monticello.

Man Pleads Guilty to Possessing Stolen Torah

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Rabbi Benzion Chanowitz shows the empty cabinet where the Torah was stolen from. Inset: Christopher Colvill.

A Liberty man faces three to six years in state prison when sentenced in August on his guilty plea to possession of a stolen Torah from the Landfield Avenue Chabad Synagogue in Monticello.

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On the Front Lines: Stories to Inspire

by Nochum Waldroop

Pesach Merkos Shlichus in Bariloche, Argentina

Summer Merkos Shlichus registration will soon be opening after a wildly accomplished Pesach, where some 600 bochurim in roughly 300 locations around the world connected with more than 32,000 Jews. According to Rabbi Shneur Nejar, director of Merkos Shlichus, “We fulfilled the Rebbe’s blessing to the Merkos Shluchim, to go ‘with extraordinary success.’”

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Bramson ORT Reminds Students to Register Before Changes

Federal Aid cut coming this July. Students encouraged to register for Bramson ORT program now:

Four years ago, a unique partnership was developed between Crown Heights and Bensonhurst. Community leaders from Chabad realized that many students in their yeshiva system were not planning on continuing and obtaining smicha and would rather choose a career. There was a need to develop a framework which would allow them to earn the skills to make a respectable parnassah and raise families. Thus, the JTVS program at Bramson ORT College was created.

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by Mimi Hecht - Lady Mama

Even though statistics show that many women reading this right now have experienced the loss of a pregnancy, most of these women have not and likely never will publicly address or even mention in private the fact of their miscarriage. Being that this kind of death is a fact of many women's lives, and that silence and shame only exaggerate the pain, I am opening up about my own miscarriage, which occurred a little over two months ago.

The Gift of Loss: Talking About My Miscarriage

by Mimi Hecht – Lady Mama

Even though statistics show that many women reading this right now have experienced the loss of a pregnancy, most of these women have not and likely never will publicly address or even mention in private the fact of their miscarriage. Being that this kind of death is a fact of many women’s lives, and that silence and shame only exaggerate the pain, I am opening up about my own miscarriage, which occurred a little over two months ago.

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Photos: The African-American Version of Shomrim?

USA Today published these photos of members of Save Our Streets (S.O.S.) canvassing a section of the Crown Heights neighborhood in Brooklyn, NY. The organization, which is made up of “violence interrupters” and outreach workers that grew up or live in the neighborhood, makes almost nightly patrols to discourage residents from criminal activity.

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