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“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.
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.
Yeshiva Tomchei Temimim Lubavitch of Morristown hosted a ‘Shabbos Achdus’ for over 200 bochurim this week.
Eli Feiner (Los Angeles, CA) and Tova Wilmowsky (Crown Heights)
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.
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.
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.
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A young man from Moscow’s Georgian Jewish community was murdered on Friday, the innocent victim of a clash between two gangs. The victim has been identified as Yaakov ben Mordechai Manasharshivili, 26.
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.]
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.
In an address to a group of teenage students, noted author, lecturer and educator Rabbi Manis Friedman dismissed the notion of banning the internet and rejected the idea that the Jewish community is facing an unprecedented crisis.
Alon and Sarah (nee Horowitz) Asefovitz (Los Angeles, CA)
The NYPD Command Post vehicle, stationed on Albany Ave. near Lubavitcher Yeshiva, found itself in need of an electrical boost to get its engine started. Perhaps they should have called Shomrim..
Students, Teachers and administrators of United Lubavitcher Yeshiva on Crown Street gathered outside for the first school-wide group photo since 1991.
Yossi Clapman (Brooklyn, NY) and Yaffi Silkes (Crown Heights)
What began as a dream ended up a reality: A school wide Tanya Baal Peh contest was launched at the Lubavitch Educational Center in Miami on Yud Tes Kislev. It culminated on Yud Shvat with thousands of lines being learned and a tremendous Nachas Ruach to the Rebbe.
Chabad of Tucson, Arizona has appointed Rabbi Ephraim Zimmerman to be the first full-time rabbi serving the spiritual, religious and educational needs of Oro Valley Jews.
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