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3 Sunday Night L’chaims!

Hudi Riven (Montreal, Canada) and Rivky Lebovic (Crown Heights)
Lubavitcher Yeshiva, 570 Crown St. [hall entrance on Albany Ave.]

Shmully Weiss (Pittsburgh, PA) and Sarah Sirota (Morristown, NJ)
Lubavitcher Yeshiva, 570 Crown St. [hall entrance on Albany Ave.]

Dovid Moshe Einstein (Los Angeles, CA) and Eidel Mocanu (Bucharest, Romania)
1640 Carrol St. [between Schenectady and Utica Ave.]

Postville’s Wounds Re-opened

by Debbie Maimon – Yated

President Obama’s recent nomination of Iowa U.S. Attorney Stephanie Rose as a federal judge has forced into the spotlight an ugly chapter—the Postville Prosecutions of 2008, to which the Rubashkin case is integrally related. The rehashing of this disturbing odyssey has cast a dark shadow over Rose as she awaits Senate confirmation.

Tanya Printed on the Frozen Continent

Shabbat with the penguins. Alfasi in Antarctica on Friday.

Chabad has gone where no Jewish movement has gone before: Antarctica. After opening Chabad houses in almost every corner of the world, the Hasidic ultra-Orthodox movement has now sent an emissary to one of the world’s coldest places. Last Wednesday, Chabad emissary Meir Alfasi set sail from Argentina to Antarctica, heading off, he said, “on a mission from the Rebbe.”