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Baby Girl!
Dovi and Chani (nee Spalter) Goldman (Los Angeles, CA)
New York Times
Jill Korber walked into a drab police station in Queens in July to report that a passing bicyclist had groped her two days in a row. She left in tears, frustrated, she said, by the response of the first officer she encountered. “He told me it would be a waste of time, because I didn’t know who the guy was or where he worked or anything,” said Ms. Korber, 34, a schoolteacher. “His words to me were, ‘These things happen.’ He said those words.”
Police Tactic: Keeping Crime Reports Off the Books
New York Times
Jill Korber walked into a drab police station in Queens in July to report that a passing bicyclist had groped her two days in a row. She left in tears, frustrated, she said, by the response of the first officer she encountered. “He told me it would be a waste of time, because I didn’t know who the guy was or where he worked or anything,” said Ms. Korber, 34, a schoolteacher. “His words to me were, ‘These things happen.’ He said those words.”
6 Sholom Zochors This Week!
Levi and Leah (nee Silberstein) Schapiro
1429 President St. [between Kingston and Albany Ave.]
Yonatan and Chana Esther (nee Landa) Mizrachi
715 Empire Blvd. [between Albany and Troy Ave.]
Sendy and Frumie Dubrawsky
763 Montgomery St. [between Albany and Troy Ave.]
Sruly and Mushky (nee Frankel) Karasik
554 Montgomery St. [between Brooklyn and New York Ave.]
Mendel and Mushkie Silman
770 Lefferts Ave. [between Troy and Schenectady Ave.]
Yosef and Hudi Braun
Torah Café
Nathan Lewin
Step inside the Rebbe’s private room as we join Mr. Nathan Lewin, as he reflects on his personal encounters with the Lubavitcher Rebbe during . Learn the inside story of the famous “Chabad Library Case,” from the Rebbe’s legal counsel.
Video: Nathan Lewin’s Exclusive Info on Hey Teves
Torah Café
Nathan Lewin
Step inside the Rebbe’s private room as we join Mr. Nathan Lewin, as he reflects on his personal encounters with the Lubavitcher Rebbe during . Learn the inside story of the famous “Chabad Library Case,” from the Rebbe’s legal counsel.
For the First Time: Car Menorah Parade in Lakewood!
For the very first time, a car-menorah parade took place in Lakewood, NJ on the last day Chanukah, arranged by Lakewood Shliach Rabbi Yerachmiel Altman, along with Rabbi Moshe Gourarie (Chabad of Toms River) and Rabbi Levi Schapiro (Yeshiva Bais Menachem, Manalapan, NJ).
Eight Bochurim, Eight Nights and a US Senator
US Senator Scott Brown (R-MA) poses for a photo with the young Shluchim.
Rabbis Rodkin and Meyers of the Shaloh House in Boston, along with eight bochrim, ran an array of programs in honor of Chanukah. Door to door mivtzoyim: visiting businesses, nursing homes, and campers from the summer camp, helping them and their families to light menorah.
Bais Rivkah Builds Huge ‘Can-orah’ for Chessed
What do you get when you mix hundreds of girls, hundreds of cans, the holiday of Chanukah and a whole lot of effort?
Thousands of Mancunians Warmed by Chanukah Light
For eight feverish nights and days, L’Chaim-Chabad rabbis and volunteers made their way from hospital to senior home, community centre to quiet street corner, house to prison cell, in an effort to bring the light of Chanukah to all Manchester Jews.
Chasidim celebrate the ruling of the US Court of Appeals, upholding Agudas Chasidei Chabad's ownership of the Previous Rebbe's library.
Weekly Living Torah Video: Didan Natzach!
Chasidim celebrate the ruling of the US Court of Appeals, upholding Agudas Chasidei Chabad’s ownership of the Previous Rebbe’s library.
CTeen Clubs Celebrate Chanukah Across the Continent
In Skokie, IL, they sent Chanukah care packages to IDF soldiers; in Sunrise, FL, they skated with NHL’s Florida Panthers; and in Tenafly, NJ, they rode Menorah-topped limousines; they were some of the regional Chanukah celebrations run by the Jewish teen club, CTeen.
Menorah Lights Up Downtown Wilkes-Barre
On the second night of Chanukah, Yeshivah Bais Menachem illuminated downtown Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania with a special public menorah lighting. The public menorah lighting and party were arranged in large part by students and shluchim, building a beautiful new 12 foot menorah, playing music and providing energy for all in attendance.
Bar/Bat Mitzvah at Western Wall for Victims of Terror
Eighty-six children in Israel, all of whom have directly experienced the pain of terror, celebrated beautiful Bar and Bat Mitzvahs at the Western Wall during Chanukah. The event was organized by Chabad Terror Victims Project (CTVP). The children and their families came to Jerusalem from all over Israel for this once-in-a-lifetime rite of Jewish passage.
Car Parade Puts a New Spin on Chanukah
by Margie Pensak – Baltimore Jewish Life
I knew this would be one of my more challenging assignments–writing while driving in Chabad’s Chanukah Car Parade (texting while driving is illegal, but what about writing?). I practically had to memorize those simultaneous euphoric and emotion-filled feelings I felt while joining the 65-car motorcade.
