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by Matthew Shaer - Forward

Rabbi Israel Shemtov talks to the press during the 1991 Crown Heights riots.

In December, not long after “Among Righteous Men” was published, I returned to Crown Heights. The evening was unseasonably warm, and I walked east from my apartment, past the lip of Prospect Park, and down the undulating clamor of Eastern Parkway, my hands in my pockets. The neighborhood, where I had spent so many months reporting — some happy, some not — appeared largely unchanged.

Blog: The Red Devil

by Matthew Shaer – Forward

Rabbi Israel Shemtov talks to the press during the 1991 Crown Heights riots.

In December, not long after “Among Righteous Men” was published, I returned to Crown Heights. The evening was unseasonably warm, and I walked east from my apartment, past the lip of Prospect Park, and down the undulating clamor of Eastern Parkway, my hands in my pockets. The neighborhood, where I had spent so many months reporting — some happy, some not — appeared largely unchanged.

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Mendel and Bracha Eizenbach from Crown Heights had a baby girl!
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Melly Chein (Crown Heights) to Sara Rivkah Duchman (Surfside, FL) L’Chaim: Tonight, Tuesday, 8:00pm at The Arches
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Mendel and Mussie Rapaport from Hyde Park, IL had a baby boy.
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Zalman Stein (Northbrook, IL) to Nechama Dina Whitt (Oak Park, MI)
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Nosson Kuperman (Crown Heights) to Sheina Crespim (Sao Paolo, Brazil)
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Zalmy Chanowitz (Monticello, NY) to Rochele Klein (Crown Heights) L’Chaim: Sunday, June 22nd, 8:00pm at Ulam Chana 556 Crown Street

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Mendel and Yochi Scheiman from Carbondale, IL had a baby girl!
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Berel Simon (Crown Heights) to Mushky Kremer (Montreal, Canada) L’Chaim: Tonight, Wednesday, 8:30pm at Eshel 272 Kingston Ave
The Simpson family is sitting Shiva after the passing of their father, R' Aron OBM, at 900 E. 24 St. [corner Ave. I] in Flatbush until Monday morning. Mrs. Goldman is sitting shiva at her home, 820 Montgomery St. [between Albany and Troy Ave.].

Hamakom Yenachem Eschem Besoch She'ar Aveilei Tzion VeYerushalayim

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The Simpson family is sitting Shiva after the passing of their father, R’ Aron OBM, at 900 E. 24 St. [corner Ave. I] in Flatbush until Monday morning. Mrs. Goldman is sitting shiva at her home, 820 Montgomery St. [between Albany and Troy Ave.].

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NY Times

Peter Barbagallo, a carpenter working in a Sephora store, being issued a ticket on Thursday for driving in the bus lane.

With great élan, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg announced on Thursday that the city did not need to raise taxes later this year. No one jumped up to argue that point.

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NY Times

Peter Barbagallo, a carpenter working in a Sephora store, being issued a ticket on Thursday for driving in the bus lane.

With great élan, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg announced on Thursday that the city did not need to raise taxes later this year. No one jumped up to argue that point.

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Nobel Laureates Mark Chabad’s 15 Years at Columbia

Columbia Spectator

L’chaim! Eric Kandel, a professor of brain science, raises his glass in honor of the 15th anniversary of Chabad, which honors “pride in being Jewish” on campus.

Nearly 200 rabbis, students, alumni, and faculty nibbled on kosher sushi as they listened to Nobel Laureates Eric Kandel and Richard Axel speak at a fundraiser for campus Jewish organization Chabad in Low Library on Thursday night.

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Chicago Group Marks 6th Rebbe’s Historic 1942 Visit

by Karen Schwartz – Chabad.org

Students and rabbis from Chicago’s close-knit Lubavitch community arrive at Union Station for a ceremony marking 70 years since the Sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn, of righteous memory, visited the city.

Danny Altschul went down to Union Station in Chicago yesterday to commemorate an historic event that took place 70 years ago. When the Sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn, of righteous memory, stepped onto the platform on Jan. 25, 1942 to begin a week-long trip focused on inspiring and strengthening the local Jewish community and its commitment to Jewish education, thousands greeted him.

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