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Boston's Mayor Thomas Menino broke Boston Mayoral records, when he attend the Chabad Public Menorah in the Boston Common in the heart of Downtown Boston for the 18th time. The Mayor along with his staff were greeted by Rabbi Chaim Prus Head Shliach to Eastern Massachusetts, who began the public Menorah lighting ceremony in the Boston Common almost thirty years ago, in 1984.

Boston’s Mayor Attends His 18th Menorah Lighting

Boston’s Mayor Thomas Menino broke Boston Mayoral records, when he attend the Chabad Public Menorah in the Boston Common in the heart of Downtown Boston for the 18th time. The Mayor along with his staff were greeted by Rabbi Chaim Prus Head Shliach to Eastern Massachusetts, who began the public Menorah lighting ceremony in the Boston Common almost thirty years ago, in 1984.

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Zev and Chaya Mushka Shusterman from Coral Springs, FL had a baby boy!
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Mendel Vardi (Yerushalayim, EY) to Sara Namdar (Gothenburg, Sweden) L’Chaim: Tuesday, the 4th of Av, 8:30pm at The Garden House 1386 S. Johns Pl
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Sholom and Chaya Mushka (nee Rosenfeld) Katz from Lauderhill, FL had a baby girl!
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Ari and Chanie Greenwald from Crown Heights had a baby girl!
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Israel Guetta (Netanya ,Israel) to Sterna Benmoussa (Paris ,France )
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Avremel Rapoport(Clarks Summit, PA) to Faigy Liberow (London, UK) L’Chaim: Tonight, Tuesday, 8:00pm at Lubavitcher Yeshiva Crown Street
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Menny Leitner (Monsey, NY) to Bracha Goldberg (Monsey, NY) L’Chaim: Sunday, July 20th, 7:30pm at Bais Yosef Meir Simcha Hall 19 Olympia Ln, Monsey
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Mendy Sulami (Los Angeles, CA) to Aidel Spielman (Crown Heights)
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Tsvi Feygin  (Teaneck, NJ) to Faigy Kahn (London, UK)
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Shmuel Gurary (Buffalo, NY) to Esther Leeba Eidelman (Manchester, UK) L’Chaim: Tonight, Thursday, 8:00pm at Rubashkin’s Downstairs
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Sendy and Mali (nee New) Labkowsky from Crown Heights had a baby boy!
Baby Boy!

Yehuda and Raizel Marrus from Davie, FL, had a baby boy!
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Shalom Alon (Kfar Gidon, EY) to Bluma Potash (Noe Valley, SF, CA)
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Mendel and Soro (nee Brennan) Manne from Penn Wynne, PA had a baby boy!

Jewish Iowans Pause to Celebrate Chanukah

With only a couple of weeks until Iowa’s first-in-the-nation presidential primary election, the entire nation has it’s eyes on the Hawkeye State, as the volatile polls show the coveted state is anyone’s grab. The state’s voters are courted day in, day out by Republican presidential hopefuls vying for their vote, but this week, Jewish Iowans took a break from all the hectic campaigning to celebrate the holiday of religious freedom.

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Torah Café

As the holiday of Chanukah gets underway, public menorahs have begun popping up in major cities throughout the world. While some shluchim have no issue obtaining permission from their local government to erect these menorahs, it is not uncommon that acquiring this permit can involve a long and difficult legal battle. In this lecture, noted civil liberties lawyer Nathan Lewin discusses his involvement in fighting legal battles to allow menorahs to be lit in the public arena.

Video: Nat Lewin Fights for the Public Menorah

Torah Café

As the holiday of Chanukah gets underway, public menorahs have begun popping up in major cities throughout the world. While some shluchim have no issue obtaining permission from their local government to erect these menorahs, it is not uncommon that acquiring this permit can involve a long and difficult legal battle. In this lecture, noted civil liberties lawyer Nathan Lewin discusses his involvement in fighting legal battles to allow menorahs to be lit in the public arena.

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RCCS Auction Split-the-Pot Prize Exceeds $328,000

Highest Auction Prize in History is Response to Record Number of Cancer Patients

BROOKLYN, NY — In the wee hours of Tuesday morning, with tens of thousands listening and watching via a multi-channeled simulcast, the Rofeh Cholim Cancer Society awarded their record-breaking Split-the-Pot jackpot of $328,028 to the Stern Family of Brooklyn, NY. In addition, more than 50 other fabulous prizes were awarded, direct from the RCCS headquarters, as the culmination of this year’s RCCS Miracles ‘11 Chinese auction campaign.

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Girls Learn Almost 500 Lines of Tanya by Heart

The girls of Beis Chana’s Junior High, Miami, spent the month before Yud Tes Kislev memorizing Tanya during their recess, lunch breaks, and evenings. The score chart hanging in the hallway quickly filled up as the girls got tested each day. Weekend incentives, weekly call-a-thons, as well as the promise of amazing prizes, motivated the girls to put their all into this project.

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Op-Ed: To Beard or Not to Beard, That is the Question

by Rabbi Shmuley Boteach

Musings on the fall of Matisyahu’s Facial Locks

Matisyahu is a friend of mine so I was not going to comment on his choice to shave off his beard. It was his personal decision. Live and let live. But I changed my mind when my children told me that they were reading all over the internet that young, impressionable, orthodox Jewish youth were also choosing to shave off their beards following Matisyahu’s lead (I’m assuming these were young men, rather than women, who made the choice). It was then that I decided to weigh in.

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CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — One woman was hurt in an accident involving three cars at the intersection of Montgomery Street and New York Avenue. Two cars, a commercial van and a passenger car collided mid-intersection after one of them did not stop for a red light.

Three Car Crash on Montgomery Street, One Hurt

CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — One woman was hurt in an accident involving three cars at the intersection of Montgomery Street and New York Avenue. Two cars, a commercial van and a passenger car collided mid-intersection after one of them did not stop for a red light.

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Menorah Rebuilt Just in Time

Jewish Chronicle

Right: Shliach to Scotland Rabbi Pinny Weinman. Left: The rebuilt menorah.

Volunteers rebuilt a 15 foot menorah in less than six hours after vandals destroyed Scotland’s biggest public ‘chanukiah’ in an antisemitic attack.

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Shliach Attacked by Lithuanian Anti-Semitic Paper

Algemeiner

A photo of Chabad emissary to Lithuania Rabbi Sholom-Ber Krinsky appears under a headline that reads: THE JEWS see no need to pay ‘Sodra’ taxes.

European and North American human rights activists may have thought that the Lithuanian newspaper Vakaro žinios (‘The Evening News’) could not outdo its past antisemitic sensations, but the 21 December, 2011 edition full front page with a huge banner headline ‘THE JEWS’ may herald a new low in the series of 1930s grade disseminations of hate against Lithuania’s tiny and shrinking Jewish minority (around 95% of the country’s Jewish population was killed during the Holocaust).

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