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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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Sholem Ber and Deena Wolberg from Glencoe, IL had a baby girl.
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Menachem Rubenfeld (S. Diego, CA) to Chani Geisinsky (Crown Heights) L’Chaim: Tonight, Wednesday, 8:30pm at Lubavitcher Yeshiva Crown Street
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Pinny Itkin (Scranton, PA) to Esty Baumgarten (East Hampton, NY) L’Chaim: Tonight, Tuesday, 8:30pm at the JCM
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Shneur Pink (Manchester, UK) to Sheindel November (Teaneck, NJ) L’Chaim: Tonight, Monday, 8:00pm at Ulam Chana 556 Crown Street
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Levi Katan (Kfar Chabad, EY) to Miriam Krichevsky (London, UK)
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Yakov and Tzivia (nee Fogel) Staschower from Crown Heights had a baby girl!
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Mendy and Chaya Mushka (nee Vaisfiche) Labkowski from Buffalo, NY had a baby girl!
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Zalmy Liberow (Colorado Springs, CO) to Fraidel Werde (Crown Heights) L’Chaim: Thursday, August 7th, 8:00pm at Rubashkin’s Upstairs
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Yaakov Levy (Crown Heights) to Mimi Stern (Houston, TX)
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Mendel Schaffran (Brooklyn, NY) to Chana Friedman (Pittsburgh, PA) L’Chaim: Tonight, Wednesday, 8:00pm at Lubavitcher Yeshiva Crown Street
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Zev and Chaya Mushka Shusterman from Coral Springs, FL had a baby boy!
New Engagement!

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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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.

Chanukah
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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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Chanukah Lights Up Brisbane

Chanukah lit up Brisbane, Australia’s CBD as the Jewish community joined with friends and visitors to celebrate the first night of the eight day festival with the lighting of a six metre tall menorah in Reddacliff Place, Queen Street Mall on the evening of Tuesday 20 December.

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Hebrew School Sends Chanukah Package to Soldier

Several students of Rabbi Pesach’s Burston’s Chabad Hebrew School class pose for a photo with Jarrett Joyce, center, holding the Chanukah package they made for his father, Michael, who is a US soldier in Afghanistan. A copy of this photo was also included in the package send to Mr. Joyce.

Celebrating the holidays are always more joyous when celebrated with family. For the Joyce family of Highland Falls, NY this won’t be possible this year as their dad, Michael, is a US soldier in Afghanistan helping to fight the war on terror.

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