New Engagement!
Levi Blizinsky (Crown Heights) and Menucha Wisnefsky (Jerusalem, Israel)

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As former New York Gov. Hugh Carey was being interred Thursday in Shelter Island, Rabbi Yisroel Rubin recalled the man as an effectual leader whose dedication to the citizens of the Empire State served as a lesson in public service.
Shliach Recalls Governor’s Style of Public Service
As former New York Gov. Hugh Carey was being interred Thursday in Shelter Island, Rabbi Yisroel Rubin recalled the man as an effectual leader whose dedication to the citizens of the Empire State served as a lesson in public service.

Brazillian Students go on Inspiring Trip
After 10 months of learning two hours a week at their local Chabad houses, 120 students from throughout Brazil, including Bahia, Recife, Belem, Manaus, Tocatins, Belo Horizonte, Curitiba, Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo, embarked on an inspiring trip through Southern Europe.
Featured on the religeon page of the Huffington Post: Aug. 9 this year marks the saddest day on the Jewish calendar (Tisha b'Av) when the Holy Temple in Jerusalem was destroyed. But however much the Jews have been battered throughout history, they always seemed to bounce back. Here are the seven most powerful ideas in Judaism that have catalyzed Jewish renewal, time and time again. I'll teach you how you can apply them to your life.
The Seven Most Powerful Teachings in Judaism
Featured on the religeon page of the Huffington Post: Aug. 9 this year marks the saddest day on the Jewish calendar (Tisha b’Av) when the Holy Temple in Jerusalem was destroyed. But however much the Jews have been battered throughout history, they always seemed to bounce back. Here are the seven most powerful ideas in Judaism that have catalyzed Jewish renewal, time and time again. I’ll teach you how you can apply them to your life.

911 Will Soon Accept Texts, Photos, Video
FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski announced a five-step plan on Wednesday to update the technology that powers the 911 emergency response system.

Weekly Unique Photos of the Rebbe!
CrownHeights.info and the Avner Institute presents a series of photos the Rebbe talking with Rabbi Pupko in the front of 770.
Several City Council members who bankroll volunteer patrol groups in Orthodox Brooklyn neighborhoods with their discretionary funds say they will continue to do so amid some recent criticism of how such groups operate.
Council Members Defend Shomrim
Several City Council members who bankroll volunteer patrol groups in Orthodox Brooklyn neighborhoods with their discretionary funds say they will continue to do so amid some recent criticism of how such groups operate.

The Rabbi and the Police Chief
A new video from Jewish.TV features expert mechanech, Rabbi Yakov Horowitz, along with Tenafly Chief of Police, Michael P. Bruno, answering parents’ questions about how to protect their children from predators.
3 Sholom Zochors This Week!
Dovber and Brochie (nee Goldman) Segelman (Crown Heights)
860 Eastern Pkwy [between Kingston and Albany Ave]
Yossel and Mushka Gerlitzky
313 Crown St [between New York and Nostrand Ave]
Mendy and Nechama (nee Baras) Minsky
510 Crown St Apt 3E [between Kingston and Albany Ave]
A family of four from Florida visiting relatives in New Jersey got an unwelcome surprise at the Customs gate — all because of some forgotten fruit and vegetables.
Family Fined $300 For Vegetables In Backpack At Newark
A family of four from Florida visiting relatives in New Jersey got an unwelcome surprise at the Customs gate — all because of some forgotten fruit and vegetables.

Largest Jewish Camp Network in World Turns 55
In the spring of 1956, faculty of the central Chabad-Lubavitch grade-school yeshiva in New York, including its dean, Rabbi Chaim Meir Bukiet, sought a solution to the distinctly modern problem of summer vacation: They had no place to send their students to continue their studies during the summer months.
New Engagement!
Berry Tzfasman (Crown Heights) and Raizy (bas R Dovid) Kahanov (Crown Heights)

Shabbos at Besht: The Function of a Rebbe
This Shabbos at the Besht, Rabbi Avraham Shlomo will lead a disscussion on the Function of a Rebbe – Why is a Rav not enough?

Rabbi YY Jacobson – Israel’s Significance Today
The state of Israel means many different things to different people. There are those that see it as an entirely political entity, those who believe its creation is an indication of the immanent redemption and even others who, while they see the physical land as holy, do not believe that the political state holds any spiritual significance.
A Borough Park camp found a unique way to both entertain its campers and provide a service to the community by offering free car washes the day after Tisha B’Av.
Video: “Du Iz Shmitzik!” – Boro Park Day Camp Car Wash!
A Borough Park camp found a unique way to both entertain its campers and provide a service to the community by offering free car washes the day after Tisha B’Av.

Loan to Russian Museum Cancled over Chabad Archive
The Metropolitan Museum of Art has canceled plans to loan items by fashion designer Paul Poiret to the Kremlin Museum, making that show the latest casualty in an ongoing legal and diplomatic dispute that has suspended Russian loans to American museums. The conflict centers on an archive of thousands of religious books and documents that has been held in Russia since World War II. Last August, a United States court ruled that the Brooklyn-based Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidic movement had rightful ownership to the trove, and Russia banned all exhibitions traveling to the United States in response.