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Loan to Russian Museum Cancled over Chabad Archive

New York Times, Art Info

New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art

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.

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Yariv and Malkie (nee Kershner) Sharabi from Parkland, FL had a baby girl!
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Ari and Chava (nee Notik) Rendler from Riverwoods, IL on the birth of a baby girl.
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Ynet

The Shomrim (“guardians”), a volunteer-based Jewish organization, has been keeping London’s Jewish neighborhoods safe in cooperation with the Scotland Yard for years. Now, with the riots in the British capital, their work has become doubly important.

Shomrim Kept Jewish Neighborhoods Safe During London Riots

Ynet

The Shomrim (“guardians”), a volunteer-based Jewish organization, has been keeping London’s Jewish neighborhoods safe in cooperation with the Scotland Yard for years. Now, with the riots in the British capital, their work has become doubly important.

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Telling It Like It Wasn’t – The Crown Heights Riots

Ari L. Goldman – The Jewish Week

In iconic New York Post page one photo, Isaac Bitton lies injured on Crown Heights street with his son cowering next to him.

Former Times reporter looks back on coverage of the event, and what went wrong.

Twenty years ago next week, on the night of Aug. 19, 1991 — the night that Gavin Cato and Yankel Rosenbaum were killed — my editor called me at home to tell me that riots had broken out on the streets of Crown Heights. “We’re covered for tonight but I want you to start your day there tomorrow,” he said.

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Roving Rabbis to Come to Isle of Man

iomtoday.co.im

ROVING RABBIS: Rabbis Shimon Kivman (front) and Mendel Yaffee

Roving Rabbis Mendel Yaffee and Shimon Kivman are visiting the Isle of Man this week. The Roving Rabbi Project sends out rabbis and rabbinical students across the globe bringing Judaism or a helping hand to communities which either do or do not have a rabbi or a full ledger Jewish community.

Merkos Shlichus
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Markham Chabad Branching Out

Canadian Jewish Tribune

Markham Deputy Mayor Frank Scarpitti, centre, accepts an award from Rabi Avraham Plotkin, left, and Richard Steyn, president of Chabad Lubavitch of Markham, as part of Chabad Lubavitch of Markham’s 18th anniversary celebration.

Chabad Lubavitch of Markham has launched a new branch in the Bayview-Steeles area, under the leadership of Rabbi Yehuda and Chayala Zarchi. Chabad decided to establish the new branch, which is on Laureleaf Road, in the hopes that it will attract the thousands of unaffiliated Jews who live along the Bayview corridor and serve as a centre where they can explore Jewish life.

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Hand-Crafted Candelabrum Welcomes Detroit-Area Worshippers

by Ronelle Grier – Chabad.org

Engineer, inventor and entrepreneur Martin Abel presents the plans of his 16-foot candelabrum that he had built for The Shul in West Bloomfield, Mich., in honor of his 65th wedding anniversary.

Once lit, a single candle can be used ignite other lights in an endless number of places. But without that initial spark, that same candle cannot light even the smallest space.

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New Documents Expose Attempt to Extort R. Osdoba

In recent months the drama over the election of Rabbi Yosef Braun along with the deceptions therein has been little discussed in the public. Despite the silence, however, the matter is far from resolved. In a collection of fiery letters obtained by CrownHeights.info between the parties involved, serious disrespect and contention highlight a division more serious then ever before.

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