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Columbus Local News

The Lori Schottenstein Chabad Center in Columbus, Ohio.

Columbus City Schools and the Lori Schottenstein Chabad Center's LifeTown in New Albany accepted a $150,000 sponsorship gift to fund the LifeTown curriculum for district's special-needs program this school year.

Ohio Electric Company Donates $150,000 for Education

Columbus Local News

The Lori Schottenstein Chabad Center in Columbus, Ohio.

Columbus City Schools and the Lori Schottenstein Chabad Center’s LifeTown in New Albany accepted a $150,000 sponsorship gift to fund the LifeTown curriculum for district’s special-needs program this school year.

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Mazal Tov's View More
New Engagement!

Yosef Gordon (Cincinnati, OH) to Dina Ives (Pomona, NY)
Baby Boy!

Bentzi and Osnas Cousin from Crown Heights had a baby boy! Shalom Zachor: 580 Crown Street Ground Floor, #009 between Albany and Troy Aves
New Engagement!

Tzemach Sanowicz (Crown Heights) to Esther Browd (Jacksonville, FL) L’Chaim: Tonight, Thursday, 8:30pm at Lubavitch Yeshiva Crown Street
New Engagement!

Mendy Wolff (Yerucham, EY) to Chaya Wolf (Chicago, IL)
Baby Boy!

Mendel and Shayna (nee Perl) Konikov from Kingston, PA had a baby boy!
New Engagement!

Zalman Niassof (Crown Heights) Chanie Shapiro (Chicago, IL)
New Engagement!

Mendel Lustig (New Haven, CT) to Basie Zalmanov (Queens, NY) L’Chaim: Tonight, Thursday, 8:30pm at Lubavitcher Yeshiva Crown Street
New Engagement!

Aryeh Wuensch (Crown Heights) to Rochele Liberow (Barranquilla, Colombia) L’Chaim: Tonight, Thursday, 8:00pm at La Sala 1345 President St
Baby Girl!

Sholom Ber and Simi Stiefel from Arcadia, CA had a baby girl!
New Engagement!

Lippy Baumgarten (Rockaway, NJ) to Chana Rivkin (New Orleans, LA)
New Engagement!

Meir Levy (Crown Heights) to Rashi Rubashkin (Crown Heights) L’Chaim: Wednesday, April 15th, 8:00pm at 1349 President Street
New Engagement!

Menachem Mendel Hecht (Stores, CT) to Aidela Zirkind (Toronto, Canada)
Baby Girl!

Tuvya and Shaina (nee Goldstein) Gewirtz from Crown Heights had a baby girl!

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Baby Boy!

R’ Dovber and Lulu (nee Kievman) Koncepolski from Irvine, CA had a baby boy!
New Engagement!

Dov Werner (Five Towns, NY) to Mushka Miriam Weingarten (Kingston, PA)
New Engagement!

Shmuli Dalfin (North Bay Village, FL) to Chayle Groner (Calgary, Canada)
New Engagement!

Chaya Saacks (Crown Heights) to Shmuli Brecher (Boro Park)
Haaretz

Illustration Photo.

Thousands of palm fronds have been smuggled from Egypt and have made their way to Israel and the United States, veteran palm frond traders said Monday, despite the Egyptian ban on their export ahead of the upcoming Sukkot holiday.

Despite Ban, Thousands of Lulavim Smuggled out of Egypt

Haaretz

Illustration Photo.

Thousands of palm fronds have been smuggled from Egypt and have made their way to Israel and the United States, veteran palm frond traders said Monday, despite the Egyptian ban on their export ahead of the upcoming Sukkot holiday.

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The Rubashkin Petition, now in it's third week, has launched a massive new campaign entitled “Fortune 500,” with the goal to become number one in petitions gathered in a 30 day span.The plan is to get 500 people who really care to commit themselves to getting 25 signatures each.

Justice for Sholom Launches ‘Fortune 500’ Campaign

The Rubashkin Petition, now in it’s third week, has launched a massive new campaign entitled “Fortune 500,” with the goal to become number one in petitions gathered in a 30 day span.The plan is to get 500 people who really care to commit themselves to getting 25 signatures each.

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FJC Demands Investigation into Moscow Anti-Semitism

Interfax

President of the Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia Alexander Boroda (left) and Chief Rabbi of Russia Berl Lazar (center) meet with Russian President Dimitry Medvedev.

The Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia (FJCR) has expressed outrage over anti-Semitic graffiti painted on buildings in downtown Moscow. The graffiti imitate leaflets one could see in the streets of Kyiv ahead of mass killings of Jews at Babi Yar during the Nazi occupation of the city, FJCR’s press service has told Interfax.

Chabad News

Large Sukkah Coming to London’s New Street Square

by Joshua Runyan – Chabad.org

Sukkah in New Street Square, London, UK. Photo: Joel Seshold.

A bevy of leading London firms, including Deloitte LLP, Taylor Wessing, Mishcon de Reya, and Speechly Bircham, are partnering with Chabad-Lubavitch UK, to bring a large 48-square meter sukkah to the fast-expanding New Street Square development in The City.

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Wild Deer Are Trying to Repopulate Brooklyn

Courier’s Life

A deer is trapped between the bike path and the Verrazano Narrows.

Two deer died and another was rescued and set free after being pulled from the water near the Brooklyn-side of the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge Wednesday in what experts are calling the first time in 50 years that deer have attempted to colonize the Borough of Kings.

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Grand Sukkos Display in Montreal

The Talmidim of Lubavitch Yeshiva in Montreal took part in a unique and very special Sukkah competition this year. A selection of mishnayos Sukkah presenting various types of kosher and non-kosher sukkos were given to the talmidim and they were required to present models of these sukkos, with explanations of why they are kosher or posul.

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2600 Join Chabad of the Conejo for Yom Kippur

Photo taken immediately after Havdallah at the Hyatt Wetslake Grand Ballroom where close to 2000 people gathered for Neilah and heard a closing Brocho from the elder Chosid Rabbi Mordechai Meir HaKohen Bryski, seen here with his son, grandsons and greatgrandchildren.

Once again, every boardroom, conference room, and ballroom was used to facilitate the overwhelming turnout for Chabad of the Conejo’s Yom Kippur Service at the luxuries Hyatt Westlake Plaza Hotel in Southern California. The huge Grand Ballroom was filled to capacity for Kol Nidre, Yizkor and Neilah with over 1600 adults in attendance over Yom Kippur.

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In tribute to the late CEO of Apple Steve Jobs, Bloomberg Businessweek published various quotes Jobs made during his lifetime, with related or inspirational photos as a backdrop. One such quote was superimposed over a photo of the Rebbe's Shluchim.

Picture of the Day: Jobs’ Wisdom on Shluchim Photo

In tribute to the late CEO of Apple Steve Jobs, Bloomberg Businessweek published various quotes Jobs made during his lifetime, with related or inspirational photos as a backdrop. One such quote was superimposed over a photo of the Rebbe’s Shluchim.

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The interior of Baghdad's Synagogue

The nine Jews remaining in Iraq, a country with a Jewish history that dates back 2,600 years, were told by an Anglican priest that they must leave because their names appeared in a WikiLeaks cable.

Iraq’s 9 Remaining Jews Told They Must Leave

The interior of Baghdad’s Synagogue

The nine Jews remaining in Iraq, a country with a Jewish history that dates back 2,600 years, were told by an Anglican priest that they must leave because their names appeared in a WikiLeaks cable.

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by Yehudis Fishman - Chabad.org

What makes the Jewish holiday of Sukkot memorable for me is something I have loved to do ever since I first got my own set of the Four Kinds, the lulav and etrog set. We are commanded to shake the Four Kinds every morning of the eight-day holiday (excluding the Sabbath), and the Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, of righteous memory, taught us to take our lulav and etrog and pass it around to whomever else would be willing to recite the blessing and do a “shake.”

Hitting the Streets with My Sukkot Holiday Gear

by Yehudis Fishman – Chabad.org

What makes the Jewish holiday of Sukkot memorable for me is something I have loved to do ever since I first got my own set of the Four Kinds, the lulav and etrog set. We are commanded to shake the Four Kinds every morning of the eight-day holiday (excluding the Sabbath), and the Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, of righteous memory, taught us to take our lulav and etrog and pass it around to whomever else would be willing to recite the blessing and do a “shake.”

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A story which recently appeared in the news section of Chabad.org about a Jewish Golf pro who refuses to play on Yom Kippur has the staff at the Jewish Telegraphic Agency all in a dither. Chabad.org portrayed Letitia Beck as the 'Sandy Koufax of women’s professional golf,' but the JTA says that title actually belongs to a Jewish woman who refused to play golf on Yom Kippur long before Sandy Koufax was born.

JTA Fact Checks Chabad.org Yom Kippur Story

A story which recently appeared in the news section of Chabad.org about a Jewish Golf pro who refuses to play on Yom Kippur has the staff at the Jewish Telegraphic Agency all in a dither. Chabad.org portrayed Letitia Beck as the ‘Sandy Koufax of women’s professional golf,’ but the JTA says that title actually belongs to a Jewish woman who refused to play golf on Yom Kippur long before Sandy Koufax was born.

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