New Engagement!
Avi Tapp (Crown Heights) and Adina (bas Yossi) Brook (Crown Heights)

KSCVK and Devorah Benjamin will be hosting their annual auction on Sunday, May 25th. Will you be coming in person?
If you are unable to join in person, don’t forget to purchase your tickets online at kscvk.org.
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Carrying forward the legacy of Reb Shmuel Moshe Hakohen Benjamin A”H
New Engagement!
Yankey Jacobs (Amersfoort, Holland) and Esty Lasker (Brussels, Belgium)
L’Chaim Sunday night at Beis Eliezer Yitzchok
394 Kingston Ave [between Crown and Montgomery St]
8 Sholom Zochors This Week!
Hershel and Mushkie (nee Donin) Spalter
1303 Carroll St [between Kingston and Brooklyn]
Levi and Chana (nee Simons) Adler
450 Crown St [between Kingston and Brooklyn]
Yechiel David and Naomi/Yasmin (nee Gurba) Weinstein
556 Crown St Apt D10 [between Kingston and ALbany Ave]
Binyomin and Sarah Rivkah Nemon
580 Crown St Apt 611 [between Albany and Troy Ave]
Yossi and Batsheva (nee Schreiber) Shomer
645 Lefferts Ave Apt 2G [between Albany and Troy Ave]
Yitzy and Malka (nee Silberberg) Bluming
633 E New York Ave Apt 6FL [between Kingston and Albany Ave]
Yossi and Chayah (nee Hirsch) Lebovic
718 Empire Blvd [between Albany and Troy Ave]
Chaim Eliyahu and Esther Naomi (nee Riven) Ezagui
706 Eastern Pkwy Apt 6A [between Kingston and Brooklyn Ave]

Under ‘Lox’ and Key
When the thief picked the lox, the cops shouted, “Spread ’em!”
A bagel-brained bandit stuffed a dozen packs of smoked salmon in his pants at a Brooklyn deli — but got schmeared by a couple of workers before he could get out the door, police said yesterday.

Senator Javits Meets the Rebbe
CrownHeights.info and the Avner Institute would like to present a collection of photos taken in the mid-1970s of a visit from then New York Senator Jacob Javitz, accompanied by his staff and grandson.
Alternate Side Parking (ASP) regulations will be suspended Citywide on Friday, January 21 to facilitate snow removal. Payment at parking meters will remain in effect throughout the City.
Alternate Side Parking Suspened Friday
Alternate Side Parking (ASP) regulations will be suspended Citywide on Friday, January 21 to facilitate snow removal. Payment at parking meters will remain in effect throughout the City.

New Shluchim to Australia!
Rabbi Menachem and his wife Miri Lipskier of Crown Heights have just moved on Shlichus to Melbourne, Australia where they will serve as Youth Directors of Chabad Youth, serving the Jewish Youth of the Melbourne community with Tzivos Hashem, after school clubs, Mesibos Shabbos and many new exciting programs.
After more than half a century with no rabbi, no Jewish school or kosher butcher in town, Canberra’s 2000 Jews are beginning to see change.
Chabad in Canberra to Open New Mikvah
After more than half a century with no rabbi, no Jewish school or kosher butcher in town, Canberra’s 2000 Jews are beginning to see change.

Yaldei HaShluchim Farbreng Yud Shvat Via Webcam
Yud Shvat is a time for Farbrengens, kids included. It is the day of the Histalkus of the Frierdiker Rebbe, and the day that our Rebbe became Rebbe and made us who we are today.

Shliach Celebrated Birthday with New Torah
Shliach to Brighton, England, Rabbi Pesach Efune celebrated his birthday with the completion of new Torah, written as a birthday gift from the community.
Lending serious weight to calls for a retrial in the Rubashkin case, the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL) has filed a sharply worded amicus curiae brief with the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals, urging the court to vacate Sholom Mordechai's conviction.
Amicus Brief Slams Judge For Misconduct, Prejudice
Lending serious weight to calls for a retrial in the Rubashkin case, the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL) has filed a sharply worded amicus curiae brief with the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals, urging the court to vacate Sholom Mordechai’s conviction.

Picture of the Day!
As thousands of Shluchos prepare their itineraries for their upcoming trip to New York for the Kinus Hashluchos at the end of the month, Rabbi Moshe Kotlarsky of Merkos L’Inyonei Chinuch joined a meeting with the staff of Chabad House HQ (Suite 302) in a conference room in the offices above 770 to generate ideas to best serve them.
Baby Girl!
Moishe and Chani (nee Tzfasman) Lieblich (Crown Heights)
Baby Girl!
Levi and Rivky (nee Rosenberg) Wilhelm (Crown Heights)

Felony Charges Dropped Against Baltimore Shomrim
A Baltimore prosecutor has dismissed a felony assault charge against a member of a Jewish neighborhood watch group who was accused of striking a black teenager in November.
Friendship Circle Kumzitz with Chaim Fogelman
Boys from Friendship Circle enjoy a Kumzitz with Chaim Fogelman in honor of Yud Shvat at Dovid and Malkie Smetana’s home on Carroll Street.

Russia Scared U.S. Will Leverage Art for Seforim
MOSCOW [AFP] — RUSSIA said on Thursday it would not send any new art exhibitions to the United States until the two sides had settled a dispute over the return of a Jewish library to New York.