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NJ Jewish Standard
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A computer rendering of the planned building. Rabbi Chanoch Kaplan (inset).

After a decade of local wanderings, Chabad Jewish Center of Northwest Bergen County is in contract to purchase a former church as its permanent Franklin Lakes address.

Church to Become a Chabad House

NJ Jewish Standard
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A computer rendering of the planned building. Rabbi Chanoch Kaplan (inset).

After a decade of local wanderings, Chabad Jewish Center of Northwest Bergen County is in contract to purchase a former church as its permanent Franklin Lakes address.

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New Engagement!

Yaakov Levy (Crown Heights) to Mimi Stern (Houston, TX)
New Engagement!

Mendel Schaffran (Brooklyn, NY) to Chana Friedman (Pittsburgh, PA) L’Chaim: Tonight, Wednesday, 8:00pm at Lubavitcher Yeshiva Crown Street
Baby Boy!

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
Baby Girl!

Sholom and Chaya Mushka (nee Rosenfeld) Katz from Lauderhill, FL had a baby girl!
Baby Girl!

Ari and Chanie Greenwald from Crown Heights had a baby girl!
New Engagement!

Israel Guetta (Netanya ,Israel) to Sterna Benmoussa (Paris ,France )
New Engagement!

Avremel Rapoport(Clarks Summit, PA) to Faigy Liberow (London, UK) L’Chaim: Tonight, Tuesday, 8:00pm at Lubavitcher Yeshiva Crown Street
New Engagement!

Menny Leitner (Monsey, NY) to Bracha Goldberg (Monsey, NY) L’Chaim: Sunday, July 20th, 7:30pm at Bais Yosef Meir Simcha Hall 19 Olympia Ln, Monsey
New Engagement!

Mendy Sulami (Los Angeles, CA) to Aidel Spielman (Crown Heights)
New Engagement!

Tsvi Feygin  (Teaneck, NJ) to Faigy Kahn (London, UK)
New Engagement!

Shmuel Gurary (Buffalo, NY) to Esther Leeba Eidelman (Manchester, UK) L’Chaim: Tonight, Thursday, 8:00pm at Rubashkin’s Downstairs
Baby Boy!

Sendy and Mali (nee New) Labkowsky from Crown Heights had a baby boy!
Baby Boy!

Yehuda and Raizel Marrus from Davie, FL, had a baby boy!
New Engagement!

Shalom Alon (Kfar Gidon, EY) to Bluma Potash (Noe Valley, SF, CA)
New Engagement!

Jack Abramson (NW4, London, UK) to Shayna Ash (Johannesburg, South Africa)
Baby Boy!

Mendel and Soro (nee Brennan) Manne from Penn Wynne, PA had a baby boy!

Foolish Kings

by Yochanan Gordon

Among the Arab nations, the mightiest despots, who have been ruling with an iron fist for 30, 40, or even 50 years, have overnight been stripped of their power. It just goes to show us how tenuous a grip these rulers really have.

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Rebuild Chabad of New Zealand

by Rabbi Shmuel Kopel

Lubavitchers around the world have been hearing about the miraculous events that happened to the Shluchim in New Zealand. After the terrifying earthquake, a shlucha ran down five flights of stairs with her son Moshe to a scene of chaos. Not every building was as lucky as hers, many buildings close by were flattened like “pancakes” as she says.

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Chabad of West Hempstead Annual Awards Dinner

Community leaders and elected officials including Nassau County executive Edward Mangano, Nassau County Legislature Vincent Muscarella, Town of Hempstead Councilman Edward Ambrosino, Rabbi Tuvia Teldon regional director Chabad of Long Island, Rabbi Anchele Perl director Chabad of Mineola and co director of Chabad of Long Island, were present at the prestigious Garden City Hotel on New York’s Long Island to celebrate with Rabbi Yossi and Chaya Rochel Lieberman and Chabad of West Hempstead at their annual awards dinner last week.

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New Engagement!

Zalmi Futerfas (Crown Heights) and Yehudis Kaminetski (Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine)

L’Chaim Tonight, Monday at the Jewish Children’s Museum
792 Eastern Pkwy [corner Kingston Ave]

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This last Shabbos the fourth grade boys class of Hebrew Academy of Morris County had their first full Shabbos experience with the Monsey Chabad community. The children were excitedly looking forward to the Shabbaton after hearing stories from older grades Monsey Shabbaton experiences when they came to Monsey with Rabbi Gil Hami and were not disappointed.

HAMC Students Have Inspiring Shabbaton in Monsey

This last Shabbos the fourth grade boys class of Hebrew Academy of Morris County had their first full Shabbos experience with the Monsey Chabad community. The children were excitedly looking forward to the Shabbaton after hearing stories from older grades Monsey Shabbaton experiences when they came to Monsey with Rabbi Gil Hami and were not disappointed.

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Chabad.org

Chabad-Lubavitch Rabbi Aaron Gurevich, a Russian Army chaplain who directs the Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia’s Department for Military and Law Enforcement Cooperation, discusses Jewish prisoner services with Col. A. Koshkin, director of the Nizhny Novgorod regional office of the Federal Penitentiary Service.

As part of a tour of prisons on behalf of the Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia to provide Jewish books and counseling to inmates, Rabbi Aaron Gurevich had contacted officials to plan his trip to Nizhny Novgorod. When he heard their assessment of the Jewish population, he pressed on.

Told of 2 Jews in Russian Prison, Rabbi Finds 8 More

Chabad.org

Chabad-Lubavitch Rabbi Aaron Gurevich, a Russian Army chaplain who directs the Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia’s Department for Military and Law Enforcement Cooperation, discusses Jewish prisoner services with Col. A. Koshkin, director of the Nizhny Novgorod regional office of the Federal Penitentiary Service.

As part of a tour of prisons on behalf of the Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia to provide Jewish books and counseling to inmates, Rabbi Aaron Gurevich had contacted officials to plan his trip to Nizhny Novgorod. When he heard their assessment of the Jewish population, he pressed on.

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NY Daily News

It's a heart-breaking bird's eye view of New York's worst tragedy. Nearly 10 years after the 9/11 attacks, a shocking and powerful 17-minute video taken by an NYPD helicopter on that fateful day surfaced Monday on the web.

Haunting 9/11 Video Captured by NYPD Helicopter Shows World Trade Center’s Twin Towers Collapse

NY Daily News

It’s a heart-breaking bird’s eye view of New York’s worst tragedy. Nearly 10 years after the 9/11 attacks, a shocking and powerful 17-minute video taken by an NYPD helicopter on that fateful day surfaced Monday on the web.

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Growing Seniors Program Making Friendships Across North America

by Yaakov Freedman – Chabad.org

Volunteer Nancy Weber, right, visits 103-year-old Roz Goodell as part of the Smile on Seniors program in Phoenix, Ariz.

When a group of Essex County, N.J., residents got together with their local Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries and devised a program to bring joy and companionship to the high number of seniors in their area, little did they know that they’d strike a chord among Jewish communities across North America.

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In this week’s “Opening the week with the Rebbe,” in honor of the Birthday and Yahrzeit of Moshe Rabeinu we are presenting a video clip from a farbrengen which took place on the 7th Adar 5745. The Rebbe talks about the connection of this special day with the month of Adar and the holiday of Purim.

Video: Moshe Rabainu & Chodesh Adar Part 1

In this week’s “Opening the week with the Rebbe,” in honor of the Birthday and Yahrzeit of Moshe Rabeinu we are presenting a video clip from a farbrengen which took place on the 7th Adar 5745. The Rebbe talks about the connection of this special day with the month of Adar and the holiday of Purim.

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