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Magen David Adom (MDA) has declared a mass casualty event and the State of Israel has moved to its highest security alert nationwide as hospitals report that six are dead following terror attacks that struck the country's southern region midday Thursday.

6 Dead in Triple Terror Attack in Eilat

Magen David Adom (MDA) has declared a mass casualty event and the State of Israel has moved to its highest security alert nationwide as hospitals report that six are dead following terror attacks that struck the country’s southern region midday Thursday.

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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)
New Engagement!

Mendel Goodman (Manchester UK) to Maayan Ochman (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
New Engagement!

Shaya Lipsh (Brooklyn, NY) to Devori Golomb (London, UK) L’Chaim: Tonight, Thursday, 8:00pm at Ulam Chana
New Engagement!

Motty Segall (Miami, FL) to Bryna Etel Kosofsky (Longmeadow, MA)
New Engagement!

Simcha Vogel (London, UK) to Mussa Junik (Crown Heights)
New Engagement!

Shmuel Brook (Brooklyn, NY) to Nechama Leah Greenberg (Solon, OH) L’Chaim: Tonight, Tuesday, 8:00pm at Lubavitcher Yeshiva Crown Street
Baby Boy!

Shneur Zalman and Yehudis Futerfas from Dnipro, Ukraine had a baby boy!
New Engagement!

Zevi Rotter (Crown Heights) to Miriam Elkins (Chicago, IL) L’Chaim: Sunday, March 22nd, 8:00pm at The JCM
New Engagement!

Mendel Minkowitz (Montreal, Canada) to Mushka Lewis (Brighton, England)
Baby Girl!

Zalman and Bella (nee Lifshitz) Brook from Brooklyn Crown Heights had a baby girl!
Baby Boy!

Dovid and Chaya Sandhaus from Philadelphia, PA had a baby boy!
New Engagement!

Menachem Brody (Chicago, IL) to Chaya Horowitz (Canton, MA)
New Engagement!

Chaim Eliyahu Sternberg (Crown Heights) to Yocheved Wilhelm (Crown Heights) L’Chaim: Tonight, 8:30pm at The Simcha Hall 571 Albany Ave
CBS

As New York City approaches the 20th anniversary of the Crown Heights riots, the family of Yankel Rosenbaum is unhappy that Rev. Al Sharpton will participate in a panel discussion about the state of black and Jewish relations.

Outrage as Sharpton Included in Event to Mark Riots

CBS

As New York City approaches the 20th anniversary of the Crown Heights riots, the family of Yankel Rosenbaum is unhappy that Rev. Al Sharpton will participate in a panel discussion about the state of black and Jewish relations.

Crown Heights News
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“Time to Reframe the Story”

by Steve Lipman – The Jewish Week

On the streets of Crown Heights, scenes of meetings between black and Jewish residents are common.

On a corner of Kingston Avenue, along the row of stores that serves as the center of what is colloquially known as “the Jewish side” of Crown Heights, a young chasidic woman with a sheitel atop her head banters with a middle-aged black man wearing a wool stocking cap.

Crown Heights News
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Twenty years after the Crown Heights Riots, community leaders and activists in the diverse Brooklyn neighborhood are quick to emphasize that community relations are significantly better than in 1991, when three days of riots shook the neighborhood.

Video: Living Apart in Crown Heights

Twenty years after the Crown Heights Riots, community leaders and activists in the diverse Brooklyn neighborhood are quick to emphasize that community relations are significantly better than in 1991, when three days of riots shook the neighborhood.

Videos
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With sadness we inform you of the untimely passing of Mrs. Mindy Ostrozynski, a longtime resident of Crown Heights.

She is survived by her husband Tzvi, and children Rabbi Elimelech (West Hartford, CT), Boruch (Baltimore, MD), and Yitzchok (Crown Heights).

Boruch Dayan Hoemes – Mrs. Mindy Ostrozynski OBM

With sadness we inform you of the untimely passing of Mrs. Mindy Ostrozynski, a longtime resident of Crown Heights.

She is survived by her husband Tzvi, and children Rabbi Elimelech (West Hartford, CT), Boruch (Baltimore, MD), and Yitzchok (Crown Heights).

Notices
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Op-Ed: Leadership Helped Bring Crown Heights Back from the Brink

by Shea Hecht – Forward

Living Together?: There’s always been some friction between Jews and blacks in Crown Heights. Leadership helped steer both sides away from confrontation.

August marks the 20th anniversary of the worst anti-Semitic attack in American history: a three-day nightmare that historians and journalists call the “Crown Heights riots” and that many members of the Jewish community have called a “pogrom.”

Op-Ed
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Texas Jewish Community Celebrates Torah Completion

Edinburg Monitor

From left, Dan Vaisman and Moshe Klein, a scribe, write a letter in the Torah on Sunday during the Rio Grande Valley Children’s Torah completion and dedication ceremony at the Chabad Center in Edinburg.

Children played, whiskey flowed and kosher hot dogs seared as dozens celebrated one of the most sacred events in the Jewish community Sunday afternoon.

Shlichus
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NY1

After young Leiby Kletzky was allegedly abducted and brutally killed in Brooklyn last month, some area businesses are joining forces with the district attorney's office for the “Safe Stop” program, which aims to help children and senior citizens in need.

Safe Stop Program Launches in Brooklyn

NY1

After young Leiby Kletzky was allegedly abducted and brutally killed in Brooklyn last month, some area businesses are joining forces with the district attorney’s office for the “Safe Stop” program, which aims to help children and senior citizens in need.

NYC News
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