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Op-Ed: The Key to Peace in the Crown Heights

by Mottel

A week has gone by since an “Installation Ceremony” crowned Rabbi Yosef Braun as the third member of the Crown Height’s Beis Din. The event, the culmination of months of backroom deals, private negotiations and heated public debate, should have brought an end to the discord and fighting that has plagued our community. Yet all was not as it seemed. Rabbi Osdoba, the senior member of the Beis Din, made a simple request – that Rabbi Braun show the two smichas mentioned in the psak. His request unfulfilled, Rabbi Osdoba was absent from the installation.

What happened, and what does all of this mean to us?

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New Engagement!

Shmayah Schechter (Miami Beach, FL) to Bella Kimball (West Hartford, CT) L’Chaim: Tonight, Wednesday, 7:30pm at Chabad of Greater Hartford 2352 Albany Ave, West Hartford, CT, 06117
Baby Girl!

Shneur and Sara (nee Heber) polter from Crown Heights had a baby girl!
New Engagement!

Yonah Galili (Toronto, Canada) to Ora Zuckerman (Crown Heights) L’Chaim: Monday, July 7th, 8:00pm at Bais Avraham Yitzchak 305 Remsen Ave
Baby Boy!

Dovid and Baila (nee Spielman) Vogel from Crown Heights had a baby boy!
New Engagement!

Yechezkel Markovitch (Kiev, Ukraine) to Layah Carlbach (Montreal, Canada)
New Engagement!

Meir Manssouri (Los Angeles, CA) to Raizy Altschul (Chicago, IL)
New Engagement!

Ari Drizin (New Haven, CT) to Batsheva Lisbon (San Diego, CA) L’Chaim: Tonight, Monday, 8:00pm at The Arches 1394 S. Johns Pl
New Engagement!

Berel Laufer (Providence, RI) to Batya Deitsch (Columbus, OH) L’Chaim: Tonight, Monday, 8:00pm at Albany Manor 641 Rutland Rd
New Engagement!

Mendel Stolik (Lantana, FL) to Mussie Chanin (Har Shmuel, EY) L’Chaim: Tonight, Monday, 8:00pm at Lubavitcher Yeshiva
New Engagement!

Yossi Brownstein (Davis, CA) to Chayale Klasner (Toronto, Canada)
New Engagement!

Meir Simcha Silberberg (Chicago, IL) to Yehudis Korf (Miami Beach, FL)
New Engagement!

Mendel Bluming (Chapel Hill, NC) to Mushka Lifshitz (Boise, Idaho) L’Chaim: Tonight, Wednesday, 8:30pm at Lubavitcher Yeshiva
New Engagement!

Leib Telsner (Crown Heights) to Sarale Scheiner (Oak Park, MI) L’Chaim: Tonight, Wednesday, 8:30pm at Lubavitcher Yeshiva
New Engagement!

Zushi Rivkin (Tampa, FL) to Shifra Weinstein (New Hempstead, NY) L’Chaim: Tonight, Wednesday, 8:00pm at The Garden House 1386 S. Johns Pl
Baby Girl!

Mendel and Bracha Eizenbach from Crown Heights had a baby girl!
New Engagement!

Melly Chein (Crown Heights) to Sara Rivkah Duchman (Surfside, FL) L’Chaim: Tonight, Tuesday, 8:00pm at The Arches
New Engagement!

Betzalel Schanowitz (Chicago, IL) to Chaya Mushka Gurary (Simi Valley, CA)

Kinus Hashluchos 5771: Behind the Scenes

Chabad House Compass Express
Photos by: Bentzi Sasson

It’s 9:00am on a rainy December morning and Rabbi Schneor Nejar is already entering his second meeting of the day. Surrounding the conference table are members of the NYPD Community Affairs Bureau who are there to discuss security precautions for the upcoming Kinus Hashluchos at Lubavitch World Headquarters, which is expecting some 2,800 women from over 70 countries.

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Lone Star Students Put Finishing Touches on Jewish Weekend

by Reuvena Leah Grodnitzky – Chabad.edu

Participants of last year’s Grand Texas Intercollegiate Shabbaton mark the close of the Jewish Sabbath with a musical Havdalah ceremony.

An estimated 200 students from 12 campuses across Texas and neighboring states will be descending on Texas A&M University next month for the third-annual Grand Texas Intercollegiate Shabbaton. Hosted by the Rohr Chabad-Lubavitch Jewish Student Center, the Feb. 18 to 20 weekend gathering is already generating a groundswell of excitement.

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There are no words to describe the recent events our community has been through, amongst them the untimely passing of Hachosson Yossi Kreiman OB”M. In light of this, the bochurim of Yeshiva Ohr Elchonon Chabad have composed a song in his memory, which expresses the troubled times we live in, as well as the positive manner in which we respond to our troubles, as we strive to stay strong through these final darkest days of golus.

A Song for Yossi Kreiman OBM

There are no words to describe the recent events our community has been through, amongst them the untimely passing of Hachosson Yossi Kreiman OB”M. In light of this, the bochurim of Yeshiva Ohr Elchonon Chabad have composed a song in his memory, which expresses the troubled times we live in, as well as the positive manner in which we respond to our troubles, as we strive to stay strong through these final darkest days of golus.

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By Rochel Goldberg

We live in a world that would be unrecognizable to King Achashverosh; but the newly released the Kol Menachem Megillas Esther, Slager Edition, bridges the gap between Achashverosh and Android, between Persia and iPads, between G-dly intervention and Google.

A Megillah For Modern Times

By Rochel Goldberg

We live in a world that would be unrecognizable to King Achashverosh; but the newly released the Kol Menachem Megillas Esther, Slager Edition, bridges the gap between Achashverosh and Android, between Persia and iPads, between G-dly intervention and Google.

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