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Why is tzedaka such a central mitzvah in Judaism? It seems somewhat un-spiritual that a person should need to affirm their faith in G-d through money. This week, we read about the donation of the Jews to the building of a Sanctuary for G-d in the form of gold, silver, copper and other valuable materials.

Video: Rabbi Immanuel Schochet on Tzedaka

Why is tzedaka such a central mitzvah in Judaism? It seems somewhat un-spiritual that a person should need to affirm their faith in G-d through money. This week, we read about the donation of the Jews to the building of a Sanctuary for G-d in the form of gold, silver, copper and other valuable materials.

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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!
New Engagement!

Yisrolik Chein (Toulouse, France) to Chanale Greenberg (Shanghai, China) L’Chaim: Tonight, Thursday, 8:00pm at 695 East New York Ave
New Engagement!

Schneur Motchkin (Crown Heights) to Sarah Schmukler (Crown Heights) L’Chaim: Tonight, Thursday, 8:00pm at Lubavitcher Yeshiva
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)
by Simone Weichselbaum and Adam Lisberg - New York Daily News
Clearing the sidewalk in front of Weinstein on Kingston Ave - Illustration Photo

Okay New Yorkers, it's time to get serious about shoveling the snow off your sidewalk - before it costs you. The Sanitation Department says it has issued more than 2,500 tickets in the last month to owners who left their sidewalks slick and dangerous with ice and snow.

Clear Ice From Your Sidewalk or Get Fined

by Simone Weichselbaum and Adam Lisberg – New York Daily News
Clearing the sidewalk in front of Weinstein on Kingston Ave – Illustration Photo

Okay New Yorkers, it’s time to get serious about shoveling the snow off your sidewalk – before it costs you. The Sanitation Department says it has issued more than 2,500 tickets in the last month to owners who left their sidewalks slick and dangerous with ice and snow.

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Shomrim Nab Shul Vandals

by Thomas Tracy – New York Post
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BROOKLYN — Four graffiti taggers nabbed near Marine Park Junior High School by the Shomrim patrol on Jan. 29 have been connected to an act of vandalism on a nearby synagogue that took place more than two months ago, police said.

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This Sunday, Febuary 6, 2011 there will be a Siyum Sefer Torah in memory of Pesya Leah Lapine HYD, who was brutally murdered in Crown Heights. The Torah is being writen by her children, she had four. Mrs Lapine was 39 when she was killed on 2 Adar 1 5752, 1992.

Sunday: Lapine Siyum Sefer Torah

This Sunday, Febuary 6, 2011 there will be a Siyum Sefer Torah in memory of Pesya Leah Lapine HYD, who was brutally murdered in Crown Heights. The Torah is being writen by her children, she had four. Mrs Lapine was 39 when she was killed on 2 Adar 1 5752, 1992.

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Holocaust Remembrance Day in Moscow

MOSCOW [FJC] — The Moscow Jewish Community Center hosted a ceremony in memory of the six million Jews killed in the Holocaust. Upon opening the ceremony, the head of FJC Russia’s public relations department, Boruch Gorin, noted that this year is an important one for the Holocaust.

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Crown Heights’s oldest pizza joint, Kingston Pizza, which recently changed hands, was shut down this afternoon by the New York City Health Department, after inspectors deemed it unfit to serve food in a routine inspection. Customers were ordered to leave the store, and a notice was posted on the door.

Kingston Pizza Shuttered by the Health Department

Crown Heights’s oldest pizza joint, Kingston Pizza, which recently changed hands, was shut down this afternoon by the New York City Health Department, after inspectors deemed it unfit to serve food in a routine inspection. Customers were ordered to leave the store, and a notice was posted on the door.

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