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6 Sholom Zochors This Week!

Boruch and Chevy (nee Flint) Lazar
1603 Carroll St [between Schenectady and Utica Ave]

Yanky and Melisa Laine
The Shul, 483 Albany Ave [between Empire Blvd and Lefferts Ave]

Mendy and Sossie (nee Scheinfeld) Lazarus
Bais Menachem Nochum, 440 Crown St [Kingston and Brooklyn]

Zalmen and Dishy (nee Blachman) Zarchi
446 Crown St [between Kingston and Brooklyn Ave]

Yossi and Fraidy (nee Kleinman) Wolosow
1577 Union St [between Albany and Troy Ave]

Sroli and Aliza (nee Hecht) Creeger
662 Eastern Pkwy [between Brooklyn and New York Ave]

Advocate for Soviet Jewry Passes Away at 80

by Mordechai Lightstone – Lubavitch.com

Rabbi and Mrs. Silbertstein at the wedding of their daughter Masha, today a Chabad Emissary to Rochester, NY. (Photos courtesy of Chabad of Downtown LA)

Rebbetzin Batsheva Silberstein, a pioneering member of the Chabad-Lubavitch community in Antwerp, Belgium, who fought on behalf of Soviet Jewry for many years, passed away Saturday, November 6 after a lengthy illness. She was 80.

The Lubavitcher Rebbe: Thanksgiving and Chanukah

Imprisoned in Czarist Russia, the Alter Rebbe’s case was at the mercy of the most anti-Semitic officials of the most powerful country in the world. Miraculously, his acquittal was ordered by the Czar himself, and he was freed on Yud-Tes Kislev. Chanukah too, celebrates the victory of light over might — when the small Jewish nation of Israel prevailed over the tyrannical Greek Empire.

Video: In the Bronx Muslims and Jews Live in Harmony

It wasn’t long ago when NY1 featured an interesting story about a Muslim Imam who came to the aid of small Chabad Shul in the Bronx, today Fox News ran a thanksgiving special on the unlikely and amazing story.