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Vail Chabad Completes First New Torah

by Randy Wyrick – Vail Daily

Aaron Raskin, center left, holds the newly completed Torah while he and members of Chabad Jewish Cener of Vail dance with it, as is customary when a Torah is completed. The ceremony was Sunday in Singletree.
Avi Baram | Special to the Daily

EDWARDS, CO — Maia Fishman and Brielle Quigley, both 7 years old, placed their tiny delicate hands on the same kind of feather quill Moses used and helped inscribe a few letters in a new Torah — letters and life lessons that will outlive their children’s children’s children.

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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)

Eighth Grader in Beijing Bakes Cakes To Sponsor Friends

by Laima Barber – Lubavitch.com

One of Devorah Freundlich’s doll cakes

CHINA — When Devorah Freundlich, 13, of Beijing, China, is not busy with her schoolwork, she’s popping cakes out of the oven in her mom’s kitchen. They are custom cakes—dolls, police trucks, snowmobiles—and the young entrepreneur is working creatively to please her delighted customers. But in less than two weeks, she’ll close shop. That’s when she hopes she’ll have reached her goal: to raise $5000.

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Just after the “Blizzard of 2010” United Lubavitch Yeshiva of Ocean P’kwy held its 6th annual winter Ski camp! On the cold morning spirits were high as talmidim awaited the 7:15am ULYOP/ Hamasifta bus. The heated bus climbed it’s way over and through unplowed streets making it’s way to our home away from home the841 Ocean P’kwy. After an inspirational/ uplifting davening, day’s Tanya and a hardy breakfast the van was loaded.

ULYOP’s 6th Annual Winter Ski Camp

Just after the “Blizzard of 2010” United Lubavitch Yeshiva of Ocean P’kwy held its 6th annual winter Ski camp! On the cold morning spirits were high as talmidim awaited the 7:15am ULYOP/ Hamasifta bus. The heated bus climbed it’s way over and through unplowed streets making it’s way to our home away from home the841 Ocean P’kwy. After an inspirational/ uplifting davening, day’s Tanya and a hardy breakfast the van was loaded.

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Where is Chabad of Mumbais Chef Today?

Times of India

Nanny Sandra Samuel, who saved baby Moshe from terrorists during the 26/11 attacks, was granted Israeli citizenship in July last year. But her 24-year-old associate, Qazi Zakir Hussain, who helped her rescue Moshe, has been left high and dry, with no recognition and more importantly, no job.

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Prominent Community Figures Demand Transparency

Three prominent educators in the Crown Heights community wrote an elaborate letter to the Beis Din demanding transparency in all issues relating to the psak.

Rabbis Yoel Kahan, Berel Levin, and Avrohom Gerlitzky asked in their letter to the Beis Din that since many of the issues in the recent Psak were in fact only justifying previous decisions already made, the only solution would be that this decision be submitted to a neutral Rabinic body, and they should look into the matter, and give an impartial ruling that will leave no doubt in its transparency to the entire community.

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Would You Like a Chaser with your Psalm?

by Ari Galahar – YNetNews

ISRAEL — One of its kind Chabad house opens in Jerusalem’s Nachlaot neighborhood: Bar with concerts, drinks and food that also serves as religious center. ‘We hope we can show people they can receive substance and content from Judaism,’ says co-owner Rabbi Crombie.

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by Mendy Rimler - Lubavitch.com

Chabad programs result in 30 Jewish marriages a year.

ARGENTINA — There are a quarter of a million Jews in Argentina today. But “seven out of ten are dating non-Jews, and the rate of intermarriage is rising,” says director of Chabad in Argentina Rabbi Tzvi Grunblatt.

Opportunities for Jewish Engagement Make Small Dents in Intermarriage

by Mendy Rimler – Lubavitch.com

Chabad programs result in 30 Jewish marriages a year.

ARGENTINA — There are a quarter of a million Jews in Argentina today. But “seven out of ten are dating non-Jews, and the rate of intermarriage is rising,” says director of Chabad in Argentina Rabbi Tzvi Grunblatt.

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Rabbi’s Kidney Saves Life of Israeli Family Man

by Tamar Runyan and Jessica Naiman – Chabad.org

Rabbi Avrohom Lider, right, arranged the kidney donation between Albany, N.Y., Rabbi Mendy Mathless, left, and Israeli resident Yisrael Konstantini, second from left.

When someone is sick, loved ones pray for their health, recite Psalms and try to add a measure of goodness in this world in his merit. But for Rabbi Mendy Mathless, such efforts weren’t enough. Informed that someone he never knew was in need of a kidney, he gave him his.

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