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What can be wrong with a simple handshake? Especially when it is a widespread custom? The Avner Institute would like to present a letter of the Rebbe written in 1976 to a woman who asked why observant Jews refrain from any physical display of greeting to certain non-family members. With special thanks to the Nissan Mendel Archive.

What’s Wrong with Shaking a Woman’s Hand?

What can be wrong with a simple handshake? Especially when it is a widespread custom? The Avner Institute would like to present a letter of the Rebbe written in 1976 to a woman who asked why observant Jews refrain from any physical display of greeting to certain non-family members. With special thanks to the Nissan Mendel Archive.

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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)

Two additional candidates will be running in the elections for the position of third Rov in Crown Heights. After the Beis Din gave an extension to submit new candidates, two new candidates, Rabbi Yeshaya Braun and Rabbi Emanuel Chaviv, were added.

Two More Candidates to Run in Elections for Rabonim

Two additional candidates will be running in the elections for the position of third Rov in Crown Heights. After the Beis Din gave an extension to submit new candidates, two new candidates, Rabbi Yeshaya Braun and Rabbi Emanuel Chaviv, were added.

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First it was the Vaad Hakohol members who opened the finals, and tonight it will be the sponsors who will throw the first pitch in game 1 of the championships, where the Landmark Funding Red Heifers will square off against the Advantage Wholesale Supply Skullcaps.

Sponsors Throw Championships 1st Pitch

First it was the Vaad Hakohol members who opened the finals, and tonight it will be the sponsors who will throw the first pitch in game 1 of the championships, where the Landmark Funding Red Heifers will square off against the Advantage Wholesale Supply Skullcaps.

Crown Heights News
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L’man Achai’s Jewish Hero Cards

In Camp L’man Achai, one can find all of the regular, more traditional programs and activities that make camp the amazing experience that it is, and so much more. But in L’man Achai, the underlying aim and goal of every initiative is to help instill and foster a deep connection and love for Torah and Mitzvos in the heart of every camper.

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by Jessica Naiman - chabad.org

Children from an Altoona, Pa., synagogue show off the unleavened bread they baked as part of a model matzah bakery that Rabbi Yossi Stein ran during the days before Passover.

Rabbi Yossi and Chanale Stein always knew they wanted to run their own Jewish center one day; they just weren’t sure where. That is, until Yossi Stein’s job as a Pennsylvania prison chaplain turned the couple’s attention to the mountainous city of Altoona.

New Altoona Jewish Center Opens in Central PA

by Jessica Naiman – chabad.org

Children from an Altoona, Pa., synagogue show off the unleavened bread they baked as part of a model matzah bakery that Rabbi Yossi Stein ran during the days before Passover.

Rabbi Yossi and Chanale Stein always knew they wanted to run their own Jewish center one day; they just weren’t sure where. That is, until Yossi Stein’s job as a Pennsylvania prison chaplain turned the couple’s attention to the mountainous city of Altoona.

Shlichus
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In this week’s “Opening the week with the Rebbe": We are presenting a short video clip from Selichos Elul 5725. In this clip we see the Rebbe encouraging the Chassidim whilst singing the Niggun “Rachamana”, this niggun was taught by the Rebbe on Simchas Torah, 5720 – 1959. From the weekly video magazine, ‘Living Torah’. Courtesy of JEM.

Niggun “Rachamana”

In this week’s “Opening the week with the Rebbe”: We are presenting a short video clip from Selichos Elul 5725. In this clip we see the Rebbe encouraging the Chassidim whilst singing the Niggun “Rachamana”, this niggun was taught by the Rebbe on Simchas Torah, 5720 – 1959. From the weekly video magazine, ‘Living Torah’. Courtesy of JEM.

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