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From the inbox: I am not against all secular magazines, but when I went to a Jewish owned beauty salon in CH I was surprised to see among the reading material, some magazines that have virtually no redeeming value whatsoever and the only reason that someone would read such as magazine would be to see what the less moral side of the world is doing.

Op-Ed: Non–Tznius Magazines in Frum Establishments

From the inbox: I am not against all secular magazines, but when I went to a Jewish owned beauty salon in CH I was surprised to see among the reading material, some magazines that have virtually no redeeming value whatsoever and the only reason that someone would read such as magazine would be to see what the less moral side of the world is doing.

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New Engagement!

Pesach Chaim Newman (Crown Heights) to Bluma Raizel Lewis (Old Tappan, NJ)
New Engagement!

Eitan Hershkop (Crown Heights) to Chana Belfer (Melbourne, Australia) L’Chaim: Tonight, Thursday, 8:00pm at Bass and Bourbon
New Engagement!

Levi Meer (Morristown, NJ) to Sara Gershovitz (Crown Heights) L’Chaim: Thursday, June 12th, 8:00pm at 1349 President Street Upstairs
New Engagement!

Yosef Chaim Bercovice (Chicago, IL) to Leah Eisenbach (New York)
New Engagement!

Pesach Bercovice (Chicago, IL) to Tzipporah Yasmine Holloway (Orlando, FL)
New Engagement!

Mendel Saaks (Chicago, IL) to Leeba Grossbaum (Paramus, NJ)
New Engagement!

Yisrolik Keselman (London, UK) to Shaina Keller (Crown Heights)

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New Engagement!

Ya’akov Silverman (Tysons Corner, VA) to Chaya Raizel Michaelson (Glastonbury, CT)
New Engagement!

Yitzchak Minkowitz (Fort Myers, FL) to Shani Silver (Mequon, WI)
New Engagement!

Avremel Weingarten (Flint, MI) to Chana Potash (Noe Valley, SF, CA)
New Engagement!

Yaya Kagan (Los Angeles, CA) to Hadas Malamud (Brooklyn, NY) L’Chaim: Tonight, Thursday, 7:30pm at the Oholei Torah Ballroom
Baby Boy!

Meyer and Chaya (nee Engelberg) Shushan from Crown Heights had a baby boy!
Baby Girl!

Boruch and Adeli Zimmerman from Oro Valley, AZ had a baby girl!

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New Engagement!

Dovi Vogel (Wilmington, DE) to Chanie Rapoport (Atlantic City, NJ)
New Engagement!

Yitzy Bernstein (Freehold, NJ) to Brocha Gleyzer (Monsey, NY)
Baby Boy!

Mendy and Sarah (nee Glick) Korf from Crown Heights had a baby boy!
New Engagement!

Levi Labor (Chicago, IL) to Etti Krinsky (Crown Heights)

A major tragedy befell the Jewish community in Boro Park, 11-Year-Old Boruch Mordechai Berliner was struck by a bus and pinned underneath at 7:00pm on Thursday. He succumbed to his wounds just before Shabbos at Lutheran Trauma Center.

TRAGEDY: 11-Year-Old Boy Struck and Killed Friday

A major tragedy befell the Jewish community in Boro Park, 11-Year-Old Boruch Mordechai Berliner was struck by a bus and pinned underneath at 7:00pm on Thursday. He succumbed to his wounds just before Shabbos at Lutheran Trauma Center.

Accidents
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AP

Wal-Mart is counting on $1 ketchup bottles and sub-$4 cases of Coke to get its low-price mojo back.

The sharp cuts at its U.S. Walmart stores, which came ahead of Memorial Day weekend, have already pushed rivals such as Target into price wars. And the markdowns are expected to keep coming throughout the summer.

Wal-Mart Makes Splashy Price Cuts To Get Mojo Back

AP

Wal-Mart is counting on $1 ketchup bottles and sub-$4 cases of Coke to get its low-price mojo back.

The sharp cuts at its U.S. Walmart stores, which came ahead of Memorial Day weekend, have already pushed rivals such as Target into price wars. And the markdowns are expected to keep coming throughout the summer.

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In a recent trip to Israel, as part of “My Encounter with the Rebbe” project, JEM interviewed Yisroel Katzover, a senior journalist who covered the IDF for several decades for numerous Israeli newspapers and media channels. Through the years, he consulted and received much advice and guidance from the Rebbe.

Mubarak: What does the Lubavitcher Rebbe want from me?

In a recent trip to Israel, as part of “My Encounter with the Rebbe” project, JEM interviewed Yisroel Katzover, a senior journalist who covered the IDF for several decades for numerous Israeli newspapers and media channels. Through the years, he consulted and received much advice and guidance from the Rebbe.

Chabad News

And Then the Lights Went Out

By Jonah T.

Heifers’ 1st basemen Dovid Stein dodging the raindrops. Illustration photo.

Weather last night showed no mercy as the Red Heifers faced The Tribe in an angst-filled match-up. The Tribe connected often and early, jumping to a wide-margin lead by the 3rd inning. As the rain created hazards at every turn on the field, runners were challenged to maintain their footing.

Crown Heights News
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LA QUINTA, CA [CHI] — A Facebook fan page outlining a game called “Beat the Jew” has been shut-down. The game, where “the Jew” is chased down the highway, was played by some 40 high school students in Southern California's La Quinta High. Shliach to the area, Rabbi Posner voiced outrage, while the school principal says the students involved can't even be expelled.

California Teens Play “Beat the Jew”

LA QUINTA, CA [CHI] — A Facebook fan page outlining a game called “Beat the Jew” has been shut-down. The game, where “the Jew” is chased down the highway, was played by some 40 high school students in Southern California’s La Quinta High. Shliach to the area, Rabbi Posner voiced outrage, while the school principal says the students involved can’t even be expelled.

Jewish News
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Have you seen those super cool Crown Heights Softball League baseball caps, with that Lubavitcher in the logo, and thought “where can I get one of those?” Well there are a limited number of them available for purchase on Kingston, and just in time for the summer!

PSA: Limited Amount of Softball League Caps Available

Have you seen those super cool Crown Heights Softball League baseball caps, with that Lubavitcher in the logo, and thought “where can I get one of those?” Well there are a limited number of them available for purchase on Kingston, and just in time for the summer!

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WASHINGTON, DC [CHI] — The White House hosted a first-ever reception celebrating Jewish American Heritage Month in the East Room yesterday, Thursday. President Barack Obama spoke about the important contributions the Jewish people have made in the United States and the need for America to support Israel.

White House Marks Jewish American Heritage Month

WASHINGTON, DC [CHI] — The White House hosted a first-ever reception celebrating Jewish American Heritage Month in the East Room yesterday, Thursday. President Barack Obama spoke about the important contributions the Jewish people have made in the United States and the need for America to support Israel.

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By Rabbi Yoseph Kahanov Jax, Florida
Amongst the varied items for which we seek forgiveness in the confession prayer recited on the holy Yom Kippur, is a somewhat odd class of transgression: “The sins which we have committed before You with the ‘Yetzer hara,’ (evil inclination).”

“But,” as my early days spiritual mentor would rhetorically muse, “Aren’t all sins preformed with the evil inclination? Surely there are no sins committed with the ‘Good inclination?’”

“The sins which we have committed with the evil inclination,” he would offer as a rejoinder, “Refers not to sins which the evil inclination had managed to drag us into, but rather to sins into which we had managed to drag our evil inclination.”

Antagonizing Our Evil Inclination – The “Misoninim” Syndrome

By Rabbi Yoseph Kahanov Jax, Florida

Amongst the varied items for which we seek forgiveness in the confession prayer recited on the holy Yom Kippur, is a somewhat odd class of transgression: “The sins which we have committed before You with the ‘Yetzer hara,’ (evil inclination).”

“But,” as my early days spiritual mentor would rhetorically muse, “Aren’t all sins preformed with the evil inclination? Surely there are no sins committed with the ‘Good inclination?’”

“The sins which we have committed with the evil inclination,” he would offer as a rejoinder, “Refers not to sins which the evil inclination had managed to drag us into, but rather to sins into which we had managed to drag our evil inclination.”

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By Larry Gordon for the 5 Towns Jewish Times
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It was a beautiful day on March 1, 1994, as Nachum Sasonkin, an Israeli-born 18-year-old student at the Lubavitcher Yeshiva in Brooklyn, rode in a van with his friends, returning to yeshiva from a visit to the hospital in Manhattan where their Rebbe, R’ Menachem Mendel Schneerson—lay in a coma. They were young men, teenagers, studying in yeshiva; everything was just the way they had hoped it would be. But then, all of a sudden and out of nowhere, everything went black. Someone was shooting at their school bus.

Growing With Moshe Sasonkin

By Larry Gordon for the 5 Towns Jewish Times
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It was a beautiful day on March 1, 1994, as Nachum Sasonkin, an Israeli-born 18-year-old student at the Lubavitcher Yeshiva in Brooklyn, rode in a van with his friends, returning to yeshiva from a visit to the hospital in Manhattan where their Rebbe, R’ Menachem Mendel Schneerson—lay in a coma. They were young men, teenagers, studying in yeshiva; everything was just the way they had hoped it would be. But then, all of a sudden and out of nowhere, everything went black. Someone was shooting at their school bus.

Jewish News
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