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By Mordechai Lightstone for Lubavitch.com

Memorial event at the former Westerbork concentration camp. - Picture by: Memorial Centre Concentration Camp Westerbork.

NETHERLANDS — On Wednesday April 28, members of the Dutch government apologized to Holland's Jewish community at the site of the former Westerbork concentration camp.

Dutch Government Acknowledges Failure To Protect Jews

By Mordechai Lightstone for Lubavitch.com
Memorial event at the former Westerbork concentration camp. – Picture by: Memorial Centre Concentration Camp Westerbork.

NETHERLANDS — On Wednesday April 28, members of the Dutch government apologized to Holland’s Jewish community at the site of the former Westerbork concentration camp.

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A Single Father, A Tireless Fellow Shliach, An Unimaginable Struggle

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New Engagement!

JJ Cohen (Boca Raton, FL) to Nechama Solomon (Montreal, Canada)
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Dovid Ezagui (Brooklyn, NY) to Chava Sorkin (Brooklyn, NY)
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Hushi Kot (Tallinn, Estonia) to Chani Wilhelm (Morristown, NJ) L’Chaim: Today, Monday, 8:30pm at F.R.E.E.
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Velvel Reikhtman (Montreal, Canada) to Channah Kagan (Crown Heights) L’Chaim: Tuesday, June 10th, 8:30pm at Ulam Chana 556 Crown Street
Baby Boy!

Shimon and Chanie Alon from Coral Springs, FL had a baby boy!
Baby Boy!

Yitzy and Leeby Smith from Coral Springs, FL had a baby boy!
New Engagement!

Pesach Chaim Newman (Crown Heights) to Bluma Raizel Lewis (Old Tappan, NJ)
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Eitan Hershkop (Crown Heights) to Chana Belfer (Melbourne, Australia) L’Chaim: Tonight, Thursday, 8:00pm at Bass and Bourbon
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Levi Meer (Morristown, NJ) to Sara Gershovitz (Crown Heights) L’Chaim: Thursday, June 12th, 8:00pm at 1349 President Street Upstairs
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Yosef Chaim Bercovice (Chicago, IL) to Leah Eisenbach (New York)
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Pesach Bercovice (Chicago, IL) to Tzipporah Yasmine Holloway (Orlando, FL)
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Mendel Saaks (Chicago, IL) to Leeba Grossbaum (Paramus, NJ)
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Yisrolik Keselman (London, UK) to Shaina Keller (Crown Heights)

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Ya’akov Silverman (Tysons Corner, VA) to Chaya Raizel Michaelson (Glastonbury, CT)
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Yaya Kagan (Los Angeles, CA) to Hadas Malamud (Brooklyn, NY) L’Chaim: Tonight, Thursday, 7:30pm at the Oholei Torah Ballroom

With sadness we inform that Harav HaChossid Rabbi Yehoshua Dubrawsky of Crown Heights passed away today at the age of 82.

The Levaya will take place today, Thursday at 1:00pm by Shomrei Hadas and will pass 770 at about 1:45pm.

Boruch Dayan Hoemes

Boruch Dayan Hoemes – Rabbi Yehoshua Dubrawsky OBM

With sadness we inform that Harav HaChossid Rabbi Yehoshua Dubrawsky of Crown Heights passed away today at the age of 82.

The Levaya will take place today, Thursday at 1:00pm by Shomrei Hadas and will pass 770 at about 1:45pm.

Boruch Dayan Hoemes

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Thursday Night L’Chaims!

Thursday Night L’Chaims!

Yossi Schulman (Pittsburgh) and Devorah Leah Seliger (Crown Heights)
Beis Levi Yitzchock, 556 Crown St [entrance ramp on Albany Ave]

Yisroel Goldstein (Spain) and Miriam Glazer (Crown Heights)
FREE, 1383 President St [between Kingston and Brooklyn Ave]

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By Ron Friedman for the Jerusalem Post

ISRAEL — Personal computers are found in 71.1 percent of Israeli households and 90.8% of those homes have an Internet connection. Some 61.8% of households own at least one car and 18.8% have two or more. And the average Israeli has 2.1 mobile phones.

Israeli Statistics: 1 Room and 2 CellPhones per Person

By Ron Friedman for the Jerusalem Post

ISRAEL — Personal computers are found in 71.1 percent of Israeli households and 90.8% of those homes have an Internet connection. Some 61.8% of households own at least one car and 18.8% have two or more. And the average Israeli has 2.1 mobile phones.

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The Family of Rabbi Shneur Zalman Yehoshuah Light OBM are sitting Shiva after his passing.

His wife, Yenta and his children; Shmuel Light (Crown Heights); Brenda Eber (Crown Heights); Rivka Rapaport (Toronto); Gitty Weingarten (Crown Heights); Berel Light (New Jersey) are sitting Shiva at the Weingarten residence on 1465 President St [between Kingston and Albany Ave]
Shacharis 9:30am
Mincha 7:45pm
Maariv 8:45pm
Email your condolences bsbrglight@gmail.com

Hamokom Yenachem Eschem Besoch Shaar Avaylay Tzion VeYerushalayim.

Info to be Menachem Avel the Light Family

The Family of Rabbi Shneur Zalman Yehoshuah Light OBM are sitting Shiva after his passing.

His wife, Yenta and his children; Shmuel Light (Crown Heights); Brenda Eber (Crown Heights); Rivka Rapaport (Toronto); Gitty Weingarten (Crown Heights); Berel Light (New Jersey) are sitting Shiva at the Weingarten residence on 1465 President St [between Kingston and Albany Ave]

Shacharis 9:30am
Mincha 7:45pm
Maariv 8:45pm

Email your condolences bsbrglight@gmail.com

Hamokom Yenachem Eschem Besoch Shaar Avaylay Tzion VeYerushalayim.

Notices

Photographer Name: M.M. Hornbacher
Age: 12
School: ULY Crown
The following is the first gallery that was submitted to our Photo Competition, depicting “Our Beautiful Community”.

This is the first gallery of many already submitted! To learn more or join the competition visit awarmfocus.org

Photo Competition: M.M. Hornbacher

Photographer Name: M.M. Hornbacher
Age: 12
School: ULY Crown

The following is the first gallery that was submitted to our Photo Competition, depicting “Our Beautiful Community”.

This is the first gallery of many already submitted! To learn more or join the competition visit awarmfocus.org

Photo Galleries
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Chabad Parterns with SpongeBob to Honor Students

The Good Deed Awards are an annual recognition of the charitable acts of high school students from throughout Long Island. Created by Rabbi Anchelle Perl, Director of Chabad in Mineola, this year’s honorees are once again a reminder of the selfless nature of the majority of youth and the endless value of this ongoing program—socially, educationally, culturally.

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On the two-year anniversary of the immigration raid at a kosher meatpacking plant in Postville, Iowa — one of the largest workplace raids in history — FRONTLINE/World broadcasts an update to the original web story airing May 11, 2010, on PBS. The report takes an affecting look at the human cost of the crackdown on both sides of the border.

Video – In the Shadow of Agriprocessors Immigration Raid

On the two-year anniversary of the immigration raid at a kosher meatpacking plant in Postville, Iowa — one of the largest workplace raids in history — FRONTLINE/World broadcasts an update to the original web story airing May 11, 2010, on PBS. The report takes an affecting look at the human cost of the crackdown on both sides of the border.

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