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Rabbi Menachem Mendel Futerfas (1906-1995), known informally as Reb Mendel, was a famous Chabad Mashpia. He was a top student of the famed Mashpia, Reb Zalman Moishe HaYitzchaki. He was known for telling stories, particularly from his incarceration, and deriving lessons from everything he heard and saw there.

Video: Reb Mendel Tells Stories!

Rabbi Menachem Mendel Futerfas (1906-1995), known informally as Reb Mendel, was a famous Chabad Mashpia. He was a top student of the famed Mashpia, Reb Zalman Moishe HaYitzchaki. He was known for telling stories, particularly from his incarceration, and deriving lessons from everything he heard and saw there.

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New Engagement!

Menachem Rubenfeld (S. Diego, CA) to Chani Geisinsky (Crown Heights) L’Chaim: Tonight, Wednesday, 8:30pm at Lubavitcher Yeshiva Crown Street
New Engagement!

Pinny Itkin (Scranton, PA) to Esty Baumgarten (East Hampton, NY) L’Chaim: Tonight, Tuesday, 8:30pm at the JCM
Baby Boy!

Eliyahu and Chayale Citron from Portland, Oregon had a baby boy!
New Engagement!

Shneur Pink (Manchester, UK) to Sheindel November (Teaneck, NJ) L’Chaim: Tonight, Monday, 8:00pm at Ulam Chana 556 Crown Street
New Engagement!

Levi Katan (Kfar Chabad, EY) to Miriam Krichevsky (London, UK)
Baby Girl!

Yakov and Tzivia (nee Fogel) Staschower from Crown Heights had a baby girl!
Baby Boy!

Sender and Chana Sara Segel from Coral Springs, FL had a baby boy!
Baby Girl!

Mendy and Chaya Mushka (nee Vaisfiche) Labkowski from Buffalo, NY had a baby girl!
New Engagement!

Zalmy Liberow (Colorado Springs, CO) to Fraidel Werde (Crown Heights) L’Chaim: Thursday, August 7th, 8:00pm at Rubashkin’s Upstairs
New Engagement!

Yaakov Levy (Crown Heights) to Mimi Stern (Houston, TX)
New Engagement!

Mendel Schaffran (Brooklyn, NY) to Chana Friedman (Pittsburgh, PA) L’Chaim: Tonight, Wednesday, 8:00pm at Lubavitcher Yeshiva Crown Street
Baby Boy!

Zev and Chaya Mushka Shusterman from Coral Springs, FL had a baby boy!
New Engagement!

Mendel Vardi (Yerushalayim, EY) to Sara Namdar (Gothenburg, Sweden) L’Chaim: Tuesday, the 4th of Av, 8:30pm at The Garden House 1386 S. Johns Pl
Baby Girl!

Sholom and Chaya Mushka (nee Rosenfeld) Katz from Lauderhill, FL had a baby girl!
Baby Girl!

Ari and Chanie Greenwald from Crown Heights had a baby girl!
New Engagement!

Israel Guetta (Netanya ,Israel) to Sterna Benmoussa (Paris ,France )
New Engagement!

Avremel Rapoport(Clarks Summit, PA) to Faigy Liberow (London, UK) L’Chaim: Tonight, Tuesday, 8:00pm at Lubavitcher Yeshiva Crown Street

In the Heart of CH, 14-year-old Girl Held Captive – Abused

Two hours before Shabbos police closed off President Street between Troy and Albany Avenues. Officers clad in armor and armed with assault rifles converged on 1499 President Street, in search of evidence of two suspects who are accused of kidnapping a 14-year-old black girl. They are accused of holding her captive there for two weeks, and assaulting her repeatedly.

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On Sunday May 16, 2010, over 20,000 viewers representing the Jewish community from countries around the globe are expected to commune at TorahCafe.com for a webcast featuring Rabbi Shaar Yashuv Cohen, Chief Rabbi of Haifa, Israel, in a lecture titled “One Nation Under G-d.”

LIVE at 2pm: Chief Rabbi to Speak of Captivity in Amman

On Sunday May 16, 2010, over 20,000 viewers representing the Jewish community from countries around the globe are expected to commune at TorahCafe.com for a webcast featuring Rabbi Shaar Yashuv Cohen, Chief Rabbi of Haifa, Israel, in a lecture titled “One Nation Under G-d.”

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by Aaron Zalmenson
Let us sit together and ponder. We’ll come up with ideas on how to achieve Achdus.

WRONG!

We are approaching the issue backward!

Why do we crave Achdus? What truly unifies us? Simple — our Neshamas are all part of one unit and therefore we intuitively crave Achdus. Intuitively, we feel fragmented without Achdus.

Practically, what is the key to expressing the Neshamah’s desire for Achdus? Torah and Halacha. Simply put, adherence to Halacha unifies Yidden. Without Halacha as our guide, all efforts for peace will at best be temporary. Halacha creates true homogeny and guides us to a single cause. Why do we eat food that has a Hasgachah from a Rav that belongs to a community that is very different from us socially and ideologically? Because we share common ground --Halacha.

Op-Ed: Achdus among Chassidim (Yidden)!?

by Aaron Zalmenson

Let us sit together and ponder. We’ll come up with ideas on how to achieve Achdus.

WRONG!

We are approaching the issue backward!

Why do we crave Achdus? What truly unifies us? Simple — our Neshamas are all part of one unit and therefore we intuitively crave Achdus. Intuitively, we feel fragmented without Achdus.

Practically, what is the key to expressing the Neshamah’s desire for Achdus? Torah and Halacha. Simply put, adherence to Halacha unifies Yidden. Without Halacha as our guide, all efforts for peace will at best be temporary. Halacha creates true homogeny and guides us to a single cause. Why do we eat food that has a Hasgachah from a Rav that belongs to a community that is very different from us socially and ideologically? Because we share common ground –Halacha.

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The man at the center of the 1991 Crown Heights riot now lives incognito in a New Jersey town, untroubled by memories of his terrible deed. “Up until today, I left it alone,” Lemrick Nelson Jr., now 34, told The Post. “I don't even think about it.” “That was 19 years ago,” he said about fatally stabbing Hasid scholar Yankel Rosenbaum at the height of the notorious race riot. “I was a kid then. I made a mistake. Kids make mistakes. I'm a man now. I've never been in or out of trouble. I don't live that life.”

’91 Crown Heights Thug’s New Life

The man at the center of the 1991 Crown Heights riot now lives incognito in a New Jersey town, untroubled by memories of his terrible deed.

“Up until today, I left it alone,” Lemrick Nelson Jr., now 34, told The Post. “I don’t even think about it.”

“That was 19 years ago,” he said about fatally stabbing Hasid scholar Yankel Rosenbaum at the height of the notorious race riot. “I was a kid then. I made a mistake. Kids make mistakes. I’m a man now. I’ve never been in or out of trouble. I don’t live that life.”

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Sunday Night L’Chaims!

Sunday Night L’Chaims!

Bentzi Cousin (London) and Osnas Grinman (Detroit, MI)
Crown Condos, 580 Crown St [between Albany and Troy Ave]

Mendy Gurkov (Wayne, NJ) and Esty Mintz (Crown Heights)
Lubavitcher Yeshiva, 570 Crown St [hall entrance on Albany Ave]

Ari Schapiro (CH) and Messody Ezagui (CH)
Bais Rivkah, 310 Crown St [between New York and Nostrand Ave]

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Following our report last week about an attempted abduction of an 8-year-old Lubavitcher girl, the New York Post ran a startlingly similar story which took place in the Bay Ridge Area of Brooklyn, in which a 12-year-old girl was lured in a similar fashion:

NY Post: This is a sketch of the pervert who grabbed a 12-year-old Brooklyn girl on her way to school, dragged her into an SUV and [assaulted] her before she managed to break free, police said.
The sicko struck at 7:50 a.m. Tuesday on 67th Street near 12th Avenue in Bay Ridge.

He approached the youngster, pulled her into the rear of the Jeep Laredo […]. She bravely pushed him off, opened the door and escaped.

Similarities in Incidents where Perv Strikes in Other Bklyn Nabes

Following our report last week about an attempted abduction of an 8-year-old Lubavitcher girl, the New York Post ran a startlingly similar story which took place in the Bay Ridge Area of Brooklyn, in which a 12-year-old girl was lured in a similar fashion:

NY Post: This is a sketch of the pervert who grabbed a 12-year-old Brooklyn girl on her way to school, dragged her into an SUV and [assaulted] her before she managed to break free, police said.
The sicko struck at 7:50 a.m. Tuesday on 67th Street near 12th Avenue in Bay Ridge.

He approached the youngster, pulled her into the rear of the Jeep Laredo […]. She bravely pushed him off, opened the door and escaped.

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