Chabad Gives Cardozo Law Students an Edge in the Job Hunt

By Rivka Chaya Berman for lubavitch.com

NEW YORK — Legal thrillers have nothing on the recession, a doozy of a plotline imperiling the future of law school grads. With law firm layoffs and cutbacks in new attorney hires worrying the students at Cardozo Law School in New York, the campus Chabad center has begun offering networking events to connect students with successful attorneys.

At Chabad’s recent Attorneys and Law Students Networking Event, 75 students got to know powerbrokers like real-estate mogul and attorney Leon Charney, Jones Day partner Andy Green, and president the New York Legal Assistance Group Yisroel Schulman.

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Israel Asks Greece for Aid in Repairing Torched Shul

By Roni Sofer for YNet News
Illustration Photo – The Shul before it was torched.

GEECE — Israel expressed its concern to Greece on Tuesday over the arson of the old synagogue in the Crete town of Hania, and asked for help preventing repeat attacks. In addition, Israel issued a request with the Greek government for aid in repairing the site.

Musician Offers Friendship Circle Song Free, for your Vote

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In yet another push for the Friendship Circle musician Moshe Hecht is offering his song entitled “My Friend”, which was written by himself out of his inspiration as he himself was a Friendship Circle volunteer as a teenager. Today with just a few days left to vote in the Chase Community Giving competition for $1 million, the song is being offered as a free download to whoever votes for the friendship circle.

British Royal Tours Damaged Mumbai Chabad House

Article: by Joshua Runyan – Chabad.org Photos: CrownHeights.info

Prince Michael of Kent, a cousin of British monarch Queen Elizabeth II, toured the heavily damaged site of Chabad-Lubavitch of Mumbai, India, in a gesture of solidarity and in support of the rebuilding effort following the Nov. 26, 2008 terrorist attack there and at tourist centers throughout the city. At the end of his Wednesday afternoon visit, he presented Rabbi Avraham Berkowitz, director of the Chabad Mumbai Relief Fund, with a formal pledge of $100,000 on behalf of the DVK Foundation, a United Kingdom charity he serves as patron.

Mazal Tov! – It’s A Boy!

CrownHeights.info wishes Mazal Tov to Boruch Dovid and Tzippy (nee Astulin) Lieder (Crown Heights) on the birth of their firstborn son.

May the newborn be a source of Nachas to his parents, grandparents and Klal Yisroel.

Mazal Tov! – it’s A Boy!

CrownHeights.info wishes Mazal Tov to Yitzy and Chomi (nee Grossbaum) Schreiber (Melbourne, Australia) on the birth of their firstborn son.

May the newborn be a source of Nachas to his parents, grandparents and Klal Yisroel.

Scott Brown Defeats Martha Coakley in MA Senate Race

On hand for Sen. Brown’s victory party was Chabad Shliach Rabbi Moshe Bleich, who congratulated the Senator.

BOSTON, MA [AP] — In an epic upset in liberal Massachusetts, Republican Scott Brown rode a wave of voter anger to win the U.S. Senate seat held by the late Edward M. Kennedy for nearly half a century, leaving President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul in doubt and marring the end of his first year in office.

Wednesday: Tragedies in our Midst – The Yiddishe Response

Tonight, the 5th of Shvat, Wednesday there will be a seminar on dealing with tragedies and death. How community members should respond to tragedy. It is titled “Tragedies in our Midst – The Yiddishe Response.” The seminar will begin 8:00 pm at Beis Rivka, 470 Lefferts Ave [corner Brooklyn Ave].

Kids of Courage Facilitate Skiing!

BROOKLYN, N.Y. – Upwards of 30 children who battle for their lives on a daily basis continued to conquer their illnesses through adventure yesterday as they took to the ski slopes of Sugarbush Resort in Waitsfield, Vt. Utilizing the specifically-trained volunteers from Vermont Adaptive Ski and Sports, the only year-round disabled sports program with daily programming in Vermont, Kids of Courage and its entourage of more than 100 physicians, paramedics, nurses, physical therapists, and specially trained lay staff helped these kids forget the tubes, pumps and needles that go along with their personal daily challenges—and taught them to ski.

Info to be Menachem Avel the Tevel Family

The Tevel family is sitting Shiva after the passing of their father, Reb Yossi Tevel OBM at 644 Lefferts Ave [between Albany and Troy Ave.]

Shachris:

7:30am
8:45am, 2 minyonim
10:00am

Mincha:

4:05pm, 2 minyonim
4:30pm, 2 minyonim

Maariv:

2 minyonim bizmana
6:05pm, 2 minyonim

At the families request. Please, try not to come later then 10:30pm to be menachem avel.

Email your condolences to TevelFam@gmail.com

Hamokom Yenachem Eschem Besoch Shaar Avaylay Tzion VeYerushalayim.

Chabad’s Haiti Relief Aid Reaches Orphans

By Dvora Lakein for Lubavitch.com

Please I am hungry. Please give me something to eat.”

HAITI — As Rabbi Shimon Pelman returned to his Santo Domingo home late Monday, the cries from Haiti’s streets pierced his ears. Pelman arrived in the earthquake-shattered capital of Port-au-Prince early that morning with the most basic of supplies. Milk, tuna, sardines, pasta, and medicine filled the cavernous truck. A second truck donated by Chabad arrived in Haiti’s capital Tuesday morning, bearing vegetables and fruit.

Community Searches for Kidney Donor

CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — On Sunday, last week, was an event taken place by the Chesed Center of Ahavas Chesed, headed by Rabbi Lider. It was an experimental event to try to find a match for a kidney donation for one of the residents in our community, Crown Heights. This resident is a father of 9 children that needs urgently a kidney transplant. He is going 3 times a week to dialysis and the doctors are saying that the dialysis is not helping anymore and he needs a transplant.