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Visit www.YourJewishHeritage.com and see for yourself how easy it can be to learn a Sicha! Announcing the launch of a new website with numerous Sichos of the Rebbe translated and presented in an easy to read format that Jews from all walks of life can understand and enjoy.

Just in time for Yud Tes Kislev! Chassidus for Everyone!

Visit www.YourJewishHeritage.com and see for yourself how easy it can be to learn a Sicha! Announcing the launch of a new website with numerous Sichos of the Rebbe translated and presented in an easy to read format that Jews from all walks of life can understand and enjoy.

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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)
The Press Association

Britain's Amir Khan, right, land's a punch to Dmitriy Salita, of the U.S. during their boxing match for the WBA World Light-Welterweight title in Newcastle, England, on Saturday, Dec. 5, 2009.
(AP Photo/Scott Heppell)

Amir Khan made a hugely successful first defense of his WBA light-welterweight title with a first-round blow-out victory against unbeaten Dmitriy Salita in Newcastle.

Khan Destroys Salita in 76 Seconds

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Britain’s Amir Khan, right, land’s a punch to Dmitriy Salita, of the U.S. during their boxing match for the WBA World Light-Welterweight title in Newcastle, England, on Saturday, Dec. 5, 2009.
(AP Photo/Scott Heppell)

Amir Khan made a hugely successful first defense of his WBA light-welterweight title with a first-round blow-out victory against unbeaten Dmitriy Salita in Newcastle.

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The Times report states that Headley scouted “the Bet-chabad — the prayer hall of the Jews — where hundreds of them gather every evening for routine prayers.”

CHICAGO [WLS] — It must have seemed odd to FBI agents that Chicago terror suspect David Coleman Headley carried a book with him called How to Pray like a Jew. Mr. Headley isn't Jewish. He is an Islamic fundamentalist.

Was Chicago Terror Suspect Plotting Attack on Chabad?

The Times report states that Headley scouted “the Bet-chabad — the prayer hall of the Jews — where hundreds of them gather every evening for routine prayers.”

CHICAGO [WLS] — It must have seemed odd to FBI agents that Chicago terror suspect David Coleman Headley carried a book with him called How to Pray like a Jew. Mr. Headley isn’t Jewish. He is an Islamic fundamentalist.

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By Levi Margolin for Lubavitch.com

ALLENWOOD, PA — Gordon M., 36, is an inmate at a Virginia prison where he recently participated in a yeshiva program. Thethree-day intensive Torah study experience, he says, were “the happiest and most joyful days in my last ten years of incarceration.”

Yeshiva-in-Prison Brings Meaning Spiritual Growth to Inmates

By Levi Margolin for Lubavitch.com

ALLENWOOD, PA — Gordon M., 36, is an inmate at a Virginia prison where he recently participated in a yeshiva program. Thethree-day intensive Torah study experience, he says, were “the happiest and most joyful days in my last ten years of incarceration.”

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By Lisa Amin Gulezian for ABC News

SANTA CRUZ, CA [KGO] — This is supposed to be the season of good will, but there is holiday tension brewing in Santa Cruz. The city is stopping a holiday tradition and it is leaving some residents feeling left out.

Chanukah Menorah May Not Light Up City of Santa Cruz

By Lisa Amin Gulezian for ABC News

SANTA CRUZ, CA [KGO] — This is supposed to be the season of good will, but there is holiday tension brewing in Santa Cruz. The city is stopping a holiday tradition and it is leaving some residents feeling left out.

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With sadness we inform you of the passing of the beloved Gabbai of Montreal, Rabbi Meir Yechezkel Junik. He was eighty years old.

Rabbi Junik was born in the Soviet Union to a devotedly Chasidishe family. He was imprisoned in Siberia for nine long years where he suffered untold hardships due to his religious beliefs. While his family escaped from the Communists, he remained behind the Iron Curtain where he married and raised his children to the highest levels of Chasidishkeit.

While there, the Rebbe gave his brother, Rabbi Berel Junik, many Brochos and Havtochos to ensure that they would be released from Russia. He finally moved with his family to Montreal to live near his father, the prominent chosid, Rabbi Naftoli Junik.

He is survived by his wife, Sara, sisters Ettel Jurkowitz and Chana Morozow, children Chaya Tzirel Druk (Detroit, MI), Berel (Crown Heights), Shmuel (Brooklyn, NY), and Shimshon Aaron (Crown Heights), grandchildren, and great-grand children of which many are Shluchim of the Rebbe.

The Levaya will take place on Sunday and will be leaving from the Shomrei Hadas Chapel at 10:00am and will be passing 770 at approximately 10:45am.

Baruch Dayan Hoemes

Boruch Dayan Haemes – Rabbi Meir Junik OBM

With sadness we inform you of the passing of the beloved Gabbai of Montreal, Rabbi Meir Yechezkel Junik. He was eighty years old.

Rabbi Junik was born in the Soviet Union to a devotedly Chasidishe family. He was imprisoned in Siberia for nine long years where he suffered untold hardships due to his religious beliefs. While his family escaped from the Communists, he remained behind the Iron Curtain where he married and raised his children to the highest levels of Chasidishkeit.

While there, the Rebbe gave his brother, Rabbi Berel Junik, many Brochos and Havtochos to ensure that they would be released from Russia. He finally moved with his family to Montreal to live near his father, the prominent chosid, Rabbi Naftoli Junik.

He is survived by his wife, Sara, sisters Ettel Jurkowitz and Chana Morozow, children Chaya Tzirel Druk (Detroit, MI), Berel (Crown Heights), Shmuel (Brooklyn, NY), and Shimshon Aaron (Crown Heights), grandchildren, and great-grand children of which many are Shluchim of the Rebbe.

The Levaya will take place on Sunday and will be leaving from the Shomrei Hadas Chapel at 10:00am and will be passing 770 at approximately 10:45am.

Baruch Dayan Hoemes

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Mazal Tov! – 3 Motzei Shabbos L’Chaims!

Srulick Ybgi (London,England) and Zeldy Volkov (Crown Heights) .
IYH at FREE, 1383 President St [between Kingston and Brooklyn Ave].

Yossi Shain (Crown Heights) and Rivky Holtzberg (Crown Heights) .
IYH at Beis Levi Yitzchock, 556 Crown St [entrance ramp on Albany Ave].

Chaim Gourarie (Sao Paulo, Brazil) and Dini Schildkraut (Sao Paulo, Brazil) .
IYH at Lubavitcher Yeshiva, 570 Crown St [hall entrance on Albany Ave].

To submit your Simcha or Mazal Tov email us at MazalTov@CrownHeights.info!

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Mazal Tov! – New Engagement!

CrownHeights.info wishes Mazal Tov to Chaim Gourarie (Sao Paulo, Brazil) and Dini Schildkraut (Sao Paulo, Brazil) on their engagement.

The L’Chaim will IYH be Motzei Shabbos at Lubavitcher Yeshiva, 570 Crown St [hall entrance on Albany Ave].

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New York Daily News

Devorah Benjamin has a simple reason why she, Shmuly Brashevitzky and a host of volunteers work so hard to “make” memorable weddings for Lubavitcher Jewish couples who can't afford to do it themselves.

“The wedding is the foundation of a life, of a home,” Benjamin said. "It's the beginning of everything, your children, your grandchildren.

Wedding Planners Assist Jewish Couples in Need

New York Daily News

Devorah Benjamin has a simple reason why she, Shmuly Brashevitzky and a host of volunteers work so hard to “make” memorable weddings for Lubavitcher Jewish couples who can’t afford to do it themselves.

“The wedding is the foundation of a life, of a home,” Benjamin said. “It’s the beginning of everything, your children, your grandchildren.

Crown Heights News
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By Rabbi Yoseph Kahanov Jax, Fl.
Two drunks were walking down the street when towards them came a harmless looking Jew. One drunk elbowed the other: “Hey, Vanya, what do you say we give this Yid a good working over? Eh?”

“Well, we could,” replied the second, “except the guy looks mighty fit. We’d be lucky if he doesn’t give us a hearty thrashing. I’d say we make haste while we can.”

“Vanya!” replied his friend in surprise, “What have you been drinking? Why in the world would anyone want to harm two innocent people?”

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“If my scientific theories prove correct,” said Albert Einstein, then Germany will claim that I am German by birth; France will claim I am French by residence and America will claim I am an American as a result of my new citizenship. If, on the other hand, my theories prove incorrect, they will all say I am just a Jew!”

Why Do They Hate Us? – The Anatomy Of Anti-Semitism

By Rabbi Yoseph Kahanov Jax, Fl.

Two drunks were walking down the street when towards them came a harmless looking Jew. One drunk elbowed the other: “Hey, Vanya, what do you say we give this Yid a good working over? Eh?”

“Well, we could,” replied the second, “except the guy looks mighty fit. We’d be lucky if he doesn’t give us a hearty thrashing. I’d say we make haste while we can.”

“Vanya!” replied his friend in surprise, “What have you been drinking? Why in the world would anyone want to harm two innocent people?”

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“If my scientific theories prove correct,” said Albert Einstein, then Germany will claim that I am German by birth; France will claim I am French by residence and America will claim I am an American as a result of my new citizenship. If, on the other hand, my theories prove incorrect, they will all say I am just a Jew!”

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Mazal Tov! – 10 Sholom Zochors this Week!

Sholom and Goldie (nee Engel) Schochet.
IYH at 1544 President St, Apt 2H [corner Troy Ave].

Shlomie and Tzippy Simon.
IYH at Empire Shtiebel, 489 Empire Blvd, [between Brooklyn and New York Ave].

Isser and Rivky (nee Hahn) Boyarsky.
IYH at 1557 Union St, Apt 8 [corner Albany Ave].

Benny and Sonia (nee Rodal) Hershcovich.
IYH at 742 Montgomery St, Apt E1 [corner Albany Ave].

Shmuly and Chavi (nee Grunblatt) Geisinsky.
IYH at 555 Crown St, Apt 3C [between Kingston and Albany Ave].

Boruch Sholom and Mushkie Wolf.
IYH at Chabad of Great Neck, 400 East Shore Road, Great Neck, NY 11024.

Shua and Bashie (nee Hershcovich) Naparstek (Fort Lauderdale, FL) .

Peretz and Chavi Chein.
IYH at 22 Chatsworth Ave, Barnet, London NW4 1HT, UK

Chaim and Malky Kohan (Buenos Aires, Argentina) .

Mendy and Malky (nee Grossman) Karasik (Kfar Chabad) .

Please stay tuned as we update this list when information becomes available. However, in an unfortunate event that we do not get all the Sholom Zochors this week, we are sorry. But you can help! If you know of any Sholom Zochors or Mazal Tovs you can email it to us at MazalTov@CrownHeights.info. Thank You!!

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