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CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — Today Wednesday the 11th of November, the annual International Conference of Chabad shluchim will begin in New York with the participation of approximately 3,000 shluchim from all corners of the world. During the conference there will be various tributes to the shluchim of Mumbai, Rabbi Gavriel and Rivkah Holtzberg, who died al kiddush Hashem just a few days after last year's conference.

Mumbai Torah Celebration for Everyone

CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — Today Wednesday the 11th of November, the annual International Conference of Chabad shluchim will begin in New York with the participation of approximately 3,000 shluchim from all corners of the world. During the conference there will be various tributes to the shluchim of Mumbai, Rabbi Gavriel and Rivkah Holtzberg, who died al kiddush Hashem just a few days after last year’s conference.

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Mendy Holtzberg (Monterey, CA) to Leah Schmerling (Crown Heights) L’Chaim: Wednesday, May 14th, 8:30pm at the JCM
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Lippy and Mushky Kosofsky from Crown Heights had a baby boy!
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Yaakov and Shevi (nee Katzman) Behrman from Crown Heights had a baby boy!
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Yeshiva Gedolah Lubavitch, of Johannesburg, South Africa. Has recently added two new staff members to its hanhola. Rabbi Pini Pink has assumed the role of Administrator, and Rabbi Moshe Benshimon, has taken up the position of Mashgiach.

New Shluchim to South Africa!

Yeshiva Gedolah Lubavitch, of Johannesburg, South Africa. Has recently added two new staff members to its hanhola. Rabbi Pini Pink has assumed the role of Administrator, and Rabbi Moshe Benshimon, has taken up the position of Mashgiach.

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by A Crown Heights Mother
The last time I was in Criminal Court was after the 1991 Crown Heights Riots, when I watched Lemerick Nelson walk free. I haven’t been interested in watching another criminal trial since. However, yesterday I went to show support once more for Jews, this time six of them.

Going to Court is an interesting experience. All I can say is, you don’t want to be a defendant. It must be a really terrifying feeling. However, the “Shomrim Six” (great title!) ARE on trial and we have to support them. I know that they are facing harsh punishment and loss of their freedom if they are found guilty and we can’t sit back, do nothing, and let that happen. We have to show our support. They’re not strangers. In our small community they’re our friends, family, neighbors, and co-workers. We HAVE to care and the way we can show that is two-fold.

Every family should give SOMETHING towards their legal fees. Some families can give more, others not so much, but everyone has an achryus to give. In the end, these young men come out to help us as soon as they’re called and they don’t ask to see the color of our money, or whether we wear yellow pins, or anything else. When push comes to shove, they show up to help all of us.

Op-Ed: I Was There… Then and Now

by A Crown Heights Mother

The last time I was in Criminal Court was after the 1991 Crown Heights Riots, when I watched Lemerick Nelson walk free. I haven’t been interested in watching another criminal trial since. However, yesterday I went to show support once more for Jews, this time six of them.

Going to Court is an interesting experience. All I can say is, you don’t want to be a defendant. It must be a really terrifying feeling. However, the “Shomrim Six” (great title!) ARE on trial and we have to support them. I know that they are facing harsh punishment and loss of their freedom if they are found guilty and we can’t sit back, do nothing, and let that happen. We have to show our support. They’re not strangers. In our small community they’re our friends, family, neighbors, and co-workers. We HAVE to care and the way we can show that is two-fold.

Every family should give SOMETHING towards their legal fees. Some families can give more, others not so much, but everyone has an achryus to give. In the end, these young men come out to help us as soon as they’re called and they don’t ask to see the color of our money, or whether we wear yellow pins, or anything else. When push comes to shove, they show up to help all of us.

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The Shloshim for Devorah Nechama OBM (Bloch) Neuwirth will be take place tomorrow, Thursday, Chof Hay Cheshvan - November 12, 2009 at Lubavitcher Yeshiva 570 Crown Street, entrance on Albany avenue, at 9 pm.

Special presentation will honor the memory of Devorie OBM. Your presence and participation will give an Aliya and give Kavod to the Nshoma of the Nfteres.

Thursday, Shloshim for Devorie Neuwirth OBM

The Shloshim for Devorah Nechama OBM (Bloch) Neuwirth will be take place tomorrow, Thursday, Chof Hay Cheshvan – November 12, 2009 at Lubavitcher Yeshiva 570 Crown Street, entrance on Albany avenue, at 9 pm.

Special presentation will honor the memory of Devorie OBM. Your presence and participation will give an Aliya and give Kavod to the Nshoma of the Nfteres.

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MIAMI BEACH, FL — Police are investigating a scare which took place at south Florida Yeshiva.

Police said vandals shot at the door of the Lubavitch Education Center along 12th Street and Alton Road as children played inside. Glass shattered everywhere.

Shots Fired at Jewish School

MIAMI BEACH, FL — Police are investigating a scare which took place at south Florida Yeshiva.

Police said vandals shot at the door of the Lubavitch Education Center along 12th Street and Alton Road as children played inside. Glass shattered everywhere.

Crime
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Charles P. Sifton
Charles P. Sifton, a federal judge in Brooklyn whose rulings paved the way for women to join the New York Fire Department and for Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg to run for a third term, died Monday at his home in Brooklyn. He was 74.

The cause was complications of sarcoidosis, a lung disease, his son Sam said.

Judge Sifton handled many major cases in more than 30 years on the bench, many of them as chief judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York.

One of those cases was the issue of the ownership of the library of Aguch. On January 6 1987 Judge Sifton declared victory in favor of the Chassidim and thus became Didan Notzach.

Charles P. Sifton, the Seforim Case Judge, Passes Away at 74

Charles P. Sifton

Charles P. Sifton, a federal judge in Brooklyn whose rulings paved the way for women to join the New York Fire Department and for Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg to run for a third term, died Monday at his home in Brooklyn. He was 74.

The cause was complications of sarcoidosis, a lung disease, his son Sam said.

Judge Sifton handled many major cases in more than 30 years on the bench, many of them as chief judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York.

One of those cases was the issue of the ownership of the library of Aguch. On January 6 1987 Judge Sifton declared victory in favor of the Chassidim and thus became Didan Notzach.

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by Daniel Lowe, Chabaduk.com

Entitled “Moving In,” Frederic Aranda’s photograph of Rabbi Yonah and Keren Blum, and their son Schneur Zalman, captures the young family in their early days at the Chabad Resource Center serving Columbia University. (Photo: Frederic Aranda)

He has won multiple awards for a portfolio that includes politicians, royalty, fashion models and film stars. He has photographed the likes as Bill Clinton, Margaret Thatcher, Ben Stiller, and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, and is regarded by some as one of the world’s most exciting fashion and portrait photographers.

But it is the world of Chabad-Lubavitch rabbis and their families that forms the unlikely subject for Frederic Aranda’s first solo exhibition, “Kosherface,” which begins this week in London.

Photographer Trains Lens on Far-Flung Chasidic Community

by Daniel Lowe, Chabaduk.com

Entitled “Moving In,” Frederic Aranda’s photograph of Rabbi Yonah and Keren Blum, and their son Schneur Zalman, captures the young family in their early days at the Chabad Resource Center serving Columbia University. (Photo: Frederic Aranda)

He has won multiple awards for a portfolio that includes politicians, royalty, fashion models and film stars. He has photographed the likes as Bill Clinton, Margaret Thatcher, Ben Stiller, and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, and is regarded by some as one of the world’s most exciting fashion and portrait photographers.

But it is the world of Chabad-Lubavitch rabbis and their families that forms the unlikely subject for Frederic Aranda’s first solo exhibition, “Kosherface,” which begins this week in London.

Shlichus
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A steady stream of students poured in to Crown Heights this past Friday from campuses coast to coast and beyond for the annual International Student Shabbaton. The weekend began with registration in Oholei Torah and from there to their hosts for Shabbos.

Photos: Erev Shabbos with Chabad on Campus

A steady stream of students poured in to Crown Heights this past Friday from campuses coast to coast and beyond for the annual International Student Shabbaton. The weekend began with registration in Oholei Torah and from there to their hosts for Shabbos.

Photo Galleries
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Shula Swerdlove OBM, and Levi Wolowick OBM.

Dear fellow parents,

I write this letter with tears and a heavy heart, having just heard about the loss of yet another Shliach's child. I can not help myself from asking but one question: Aibershter why?

The pain, the suffering, and the devastating void that these selfless Shluchim are experiencing is something that, as a fellow mother, I can only pretend to fathom.

OP-ED: Drawing Strength from Tragedy

Shula Swerdlove OBM, and Levi Wolowick OBM.

Dear fellow parents,

I write this letter with tears and a heavy heart, having just heard about the loss of yet another Shliach’s child. I can not help myself from asking but one question: Aibershter why?

The pain, the suffering, and the devastating void that these selfless Shluchim are experiencing is something that, as a fellow mother, I can only pretend to fathom.

Op-Ed
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