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New York Artists Memorialize Mumbai Attacks Through Song

By Yonit Tanenbaum for Chabad.org
Moshe Hecht performs during a musical tribute hosted by the Meaningful Life Center one year after the Mumbai terror attacks. (Photo: TheCoolJew.com)

Putting an East Village touch on the first anniversary of the terror attacks in Mumbai, India, approximately 100 Jewish New Yorkers packed a room at the city’s Meaningful Life Center to memorialize the lives of slain Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries Rabbi Gavriel and Rivka Holtzberg through music and contemplative lyrics.

Unique Picture of the Rebbe!

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CrownHeights.info and the Avner Institute are happy to present a Beautiful photo of the Rebbe. To learn more about the Rebbe visit: www.portraitofaleader.org

A King of Real Estate, Fallen on Harder Times

By Christine Haughney for the New York Times

Through the real estate boom, few new developers filled the city with luxury condominiums as fast as Shaya Boymelgreen. He turned Wall Street corner offices into minimalist bachelor lairs, built TriBeCa apartments snapped up by celebrities like Gwyneth Paltrow and crowded the edges of Park Slope, Brooklyn, with condos.

14th of Kislev: “This is the day that bound me to you, and you to me”

On the 14th of Kislev, 1928, the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, married Rebbetzin Chaya Mushka Schneersohn (1901-1988), the middle daughter of Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn (1880-1950), the sixth Rebbe of Chabad-Lubavitch.

The Bochurims Invitation to the Rebbes Wedding

A number of years ago we published a copy of an invitation that was sent to the Bochurim of Yeshivas Torahs Emes in Jerusalem, inviting the Bochurim to partake in the Simcha of the wedding. We are proud to republish today in honor of the anniversary.

Africa Israel Warns May Not Last as ‘Going Concern’

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Lev Leviev addressing Shluchim during the 2007 banquet

Real estate developer Africa Israel Investments said its ability to continue as a “going concern” was at risk as it reported a narrower quarterly loss on Sunday.

The company, controlled by billionaire Lev Leviev, has been hit hard due to the global financial and economic crisis and has been in talks for several months with bondholders to restructure NIS 7.4 billion ($1.9 billion) of debt.

Community Holds Meet and Greet for Smicha Bochurim

PRETORIA, South Africa [CHI] — Recently, over 100 members of the Pretoria Hebrew Congregation hosted a braai, or as Americans know it ‘barbeque’, in order for the Baalei Batim to have a chance to meet the Bochurim of the Mochon Lehoraah Smicha program on a more social level in order to choose a learning partner, and to make friends.