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Mazal Tov! – 2 Sunday L’Chaims!

Zalman Newfield (Crown Heights) and Chaya Ronit Labendz (West Caldwell, NJ) .
IYH 2:30pm at Beis Levi Yitzchock, 556 Crown St [entrance ramp on Albany Ave].

Sholly Ingles (England) and Leah Rabin (South Africa) .
IYH 8:30pm at Beis Levi Yitzchock, 556 Crown St [entrance ramp on Albany Ave].

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.

Khan Destroys Salita in 76 Seconds

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.

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.

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.”

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.

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

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].

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