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By Douglas P Clement for the Lichfeield County Times

LITCHFIELD, CT — In actions last week and earlier this week, the plaintiffs in a Jewish group's lawsuit claiming an anti-Hasidic bias in Litchfield filed an amended complaint to add a defendant and the town of Litchfield filed a motion to dismiss the lawsuit-at least with regard to the municipality.

Lawsuit Update In Chabad of Litchfield Action

By Douglas P Clement for the Lichfeield County Times

LITCHFIELD, CT — In actions last week and earlier this week, the plaintiffs in a Jewish group’s lawsuit claiming an anti-Hasidic bias in Litchfield filed an amended complaint to add a defendant and the town of Litchfield filed a motion to dismiss the lawsuit-at least with regard to the municipality.

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Baby Boy!

Yermi and Daniella Liam (nee Pohlman) Kurkus from Lake Lure, NC had a baby boy!
New Engagement!

Levi Kalmenson (Crown Heights) to Chanale Baitch (Crown Heights) L’Chaim: Monday, April 28th, 8:00pm at Anshei Lubavitch 578 Albany Ave
New Engagement!

Zevi Jacobson (De Moines, IA) to Ita Gurevitch (Crown Heights) L’Chaim: Monday, April 28th, 8:00pm at the JCM
New Engagement!

Sruli Friedman (Coral Springs, FL) to Adina Izgelov (Milwaukee, WI) L’Chaim: Monday, April 28th, 8:00pm at Albany Manor 641 Rutland Rd
New Engagement!

Shlomo Werde (Crown Heights) to Gila Bensusan (London, UK)
Baby Boy!

Chezki and Mushkie Golowinski from Crown Heights had a baby boy! Shalom Zachor: 539 Crown Street
New Engagement!

Avi Baitelman (Los Angeles, CA) to Mindy Neubort (Fair Lawn, NJ) L’Chaim: Tonight, Thursday, 8:00pm at Lubavitch Yeshiva
New Engagement!

Menachem Forer (Toronto, Canada) to Sari Gottlib (Hillside, NJ) L’Chaim: Thursday, April 24th, 8:00pm at Lubavitcher Yeshiva
Baby Boy!

Chaim and Bracha (nee Morozow) Rendler from Crown Heights had a baby boy!
Baby Girl!

Zalmy and Esther (nee Tabari) Hyams from Crown Heights had a baby girl!
Baby Boy!

Shmuly and Chaya (nee Lewin) Stone from Crown Heights had a baby boy!
New Engagement!

Yossi Krinsky (Vilnius, Lithuania) to Rochele Namdar (Gothenburg, Sweden)
Baby Boy!

Yossef and Naomi (nee Malinas) Haddad from Milan, Italy had a baby boy!
New Engagement!

Menachem Forer (Toronto, Canada) to Sari Gottlib (Hillside, NJ) L’Chaim: Thursday, April 24th, at 1349 President Street
New Engagement!

Ariel Poliszuk (Toronto, Canada) to Devorah Leah Weingrow (Chicago, IL)
Baby Girl!

Yisroel and Chana Esther (nee Feldman) Kaczala from Brazil had a baby girl!
New Engagement!

Yosef Yitzchok Marcucci (Chicago, IL) to Devorah Leah Munis (Eretz Yisroel)
By S. Fridman for Lubavitch

DNEPROPETROVSK, Ukraine — The Jewish community of Dnepropetrovsk unveiled Tuesday, a memorial complex established on the site of a former Jewish cemetery, slated for a shopping mall in 2008.

Natan Sharansky, Chairman of the Jewish Agency for Israel, joined the city’s Mayor Ivan Kulichenko, Chief Rabbi of Dnepropetrovsk and the Dnepropetrovsk region Shmuel Kaminezki, and Mr. Gennady Bogolubov—Chairman of the Dnepropetrovsk Jewish community, at the well-attended ceremony Tuesday night.

Ukraine Jewish Community Unveils Memorial

By S. Fridman for Lubavitch

DNEPROPETROVSK, Ukraine — The Jewish community of Dnepropetrovsk unveiled Tuesday, a memorial complex established on the site of a former Jewish cemetery, slated for a shopping mall in 2008.

Natan Sharansky, Chairman of the Jewish Agency for Israel, joined the city’s Mayor Ivan Kulichenko, Chief Rabbi of Dnepropetrovsk and the Dnepropetrovsk region Shmuel Kaminezki, and Mr. Gennady Bogolubov—Chairman of the Dnepropetrovsk Jewish community, at the well-attended ceremony Tuesday night.

Chabad News

Baruch Dayan Hoemes – Mrs Shura Cohen/Saidov OBM

With sadness we inform you of the passing of Mrs Shura Cohen / Saidov OBM.

She is survived by her brother Moshiach Chudaitov (Crown Heights) and her kids, Moshe Chaim (Crown Heights) Dovid (Flatbush) Tamar Heifitz (Mequon, Wisconsin) Tzivia Farkash (Netanya, Israel) Sarah Yakubov (Nachlas Har Chabad, Israel) and Efraim (Netanya, Israel).

The family will be sitting shiva tomorrow morning from 8:30am at 1532 President St [between Albany and Troy Ave].

There will be two Shachris Minyonim, 8:30am and 9:30am

Condolences can be email to mishacohen@gmail.com

Baruch Dayan Hoemes

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By Rebecca Dube for the Forward

Lustrous Linings: Ultra-Orthodox Jews who insist on dark colors on the outside can let their inner selves sing out loudly.

To outsiders, the long black coats worn by Haredi men might all look the same.

Upon closer inspection, though, there’s nothing uniform about them. Enterprising tailor Mendy Sacho, 25, has built a successful couture business in Toronto over the past three years, catering to a mostly Orthodox clientele who like a bit of flair with their frum. Now, he’s expanding to serve American clients with a store in Brooklyn that he hopes to open by Hanukkah.

A Bit of Flair With Their Frum

By Rebecca Dube for the Forward
Lustrous Linings: Ultra-Orthodox Jews who insist on dark colors on the outside can let their inner selves sing out loudly.

To outsiders, the long black coats worn by Haredi men might all look the same.

Upon closer inspection, though, there’s nothing uniform about them. Enterprising tailor Mendy Sacho, 25, has built a successful couture business in Toronto over the past three years, catering to a mostly Orthodox clientele who like a bit of flair with their frum. Now, he’s expanding to serve American clients with a store in Brooklyn that he hopes to open by Hanukkah.

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by Tamar Runyan - Chabad.org

Aided by a Chabad-Lubavitch emissary, Rabbi Aaron Gurevitch, center, Jewish prisoners at the Ertsevo prison in northern Russia inaugurate the country’s first synagogue to open at a correctional institution.

For High Holiday services this year, Jewish inmates in northern Russia’s Ertsevo prison made history when they prayed in the sprawling country’s first on-site synagogue, a worship space they helped build. And as they turn their eyes to the fast-approaching holiday of Sukkot, plans in the works call for similar inmate-built synagogues to pop up at correctional institutions in the near future.

Synagogue Ushers in New Era of Services for Russia’s Inmates

by Tamar Runyan – Chabad.org

Aided by a Chabad-Lubavitch emissary, Rabbi Aaron Gurevitch, center, Jewish prisoners at the Ertsevo prison in northern Russia inaugurate the country’s first synagogue to open at a correctional institution.

For High Holiday services this year, Jewish inmates in northern Russia’s Ertsevo prison made history when they prayed in the sprawling country’s first on-site synagogue, a worship space they helped build. And as they turn their eyes to the fast-approaching holiday of Sukkot, plans in the works call for similar inmate-built synagogues to pop up at correctional institutions in the near future.

Shlichus

TZFAT, Israel [CHI] — In his last visit to Tzfat Rabbi Joseph Gutnick visited the Mikvah in Kiriyat Chabad which he sponsored over 25 years ago, and he commissioned the renovation and refurbishment of the aging Mikvah.

Picturesque Mikvah Being Renovated in Tzfat

TZFAT, Israel [CHI] — In his last visit to Tzfat Rabbi Joseph Gutnick visited the Mikvah in Kiriyat Chabad which he sponsored over 25 years ago, and he commissioned the renovation and refurbishment of the aging Mikvah.

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By Matthew Lysiak and Wil Cruz for the NY Daily News

BROOKLYN, NY — A hate-monger blanketed a stretch of a Brooklyn neighborhood with “Kill Jews” notes Wednesday - weeks after a similar incident in two other communities.

Residents along Third Ave. in Bay Ridge woke up to find hundreds of two-inch handwritten signs bearing the ugly message in black marker.

Hateful ‘Kill Jews’ Notes Found Scattered Throughout Brooklyn Streets

By Matthew Lysiak and Wil Cruz for the NY Daily News

BROOKLYN, NY — A hate-monger blanketed a stretch of a Brooklyn neighborhood with “Kill Jews” notes Wednesday – weeks after a similar incident in two other communities.

Residents along Third Ave. in Bay Ridge woke up to find hundreds of two-inch handwritten signs bearing the ugly message in black marker.

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Stand for Freedom in Iran Rally

by Yonit Tanenbaum

NEW YORK, NY [CHI] — At the “Stand for Freedom in Iran Rally” Thursday, September 24th, a diverse cross-section of Americans and Iranians, from high school students to senior citizens, spanning religious sects of Judaism, Islam, and Christianity, gathered outside the United Nations headquarters in New York City to protest Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s presence at the 64th General Assembly.

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lubavitch.com

What’s a submariner at sea to do on Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur without a prayer book? Shortly before the Jewish New Year set in, Chabad representative to Norfolk, VA, Rabbi Levi Brashevitsky, received the following email from U.S. submariner Brian Lantz, stationed on the USS Norfolk (SSN 714) submarine, homeported in Norfolk, Virginia. The Chabad rabbi directed the letter to KEHOT, the Chabad-Lubavitch publishing house.

Submariner At Sea Calls On Chabad For High Holy Day Prayer Texts

lubavitch.com

What’s a submariner at sea to do on Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur without a prayer book? Shortly before the Jewish New Year set in, Chabad representative to Norfolk, VA, Rabbi Levi Brashevitsky, received the following email from U.S. submariner Brian Lantz, stationed on the USS Norfolk (SSN 714) submarine, homeported in Norfolk, Virginia. The Chabad rabbi directed the letter to KEHOT, the Chabad-Lubavitch publishing house.

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A last-minute crisis was staved off last week at JEM. Toward the end of last week, the new film for children, My Land, was slated for release.

The boxes of thousands of DVDs arrived at JEM as scheduled and was randomly tested by the staff, to make sure they were in working order. To their horror, all the DVDs were blank! After investigating, they discovered that the company which duplicates the DVDs had erroneously copied a blank DVD thinking it was the master.

My Land DVDs Released… This Time for Real

A last-minute crisis was staved off last week at JEM. Toward the end of last week, the new film for children, My Land, was slated for release.

The boxes of thousands of DVDs arrived at JEM as scheduled and was randomly tested by the staff, to make sure they were in working order. To their horror, all the DVDs were blank! After investigating, they discovered that the company which duplicates the DVDs had erroneously copied a blank DVD thinking it was the master.

Chabad News

CownHeights.info and the Avner Institute is happy to present a first time released Photo of the Rebbe from Kos Shell Bracha in the early 1980’s. To learn more about the Rebbe visit: www.portraitofaleader.org

Weekly Unique Photo of the Rebbe!

CownHeights.info and the Avner Institute is happy to present a first time released Photo of the Rebbe from Kos Shell Bracha in the early 1980’s. To learn more about the Rebbe visit: www.portraitofaleader.org

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Mazal Tov! – 3 Wednesday Night L’Chaims!

Yakov Kabacznik (Belem, Brazil) and Luba Merovitch (Toronto, Canada) .
IYH at FREE, 1383 President St [between Kingston and Brooklyn Ave].

Itzik Schwartz (Petach Tikvah, Israel) and Chaya Arad (Migdal Haemek, Israel) .
IYH at Bais Rivkah, 310 Crown St [between New York and Nostrand Ave].

Sholom Gorowitz (Crown Heights) and Mushky Gansbourg (Montreal, Canada)
IYH at the Jewish Children’s Museum 792 Eastern Pkwy [corner Kingston Ave].

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

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