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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!!

Assault and Mugging on Eastern Parkway

NY Post Police Blotter

CROWN HEIGHTS — A mugging victim was beaten and tossed into traffic after refusing to turn over cash in Crown Heights, cops said.

Lawrence Hoffman confronted the 21-year-old victim at 3:20 p.m. at Eastern Parkway and Kingston Avenue, cops said.

Biggest Audience for live Menorah Lighting in the NY Metro Area

Last year Chabad of West Hempstead was presented with an opportunity by the NY Islanders for Pirsumei Nissah by lighting the Menorah during a hockey game on the third night of Chanukah. This was a small scale success considering the potential. At the event hundreds of Menorahs and candles were also distributed to unaffiliated Jews walking through the promenade at the Nassau Coliseum, who approached the Chabad booth and indicated that they had not yet lit the Menorah.

A Letter from R’ Bension, Principal of Darchai Menachem

“Less than a week left for the Silver & Limo prize.” Click Here to order now.

Dear Friends and Supporters,

Let us take great pride in being a part of a community that is dedicated to its children and to the furtherance of quality education. Your child’s education and the education of this community’s next generation is priority. Baruch Hashem, we have supported one another during joyous times, as well as during difficult ones, and have much of which to be proud.

Picture of the Day! Agudath Israel 87th Convention

EAST BRUNSWICK, NJ [CHI] — Among the sea of thousands of Rabbis attending The Agudath Israel of America’s 87th National Convention, at the East Brunswick Hilton. Rabbi Moshe Berghoff from Chabad.org was onsite running the technical part of the conference.

Op-Ed: R. Shea Hecht on the Court Case of the Shomrim 6: A Very Sad Day for Klal Yisroel, and Lubavitch

by Rabbi Shea Hecht

As the days of Pesach were approaching, an alcoholic man went to visit a community Rov with an interesting dilemma. “Rabbi, I’m a recovering alcoholic. Even though I could not control my drinking, I always stayed out of trouble. I always managed to manage my home and professional life, and I never put myself or anyone else in danger. I have been clean for a number of years, and I would like to fulfill the mitzvah of the Four Cups on wine instead if grape juice this year.”

Without a moment of hesitation the Rov answered, “Absolutely not.”

Despite the man’s explanations and protests, the Rov was adamant.

Some days before Yom Tov, this man came across the Rov in the street.

“You know, Rabbi, after I met with you, I explained my situation to another Rov, and he gave me a heter to use wine!”

Iraqi Jew Tells of Family’s Escape From Oppressive Regime

By Chana Kroll for Chabad.edu
Edwin Shuker, an expatriate Iraqi, stands outside Baghdad’s Frank Iny Jewish School, a remnant of a community that in the space of decades was reduced from 200,000 people to a handful of souls.

Students at Leeds University in England glimpsed life in one of the world’s oldest Jewish communities last weekend through the recollections of Edwin Shuker, an expatriate Iraqi who fled his Arabian homeland as a boy.

‘We Desperately Need To Get Back To Theology’: An Interview with Rabbi Chaim Miller

By Elliot Resnick for the Jewish Press

“My particular passion was the teachings of the late Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson.” Born to an unobservant family in London, Rabbi Chaim Miller first encountered the Lubavitcher Rebbe’s teachings as a student at Leeds University. “His discourses impressed me in terms of their tremendous intellectual depth and brilliance,” he recalls.

Today, he is dedicated to disseminating these teachings to as wide an audience as possible. His Kol Menachem publishing house, which he founded in 2002 with philanthropist Meyer Gutnik, has already produced a number of popular works with extensive commentary culled from the Lubavitcher Rebbe’s public discourses and writings – the Gutnik Chumash, the Kol Menachem Haggadah and two books on the Rambam’s 13 principles of faith.

The Jewish Press recently spoke with Rabbi Miller about his background and Kol Menachem’s latest volume, The 13 Principles of Faith: Principles VI & VII.