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CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — Tamir Goodman, the “Jewish Jordan”, announced today his retirement from professional basketball during a press conference and fundraiser at the Jewish Children's Museum in Brooklyn, NY. Goodman, 27, who played his last season with the Maccabi Haifa professional basketball team (Israeli Premier League), has been named the Director of the Haifa Hoops for Kids charity program, an initiative spearheaded by Maccabi Haifa and United Jewish Communities of MetroWest NJ, which benefits underprivileged and special needs children in Israel.

“Jewish Jordan” Retires from Professional Basketball

CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — Tamir Goodman, the “Jewish Jordan”, announced today his retirement from professional basketball during a press conference and fundraiser at the Jewish Children’s Museum in Brooklyn, NY. Goodman, 27, who played his last season with the Maccabi Haifa professional basketball team (Israeli Premier League), has been named the Director of the Haifa Hoops for Kids charity program, an initiative spearheaded by Maccabi Haifa and United Jewish Communities of MetroWest NJ, which benefits underprivileged and special needs children in Israel.

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Shimon and Chanie Alon from Coral Springs, FL had a baby boy!
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Yitzy and Leeby Smith from Coral Springs, FL had a baby boy!
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Pesach Chaim Newman (Crown Heights) to Bluma Raizel Lewis (Old Tappan, NJ)
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Eitan Hershkop (Crown Heights) to Chana Belfer (Melbourne, Australia) L’Chaim: Tonight, Thursday, 8:00pm at Bass and Bourbon
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Levi Meer (Morristown, NJ) to Sara Gershovitz (Crown Heights) L’Chaim: Thursday, June 12th, 8:00pm at 1349 President Street Upstairs
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Yosef Chaim Bercovice (Chicago, IL) to Leah Eisenbach (New York)
New Engagement!

Pesach Bercovice (Chicago, IL) to Tzipporah Yasmine Holloway (Orlando, FL)
New Engagement!

Mendel Saaks (Chicago, IL) to Leeba Grossbaum (Paramus, NJ)
New Engagement!

Yisrolik Keselman (London, UK) to Shaina Keller (Crown Heights)

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Ya’akov Silverman (Tysons Corner, VA) to Chaya Raizel Michaelson (Glastonbury, CT)
New Engagement!

Yitzchak Minkowitz (Fort Myers, FL) to Shani Silver (Mequon, WI)
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Avremel Weingarten (Flint, MI) to Chana Potash (Noe Valley, SF, CA)
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Yaya Kagan (Los Angeles, CA) to Hadas Malamud (Brooklyn, NY) L’Chaim: Tonight, Thursday, 7:30pm at the Oholei Torah Ballroom
Baby Boy!

Meyer and Chaya (nee Engelberg) Shushan from Crown Heights had a baby boy!
Baby Girl!

Boruch and Adeli Zimmerman from Oro Valley, AZ had a baby girl!

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Dovi Vogel (Wilmington, DE) to Chanie Rapoport (Atlantic City, NJ)
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Yitzy Bernstein (Freehold, NJ) to Brocha Gleyzer (Monsey, NY)

FLINT, MI [CHI] — Members of the Jewish community in Flint, Michigan celebrated the completion and dedication of a new Sefer Torah. The Torah was written in memory of Mrs. Freida Bluma Polter OBM, and was sponsored by the community members.

New Torah to Chabad House of Eastern Michigan!

FLINT, MI [CHI] — Members of the Jewish community in Flint, Michigan celebrated the completion and dedication of a new Sefer Torah. The Torah was written in memory of Mrs. Freida Bluma Polter OBM, and was sponsored by the community members.

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Rabbi Chaim Jacobs (L), Director Of Lubavitch of Scotland together with Provost Mackie of East Renfrewshire Council, Glasgow and Rabbi Mendel Jacobs, Director of Lubavitch Outreach Programs presenting an Apple and Honey gift in honor of the new year on behalf of Lubavitch of Scotland.

New Years Gift

Rabbi Chaim Jacobs (L), Director Of Lubavitch of Scotland together with Provost Mackie of East Renfrewshire Council, Glasgow and Rabbi Mendel Jacobs, Director of Lubavitch Outreach Programs presenting an Apple and Honey gift in honor of the new year on behalf of Lubavitch of Scotland.

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Video from the scene of the accident which involved Toms River, NJ Shliach Rabbi Moshe Gourarie. In the video you can see how one of the vehicles, a truck, goes up in flames and its gas tank explodes after the high power electric lines fell on the cars.

Video: Truck Goes Up in Flames in NJ Accident

Video from the scene of the accident which involved Toms River, NJ Shliach Rabbi Moshe Gourarie. In the video you can see how one of the vehicles, a truck, goes up in flames and its gas tank explodes after the high power electric lines fell on the cars.

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Top: (L to R) Avremy Zuntz, Levi Feigenson, Noach Hebber, Binyomin Klein, Lipa Lieberman, Chesky Malamud, Nochum Greenwald, Ronen Kaniarski, Menachem M. Krinsky.
Bottom: (L to R) Mendy Smetana, Shmulik Zalmenov, Dovid Teich, Momo Spielman.

CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — Well it wasn’t actually a slaughter, but the underdogs, the Beis Shmuel Mulles, took the 2009 Crown Heights Softball League Champion title. The game was pretty close ending with a score of 6 to 4 at the top of the 7th.

Beis Shmuel Slaughters House of Glatt

Top: (L to R) Avremy Zuntz, Levi Feigenson, Noach Hebber, Binyomin Klein, Lipa Lieberman, Chesky Malamud, Nochum Greenwald, Ronen Kaniarski, Menachem M. Krinsky.
Bottom: (L to R) Mendy Smetana, Shmulik Zalmenov, Dovid Teich, Momo Spielman.

CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — Well it wasn’t actually a slaughter, but the underdogs, the Beis Shmuel Mulles, took the 2009 Crown Heights Softball League Champion title. The game was pretty close ending with a score of 6 to 4 at the top of the 7th.

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Judge: Rubashkin Can Visit Ohel for Rosh Hashanah

IOWA CITY, Iowa [AP] — A judge has granted the request of a former top manager at a kosher slaughterhouse to travel from Iowa to New York and pray at the grave of a famous Orthodox Jewish leader.

U.S. District Court Judge Linda Reade says Sholom Rubashkin can be driven from Postville to a Queens, N.Y., cemetery for the Jewish New Year. He’s expected to visit the grave of Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson on Wednesday.

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