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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.

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.

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New Engagement!

Levi Its’hak Ben Soussan (Courbevoie, France) to Sterna Sarah Gagueche (Brunoy, France)
New Engagement!

Shea Shmotkin (Crown Heights) to Chaya Jacobs (London, UK) L’Chaim: Tonight, Thursday, 8:30pm at Albany Manor 585 Albany Ave
New Engagement!

Ariel Benchimoun (Levallois, France) to Rivka Bouzna (Sarcelles, France)
Baby Boy!

Moshe Leib and Chaya Mushka (nee Friedman) Yaras from Coral Springs, FL had a baby boy!
New Engagement!

Yossi Futerfas (Crown Heights) to Mussy Goldstein (Crown Heights)
New Engagement!

Mendel Shemtov (Crown Heights) to Mushka Palace (Crown Heights) L’Chaim: Tonight, Wednesday, 8:00pm at 1345 President Street
New Engagement!

Moshe Maiman (Mequon, WI) to Hinda Teich (Crown Heights) L’Chaim: Tonight, Wednesday, 8:00pm at The Garden House 1386 S. Johns Pl
Baby Girl!

Sholem Ber and Deena Wolberg from Glencoe, IL had a baby girl.
New Engagement!

Menachem Rubenfeld (S. Diego, CA) to Chani Geisinsky (Crown Heights) L’Chaim: Tonight, Wednesday, 8:30pm at Lubavitcher Yeshiva Crown Street
New Engagement!

Pinny Itkin (Scranton, PA) to Esty Baumgarten (East Hampton, NY) L’Chaim: Tonight, Tuesday, 8:30pm at the JCM
Baby Boy!

Eliyahu and Chayale Citron from Portland, Oregon had a baby boy!
New Engagement!

Shneur Pink (Manchester, UK) to Sheindel November (Teaneck, NJ) L’Chaim: Tonight, Monday, 8:00pm at Ulam Chana 556 Crown Street
New Engagement!

Levi Katan (Kfar Chabad, EY) to Miriam Krichevsky (London, UK)
Baby Girl!

Yakov and Tzivia (nee Fogel) Staschower from Crown Heights had a baby girl!
Baby Boy!

Sender and Chana Sara Segel from Coral Springs, FL had a baby boy!
Baby Girl!

Mendy and Chaya Mushka (nee Vaisfiche) Labkowski from Buffalo, NY had a baby girl!
New Engagement!

Zalmy Liberow (Colorado Springs, CO) to Fraidel Werde (Crown Heights) L’Chaim: Thursday, August 7th, 8:00pm at Rubashkin’s Upstairs
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.”

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.”

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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.

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.

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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

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

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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].

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

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Mazal Tov! – New Engagement!

CrownHeights.info wishes Mazal Tov to Chaim Gourarie (Sao Paulo, Brazil) and Dini Schildkraut (Sao Paulo, Brazil) on their engagement.

The L’Chaim will IYH be Motzei Shabbos at Lubavitcher Yeshiva, 570 Crown St [hall entrance on Albany Ave].

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New York Daily News

Devorah Benjamin has a simple reason why she, Shmuly Brashevitzky and a host of volunteers work so hard to “make” memorable weddings for Lubavitcher Jewish couples who can't afford to do it themselves.

“The wedding is the foundation of a life, of a home,” Benjamin said. "It's the beginning of everything, your children, your grandchildren.

Wedding Planners Assist Jewish Couples in Need

New York Daily News

Devorah Benjamin has a simple reason why she, Shmuly Brashevitzky and a host of volunteers work so hard to “make” memorable weddings for Lubavitcher Jewish couples who can’t afford to do it themselves.

“The wedding is the foundation of a life, of a home,” Benjamin said. “It’s the beginning of everything, your children, your grandchildren.

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By Rabbi Yoseph Kahanov Jax, Fl.
Two drunks were walking down the street when towards them came a harmless looking Jew. One drunk elbowed the other: “Hey, Vanya, what do you say we give this Yid a good working over? Eh?”

“Well, we could,” replied the second, “except the guy looks mighty fit. We’d be lucky if he doesn’t give us a hearty thrashing. I’d say we make haste while we can.”

“Vanya!” replied his friend in surprise, “What have you been drinking? Why in the world would anyone want to harm two innocent people?”

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“If my scientific theories prove correct,” said Albert Einstein, then Germany will claim that I am German by birth; France will claim I am French by residence and America will claim I am an American as a result of my new citizenship. If, on the other hand, my theories prove incorrect, they will all say I am just a Jew!”

Why Do They Hate Us? – The Anatomy Of Anti-Semitism

By Rabbi Yoseph Kahanov Jax, Fl.

Two drunks were walking down the street when towards them came a harmless looking Jew. One drunk elbowed the other: “Hey, Vanya, what do you say we give this Yid a good working over? Eh?”

“Well, we could,” replied the second, “except the guy looks mighty fit. We’d be lucky if he doesn’t give us a hearty thrashing. I’d say we make haste while we can.”

“Vanya!” replied his friend in surprise, “What have you been drinking? Why in the world would anyone want to harm two innocent people?”

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“If my scientific theories prove correct,” said Albert Einstein, then Germany will claim that I am German by birth; France will claim I am French by residence and America will claim I am an American as a result of my new citizenship. If, on the other hand, my theories prove incorrect, they will all say I am just a Jew!”

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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!!

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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.

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.

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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.

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.

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“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.

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.

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