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NY Post
Despite a shrinking NYPD, the number of mistreatment claims against city cops jumped 7 percent in the first six months of 2009 — a pace that would shatter the annual record filed with the Civilian Complaint Review Board, The Post has learned.

CCRB stats show 4,028 complaints filed between Jan. 1 and June 30, compared with 3,764 in the first half of '08. At that rate, there'd be 8,056 this year, eclipsing the 2006 record of 7,663.

With more complaints usually filed in the second half of the calendar year, a CCRB official acknowledged in May that as many as 8,200, or an 11 percent rise over last year, would likely be tallied in '09, sources said.

New NYPD Brew: Fewer Cops, more Gripes

NY Post

Despite a shrinking NYPD, the number of mistreatment claims against city cops jumped 7 percent in the first six months of 2009 — a pace that would shatter the annual record filed with the Civilian Complaint Review Board, The Post has learned.

CCRB stats show 4,028 complaints filed between Jan. 1 and June 30, compared with 3,764 in the first half of ’08. At that rate, there’d be 8,056 this year, eclipsing the 2006 record of 7,663.

With more complaints usually filed in the second half of the calendar year, a CCRB official acknowledged in May that as many as 8,200, or an 11 percent rise over last year, would likely be tallied in ’09, sources said.

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A Single Father, A Tireless Fellow Shliach, An Unimaginable Struggle

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New Engagement!

Yossi Labkovski (Buffalo, NY) to Chayale Zaltzman (Toronto, Canada) L’Chaim: Tonight, Monday, 8:30pm at Lubavitcher Yeshiva Crown Street
Baby Girl!

Chaim and Rivky (nee Wilansky) Perl from Remsen Village had a baby girl!
New Engagement!

JJ Cohen (Boca Raton, FL) to Nechama Solomon (Montreal, Canada)
New Engagement!

Dovid Ezagui (Brooklyn, NY) to Chava Sorkin (Brooklyn, NY)
New Engagement!

Hushi Kot (Tallinn, Estonia) to Chani Wilhelm (Morristown, NJ) L’Chaim: Today, Monday, 8:30pm at F.R.E.E.
New Engagement!

Velvel Reikhtman (Montreal, Canada) to Channah Kagan (Crown Heights) L’Chaim: Tuesday, June 10th, 8:30pm at Ulam Chana 556 Crown Street
Baby Boy!

Shimon and Chanie Alon from Coral Springs, FL had a baby boy!
Baby Boy!

Yitzy and Leeby Smith from Coral Springs, FL had a baby boy!
New Engagement!

Pesach Chaim Newman (Crown Heights) to Bluma Raizel Lewis (Old Tappan, NJ)
New Engagement!

Eitan Hershkop (Crown Heights) to Chana Belfer (Melbourne, Australia) L’Chaim: Tonight, Thursday, 8:00pm at Bass and Bourbon
New Engagement!

Levi Meer (Morristown, NJ) to Sara Gershovitz (Crown Heights) L’Chaim: Thursday, June 12th, 8:00pm at 1349 President Street Upstairs
New Engagement!

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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New Engagement!

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

Yitzchak Minkowitz (Fort Myers, FL) to Shani Silver (Mequon, WI)
By Bill Rankin and Christopher Quinn for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution
ATLANTA, GA — A Cobb rabbi is seeking to declare Georgia’s Kosher Food Labeling Act unconstitutional, saying it de-legitimizes interpretations of “kosher” by different Jewish communities.

Shalom Lewis, rabbi of Congregation Etz Chaim, filed suit Thursday in Fulton County Superior Court. He is represented by the American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of Georgia and Atlanta law firm King & Spalding.

The Kosher Food Labeling Act, enacted in 1980, mandates that any food sold as kosher must meet “orthodox Hebrew religious rules and requirements.”

Conservative Rabbi Challenges Kosher Law

By Bill Rankin and Christopher Quinn for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution

ATLANTA, GA — A Cobb rabbi is seeking to declare Georgia’s Kosher Food Labeling Act unconstitutional, saying it de-legitimizes interpretations of “kosher” by different Jewish communities.

Shalom Lewis, rabbi of Congregation Etz Chaim, filed suit Thursday in Fulton County Superior Court. He is represented by the American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of Georgia and Atlanta law firm King & Spalding.

The Kosher Food Labeling Act, enacted in 1980, mandates that any food sold as kosher must meet “orthodox Hebrew religious rules and requirements.”

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by Chana Kroll - Chabad.org

Rabbis Yehuda Kirsch, left, and Levi Pekar, prepare to take another group of volunteers from Manali, India, to search for missing American-Israeli backpacker Amichai Shtainmetz.

After a grueling search of all possible routes between the mountainous villages of Khira Ghanga and Bunbuny in northern India, rescuers have shifted focus in their mission to find Amichai Shtainmetz, the 24-year-old American-Israeli backpacker who disappeared more than two weeks ago.

Slow-Going Search for Missing Hiker

by Chana Kroll – Chabad.org

Rabbis Yehuda Kirsch, left, and Levi Pekar, prepare to take another group of volunteers from Manali, India, to search for missing American-Israeli backpacker Amichai Shtainmetz.

After a grueling search of all possible routes between the mountainous villages of Khira Ghanga and Bunbuny in northern India, rescuers have shifted focus in their mission to find Amichai Shtainmetz, the 24-year-old American-Israeli backpacker who disappeared more than two weeks ago.

Merkos Shlichus
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AP

Illustration Photo

There aren't just fewer jobs in a recession. There are fewer babies, too. U.S. births fell in 2008, the first full year of the recession, marking the first annual decline in births since the start of the decade and ending an American baby boomlet.

Recession Means Fewer Babies; US Births fell 2 Percent

AP

Illustration Photo

There aren’t just fewer jobs in a recession. There are fewer babies, too. U.S. births fell in 2008, the first full year of the recession, marking the first annual decline in births since the start of the decade and ending an American baby boomlet.

General
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Shluchim Rabbi's (L-R) Mendy Kasowitz, of West Orange, NJ, Moshe Bleich, of Wellesley Hills, MA, and Meir Geisinsky, of Cedarhurst, NY watch the softball game of the visitors versus staff in Gan Israel, Parksville.

Picture of the Day! – Shluchim in Jersey’s!

Shluchim Rabbi’s (L-R) Mendy Kasowitz, of West Orange, NJ, Moshe Bleich, of Wellesley Hills, MA, and Meir Geisinsky, of Cedarhurst, NY watch the softball game of the visitors versus staff in Gan Israel, Parksville.

Picture of the Day
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Photos: Kumzitz on the Bay

Shua Kessin

BROOKLYN, NY [CHI] — Last week Jewish music lovers got a three hour dose of a Kuzitz cruise with a host of performers. The event was hosted by Ozer Babad of xclusive productions. Performers included Eli Beer, Beri Weber, Yitzchok Fuchs, Shua Kessin, and Chaim Lowy, MC was Yoely Lebovitz.

Photo Galleries
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Illustration Photo. Inset: Photo from the latest incident.

CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — After a relative calm of a few months the theft of airbags from cars in Crown Heights appears to have resumed. Over Shabbos two cars were broken into and their airbags were stolen, the incidents took place on Montgomery Street between Brooklyn and Kingston Avenues.

Airbag Thefts Resume in Crown Heights

Illustration Photo. Inset: Photo from the latest incident.

CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — After a relative calm of a few months the theft of airbags from cars in Crown Heights appears to have resumed. Over Shabbos two cars were broken into and their airbags were stolen, the incidents took place on Montgomery Street between Brooklyn and Kingston Avenues.

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The New York Times

A small private plane carrying three people and a New York tourist helicopter with six collided in midair and plunged into the Hudson River off Hoboken, N.J., opposite Manhattan’s West Side, just before noon on Saturday. All on board the two aircraft were killed, the authorities said.

9 Dead After Copter and Plane Collide

The New York Times

A small private plane carrying three people and a New York tourist helicopter with six collided in midair and plunged into the Hudson River off Hoboken, N.J., opposite Manhattan’s West Side, just before noon on Saturday. All on board the two aircraft were killed, the authorities said.

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Mazal Tov! – 5 Sholom Zochors this Week!

Yisroel Tzvi and Chanie (nee Junik) Davidsohn.
IYH at 763 Eastern Parkway, Apt D21 [between Kingston and Brooklyn Ave].

Shmaryahu and Chanie (nee Nash) Baumgarten.
IYH at 579 Crown St [between Albany and Troy Ave].

Chaim and Rivkie Lipskier (Orlando, FL) .

Shmuly and Estee (nee Rosenthal) Cohen.
IYH at 17024 Otsego St, Encino, CA 91316.

Yehuda and Dinie (nee Turk) Pink (Shluchim to Solihull, UK) .

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!!

Mazel Tov's
By Rabbi Yoseph Kahanov Jax FL
A joyous farbrengen was held one evening at the humble home of Rabbi Shmuel Betzalel Sheftel (The 'Rashbatz'). For hours the group of Chassidim sat, toasting L'chaim's, singing, talking, rebuking and inspiring one another. As the clock marked the passing of the night, the meager platters of 'Farbeisen' (food with which to follow up the L'chaim vodka) ran out, so Rabbi Shmuel Betzalel instructed that the lamb being raised in his yard be slaughtered. A hot stew was prepared to fuel the Farbeisen for many an hour to come.

The next morning Rabbi Shmuel Betzalel's wife came in from the yard with the distressing news that the lamb – which constituted the whole of the 'family ranch' – had disappeared! Said Rabbi Shmuel Betzalel: “No, no, the lamb has not disappeared. The lamb is very much here, it has only changed its sound. Yesterday it said meh-eh-eh. . . today it is saying Echo-o-d. . ., O-o-one. . . ” (as in G-d is one).
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“Man does not live by bread alone, but by all that emanates from the mouth of G-d does man live.” (Deuteronomy 8:3)

Not By Bread Alone – The Kabbalah Of Human Nutrition

By Rabbi Yoseph Kahanov Jax FL

A joyous farbrengen was held one evening at the humble home of Rabbi Shmuel Betzalel Sheftel (The ‘Rashbatz’). For hours the group of Chassidim sat, toasting L’chaim’s, singing, talking, rebuking and inspiring one another. As the clock marked the passing of the night, the meager platters of ‘Farbeisen’ (food with which to follow up the L’chaim vodka) ran out, so Rabbi Shmuel Betzalel instructed that the lamb being raised in his yard be slaughtered. A hot stew was prepared to fuel the Farbeisen for many an hour to come.

The next morning Rabbi Shmuel Betzalel’s wife came in from the yard with the distressing news that the lamb – which constituted the whole of the ‘family ranch’ – had disappeared! Said Rabbi Shmuel Betzalel: “No, no, the lamb has not disappeared. The lamb is very much here, it has only changed its sound. Yesterday it said meh-eh-eh. . . today it is saying Echo-o-d. . ., O-o-one. . . ” (as in G-d is one).

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“Man does not live by bread alone, but by all that emanates from the mouth of G-d does man live.” (Deuteronomy 8:3)

Something Jewish
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CGI South Padre Island Completes 4th Summer

SOUTH PADRE ISLAND, TX [CHI] — This summer, campers enjoyed a new and exclusive educational and recreational water-sports program with a focus on surfing. Campers from across the state and from as far as the Virgin Islands, enjoyed days packed with sun, fun, friends and lots of surf. They rode the waves and learned new skills with top professionals in the field. The luxury water-front accommodations were a great hit, as well as all the cool extras that CGI SPI is now so famous for.

Shlichus
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