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by Chaya

The following was written by a friend and classmate of Toby’s in connection with her upcoming Yohrtzeit which falls out on Sunday, the 19th of Av.

To the Eagle family,

I spent my seminary year in Yerushalayim with Toby. Although I didn't know her at all before seminary, she was one of the first people to befriend me.

Toby Eagle OBM, She Would Have Been 22 Now

by Chaya

The following was written by a friend and classmate of Toby’s in connection with her upcoming Yohrtzeit which falls out on Sunday, the 19th of Av.

To the Eagle family,

I spent my seminary year in Yerushalayim with Toby. Although I didn’t know her at all before seminary, she was one of the first people to befriend me.

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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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Ya’akov Silverman (Tysons Corner, VA) to Chaya Raizel Michaelson (Glastonbury, CT)
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Yitzchak Minkowitz (Fort Myers, FL) to Shani Silver (Mequon, WI)
by Rabbi Pinchas Allouche
...And What Matters Most In Judaism

Peace, Love, and Friends

What comes to mind, when you hear the word “peace”? How about the words “love”, “friendship” or “spirituality”?

Op-Ed: Why Judaism is not Confined to Spirituality

by Rabbi Pinchas Allouche

…And What Matters Most In Judaism

Peace, Love, and Friends

What comes to mind, when you hear the word “peace”? How about the words “love”, “friendship” or “spirituality”?

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By Matthew Wagner for the Jerusalem Post

(L) Admiral Canaris, commander of the Nazi Abwehr

Chabad Lubavitch presented a request Monday to Yad Vashem to recognize a high-ranking military commander in the Third Reich as a righteous gentile for saving Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef Schneerson, the sixth Chabad rebbe.

Admiral Canaris, commander of the Nazi Abwehr, or intelligence, had a central role in securing Schneerson's escape from the Warsaw Ghetto along with members of Schneerson's family and entourage, said Yosef Kaminetzky, a writer who recently completed a book on the escape story.

Chabad: Make Nazi Commander a ‘Righteous Gentile’

By Matthew Wagner for the Jerusalem Post

(L) Admiral Canaris, commander of the Nazi Abwehr

Chabad Lubavitch presented a request Monday to Yad Vashem to recognize a high-ranking military commander in the Third Reich as a righteous gentile for saving Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef Schneerson, the sixth Chabad rebbe.

Admiral Canaris, commander of the Nazi Abwehr, or intelligence, had a central role in securing Schneerson’s escape from the Warsaw Ghetto along with members of Schneerson’s family and entourage, said Yosef Kaminetzky, a writer who recently completed a book on the escape story.

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By Dr Keith Ablow for the NY Post

Stock Photo - L'Chaim

Over the course of my work, I end up treating many patients for alcohol abuse. But in the beginning, very few of them actually come to me worried about whether they might be alcoholics. Most of them come for help with depression, marital discord, stress at work or anxiety.

Many of these men and women never considered themselves problem drinkers. They don't drink every day and don't get drunk every time they drink. They may have stopped drinking for weeks or months at a time, without having any signs of withdrawal.

Sobering Truths About Alcohol’s Subtle Grip

By Dr Keith Ablow for the NY Post

Stock Photo – L’Chaim

Over the course of my work, I end up treating many patients for alcohol abuse. But in the beginning, very few of them actually come to me worried about whether they might be alcoholics. Most of them come for help with depression, marital discord, stress at work or anxiety.

Many of these men and women never considered themselves problem drinkers. They don’t drink every day and don’t get drunk every time they drink. They may have stopped drinking for weeks or months at a time, without having any signs of withdrawal.

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By Dvora Lakein for Lubavitch.com

The 15th of Av corresponds this year to Wednesday, August 15th. Of this date on the Jewish calendar, the Mishna says, “There were no holidays so joyous for the Jewish People as the Fifteenth of Av and Yom HaKippurim, for on those days, daughters of Jerusalem would go out dressed in borrowed white dresses.

A Match Made In Iraq

By Dvora Lakein for Lubavitch.com

The 15th of Av corresponds this year to Wednesday, August 15th. Of this date on the Jewish calendar, the Mishna says, “There were no holidays so joyous for the Jewish People as the Fifteenth of Av and Yom HaKippurim, for on those days, daughters of Jerusalem would go out dressed in borrowed white dresses.

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A Maamar the Rebbe Broadcast From His Room – Now in English

A Chasidic discourse the Rebbe delivered in 1977, as he was recuperating from a heart attack he had suffered that year, has been translated into English.

A new volume in the popular Chasidic Heritage Series was released today, entitled “The Path to Selflessness.”

It is a translation of Yehuda Atah 5738, delivered by the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson on the eve of the fast of the Tenth of Tevet 5738 (1977).

At that time, the Rebbe was recuperating from a heart attack he had suffered on the night of Shemini Atzeret, and would periodically deliver addresses from his office at Lubavitch World Headquarters, by way of a special hookup system, to the main synagogue.

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Moshe Hecht Live in Concert

On Sunday August 2, singer-songwriter Moshe Hecht performed for an audience of 150 at Anshe Shalom Chabad Gardens Hall (Kew Gardens). The concert featured storytelling and Moshe’s eclectic blend of folk, blues and reggae songs that will appear on his soon-to-be-released debut album.

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16-year-old Ethan Berg never imagined he would celebrate his bar mitzvah with two New York rabbis inside the walls of a military chapel on Guam. “It was very meaningful. I've never had that. Interesting experience. It was so beautiful,” he said.

A local chapel was dedicated to members of Jewish faith by the US Navy and the Air Force in 1976. Now the two Rabbis that are here today from Brooklyn, New York are hoping to infuse some fire and a little spark into the Jewish community on base locally.

Video – Merkos Shluchim Help Guam Jews Keep the Faith

16-year-old Ethan Berg never imagined he would celebrate his bar mitzvah with two New York rabbis inside the walls of a military chapel on Guam. “It was very meaningful. I’ve never had that. Interesting experience. It was so beautiful,” he said.

A local chapel was dedicated to members of Jewish faith by the US Navy and the Air Force in 1976. Now the two Rabbis that are here today from Brooklyn, New York are hoping to infuse some fire and a little spark into the Jewish community on base locally.

Merkos Shlichus
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By Grant Schulte for the Des Moines Register

DES MOINES, IA — A one-time executive at Agriprocessors Inc. pleaded guilty today to a conspiracy charge related to alleged bank fraud at the Postville slaughterhouse.

Yomtov “Toby” Bensasson was convicted of conspiracy to make false statements to a bank. The 56-year-old admitted that he conspired between September 2007 and October 2008 to lie to a bank to receive advances on a loan.

Agriprocessors Executive Pleads Guilty to Conspiracy

By Grant Schulte for the Des Moines Register

DES MOINES, IA — A one-time executive at Agriprocessors Inc. pleaded guilty today to a conspiracy charge related to alleged bank fraud at the Postville slaughterhouse.

Yomtov “Toby” Bensasson was convicted of conspiracy to make false statements to a bank. The 56-year-old admitted that he conspired between September 2007 and October 2008 to lie to a bank to receive advances on a loan.

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