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Congresswoman Yvette D. Clarke (D-NY) is inviting residents to come out for a “town hall meeting” in the Jewish Childrens Museum this coming Monday evening to discuss the Healthcare Reform bill titled “H.R. 3200 America’s Affordable Health Choices Act”, and to learn what is in it for us and how it will affect our families.

Town Hall Meeting: Healthcare Reform Meeting in the JCM

Congresswoman Yvette D. Clarke (D-NY) is inviting residents to come out for a “town hall meeting” in the Jewish Childrens Museum this coming Monday evening to discuss the Healthcare Reform bill titled “H.R. 3200 America’s Affordable Health Choices Act”, and to learn what is in it for us and how it will affect our families.

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New Engagement!

Avremel Rapoport(Clarks Summit, PA) to Faigy Liberow (London, UK) L’Chaim: Tonight, Tuesday, 8:00pm at Lubavitcher Yeshiva Crown Street
New Engagement!

Menny Leitner (Monsey, NY) to Bracha Goldberg (Monsey, NY) L’Chaim: Sunday, July 20th, 7:30pm at Bais Yosef Meir Simcha Hall 19 Olympia Ln, Monsey
New Engagement!

Mendy Sulami (Los Angeles, CA) to Aidel Spielman (Crown Heights)
New Engagement!

Tsvi Feygin  (Teaneck, NJ) to Faigy Kahn (London, UK)
New Engagement!

Shmuel Gurary (Buffalo, NY) to Esther Leeba Eidelman (Manchester, UK) L’Chaim: Tonight, Thursday, 8:00pm at Rubashkin’s Downstairs
Baby Boy!

Sendy and Mali (nee New) Labkowsky from Crown Heights had a baby boy!
Baby Boy!

Yehuda and Raizel Marrus from Davie, FL, had a baby boy!
New Engagement!

Shalom Alon (Kfar Gidon, EY) to Bluma Potash (Noe Valley, SF, CA)
New Engagement!

Jack Abramson (NW4, London, UK) to Shayna Ash (Johannesburg, South Africa)
Baby Boy!

Mendel and Soro (nee Brennan) Manne from Penn Wynne, PA had a baby boy!
New Engagement!

Yisrolik Chein (Toulouse, France) to Chanale Greenberg (Shanghai, China) L’Chaim: Tonight, Thursday, 8:00pm at 695 East New York Ave
New Engagement!

Schneur Motchkin (Crown Heights) to Sarah Schmukler (Crown Heights) L’Chaim: Tonight, Thursday, 8:00pm at Lubavitcher Yeshiva
New Engagement!

Shmayah Schechter (Miami Beach, FL) to Bella Kimball (West Hartford, CT) L’Chaim: Tonight, Wednesday, 7:30pm at Chabad of Greater Hartford 2352 Albany Ave, West Hartford, CT, 06117
Baby Girl!

Shneur and Sara (nee Heber) polter from Crown Heights had a baby girl!
New Engagement!

Yonah Galili (Toronto, Canada) to Ora Zuckerman (Crown Heights) L’Chaim: Monday, July 7th, 8:00pm at Bais Avraham Yitzchak 305 Remsen Ave
Baby Boy!

Dovid and Baila (nee Spielman) Vogel from Crown Heights had a baby boy!
New Engagement!

Yechezkel Markovitch (Kiev, Ukraine) to Layah Carlbach (Montreal, Canada)
by Krystal Mackenzie - The Royal Gazette

Taking a break: Rabbi Mendy Margolin and his
brother Rabbi Levi Margolin enjoy a coffee at Rock
Island during their stay in Bermuda.
“Rabbis with kosher food will travel.”

Such is how Rabbi Mendy Margolin and his brother Rabbi Levi Margolin introduce themselves. They are participants in the Chabad Rabbinical Visitation Programme, and have been visiting the Jewish Community of Bermuda since Tuesday.

The aim of the programme is to travel to remote, isolated Jewish communities where they introduce a vibrant Jewish experience to the local population. Through personal encounters with families and individuals, they inspire meaningful exploration and celebration of Jewish life, identity and traditions. You literally see the Jewish heritage accessible to Jewish people worldwide.

Visiting Rabbi Brothers are Fascinated by Bermuda

by Krystal Mackenzie – The Royal Gazette

Taking a break: Rabbi Mendy Margolin and his
brother Rabbi Levi Margolin enjoy a coffee at Rock
Island during their stay in Bermuda.

“Rabbis with kosher food will travel.”

Such is how Rabbi Mendy Margolin and his brother Rabbi Levi Margolin introduce themselves. They are participants in the Chabad Rabbinical Visitation Programme, and have been visiting the Jewish Community of Bermuda since Tuesday.

The aim of the programme is to travel to remote, isolated Jewish communities where they introduce a vibrant Jewish experience to the local population. Through personal encounters with families and individuals, they inspire meaningful exploration and celebration of Jewish life, identity and traditions. You literally see the Jewish heritage accessible to Jewish people worldwide.

Merkos Shlichus
By Rabbi Yoseph Kahanov, Jax, Florida
A man was once accused of a serious crime. The evidence was so incriminating that a guilty verdict was all but inevitable. “Your only hope,” advised his lawyer “is to enter a plea of insanity; but you must remember to act crazy in court.”

The man followed his lawyer’s counsel and put on a great act. He made the strangest sounds as he twitched his head and thrashed his hands. So well had he performed, that the case was soon dismissed.

To his utter dismay, when the lawyer came to collect his fee, the man resumed his ridiculous gig; strange motions and all. He soon realized that he had become the butt of his own ploy – his expert advice had come back to bite him.
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After a long day of disasters and mishaps, due to inattentiveness and neglect, the exhausted victim could take it no more. “Why,” he cried in exasperation, “Do things that happen to morons keep happening to me?!”

“Where Have I Gone Wrong?” – The Reverberating Effects Of Human Behavior

By Rabbi Yoseph Kahanov, Jax, Florida

A man was once accused of a serious crime. The evidence was so incriminating that a guilty verdict was all but inevitable. “Your only hope,” advised his lawyer “is to enter a plea of insanity; but you must remember to act crazy in court.”

The man followed his lawyer’s counsel and put on a great act. He made the strangest sounds as he twitched his head and thrashed his hands. So well had he performed, that the case was soon dismissed.

To his utter dismay, when the lawyer came to collect his fee, the man resumed his ridiculous gig; strange motions and all. He soon realized that he had become the butt of his own ploy – his expert advice had come back to bite him.
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After a long day of disasters and mishaps, due to inattentiveness and neglect, the exhausted victim could take it no more. “Why,” he cried in exasperation, “Do things that happen to morons keep happening to me?!”

Something Jewish
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By Andrew Thompson - Philadelphia Citypaper
Rabbi/band leader Menachem Schmidt has seen Philly's Lubavitch community grow to new heights. But is its progressive orthodoxy too good to be true?


Rabbi Menachem Schmidt. Photo: Neal Santos.

An Orthodox synagogue sits across the street from an abandoned lot on Poplar and North American streets, and on a cool May night, the members of that synagogue use it to throw what is undoubtedly the biggest party in Northern Liberties. The occasion is Lag B'Omer, one of the more obscure Jewish holidays, and the Philadelphia leaders of the Chabad-Lubavitch sect of Judaism had decided to celebrate by lighting an enormous bonfire, serving Miller High Life and cooking kosher barbecue. Next to the bonfire, a bongo line forms, the drums beat by casually dressed youth while Hasidic Jews, dressed in traditional black suits and fedoras with long scraggly beards, drink and chat around them while children throw detritus into the fire.

Too Cool for Shul

By Andrew Thompson – Philadelphia Citypaper

Rabbi/band leader Menachem Schmidt has seen Philly’s Lubavitch community grow to new heights. But is its progressive orthodoxy too good to be true?

Rabbi Menachem Schmidt. Photo: Neal Santos.

An Orthodox synagogue sits across the street from an abandoned lot on Poplar and North American streets, and on a cool May night, the members of that synagogue use it to throw what is undoubtedly the biggest party in Northern Liberties. The occasion is Lag B’Omer, one of the more obscure Jewish holidays, and the Philadelphia leaders of the Chabad-Lubavitch sect of Judaism had decided to celebrate by lighting an enormous bonfire, serving Miller High Life and cooking kosher barbecue. Next to the bonfire, a bongo line forms, the drums beat by casually dressed youth while Hasidic Jews, dressed in traditional black suits and fedoras with long scraggly beards, drink and chat around them while children throw detritus into the fire.

Shlichus
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By Shannon Geis for The Brooklyn Paper

The Brooklyn Paper / Allyse Pulliam
Rabbi Aaron Raskin of Congregation B’nai Avraham shows
off the damage caused the last time a serial burglar tried
to break into the Remsen Street synagogue.
BROOKLYN, NY — A Brooklyn Heights synagogue that has been repeatedly robbed and attacked was hit again last week — and rabbis believe it is the same man responsible for earlier break-ins.

“He’s broken in before,” said Rabbi Simcha Weinstein of Congregation B’nai Avraham on Remsen Street, which has been the site of repeated burglaries and attempted burglaries ever since the suspect, a serial burglar, was invited in for a meal five years ago.

In the Aug. 20 incident, cops said that the burglar broke in through the front door of the house of worship, which is between Henry and Clinton streets, at around 3:30 am.

This time, however, he was confronted by a member of the cleaning staff, who asked what he was doing there.

Rather than answer, he quickly ran out of the synagogue empty handed.

Shul House Rocked — Again!

By Shannon Geis for The Brooklyn Paper

The Brooklyn Paper / Allyse Pulliam
Rabbi Aaron Raskin of Congregation B’nai Avraham shows
off the damage caused the last time a serial burglar tried
to break into the Remsen Street synagogue.

BROOKLYN, NY — A Brooklyn Heights synagogue that has been repeatedly robbed and attacked was hit again last week — and rabbis believe it is the same man responsible for earlier break-ins.

“He’s broken in before,” said Rabbi Simcha Weinstein of Congregation B’nai Avraham on Remsen Street, which has been the site of repeated burglaries and attempted burglaries ever since the suspect, a serial burglar, was invited in for a meal five years ago.

In the Aug. 20 incident, cops said that the burglar broke in through the front door of the house of worship, which is between Henry and Clinton streets, at around 3:30 am.

This time, however, he was confronted by a member of the cleaning staff, who asked what he was doing there.

Rather than answer, he quickly ran out of the synagogue empty handed.

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We are proud to present to you this photo of the 1961 Graduating Jewish 8th grade in Lubavitcher Yeshiva on Bedford and Dean. The following is a list of the names we managed to obtain, feel free to add to the list by using the comment system.

Top Row: (L-R) ?, ?, Aron Cywiak, Manny Greitzer, Joe Bander, Nat Slavin, Rudy Weinberger, Singer, David Shabbat, Ben Tandowski, Meyer Fremder, Zimmet, Rochman, Moshe Winner OBM, Leima Levitin OBM.

Picture of the Day! – Graduating Bedford and Dean 1961!

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We are proud to present to you this photo of the 1961 Graduating Jewish 8th grade in Lubavitcher Yeshiva on Bedford and Dean. The following is a list of the names we managed to obtain, feel free to add to the list by using the comment system.

Top Row: (L-R) ?, ?, Aron Cywiak, Manny Greitzer, Joe Bander, Nat Slavin, Rudy Weinberger, Singer, David Shabbat, Ben Tandowski, Meyer Fremder, Zimmet, Rochman, Moshe Winner OBM, Leima Levitin OBM.

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Mazal Tov! – 10 Sholom Zochors this Week!

Sholom Ber and Libby (nee Slavin) Klein.
IYH at 785 Montgomery St [between Albany and Troy Ave].

Aharon and Sarah (nee Morrison) Calvo.
IYH at IYH at 1650 President St, Apt 3A [between Schenectady and Utica Ave].

Moshe and Mimi (nee Notik) Hecht.
IYH at 551 Brooklyn Ave, 5th Floor [between Maple and Midwood St].

Schnuer and Sara’le (nee Barber) Seewald.
IYH at 661 Crown St [between Troy and Schenectady Ave].

Immanuel and Rochie (nee Blau) Storfer.
IYH at 852 Eastern Pkwy [between Kingston and Albany Ave].

Menachem Mendel and Miriam Rachel (nee Greenberg) Greenstein.
IYH at 518 Montgomery St, 2nd floor [between New York and Brooklyn Ave].

Mendy and Rochel Horowitz.
IYH at 765 S. Johns Pl, Apt 1A [between Nostrand and Rogers Ave].

Zev and Ditza Young.
IYH at 660 NE 173rd Terrace, Miami, FL 33162.

Rubie and Rivkie Minkowitz.
IYH at 12823 Chandler Blvd, Valley Village, CA 91607.

Avremi and Rochie Popack.
IYH at 10201 Christopher St, Cypress, CA 90630.

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 Eric Lidji - The Jewish Chronicle
Rabbi Yisroel Meir Altein, an educator, administrator and spiritual mentor in the local Lubavitch community for more than 60 years, passed away on Saturday, Aug. 22.

He was 86.

Altein came to Pittsburgh in the mid-1940s. As one of the oldest and longest serving emissaries, or shluchim, of Rabbi Yosef Yitzchok Schneersohn, the sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe, Altein watched the Lubavitch movement grow from a small outpost in the East End of Pittsburgh to a large school with a vast, regional presence in the community.

Around 1 p.m. on Sunday afternoon, more than 200 people gathered outside of the Lubavitch Center on Wightman Street in Squirrel Hill to read psalms as the hearse stopped in front of the synagogue Altein helped build. Then, a 30-car procession drove up Murray Avenue and on to the Homewood Cemetery, where Altein was buried.

Rabbi Yisroel Meir Altein OBM, an Educator & Spiritual Mentor

by Eric Lidji – The Jewish Chronicle

Rabbi Yisroel Meir Altein, an educator, administrator and spiritual mentor in the local Lubavitch community for more than 60 years, passed away on Saturday, Aug. 22.

He was 86.

Altein came to Pittsburgh in the mid-1940s. As one of the oldest and longest serving emissaries, or shluchim, of Rabbi Yosef Yitzchok Schneersohn, the sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe, Altein watched the Lubavitch movement grow from a small outpost in the East End of Pittsburgh to a large school with a vast, regional presence in the community.

Around 1 p.m. on Sunday afternoon, more than 200 people gathered outside of the Lubavitch Center on Wightman Street in Squirrel Hill to read psalms as the hearse stopped in front of the synagogue Altein helped build. Then, a 30-car procession drove up Murray Avenue and on to the Homewood Cemetery, where Altein was buried.

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