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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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New Engagement!

Eli Mochkin (Melbourne, Australia) to Risa Drizin (Crown Heights) L’Chaim: Tonight, Monday, 8:30pm at The Arches
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!

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!!

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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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Will major media attention help?

Mom says daughter taunted, attacked on Crown Heights playground

An 11-year-old Jewish girl was attacked at a Crown Heights playground by a band of black youths who slammed her into a metal slide, kicked her repeatedly - and pelted her with anti-Semitic invective, the girl's mom said Wednesday.

NY Daily News on the Beating of Jewish Girl

Will major media attention help?

Mom says daughter taunted, attacked on Crown Heights playground

An 11-year-old Jewish girl was attacked at a Crown Heights playground by a band of black youths who slammed her into a metal slide, kicked her repeatedly – and pelted her with anti-Semitic invective, the girl’s mom said Wednesday.

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The Rebbe says:

1. At the end of this week’s Torah portion the Torah tells us of the commandment to remember what the nation of Amalek did to us. The Torah reads, “Remember what Amalek did to you on the road, on your way out of Egypt. That he met you on the way and cut off those lagging to your rear, when you were tired and exhausted; he did not fear G-d. Therefore... you must obliterate the memory of Amalek from under the heavens. Do not forget”.

When we analyze these words of the Torah we will see that there are three elements here. Firstly there is the commandment to remember what Amalek did to us. Secondly there is the commandment not to forget what Amalek did to us. And thirdly, there is the commandment to wipe out Amalek.

2. The Rebbe shows how important this is:

The Weekly Sicha of the Rebbe – Parshas Ki Seitzei

The Rebbe says:

1. At the end of this week’s Torah portion the Torah tells us of the commandment to remember what the nation of Amalek did to us. The Torah reads, “Remember what Amalek did to you on the road, on your way out of Egypt. That he met you on the way and cut off those lagging to your rear, when you were tired and exhausted; he did not fear G-d. Therefore… you must obliterate the memory of Amalek from under the heavens. Do not forget”.

When we analyze these words of the Torah we will see that there are three elements here. Firstly there is the commandment to remember what Amalek did to us. Secondly there is the commandment not to forget what Amalek did to us. And thirdly, there is the commandment to wipe out Amalek.

2. The Rebbe shows how important this is:

Something Jewish
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Chabad at the Shore – Jewish Summer Fest

ATLANTIC CITY, NJ [CHI] — Chabad at the Shore recently held its 5th annual Jewish Summer Festival. The Jersey Shore is a popular vacation destination and it attracts many Jewish vacationers each summer. Each year as summer comes to an end and families get ready to go back to school, Chabad offers visitor its mega summer event – The Jewish Summer Fest.

Shlichus
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By Sharon Udasin for the Jewish Week
They may be in Thessaloniki or in the foothills of the Himalayas, but emissaries-to-be in the Rebbe’s Army — as befits the high tech-savvy Chabad movement — are online all the while.

This summer in Chabad’s long-running “Roving Rabbis” program, in which rabbis-in-training are dispatched to far-flung locales to help out local emissaries, they are also assigned to blog about their experiences of the movement’s flagship site, chabad.org. The posts tell riveting stories of survival during the Holocaust and simple ones of Jews living life far off the beaten path.

Lubavitch Laptops – Tech Savvy Roving Rabbis

By Sharon Udasin for the Jewish Week

They may be in Thessaloniki or in the foothills of the Himalayas, but emissaries-to-be in the Rebbe’s Army — as befits the high tech-savvy Chabad movement — are online all the while.

This summer in Chabad’s long-running “Roving Rabbis” program, in which rabbis-in-training are dispatched to far-flung locales to help out local emissaries, they are also assigned to blog about their experiences of the movement’s flagship site, chabad.org. The posts tell riveting stories of survival during the Holocaust and simple ones of Jews living life far off the beaten path.

Chabad News

Gang Attack. Illustration Photo.

CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — A 12-year-old Jewish girl was the victim of a vicious racially motivated physical and verbal gang assault by a large group of 10-year-old Black boys in a local playground.

The incident took place Tuesday evening at around 7:00pm in the new playground on Montgomery Street between Troy and Schenectady Avenues, according to an account by the girls mother she said that the group first tried provoking her into fighting with them by verbally taunting her, following it up with throwing a ball at her.

Racially Motivated Gang Assault by 10-year-olds, Police Brush it off

Gang Attack. Illustration Photo.

CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — A 12-year-old Jewish girl was the victim of a vicious racially motivated physical and verbal gang assault by a large group of 10-year-old Black boys in a local playground.

The incident took place Tuesday evening at around 7:00pm in the new playground on Montgomery Street between Troy and Schenectady Avenues, according to an account by the girls mother she said that the group first tried provoking her into fighting with them by verbally taunting her, following it up with throwing a ball at her.

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Coming Soon from JEM: My Land!

As reported earlier, JEM in collaboration with Malka Touger are in the final stages of producing a new, exciting film for kids: My Land – A children’s tour through Israel’s Holy Cities accompanied by teachings of the Rebbe.

Here they were spotted in Ein Yael, Yerushalayim doing a scene about the Shivas Haminim (7 Species) of Eretz Yisroel.

Chabad News
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On 4 July 1976, Israel Defense Forces saved the lives of 104 Jews hostages held by terrorists at Entebbe Airport, Uganda. The Avner Institute is pleased to present a wonderful letter sent by the Rebbe to a Chabad supporter in Cleveland, Ohio, in which the Rebbe explains the lessons to be learnt from the miraculous victory of Operation Entebbe. To learn more about the Rebbe visit: portraitofaleader.org

“Victory Entebbe” – A Unique Letter of the Rebbe

On 4 July 1976, Israel Defense Forces saved the lives of 104 Jews hostages held by terrorists at Entebbe Airport, Uganda. The Avner Institute is pleased to present a wonderful letter sent by the Rebbe to a Chabad supporter in Cleveland, Ohio, in which the Rebbe explains the lessons to be learnt from the miraculous victory of Operation Entebbe. To learn more about the Rebbe visit: portraitofaleader.org

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