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By Zalman Nelson for Lubavitch.com

JERUSALEM — More than 150 French Jews filled the Chabad Center for French Speakers in Jerusalem’s Gilo neighborhood on Thursday night to celebrate the Second Passover and its message of “It’s never too late” with Rabbi Yitzchok Chaviv.

Israel’s French Jews: Making the Most of A Second Chance

By Zalman Nelson for Lubavitch.com

JERUSALEM — More than 150 French Jews filled the Chabad Center for French Speakers in Jerusalem’s Gilo neighborhood on Thursday night to celebrate the Second Passover and its message of “It’s never too late” with Rabbi Yitzchok Chaviv.

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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)
New Engagement!

Meir Manssouri (Los Angeles, CA) to Raizy Altschul (Chicago, IL)
New Engagement!

Ari Drizin (New Haven, CT) to Batsheva Lisbon (San Diego, CA) L’Chaim: Tonight, Monday, 8:00pm at The Arches 1394 S. Johns Pl
New Engagement!

Berel Laufer (Providence, RI) to Batya Deitsch (Columbus, OH) L’Chaim: Tonight, Monday, 8:00pm at Albany Manor 641 Rutland Rd
New Engagement!

Mendel Stolik (Lantana, FL) to Mussie Chanin (Har Shmuel, EY) L’Chaim: Tonight, Monday, 8:00pm at Lubavitcher Yeshiva
New Engagement!

Yossi Brownstein (Davis, CA) to Chayale Klasner (Toronto, Canada)
New Engagement!

Meir Simcha Silberberg (Chicago, IL) to Yehudis Korf (Miami Beach, FL)
New Engagement!

Mendel Bluming (Chapel Hill, NC) to Mushka Lifshitz (Boise, Idaho) L’Chaim: Tonight, Wednesday, 8:30pm at Lubavitcher Yeshiva

NEW YORK [ABC] — Rising operation costs are forcing the U.S. Postal Service to raise the price of postage once again. Postal Service officials say the price for a one-ounce First Class Mail stamp goes up two cents from 42 to 44 cents May 11th. Customers can continue to use the Forever stamps.

Stamp Prices go up Again – From 42¢ to 44¢

NEW YORK [ABC] — Rising operation costs are forcing the U.S. Postal Service to raise the price of postage once again. Postal Service officials say the price for a one-ounce First Class Mail stamp goes up two cents from 42 to 44 cents May 11th. Customers can continue to use the Forever stamps.

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What is your IQ? Don't worry, no one will measure. This Monday, in honor of Lag B'Omer, Yagdil Torah's Beis Midrash will host a Meivin Dovor M'toch Dovor program, which allows you to challenge your brain (and avoid rusting) while benefiting from superior learning. The program puts you in the seat of the Rov where you get a question which you need to find the answer to. Carefully selected texts from Shas, Rishonim and Acharonim will be available for your learning, analysis and descision. Next week iy"h there will be a short shiur which will wrap it up with a positive answer to the questions.

Yagdil Torah … What Is Your IQ?

What is your IQ? Don’t worry, no one will measure. This Monday, in honor of Lag B’Omer, Yagdil Torah’s Beis Midrash will host a Meivin Dovor M’toch Dovor program, which allows you to challenge your brain (and avoid rusting) while benefiting from superior learning. The program puts you in the seat of the Rov where you get a question which you need to find the answer to. Carefully selected texts from Shas, Rishonim and Acharonim will be available for your learning, analysis and descision. Next week iy”h there will be a short shiur which will wrap it up with a positive answer to the questions.

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S. PETERSBURG, Russia [FJC] — In Russia’s northern capital, the Jewish community of S. Petersburg is completing a massive internet project through which visitors will be able to find the graves of their relatives in the Preobrazhenskiy Jewish Cemetery, one of the main Jewish cemeteries in the area.

Internet Project Aids in Honoring the Departed

S. PETERSBURG, Russia [FJC] — In Russia’s northern capital, the Jewish community of S. Petersburg is completing a massive internet project through which visitors will be able to find the graves of their relatives in the Preobrazhenskiy Jewish Cemetery, one of the main Jewish cemeteries in the area.

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The Australian News

A hotel in Serfaus, Tyrol

AUSTRIA — A hotel in Austria has outraged local tourism and fellow hotel owners by banning Jewish guests.

The Haus Sonnenhof apartment hotel in the village of Serfaus, Tyrol, is said to have turned away a Jewish family because of “bad experiences” in the past, the daily Tiroler Tageszeitung reports.

Austrian Hotel Bans Jews

The Australian News

A hotel in Serfaus, Tyrol

AUSTRIA — A hotel in Austria has outraged local tourism and fellow hotel owners by banning Jewish guests.

The Haus Sonnenhof apartment hotel in the village of Serfaus, Tyrol, is said to have turned away a Jewish family because of “bad experiences” in the past, the daily Tiroler Tageszeitung reports.

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NEW YORK [CBS] — Sen. Charles Schumer is asking for an investigation into the scam phone calls pitching bogus car warranties that many Americans receive several times a day.

He says the scam artists are using random call generators allowing them to call people who are on the “do not call” list.

Sen. Schumer Asks For Probe Into Cell-Phone Scam

NEW YORK [CBS] — Sen. Charles Schumer is asking for an investigation into the scam phone calls pitching bogus car warranties that many Americans receive several times a day.

He says the scam artists are using random call generators allowing them to call people who are on the “do not call” list.

NYC News
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CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — A panicked mother called Shomrim after she noticed that her 5 year old son wandered out of an Albany Avenue store, and went missing. Many Shomrim units responded to the scene and quickly spread out in search of the child.

Missing Child B”H Found

CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — A panicked mother called Shomrim after she noticed that her 5 year old son wandered out of an Albany Avenue store, and went missing. Many Shomrim units responded to the scene and quickly spread out in search of the child.

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By Janice Arnold

Guy Bouthillier, left, has been studying the Tanya at classes taught by Rabbi Yossi Shanowitz.

Guy Bouthillier, a Quebec nationalist, is a student of Jewish mysticism.

Speaking at Chabad-Lubavitch of Westmount recently, the past Montreal president of the S. Jean Baptiste Society – which works to protect Quebec francophone interests – admitted that he was as surprised as anyone in the room to be addressing a gathering about how he became a student at the center.

Out of the Spotlight, Quebec Nationalist Now Studies Jewish Thought

By Janice Arnold

Guy Bouthillier, left, has been studying the Tanya at classes taught by Rabbi Yossi Shanowitz.

Guy Bouthillier, a Quebec nationalist, is a student of Jewish mysticism.

Speaking at Chabad-Lubavitch of Westmount recently, the past Montreal president of the S. Jean Baptiste Society – which works to protect Quebec francophone interests – admitted that he was as surprised as anyone in the room to be addressing a gathering about how he became a student at the center.

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By Angela Montefinise for the NY Post

NEW YORK — Despite its having been touted as a way to close budget gaps, city and state officials have backed off plans to crack down on the $1.6 billion black market for cigarettes.

The sole city unit targeting illegal tobacco full time has been reassigned, and a new law aimed at Indian reservations — the prime source of the butts — hasn't been enforced.

War Against Black Market of Cigarettes Burned Out

By Angela Montefinise for the NY Post

NEW YORK — Despite its having been touted as a way to close budget gaps, city and state officials have backed off plans to crack down on the $1.6 billion black market for cigarettes.

The sole city unit targeting illegal tobacco full time has been reassigned, and a new law aimed at Indian reservations — the prime source of the butts — hasn’t been enforced.

NYC News

Mazal Tov! – New Engagement!

We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Aaron Dovid Hutcheson (S Antonio, TX) and Esther Miriam Solorio (Las Vegas, NV) on their engagement..

The L’Chaim will IYH be tonight, Sunday at Rayim Ahuvim, 1614 Carroll St [corner Schenectady Ave].

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CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — Shabbos morning at around 9:30, Hatzalah was called to the scene of a motor vehicle accident on Empire Boulevard and Albany Avenue. It is unclear who called or why, but Hatzalah responded and treated two drivers both of whom were not Jewish.

Hatzalah Called and Responds to Accident Shabbos Morning

CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — Shabbos morning at around 9:30, Hatzalah was called to the scene of a motor vehicle accident on Empire Boulevard and Albany Avenue. It is unclear who called or why, but Hatzalah responded and treated two drivers both of whom were not Jewish.

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TALLAHASSEE, FL [CHI] — Shliach to Florida's capitol, Rabbi Schneur Zalman Oirechman delivered a prayer at the Florida House of Representatives this past Thursday, May 7th. He was invited by representative Franklin Sands.

Video – Shliach Opens Florida House Session with Prayer

TALLAHASSEE, FL [CHI] — Shliach to Florida’s capitol, Rabbi Schneur Zalman Oirechman delivered a prayer at the Florida House of Representatives this past Thursday, May 7th. He was invited by representative Franklin Sands.

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By Allan Levine for the National Post

WINNIPEG, Canada — There is no official record of how many times the sign “NO JEWS OR DOGS ALLOWED” was posted in Canada during the '30s and '40s. But historian Irving Abella asserts that it was spotted at “Halifax golf courses, outside hotels in the Laurentians and throughout the cottage areas of Ontario, the lake country of Manitoba and the vacation lands of British Columbia.” A popular alternative, hardly less pointed, read: “FOR CHRISTIANS ONLY.”

The Unwanted – Winnipeg in the 1930s and 1940s

By Allan Levine for the National Post

WINNIPEG, Canada — There is no official record of how many times the sign “NO JEWS OR DOGS ALLOWED” was posted in Canada during the ’30s and ’40s. But historian Irving Abella asserts that it was spotted at “Halifax golf courses, outside hotels in the Laurentians and throughout the cottage areas of Ontario, the lake country of Manitoba and the vacation lands of British Columbia.” A popular alternative, hardly less pointed, read: “FOR CHRISTIANS ONLY.”

Jewish News
By Jennifer Fermino for the NY Post

NEW YORK — A city doctor who tried to help uninsured patients by charging them a low monthly fee might get some help from Albany.

State Sen. Andrew Lanza introduced a bill allowing physicians like Dr. John Muney to charge patients a flat fee.

Just What the Doctor Ordered

By Jennifer Fermino for the NY Post

NEW YORK — A city doctor who tried to help uninsured patients by charging them a low monthly fee might get some help from Albany.

State Sen. Andrew Lanza introduced a bill allowing physicians like Dr. John Muney to charge patients a flat fee.

NYC News