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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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Sholem Ber and Deena Wolberg from Glencoe, IL had a baby girl.
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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
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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!
New Engagement!

Zalmy Liberow (Colorado Springs, CO) to Fraidel Werde (Crown Heights) L’Chaim: Thursday, August 7th, 8:00pm at Rubashkin’s Upstairs
New Engagement!

Yaakov Levy (Crown Heights) to Mimi Stern (Houston, TX)
New Engagement!

Mendel Schaffran (Brooklyn, NY) to Chana Friedman (Pittsburgh, PA) L’Chaim: Tonight, Wednesday, 8:00pm at Lubavitcher Yeshiva Crown Street
Baby Boy!

Zev and Chaya Mushka Shusterman from Coral Springs, FL had a baby boy!
New Engagement!

Mendel Vardi (Yerushalayim, EY) to Sara Namdar (Gothenburg, Sweden) L’Chaim: Tuesday, the 4th of Av, 8:30pm at The Garden House 1386 S. Johns Pl
Baby Girl!

Sholom and Chaya Mushka (nee Rosenfeld) Katz from Lauderhill, FL had a baby girl!
Baby Girl!

Ari and Chanie Greenwald from Crown Heights had a baby girl!
New Engagement!

Israel Guetta (Netanya ,Israel) to Sterna Benmoussa (Paris ,France )

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.

General
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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.

Shlichus
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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.

Videos
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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

WASHINGTON [CBS] — On the same day that the White House released the photograph that cost $328,000 and turned the stomachs of thousand of New Yorkers, President Barack Obama accepted the resignation of the official who authorized the presidential aircraft flyover in lower Manhattan last month, CBS 2 reports.

The $328,000 Air Force One Photo

WASHINGTON [CBS] — On the same day that the White House released the photograph that cost $328,000 and turned the stomachs of thousand of New Yorkers, President Barack Obama accepted the resignation of the official who authorized the presidential aircraft flyover in lower Manhattan last month, CBS 2 reports.

General
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Illustration Photo - Rabbi Osdoba inspects a knife used to slaughter cows at a meat plant - 2006

EUROPEAN UNION [JTA] — The parliament of the European Union reaffirmed its commitment to keep kosher animal slaughter legal.

Wednesday's vote, which increases the supervision and monitoring of religious animal slaughter throughout Europe while reaffirming the right to kosher slaughter, follows months of lobbying by the European Jewish Congress, the Conference of European Rabbis and Shechita EU, which was established to maintain the broadest possible representation of the interests of European Jewish communities on the issue of religious slaughter.

EU Parliament Reaffirms Kosher Slaughter

Illustration Photo – Rabbi Osdoba inspects a knife used to slaughter cows at a meat plant – 2006

EUROPEAN UNION [JTA] — The parliament of the European Union reaffirmed its commitment to keep kosher animal slaughter legal.

Wednesday’s vote, which increases the supervision and monitoring of religious animal slaughter throughout Europe while reaffirming the right to kosher slaughter, follows months of lobbying by the European Jewish Congress, the Conference of European Rabbis and Shechita EU, which was established to maintain the broadest possible representation of the interests of European Jewish communities on the issue of religious slaughter.

Jewish News
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By Ralph Blumenthal for the New York Times

Shlomie Rotter, left, examines a fedora with Bruno Lacorazza in Primo Hatters, Mr. Rotter’s shop in Crown Heights, Brooklyn.

CROWN HEIGHTS — Bruno Lacorazza’s fur felt hats come in black, black or black.

But there the uniformity ends as Mr. Lacorazza, 47, Colombian-born hatter to the Lubavitch Hasidim and other Orthodox Jews who keep their heads covered, arrived in Brooklyn from Miami last week with cartons of exciting new styles retailing for about $125, along with the classics.

When He Talks Hats, Basic Black Is Only the Beginning

By Ralph Blumenthal for the New York Times

Shlomie Rotter, left, examines a fedora with Bruno Lacorazza in Primo Hatters, Mr. Rotter’s shop in Crown Heights, Brooklyn.

CROWN HEIGHTS — Bruno Lacorazza’s fur felt hats come in black, black or black.

But there the uniformity ends as Mr. Lacorazza, 47, Colombian-born hatter to the Lubavitch Hasidim and other Orthodox Jews who keep their heads covered, arrived in Brooklyn from Miami last week with cartons of exciting new styles retailing for about $125, along with the classics.

Crown Heights News
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