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JERUSALEM [JTA] — Somali pirates attacked a ship belonging to an Israeli freight company.

The ship, which was flying the Maltese flag, did not have any Israeli crew members on board when it was attacked Saturday afternoon, according to reports.

Pirates Attack Israeli Freight Ship

JERUSALEM [JTA] — Somali pirates attacked a ship belonging to an Israeli freight company.

The ship, which was flying the Maltese flag, did not have any Israeli crew members on board when it was attacked Saturday afternoon, according to reports.

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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!
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 )

Tonight, Monday, 12 Nissan, April 6, 2009, at 8:00pm, Rabbi YY Jacobson will deliver a special global webcast: Here Comes the Sun – Part Two, a fascinating journey into a once-in-a-28-year-experience, the blessing for the sun, exploring the scientific, halachik, spiritual and psychological dimensions, and the Rebbe's revolutionary idea in Birchas Hachamah. Don’t miss this once-in-a-28-year lecture. The class will have an accompanying curriculum which you can download.

To watch, please visit www.TheYeshiva.net
To listen via telephone, please call: 1-616-347-8000. Access code: 1007852#

Globel Webcast: The Rebbe’s Revolution in Birchas Hachamah


Tonight, Monday, 12 Nissan, April 6, 2009, at 8:00pm, Rabbi YY Jacobson will deliver a special global webcast: Here Comes the Sun – Part Two, a fascinating journey into a once-in-a-28-year-experience, the blessing for the sun, exploring the scientific, halachik, spiritual and psychological dimensions, and the Rebbe’s revolutionary idea in Birchas Hachamah. Don’t miss this once-in-a-28-year lecture. The class will have an accompanying curriculum which you can download.

To watch, please visit www.TheYeshiva.net
To listen via telephone, please call: 1-616-347-8000. Access code: 1007852#

PSA
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Photo Gallery: Spring in Lefferts Park!

CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — Today, Sunday a CrownHeights.info photographer went out to capture Crown Heights residents enjoying the warm spring weather. In the beautiful gallery below, we have pictures of residents of all ages enjoying the beautiful weather we had this afternoon.

Huge Beautiful Gallery with over a 150 Pictures in the Extended Article!

Photo Galleries
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Shomrim Retrieve Stolen Moped

The owner of the bike smiling after retrieving his moped.

CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — A Pennsylvania resident received a rude “Brooklyn welcome” when a group of hooligans stole his moped while visiting the borough. The incident began when two members of Shomrim, who were patrolling on Motzai Shabbos, spotted a group of about 20 to 30 Black teens walking down Union Street from New York Avenue to Brooklyn Avenue.

More in the Extended Article!

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Every year, the Chabad youth organization in Israel invites kindergartens and schools to the Pesach (Passover) Experience Fair. The children get a hands-on matzah-baking experience and learn the ideas behind the precepts of Pesach. Its not easy conveying 3,000-year-old messages to todays children, explained one of the Chabad activists, but were doing it here through an interactive experience.

Arutz7 Video – Kids Bake Matzah in Kfar Chabad

Every year, the Chabad youth organization in Israel invites kindergartens and schools to the Pesach (Passover) Experience Fair. The children get a hands-on matzah-baking experience and learn the ideas behind the precepts of Pesach. Its not easy conveying 3,000-year-old messages to todays children, explained one of the Chabad activists, but were doing it here through an interactive experience.

Videos

The Beis Shmuel Mitzvah Tank!

CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — As in the past the Beis Shmuel Shul in Crown Heights arranges their own mitzvah tank on the Yud Aleph Nissan Parade, then today the fathers and children gathered up and took their tank to the Greenpoint neighborhood in Brooklyn for a day of Mivtzoim. The children together with their fathers asked people if they would to put on Tefillin and gave out Matzah along with pamphlets about Pesach.

More pictures in the Extended Article!

Photo Galleries
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The Way Things Were: Reflections On The Rebbe’s Birth Date

By Baila Olidort for Lubavitch.com

Where were you the last time the Jewish people assembled to bless the sun?

Maybe you didn’t even know about it then. The year was 1981. PC’s were still a thing of the future, cell phones unheard of, and the internet age had yet to dawn. Instant mass communication seemed still a fantastic idea, and educating people across geographic, linguistic and cultural distances was slow and painstaking.

Op-Ed

POUGHKEEPSIE, NY [CHI] — Rabbi Hanoch Hecht and members of the Jewish community of Rhinebeck, New York will ascend in hot air balloons to Rabbi Takes Congregation in Hot Air Ballons.

Birkas HaChama (the blessing of the sun) is a ceremony in which Jews recite a blessing on the Sun as it returns to the place it was appointed during Creation. It occurs every 28 years and always on a Wednesday.

Shliach to take Cong. in Hot Air Balloons for Birkas HaChama

POUGHKEEPSIE, NY [CHI] — Rabbi Hanoch Hecht and members of the Jewish community of Rhinebeck, New York will ascend in hot air balloons to Rabbi Takes Congregation in Hot Air Ballons.

Birkas HaChama (the blessing of the sun) is a ceremony in which Jews recite a blessing on the Sun as it returns to the place it was appointed during Creation. It occurs every 28 years and always on a Wednesday.

Shlichus
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When you explore these stories, you will identify with characters who grapple with the feelings and dilemmas that are at the heart of the human experience. You will see how their stories are also the stories of YOUR life, reflecting your joy and your pain, your struggles and your victories. And you will learn how the Torahs eternal values provide insight that helps you respond more thoughtfully as you face critical moments of your own.

JLI Promo Video – Biblical Reflections

When you explore these stories, you will identify with characters who grapple with the feelings and dilemmas that are at the heart of the human experience. You will see how their stories are also the stories of YOUR life, reflecting your joy and your pain, your struggles and your victories. And you will learn how the Torahs eternal values provide insight that helps you respond more thoughtfully as you face critical moments of your own.

Videos
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Rabbi Shmuli, his wife Sara (nee Dinerman) Stiefel and their infant son of Crown Heights, will IYH be going on Shlichus to St Ives, Australia. They will be joining the staff at Chabad House of the North Shore.

The new Shluchim were appointed by Shliach Rabbi Nochum Shapiro.

CrownHeights.info wishes the new Shluchim Hatzlocha Rabba on their Shlichus!

Announcing New Shluchim to Australia

Rabbi Shmuli, his wife Sara (nee Dinerman) Stiefel and their infant son of Crown Heights, will IYH be going on Shlichus to St Ives, Australia. They will be joining the staff at Chabad House of the North Shore.

The new Shluchim were appointed by Shliach Rabbi Nochum Shapiro.

CrownHeights.info wishes the new Shluchim Hatzlocha Rabba on their Shlichus!

Shlichus
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With sadness we inform our reader of the passing of Tzvi Lewis OBM of Jerusalem, Israel.


Passing Moitzei Shabbos in Jerusalem.


He survived by his wife Etlle, his sons Yonason (Crown Heights), Shmuel (Kfar Chabad, Israel), and his daughter, Chaya Rapporport (Jerusalem, Israel)


The levaya was in Jerusalem Sunday evening.


Boruch Dayan Hoemes



Boruch Dayan Hoemes – Tzvi Lewis OBM

With sadness we inform our reader of the passing of Tzvi Lewis OBM of Jerusalem, Israel.

Passing Moitzei Shabbos in Jerusalem.

He survived by his wife Etlle, his sons Yonason (Crown Heights), Shmuel (Kfar Chabad, Israel), and his daughter, Chaya Rapporport (Jerusalem, Israel)

The levaya was in Jerusalem Sunday evening.

Boruch Dayan Hoemes

Notices

As Pesach draws nearer and the streets are abuzz with an entire community preparing for the holiday, 570 Bochurim are leaving the comfort of their homes and families for the Seder nights to fly all over the world and conduct Sedorim for Jews who otherwise wouldn’t be celebrating Pesach at all.

This group left earlier in the afternoon and are all heading to Ukraine to conduct the Sedorim across the country.

Picture of the Day! – Bochurim Leaving for Pesach Shlichus!

As Pesach draws nearer and the streets are abuzz with an entire community preparing for the holiday, 570 Bochurim are leaving the comfort of their homes and families for the Seder nights to fly all over the world and conduct Sedorim for Jews who otherwise wouldn’t be celebrating Pesach at all.

This group left earlier in the afternoon and are all heading to Ukraine to conduct the Sedorim across the country.

Merkos Shlichus
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By Dovid Zaklikowski for Chabad.org

They were amongst hundreds of students traveling across the globe—some to places like Connecticut, California and England, but others to more remote locations like Chile and Russia. The Chabad-Lubavitch students, who recently completed three years of post-high school learning, were tasked with assisting local schools and nurturing the Jewish community in their given locations for a year, and sometimes two.

The six students who were assigned to S. Petersburg, Russia, in 1994 originally came from Texas, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Canada, France and New York, and were all students at the Lubavitch School in Morristown, NJ.

The Story of the Model Matzah Bakery that was a Failure

By Dovid Zaklikowski for Chabad.org

They were amongst hundreds of students traveling across the globe—some to places like Connecticut, California and England, but others to more remote locations like Chile and Russia. The Chabad-Lubavitch students, who recently completed three years of post-high school learning, were tasked with assisting local schools and nurturing the Jewish community in their given locations for a year, and sometimes two.

The six students who were assigned to S. Petersburg, Russia, in 1994 originally came from Texas, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Canada, France and New York, and were all students at the Lubavitch School in Morristown, NJ.

Op-Ed
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NEW YORK, NY [CHI] — In effort to win Black votes in the coming city elections for mayor, Mike Bloomberg said that he was a fan of controversial activist and politician Al Sharpton. Al Sharpton is known in the Crown Heights Jewish community circles, as the force who riled up residents in Crown Heights during the 1991 riot. The following is a piece by Eizabeth Benjamin for the NY Daily News Blog.

Appearing at the National Action Network's annual meeting at the Sheraton New York in midtown this afternoon, Mayor Bloomberg was full of praise for the organization's founder, the Rev. Al Sharpton.

Mayor Bloomberg – An Al ‘Sharpton Fan’?

NEW YORK, NY [CHI] — In effort to win Black votes in the coming city elections for mayor, Mike Bloomberg said that he was a fan of controversial activist and politician Al Sharpton. Al Sharpton is known in the Crown Heights Jewish community circles, as the force who riled up residents in Crown Heights during the 1991 riot. The following is a piece by Eizabeth Benjamin for the NY Daily News Blog.

Appearing at the National Action Network’s annual meeting at the Sheraton New York in midtown this afternoon, Mayor Bloomberg was full of praise for the organization’s founder, the Rev. Al Sharpton.

NYC News
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