MELBOURNE, Australia [CHI] — This week, students of the Ohel Chana Werdiger Learning Institute in Melbourne, Australia were privileged to have a visit from Rabbi and Mrs. Holtzberg, parents of Rabbi Gabi Holtzberg A”H, together with Rabbi Avremi Berkowitz who is assisting them in rebuilding the Chabad house that was destroyed in India.
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We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Dubi and Nava (nee Lerer) Rabinowitz on the birth of their daughter.
May the newborn be a source of Nachas to her parents, grandparents and Klal Yisroel.
CrownHeights.info and The Avner Institute present a weekly first-time released photo of the Lubavitcher Rebbe. This one, taken on the winter of 1974, shows the Rebbe in middle of prayer in the main synagogue in Lubavitch World Headquarters 770 in Brooklyn, NY. To learn more about the Rebbe visit: www.portraitofaleader.org.
Dovid Vidrin (Boston, MA) and Chana Botvinnikov (Crown Heights) .
IYH at Empire Shteibel, 489 Empire blvd, [between Brooklyn and New York Ave]
Mendel Plotke (Los Angeles, CA) and Esther Overlander (London, England) .
IYH at Beis Levi Yitzchock, 556 Crown St, [entrance ramp on Albany Ave].
Srully Rozmarin (Bnei Brak, Israel) and Baila Zaiontz (Montreal, Canada) .
IYH at FREE, 1383 President St, [between Kingston and Brooklyn Ave].
Dovid Nussbaum (Montreal) and Mimi Gutnick (Sydney, Austraila) ,
IYH at the Jewish Children’s Museum, 792 Eastern Pkwy, [corner Kingston Ave].
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CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — A school bus dropping off Beis Rivkah school girls, had a rock thrown at it as it was driving on President Street. Thank G-d no one on the bus was hurt. The incident took place at around 4:00pm between Kingston and Brooklyn.
A number of Shomrim members responded and began following the group of 4 Black teens down President. While the bus driver identified the group, Shomrim then called 911 and had police respond.
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What is unique about Chabad nigunim? What makes them so special? CrownHeights.info and the Avner Institute Would like to present a beautiful letter of the Rebbe, written to a Chosson who asked if he could play Chabad nigunim at his wedding. To learn more about the Rebbe visit: www.portraitofaleader.org.
BROOKLYN, NY — One of the men found guilty of killing a rookie cop in Brooklyn was sentenced today to life behind bars without the possibility of parole.
Dexter Bostic, 36, was convicted in December of gunning down Officer Russel Timoshenko in July 2007 after he and his partner, Herman Yan, injured, pulled over a stolen BMW SUV in Crown Heights.
BROOKLYN , NY — Russia’s Chief Rabbi Lazar To Appeal
A Russian district court on Wednesday overturned an appeal and upheld its ruling to expel Rabbi Yisroel Silberstein, Rabbi of the Primorye region in Russia’s far east.
The Rebbe says:
1. The Mishnah states, “When the Hebrew month of Av begins we hold back our joy”.
The Talmud supplements the Mishnah’s statement with, “Just as when the month of Av begins we restrain our joy, so too when the month of Adar begins we increase our joy”.
2. The Rebbe now analyzes this statement of the Talmud:
The Talmud’s words, “Just as when the month of Av begins we restrain our joy, so too when the month of Adar begins we increase our joy”, implies that the leading principal is the Mishnah’s clearly stated law that, “during the month of Av we curtail our joy”, while the law that, “when the month of Adar begins we increase our joy”, is only secondary.
GREENWICH, CT [CHI] — The JLI’s National Jewish Retreat moves to the eastern seaboard this year for its fourth annual event. The unique five-day learning and growth experience will take place August 11th through the 16th at the luxurious Hyatt Regency in Old Greenwich, Connecticut, just 45 minutes from New York City.
MerkosMentors recently enlisted a new roster of talented and experienced individuals to function as mentors in their ground-breaking program. As all Shluchim come to learn, daily life is often fraught with new questions and experiences ranging from menial to spiritual to financial to educational. But they need not go through it alone. Certainly, someone out there, another Shliach, has dealt with it before, and has acquired the skills to cope with the situation effectively. Now, MerkosMentors makes the connection between Shluchim even more accessible.
OGDENSBURG, NY — The Ahava Food Company, which operates the only plant in the USA that produces exclusively cholov yisroel cheese and milk, was recently acquired by Toobro, LLC, a company whose owners have years of experience in the food industry. Toobro’s owners plan to update and improve the existing operation while continuing to uphold the highest standards in kosher food production and low prices for consumers.
Rabbi Bery and Chenchie (nee Tiefenbrun) Schmukler of Crown Heights will be moving with their newborn son on Shlichus to Southern New Mexico. They will establish a new Chabad House to serve the needs of the local Jewish community in Las Cruces.
CrownHeights.info would like to wish the new Shluchim Hatzlocha Rabba on their Shlichus!
The Shluchim Office would like to take this opportunity to thank the very dedicated and hard working staff for the time and energy they invested in making Kinus Tzeirei HaShluchos 5769 such a great success.
BROOKLYN, NY [CHI] — During President’s Week the Jewish Released Time program under the auspices of the NCFJE arranged a winter camp for public school children. Over 100 children attended the two locations—the Brooklyn camp hosted by United Lubavitch Yeshiva Ocean Parkway and the Queens camp hosted by Anshei Shalom Chabad of Queens.
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We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Shmuli Lent (Manchester UK) and Mushky Vorst (Holland) on their engagement.
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