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CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — For over an hour Troy Avenue was closed to traffic this morning, thanks to an aggressive and reckless driver who tried to ‘beat’ a sanitation garbage truck, passing it and colliding forcing it to swerve and strike a city bus. the incident took place at around 11:00am on Troy Avenue between Lefferts and Empire.

More pictures in the Extended Article.

3 Vehicle Accident on Troy and Empire

CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — For over an hour Troy Avenue was closed to traffic this morning, thanks to an aggressive and reckless driver who tried to ‘beat’ a sanitation garbage truck, passing it and colliding forcing it to swerve and strike a city bus. the incident took place at around 11:00am on Troy Avenue between Lefferts and Empire.

More pictures in the Extended Article.

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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 )
New Engagement!

Avremel Rapoport(Clarks Summit, PA) to Faigy Liberow (London, UK) L’Chaim: Tonight, Tuesday, 8:00pm at Lubavitcher Yeshiva Crown Street

CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — Yesterday, Sunday there was a Siyum and Hachnosas Sefer Torah memory of HaRav HaChossid Reb Mordechai HaKohen Rivkin AH.

Click Here to View a Beautiful Photo Gallery of the Event with close to a hundred pictures!

Video! – Crown Heights Dances with New Sefer Torah!

CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — Yesterday, Sunday there was a Siyum and Hachnosas Sefer Torah memory of HaRav HaChossid Reb Mordechai HaKohen Rivkin AH.

Click Here to View a Beautiful Photo Gallery of the Event with close to a hundred pictures!

Videos
By Omar Carrillo for the Daily Princetonian

Princeton University and Chabad on Campus Rabbi Eitan Webb, Shliach to the University, Inset.

PRINCETON, NJ — The Jewish organization Chabad will begin holding Orthodox services at the University this Saturday, following their dedication of a new Torah last Sunday afternoon.

Though the Center for Jewish Life (CJL) offers a variety of services, the Chabad services will target a different audience, Chabad Rabbi Eitan Webb said in response to concerns of Orthodox students within the CJL that the new services will promote competition between the groups. Webb explained that the Chabad services will aim to provide students who are currently not very involved in Jewish life with an opportunity to learn more about how Orthodox services work.

Chabad on Campus to Offer New Orthodox Services

By Omar Carrillo for the Daily Princetonian

Princeton University and Chabad on Campus Rabbi Eitan Webb, Shliach to the University, Inset.

PRINCETON, NJ — The Jewish organization Chabad will begin holding Orthodox services at the University this Saturday, following their dedication of a new Torah last Sunday afternoon.

Though the Center for Jewish Life (CJL) offers a variety of services, the Chabad services will target a different audience, Chabad Rabbi Eitan Webb said in response to concerns of Orthodox students within the CJL that the new services will promote competition between the groups. Webb explained that the Chabad services will aim to provide students who are currently not very involved in Jewish life with an opportunity to learn more about how Orthodox services work.

Shlichus
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By Edwin Black for the Jerusalem Post

NEW YORK, NY — Adolf Hitler was completely responsible for the Holocaust. But Hitler had help.When zealous Nazis were motivated to wage war against an imaginary generation-to-generation Jewish conspiracy, when Nazis created ghastly extermination plans to help ensure their master race would rule the world, when the German military was enabled to smash across Europe with lightning speed in heavy Blitz trucks, bomb mercilessly from the air in advanced JU-88s and create carnage across the seas with deadly torpedoes, when Josef Mengele saw the scientific need to undertake heinous medical experiments on twins in Auschwitz, when the Reich was enabled to identify the Jews everywhere in Europe and then systematically pauperize and destroy them, when all these terrible things were done, the shape and scope of the horror was pivotally determined by major American industrial giants.

Americans’ Role in The Holocaust

By Edwin Black for the Jerusalem Post

NEW YORK, NY — Adolf Hitler was completely responsible for the Holocaust. But Hitler had help.When zealous Nazis were motivated to wage war against an imaginary generation-to-generation Jewish conspiracy, when Nazis created ghastly extermination plans to help ensure their master race would rule the world, when the German military was enabled to smash across Europe with lightning speed in heavy Blitz trucks, bomb mercilessly from the air in advanced JU-88s and create carnage across the seas with deadly torpedoes, when Josef Mengele saw the scientific need to undertake heinous medical experiments on twins in Auschwitz, when the Reich was enabled to identify the Jews everywhere in Europe and then systematically pauperize and destroy them, when all these terrible things were done, the shape and scope of the horror was pivotally determined by major American industrial giants.

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By Kobi Nahshoni for YNetNews

British rabbi complains of 'foreign presence' in his new house; congregation members say ghost belongs to founder of local synagogue

LONDON, UK — The Rabbinical Centre of Europe tackles complicated halachic questions sent by the rabbis of the continent on a daily basis. But nothing prepared the RCE for a recent query by a London rabbi, who sought the center's help in getting rid of a ghost he said was dwelling in his new residence.

Rabbi Spooked by Ghost Seeks Help

By Kobi Nahshoni for YNetNews

British rabbi complains of ‘foreign presence’ in his new house; congregation members say ghost belongs to founder of local synagogue

LONDON, UK — The Rabbinical Centre of Europe tackles complicated halachic questions sent by the rabbis of the continent on a daily basis. But nothing prepared the RCE for a recent query by a London rabbi, who sought the center’s help in getting rid of a ghost he said was dwelling in his new residence.

Jewish News
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RAMALLAH [AFP] — An Israeli and a group of Palestinians last week set aside their differences in order to carry out an armed bank robbery, Palestinian police said Sunday.

The heist at a bank in the Israeli-occupied West Bank town of Ramallah on Tuesday was carried out by six armed gunmen who made off with some 30,000 dollars, according to security officials.

Israeli and Palestinians Unite to Rob a Bank

RAMALLAH [AFP] — An Israeli and a group of Palestinians last week set aside their differences in order to carry out an armed bank robbery, Palestinian police said Sunday.

The heist at a bank in the Israeli-occupied West Bank town of Ramallah on Tuesday was carried out by six armed gunmen who made off with some 30,000 dollars, according to security officials.

Jewish News
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From the Safer Haminhagim: [Every day from Rosh Chodesh Nissan until the twelfth of the month, usually after Shacharis,] one reads the passage [from Bamidbar 7-8:4] that describes the offering brought on that day by a particular Nasi, or tribal prince, for the dedication of the altar of the Mishkan. [In common parlance, each day's passage itself is often referred to as “the Nasi.”] This daily reading is followed by the prayer which opens with the words yehi ratzon (and which appears in Siddur Torah Or [as well as in Siddur Tehillat HaShem, p. 371]). This prayer is recited even by a Kohen or a Levi [despite its seeming relevance only to tribes other than the Tribe of Levi]. [284]

To see the rest of the text of the Nasi click the Extended Article!

Did you say the ‘Nasi’ Today? (Yom Hey)

From the Safer Haminhagim: [Every day from Rosh Chodesh Nissan until the twelfth of the month, usually after Shacharis,] one reads the passage [from Bamidbar 7-8:4] that describes the offering brought on that day by a particular Nasi, or tribal prince, for the dedication of the altar of the Mishkan. [In common parlance, each day’s passage itself is often referred to as “the Nasi.”] This daily reading is followed by the prayer which opens with the words yehi ratzon (and which appears in Siddur Torah Or [as well as in Siddur Tehillat HaShem, p. 371]). This prayer is recited even by a Kohen or a Levi [despite its seeming relevance only to tribes other than the Tribe of Levi]. [284]

To see the rest of the text of the Nasi click the Extended Article!

Something Jewish
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Tonight, Monday, March 30, 2009, at 8:00 pm, Rabbi YY Jacobson will deliver a special global webcast: Here Comes the Sun – Part One, a fascinating journey into a once-in-a-28-year-experience, the blessing for the sun, exploring the scientific, halachik, spiritual and psychological dimensions. 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#

Tonight! Once-In-a-28-Year Lecture & New Essay!


Tonight, Monday, March 30, 2009, at 8:00 pm, Rabbi YY Jacobson will deliver a special global webcast: Here Comes the Sun – Part One, a fascinating journey into a once-in-a-28-year-experience, the blessing for the sun, exploring the scientific, halachik, spiritual and psychological dimensions. 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

His First Mezuzah – Mivtzoim in Yehupitzvil

You thought Yehupitz was a mythical place. It isn’t. It’s in Hastings, Minnesota, a twenty minute drive from the Yeshiva High School of the Twin Cities in Cottage Grove, Minnesota. As Yehupitz’s go, this one doesn’t have many if any Jews. And out of this Yehupitz came Deke, a Coffee shop owner whose Jewish name is Chaim Branchaud-Linsk, a Jew from North Minneapolis.

Mivtzoim
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Photos: Crown Heights Rejoices with new Sefer Torah

CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — Today, Sunday there was a Siyum and Hachnosas Sefer Torah memory of HaRav HaChossid Reb Mordechai HaKohen Rivkin AH. The final letters were written this afternoon at the Rivkin residence on Crown St, following which the Sefer Torah was escorted by hundreds of Crown Heights residence in dance to 770 where Hakafos were held.

Many more pictures in the Extended Article!

Photo Galleries
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A Victory Not Counted on the Scoreboard

By Philip Read for the Star-Ledger

Dan Caplan shoots during the game along side Coach Bob Wasilak who has been drilling his team of teenagers with special needs on the art of dribbling and shooting all to take to the basketball court against the mighty Jaguars of the Kushner Academy part of Chabad Friendship Circle’s “Teen Scene Basketball League” in their first official game on March 16, 2009.

LIVINGSTON, NJ — Friendship Circle has had its first official game. The team, whose 14 teenage and young adult players have special needs, had practiced for seven weeks in basketball clinics that are part of the group’s Teen Scene program. Its opponent was the Jaguars, a group of middle school kids from Joseph Kushner Hebrew Academy.

Shlichus

BONDI, Australia [AJN] — In a desperate bid to broker a deal, Bondi Mizrachi Synagogue’s embattled Rabbi Moshe Gutnick is seeking a court order to block an upcoming vote that will make his position redundant and force the matter before a Jewish court.

On Tuesday, lawyers for Rabbi Gutnick filed an application with the NSW Supreme Court seeking a declaration to have conditions over his employment mediated before a beth din.

Rabbi Goes to Court to Block Shul Vote

BONDI, Australia [AJN] — In a desperate bid to broker a deal, Bondi Mizrachi Synagogue’s embattled Rabbi Moshe Gutnick is seeking a court order to block an upcoming vote that will make his position redundant and force the matter before a Jewish court.

On Tuesday, lawyers for Rabbi Gutnick filed an application with the NSW Supreme Court seeking a declaration to have conditions over his employment mediated before a beth din.

Jewish News

In honor of the second JLI Unity Lecture that was held on Sunday March 29, a new video by Chaim Fogelman was produced, released and shown for the hundreds of locations that were tuned in. The video conveys the message of our unity, hope and belief and is very appropriate for our times.

Chaim Fogelman Music Video! – “I Believe”!

In honor of the second JLI Unity Lecture that was held on Sunday March 29, a new video by Chaim Fogelman was produced, released and shown for the hundreds of locations that were tuned in. The video conveys the message of our unity, hope and belief and is very appropriate for our times.

Videos
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Pedestrian Struck and Injured on Kingston

CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — Today, Sunday at around 8:30pm a Lubavitch woman was struck by a car driven by two bochurim. It happened on the corner of Kingston Ave and President St.

Pedestrian Struck By Speeding Car on Kingston

Pedestrian Struck and Injured on Kingston

CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — Today, Sunday at around 8:30pm a Lubavitch woman was struck by a car driven by two bochurim. It happened on the corner of Kingston Ave and President St.

Accidents
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This niggun on the Rebbe's new Kapitel was submitted to CrownHeights.info. Composed by Moishy Goldstein, a bochur at the Oholei Torah Mesivta. The song is based on Kapital Kuf Ches in Tehillim. Enjoy!

New Niggun (#1) for the Rebbe’s New Kapitel – Kuf Ches

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This niggun on the Rebbe’s new Kapitel was submitted to CrownHeights.info. Composed by Moishy Goldstein, a bochur at the Oholei Torah Mesivta. The song is based on Kapital Kuf Ches in Tehillim. Enjoy!

Chabad News
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