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By Jerry Soifer special for the Press-Enterprise

RIVERSIDE, CA — The brew to make kosher pickles includes tap water, kosher salt, dill, garlic, pickling spice and, of course, cucumbers.

The class of about 40 who learned how to make kosher pickles Sunday at the Chabad Jewish Community Center was multicultural, including Christians and Jews. The teacher was Shmuel Marcus, the Los Alamitos resident who calls himself the Pickle Rabbi. He's offered his culinary and religious lessons in 150 cities.

Kosher Pickle Lesson – Flavor of Jewish Culture

By Jerry Soifer special for the Press-Enterprise

RIVERSIDE, CA — The brew to make kosher pickles includes tap water, kosher salt, dill, garlic, pickling spice and, of course, cucumbers.

The class of about 40 who learned how to make kosher pickles Sunday at the Chabad Jewish Community Center was multicultural, including Christians and Jews. The teacher was Shmuel Marcus, the Los Alamitos resident who calls himself the Pickle Rabbi. He’s offered his culinary and religious lessons in 150 cities.

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Baby Boy!

Sendy and Mali (nee New) Labkowsky from Crown Heights had a baby boy!
Baby Boy!

Yehuda and Raizel Marrus from Davie, FL, had a baby boy!
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)

CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — HASC Center expanded services into Crown Heights by establishing a group home for adults in Crown Heights. This residence is located at 580 East New York Avenue between Brooklyn and Kingston Avenues.

More pictures and a Video in the Extended Article!

Crown Heights Welcomes HASC Center with Ribbon Cutting Celebration

CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — HASC Center expanded services into Crown Heights by establishing a group home for adults in Crown Heights. This residence is located at 580 East New York Avenue between Brooklyn and Kingston Avenues.

More pictures and a Video in the Extended Article!

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KSCVK’s 8th Annual Auction, the Biggest One Yet!

CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — Hundrends of woman and girls turned out all afternoon, and into the late Sunday evening for Keren Simchas Chosson V’Kallah’s 8th annual auction. The program took place in Oholei Torah on Eastern Parkway, where there was the auction viewing, a light comedy show along with lots of food and drink.

More pictures and the list of winners in the Extended Article!

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By Carmen Lu for the Yale Daily News

NEW HAVEN, CT — The high-strung commotion that often fills Commons’ cavernous halls was replaced with a rare solemnity on Friday evening as more than 500 guests filed into the dining hall serenaded by Magevet, Yale’s coed Jewish a cappella group.

Shabbat 1000 Toasts Great Success

By Carmen Lu for the Yale Daily News

NEW HAVEN, CT — The high-strung commotion that often fills Commons’ cavernous halls was replaced with a rare solemnity on Friday evening as more than 500 guests filed into the dining hall serenaded by Magevet, Yale’s coed Jewish a cappella group.

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By WBNG News

VESTAL, NY — Binghamton University students and members of the community celebrated a traditional Jewish Arts Festival.

Students learned the method behind making the torah and other religious items.

Video – Ancient Rituals Come to Life at Chabad

By WBNG News

VESTAL, NY — Binghamton University students and members of the community celebrated a traditional Jewish Arts Festival.

Students learned the method behind making the torah and other religious items.

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8th Day Shines in Redondo Beach

REDONDO BEACH, CA — “This might have been the best concert I’ve ever been to,” said Brian Krieger, 41, a long time supporter of Chabad and now a lifetime fan of 8th Day.

Krieger was one of hundreds who gathered last night at the Jewish Community Center of Redondo Beach to hear the brothers Marcus and their ever growing popular band 8th Day.

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By Y P Rajesh for the Indian Express

MUMBAI, India — Hoping to continue the legacy of Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg and his wife Rivka, both of whom were killed in the 26/11 attack on their Jewish centre in the city, the ultra-orthodox Chabad-Lubavitch movement has chosen Rivka’s younger sister Sara and her husband Rabbi Yaakov-David Leiter to replace them and carry on providing visiting Jews a “home away from home” in Mumbai.

Moshe’s Aunt and Uncle Temporary Shluchim to Mumbai

By Y P Rajesh for the Indian Express

MUMBAI, India — Hoping to continue the legacy of Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg and his wife Rivka, both of whom were killed in the 26/11 attack on their Jewish centre in the city, the ultra-orthodox Chabad-Lubavitch movement has chosen Rivka’s younger sister Sara and her husband Rabbi Yaakov-David Leiter to replace them and carry on providing visiting Jews a “home away from home” in Mumbai.

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Tonight, Monday, February 23, 2009, at 8:00 pm, Rabbi YY Jacobson will deliver a 40-minute live Parsha class: What the Jews Did Not Tell the Dalai Lama – The Secret of the Ark’s Immobile Poles. 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! Global Web Class – What the Jews Did Not Tell the Dalai Lama


Tonight, Monday, February 23, 2009, at 8:00 pm, Rabbi YY Jacobson will deliver a 40-minute live Parsha class: What the Jews Did Not Tell the Dalai Lama – The Secret of the Ark’s Immobile Poles. 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
Each time I watch my wedding video, tears roll down my face; happy tears. The joy of being married to my soul mate is indescribable, that special day was the start of my beautiful family. I recently heard an ad for a secular matchmaking website; it goes “life is too short to not find your soul mate”. How true. From the time we are young children we talk and dream about our wedding and our future spouse: why is it then that when we reach marriageable age we often become our own impediments to that dream?

After I got married I vowed not to forget my single relatives, friends and the many singles that I know. Now that I am married I have the point of view of the single and the shadchan. Although some of the complaints about shadchanim are valid, the singles/parents must make sure they are doing as much as they are able to increase their chances of finding Mr. / Mrs. Right. Everybody needs to focus on what they need to do because we can only change ourselves and the way we do things, we can not change others.

I would like to mention a few of the things one should and shouldn’t do to bring more singles closer to finding their bashert.

Continued in the Extended Article.

Op-Ed: An Urgent Message from a Shadchan

Each time I watch my wedding video, tears roll down my face; happy tears. The joy of being married to my soul mate is indescribable, that special day was the start of my beautiful family. I recently heard an ad for a secular matchmaking website; it goes “life is too short to not find your soul mate”. How true. From the time we are young children we talk and dream about our wedding and our future spouse: why is it then that when we reach marriageable age we often become our own impediments to that dream?

After I got married I vowed not to forget my single relatives, friends and the many singles that I know. Now that I am married I have the point of view of the single and the shadchan. Although some of the complaints about shadchanim are valid, the singles/parents must make sure they are doing as much as they are able to increase their chances of finding Mr. / Mrs. Right. Everybody needs to focus on what they need to do because we can only change ourselves and the way we do things, we can not change others.

I would like to mention a few of the things one should and shouldn’t do to bring more singles closer to finding their bashert.

Continued in the Extended Article.

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