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Grand Prize: M. Cohen
Split the Pot: Nechama Hershkop
Jackpot # 1: Rachel Seeve
Jackpot # 2: Dina Valov
Dollar a Day Raffle: Shoshana Plotkin
Auction Special: Priscilla Sutton

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The List of Winners from the Ten Yad Auction

Grand Prize: M. Cohen
Split the Pot: Nechama Hershkop
Jackpot # 1: Rachel Seeve
Jackpot # 2: Dina Valov
Dollar a Day Raffle: Shoshana Plotkin
Auction Special: Priscilla Sutton

Click Here for the Photo Gallery from the Auction!

List Continues in the Extended Article!

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New Engagement!

Mendy Holtzberg (Monterey, CA) to Leah Schmerling (Crown Heights) L’Chaim: Wednesday, May 14th, 8:30pm at the JCM
Baby Boy!

Lippy and Mushky Kosofsky from Crown Heights had a baby boy!
Baby Boy!

Yisroel and Nechama Dina Silberstrom from Remsen Village, Brooklyn had a baby boy.
Baby Boy!

Zalmy and Shevy Tauby from Toronto, Canada had a baby boy!
Baby Girl!

Kovi and Rivky (nee Danzinger) Raksin from Hollywood Florida had a baby girl!
New Engagement!

Chaim Uziel Starik (Vienna, Austria) to Batsheva Spivak (Pembroke Pines, FL)
New Engagement!

Zalman Friedman (Coral Springs, FL) to Lea Dukes (Santiago, Chile) L’Chaim: Monday, May 5th, 7:00pm at 9400 NW 4th Street, Coral Springs, FL
New Engagement!

Yossi Gutnick (Sydney, Australia) to Chaya Eisnebach (Northwest, CT) L’Chaim: Tonight, Thursday, at the Garden House 1386 S. John’s Pl
Baby Boy!

Yaakov and Shevi (nee Katzman) Behrman from Crown Heights had a baby boy!
Baby Boy!

Moishe and Frayda (nee Aber) Scheinfeld from Brooklyn, NY had a baby boy!
Baby Boy!

Yermi and Daniella Liam (nee Pohlman) Kurkus from Lake Lure, NC had a baby boy!
New Engagement!

Levi Kalmenson (Crown Heights) to Chanale Baitch (Crown Heights) L’Chaim: Monday, April 28th, 8:00pm at Anshei Lubavitch 578 Albany Ave
New Engagement!

Zevi Jacobson (De Moines, IA) to Ita Gurevitch (Crown Heights) L’Chaim: Monday, April 28th, 8:00pm at the JCM
New Engagement!

Sruli Friedman (Coral Springs, FL) to Adina Izgelov (Milwaukee, WI) L’Chaim: Monday, April 28th, 8:00pm at Albany Manor 641 Rutland Rd
New Engagement!

Shlomo Werde (Crown Heights) to Gila Bensusan (London, UK)
Baby Boy!

Chezki and Mushkie Golowinski from Crown Heights had a baby boy! Shalom Zachor: 539 Crown Street
New Engagement!

Avi Baitelman (Los Angeles, CA) to Mindy Neubort (Fair Lawn, NJ) L’Chaim: Tonight, Thursday, 8:00pm at Lubavitch Yeshiva
Kobi Nahshoni - YNet News

Stock photo - Mumbai Chabad House

JERUSALEM, Israel — Chabad houses serve as a kind of Israeli embassies throughout the world and the government should allocate a budget for them accordingly and take responsibility for securing them, the Chief Rabbinate Council declared on Monday in the aftermath of the Mumbai terror attacks.

Council members meeting for the first time since being sworn in about a month ago, adopted the proposal of Rabbi Shimon Elitov of the Binyamin Regional Council who is associated with the Chabad movement, and urged the government to act on this matter.

Chief Rabbinate Urges Israel to Secure Chabad Houses

Kobi Nahshoni – YNet News

Stock photo – Mumbai Chabad House

JERUSALEM, Israel — Chabad houses serve as a kind of Israeli embassies throughout the world and the government should allocate a budget for them accordingly and take responsibility for securing them, the Chief Rabbinate Council declared on Monday in the aftermath of the Mumbai terror attacks.

Council members meeting for the first time since being sworn in about a month ago, adopted the proposal of Rabbi Shimon Elitov of the Binyamin Regional Council who is associated with the Chabad movement, and urged the government to act on this matter.

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Mazal Tov! – Its A Girl!

We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Shlomo and Chani (nee Gordon) Goldzweig (Melbourne, Australia) on the birth of their first daughter.

May the newborn be a source of Nachas to her parents, grandparents, relatives and Klal Yisroel.

Mazel Tov's
Cara Buckley - The New York Times

Members of the Lubavitch community prayed last week at the group’s headquarters in Brooklyn.
Michael Nagle for The New York Times

BROOKLYN, NY — For many Jews, they are homes away from home: Chabad Houses, welcoming outposts in foreign lands or across the United States, places to drop in to celebrate Hanukkah, Passover or weekly Shabbat dinners.

Almost always, the Chabad Houses are run by young couples, emissaries of the Chabad-Lubavitch denomination, a Hasidic faith with its headquarters in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, whose adherents believe that secular Jews ought to become more observant.

Chabad Vows to Continue Work of Couple Killed in Attack

Cara Buckley – The New York Times

Members of the Lubavitch community prayed last week at the group’s headquarters in Brooklyn.
Michael Nagle for The New York Times

BROOKLYN, NY — For many Jews, they are homes away from home: Chabad Houses, welcoming outposts in foreign lands or across the United States, places to drop in to celebrate Hanukkah, Passover or weekly Shabbat dinners.

Almost always, the Chabad Houses are run by young couples, emissaries of the Chabad-Lubavitch denomination, a Hasidic faith with its headquarters in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, whose adherents believe that secular Jews ought to become more observant.

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NOVOURALSK, Russia [FJC] — In the spirit of inter-ethnic accord and mutual understanding among the forty ethnic groups living in the region, the Urals city of Novouralsk hosted the ‘National Family’ Festival. On November 29th, in the city’s ‘Stroitel’ House of Culture, the festivities engaged an enthusiastic audience and just as eager performers. Representing the Jewish community of Novouralsk was the entire Nikiforov family.

The festival also featured an exhibition organized by the Jewish community, at which visitors had the chance to learn about the happenings in local Jewish life, as well as to see the works of students attending the Jewish Sunday school. There, they could also sample the national dish of gefilte fish (stuffed fish), which was prepared by Oksana Kandalovoy on behalf of the Jewish Women’s Club run by the community.

Jews Partake in Festival

NOVOURALSK, Russia [FJC] — In the spirit of inter-ethnic accord and mutual understanding among the forty ethnic groups living in the region, the Urals city of Novouralsk hosted the ‘National Family’ Festival. On November 29th, in the city’s ‘Stroitel’ House of Culture, the festivities engaged an enthusiastic audience and just as eager performers. Representing the Jewish community of Novouralsk was the entire Nikiforov family.

The festival also featured an exhibition organized by the Jewish community, at which visitors had the chance to learn about the happenings in local Jewish life, as well as to see the works of students attending the Jewish Sunday school. There, they could also sample the national dish of gefilte fish (stuffed fish), which was prepared by Oksana Kandalovoy on behalf of the Jewish Women’s Club run by the community.

Shlichus
Matthew Wagner - JPost
The terrorist attack on the Chabad House in Mumbai underlines the vulnerability of Lubavitch shluchim - emissaries - to global Jihad.

From its very inception, as conceived by the last Lubavitcher Rebbe, Menachem Mendel Schneerson, who began leading the Hassidic sect in 1951 and who eventually turned it into a global powerhouse, Chabad was a non-Zionist, pro-Israel ambassador of Judaism.

Chabad offered an extra-territorial Jewish alternative to the Zionist state. Unlike Zionism, it never rejected the exile. It never bound Jews to a specific territory.

Analysis: Chabad’s Success Depends on its Accessibility

Matthew Wagner – JPost

The terrorist attack on the Chabad House in Mumbai underlines the vulnerability of Lubavitch shluchim – emissaries – to global Jihad.

From its very inception, as conceived by the last Lubavitcher Rebbe, Menachem Mendel Schneerson, who began leading the Hassidic sect in 1951 and who eventually turned it into a global powerhouse, Chabad was a non-Zionist, pro-Israel ambassador of Judaism.

Chabad offered an extra-territorial Jewish alternative to the Zionist state. Unlike Zionism, it never rejected the exile. It never bound Jews to a specific territory.

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Uri Orbach - YNet News

The story is much simpler than people tend to think. Two of the Jews murdered in Mumbai are a Chabad-Lubavitch couple, Gavriel and Rivka Holtzberg. He’s from Brooklyn, while she’s from Afula. They lived in Thailand and later in India for five years. They were there on a mission on behalf of Chabad; on behalf of Judaism.

Just like any other good Chabadniks, they chose to dedicate themselves to other Jews, most of them Israelis traveling in Mumbai.

Op-Ed: Light Versus Darkness

Uri Orbach – YNet News

The story is much simpler than people tend to think. Two of the Jews murdered in Mumbai are a Chabad-Lubavitch couple, Gavriel and Rivka Holtzberg. He’s from Brooklyn, while she’s from Afula. They lived in Thailand and later in India for five years. They were there on a mission on behalf of Chabad; on behalf of Judaism.

Just like any other good Chabadniks, they chose to dedicate themselves to other Jews, most of them Israelis traveling in Mumbai.

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WASHINGTON, DC [AP] — An American rabbi said Sunday that he heard a woman’s desperate cry for help as he spoke to one of the assailants at the Mumbai Jewish center before everyone inside the building was killed.

Rabbi Levi Shemtov said he made contact with the gunman when he called the cellphone of Gavriel Holtzberg, one of the hostages at the Chabad House, after the attack began on Wednesday.

Rabbi Levi Shemtov Spoke to Terrorist

WASHINGTON, DC [AP] — An American rabbi said Sunday that he heard a woman’s desperate cry for help as he spoke to one of the assailants at the Mumbai Jewish center before everyone inside the building was killed.

Rabbi Levi Shemtov said he made contact with the gunman when he called the cellphone of Gavriel Holtzberg, one of the hostages at the Chabad House, after the attack began on Wednesday.

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R.C. Berman - Lubavitch.com

BANGKOK, Thailand — With Bangkok’s airport shut down by anti-government protesters, Chabad of Thailand is prepared to host a greater number of visitors, mostly Israelis stranded in the country.

“We always have travelers so the shut down has not yet affected us in a significant way,” said Nechama Kantor, co-director of Chabad Thailand, the Jewish Association of Thailand Beth Elisheva Synagogue, Mikveh and Jewish Center.

Chabad in Bangkok Hosts Stranded Jews

R.C. Berman – Lubavitch.com

BANGKOK, Thailand — With Bangkok’s airport shut down by anti-government protesters, Chabad of Thailand is prepared to host a greater number of visitors, mostly Israelis stranded in the country.

“We always have travelers so the shut down has not yet affected us in a significant way,” said Nechama Kantor, co-director of Chabad Thailand, the Jewish Association of Thailand Beth Elisheva Synagogue, Mikveh and Jewish Center.

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by Rabbi Pinchas Allouche - Shliach in Scottsdale, AZ
Reflections on the recent terrorist attack at Mumbai’s Chabad House

The World Standing Still

For forty six hours, the world stood still. Multitudes of hearts were shattered, countless tears were shed and immeasurable words of Psalms were recited as myriads of anxious Jews around the world tuned in to the evolving events with a profound belief that salvation will imminently sprout from this inconceivable calamity. And yet, after almost two days, the horrific, heart-wrenching news emerged about the Chabad emissaries, Rabbi Gavriel and Rivkah Holzberg, fracturing our last remnants of hope. Indeed, “The secret things belong to G-d” . This tragedy is beyond the capacity of our intellect, afar from the human mind.

Nevertheless, its impact remains deep. Jews worldwide were uniquely captivated by it. Anguish and concern conquered Jewish homes and centers around the globe. Wherever one walked, whomever one met, this tragedy rapidly, captured the center stage of our conscious, and swiftly dominated many conversations. But why was this tragedy so perturbing? Which of its component led us to be particularly disturbed by it?

Op-Ed: Their Legacy; Our Destiny

by Rabbi Pinchas Allouche – Shliach in Scottsdale, AZ
Reflections on the recent terrorist attack at Mumbai’s Chabad House

The World Standing Still

For forty six hours, the world stood still. Multitudes of hearts were shattered, countless tears were shed and immeasurable words of Psalms were recited as myriads of anxious Jews around the world tuned in to the evolving events with a profound belief that salvation will imminently sprout from this inconceivable calamity. And yet, after almost two days, the horrific, heart-wrenching news emerged about the Chabad emissaries, Rabbi Gavriel and Rivkah Holzberg, fracturing our last remnants of hope. Indeed, “The secret things belong to G-d” . This tragedy is beyond the capacity of our intellect, afar from the human mind.

Nevertheless, its impact remains deep. Jews worldwide were uniquely captivated by it. Anguish and concern conquered Jewish homes and centers around the globe. Wherever one walked, whomever one met, this tragedy rapidly, captured the center stage of our conscious, and swiftly dominated many conversations. But why was this tragedy so perturbing? Which of its component led us to be particularly disturbed by it?

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Times of India

MUMBAI, India — Did some Mumbai locals provide support to the Pakistani terrorists? Azam Amir Kasab, the only Pakistani terrorist nabbed alive, has revealed names and addresses of at least five people from the city who helped the terror operation.

Sources said that help like, providing shelter, taking them around and showing places, passing information on police stations and nakabandhis were given by these locals. Joint commissioner of police (crime) Rakesh Maria said,"We suspect there could be local assistants but it is subject to verification. It will be very premature to comment on this at this stage as our investigations is going on.''

Captured Terrorist Says Chabad House was Targeted

Times of India

MUMBAI, India — Did some Mumbai locals provide support to the Pakistani terrorists? Azam Amir Kasab, the only Pakistani terrorist nabbed alive, has revealed names and addresses of at least five people from the city who helped the terror operation.

Sources said that help like, providing shelter, taking them around and showing places, passing information on police stations and nakabandhis were given by these locals. Joint commissioner of police (crime) Rakesh Maria said,”We suspect there could be local assistants but it is subject to verification. It will be very premature to comment on this at this stage as our investigations is going on.”

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In this undated video, Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg HYD asks the Rebbe for a blessing for himself, and a blessing for a sick person to recover (“Refuah”). The Rebbe tells him (Yiddish) that he should have all that he needs.

Video – R Gavriel Holtzberg HYD Being Blessed By The Rebbe

In this undated video, Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg HYD asks the Rebbe for a blessing for himself, and a blessing for a sick person to recover (“Refuah”). The Rebbe tells him (Yiddish) that he should have all that he needs.

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